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Reduce stress and mess during move-out process: OCSS resources can help
Andrea Medeiros
Issue date: 4/20/06 Section: Lifestyle
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Whether moving to an apartment or going home for the summer, most Emersonian will have to find a way to get rid of all that stuff accumulated over the past seven months. Packing it up and lugging it across the state or even the country probably doesn't sound like a good time to any college student.
Tony Consiglio, a senior broadcast journalism major, has experienced the moving process several times.
First, he left his home in Thompson, Conn. for Emerson's Little Building his freshman year. Then he moved to an apartment in downtown Boston. Now that he has accepted a job at ABC 7 in Bangor, Maine, he is yet again faced with relocating.
"I've always been close, so I have never had to move anything too far; the hardest part was finding out when my parents could [help me move]," Consiglio said.
Consiglio, who has never had to utilize a moving van, has relied on his father's truck to do most of the heavy lifting.
Julia Abel, a junior marketing communication major from Orange County, Calif., transferred to Emerson in January and now lives in an apartment in Brookline. Abel shipped several boxes when she moved, but also used large suitcases to bring her possessions across the country.
"I could have packed less or put more in suitcases, because that was much faster and more efficient," she said. "Almost every box I shipped was ripped and torn when it got here, but nothing broke."
Able will be leaving her apartment in Brookline at the end of the summer and will once again transfer her belongings to another apartment, this time in Central Square in Cambridge.
"We basically have three bedrooms to move and only one car between all of us to move everything." Abel said.
Lauren Long, a freshman marketing communication major from Gig Harbor, Wash., remembers the hassle of moving vividly. Living across the country, she said she was forced to ship six huge boxes containing her clothes and smaller items, which totaled approximately $300. She purchased larger items, such as a refrigerator and DVD player, in Boston.
Tony Consiglio, a senior broadcast journalism major, has experienced the moving process several times.
First, he left his home in Thompson, Conn. for Emerson's Little Building his freshman year. Then he moved to an apartment in downtown Boston. Now that he has accepted a job at ABC 7 in Bangor, Maine, he is yet again faced with relocating.
"I've always been close, so I have never had to move anything too far; the hardest part was finding out when my parents could [help me move]," Consiglio said.
Consiglio, who has never had to utilize a moving van, has relied on his father's truck to do most of the heavy lifting.
Julia Abel, a junior marketing communication major from Orange County, Calif., transferred to Emerson in January and now lives in an apartment in Brookline. Abel shipped several boxes when she moved, but also used large suitcases to bring her possessions across the country.
"I could have packed less or put more in suitcases, because that was much faster and more efficient," she said. "Almost every box I shipped was ripped and torn when it got here, but nothing broke."
Able will be leaving her apartment in Brookline at the end of the summer and will once again transfer her belongings to another apartment, this time in Central Square in Cambridge.
"We basically have three bedrooms to move and only one car between all of us to move everything." Abel said.
Lauren Long, a freshman marketing communication major from Gig Harbor, Wash., remembers the hassle of moving vividly. Living across the country, she said she was forced to ship six huge boxes containing her clothes and smaller items, which totaled approximately $300. She purchased larger items, such as a refrigerator and DVD player, in Boston.
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