The End of an Era (Or, Finally Leaving Medlin Next Year)

On the night of Tuesday, March 2, Medlin Hall had its mid-semester dorm meeting in the Rose Lecture Hall, this time to focus on residence hall assignments for next year. After much previous deliberation, I decided that for my senior year I wanted to be in a place where I could practice my mad culinary skillz (which currently is limited to scrambled eggs and sandwiches, ha ha) and have my female friends enter the dorm past the lobby. :-P With this in mind, I have decided to attempt to move into B.L. Hicks Hall for next year. It's got the apartment style, while at the same time having close proximity to most of campus. Some of my friends and I got together and have planned to share a suite; if all goes as planned, my longtime college friend Caleb Mann will be my roommate, and our suitemates will be J.D. Wooten and that level 10 ukelele bard, Jimmy Davis. We picked Hicks first, then Storms and Medlin as second and third. Considering that we're a group of seniors and juniors, however, I believe that we'll get our request since we all requested each other in the same dorm.

In spite of my leaving, I will truly miss Medlin Hall. While I did not originally request to live there, I am so glad I was put there freshman year because of the amazing community it has given me. Through Medlin I have gained from all walks of life the brothers I never had. They've never failed to lift my heart throughout my time there, and are the primary reason for my living there for three glorious years. Although I will be living in another dorm, I'll certainly visit there again every so often.

This is also the end of an era. Several well-known/longtime residents will be leaving like Caleb, Jimmy, J.D., Matt Smith, James Laney, me, and others. Fortunately, the majority of them will be going for Hicks, so I can just walk down the hall to see them. However, Medlin will have a much higher percentage of freshmen now, and many of the faces that have represented Medlin will be gone.

I'll miss Medlin Hall. Once a Medlinite, always a Medlinite. Still, there are great things ahead, and I'm looking forward to them with anticipation.