There’s no place like home
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“Said the liar” was always a favorite phrase of mine. In my annoying Ugg-boots-and-jean-skirt-wearin’ days back in the eighth grade, I thought I was just so hilarious by tacking these three words onto the end of anything out of anyone’s mouth. After progressing through “your mom,” “OMG,” “ayy bay bay,” and “YOLO,” I thought that the age of the sayings would finally be over with; or rather, start to mature.
But in August of 2012, it made reappearance.
“Soon enough you’ll be calling this place home,” my mother said optimistically as she left for my real home. Walking back up to my dorm room, I was less than convinced that this statement would be true. There were four white walls, two windows, a stripped bed, a desk, and a dresser. There was nothing extraordinary about the room, just that it was mine and mine alone.
Although it was a major change from roughly the past 217 months, it was a change that I was more than ready to make. Moving day: whether you are one to admit it or not, everyone walks in with large, hopeful eyes, ready to “start fresh” and to begin a new chapter in their lives. The first day of my freshman year, what stuck out to me was the plainness of the walls. Their bright, untouched look made me want to throw paint at them. These rooms that suddenly became occupied last Fall are opportunities to show who the people residing in them are.
If you lofted your bed, you’re efficient. If you half-lofted your bed, you don’t finish tasks and are easily distracted; you finish papers the night before. If you leave your bedroom as it was when you first moved in, you are either a boy, lazy, or you don’t give any flying anythings.
But after your room was completed, what then? People change up their rooms in hopes for a certain sense of comfort. Can you truly call college (yes, college, not just your dorm room) home? Can the clock tower and the sometimes-annoyingly-crowded blue bridge remind you of fond memories that embrace you whenever you go back? For some, they would respond yes, but after asking a friend of mine this very question, he asked me what qualifies as a home? Is it the place or the people?
I will admit, being in the house that I grew up in by myself feels foreign, but being with the people that I love in a random and unvisited place does not feel like home either. Maybe home is a combination of everything that we take for granted: the place, the people, the memories.
You may be asking yourself why, this late in the year, I am writing about “home.” However, it is not because I miss it. Leaving to come back to GV, I caught myself saying “okay, going back home.” I only noticed when my sister asked “which one?”
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Pictures of the Year 2012-2013
Courtesy Photo/Joe Kargula and Erik Peterson run the Marathon leg of the Ironman Triathlon
GVL / Robert Mathews Quarterback Heath Parling (12) leading the offense past Notre Dame College.
GVL / Eric Coulter Senior Jake Isaacson placed eigth in the Spartan Invitational. Isaacson's time of 25:04 was the highest among Division II athletes.
GVL/Jessica Hollenbeck Student Senate President Jack Iott speaks to the assembly during Thursday's meeting.
Courtesy / gvsu.edu President Haas and Montcalm Community College President Robert C. Ferrentino sign the transfer agreement
Courtesy Photo/ GVSU Athletic Department Sophomore Chris Cunningham lines up a putt at a past match.
Courtesy Photo / GVSULakers.com Andrew Darrell prepares to return the serve earlier this season.
GVL / Jessica Hollenbeck President Haas cooks pancakes during Family Weekend's "Pancakes with Presidents".
GVL / Jessica Hollenbeck President Haas cooks pancakes during Family Weekend's "Pancakes with Presidents".
GVL / Archive Forward Briauna Taylor (31) chases down a lose ball in a game last season
Courtesy Photo / Dean Breest Sophomore Allyson Winchester was named the GLIAC Women's Cross Country Athlete of the Year after finishing first with a time of 20:48.8.
GVL / Archive GVSU's Breland Hogan rises and fires over three defenders last season.
GVL/Bo Anderson Briauna Taylor leads the fast break during a game earlier this season.
GVL / Robert Mathews Associate Vice President for Facilities Planning, James Moyer, leading a walk through of the Mary Ideam Pew Library
Courtesy Photo / GVSU DII Men's Hockey Jeremy Christopher chases down a puck during a matchup last season.
GVL / Bo Anderson Students and faculty danced under the spectacular light show in the Devos Place Ballroom
GVL / Robert Mathews Martin L�wenberg, holocaust survivor, speaking at the Genocide Awareness Night presentation in the Grand River Room.
Courtesy / Dean Breest Senior Sam Lockhart finishes her indoor career with two individual national championships in weight throw and shot put at the 2013 National Championships.
Archive / Robert Mathews Giancarlo Brugnoni (40) rounding the bases during a previous game.
GVL/Bo Anderson Seniors Christ Koppenaal, Bill Madsen, and Mitch Weber measure the exterior of the Wesley House as part of an energy audit.
GVL / Robert Mathews Senior Anthony Campanella pitching against Tiffin University during the Lakers double header.
GVL / Eric Coulter Brother Jed Smock, a member of Campus Ministry USA, speaks with fervor to a student. Many students, all with differing views, came to watch the Campus Ministry members speak.
GVL / Sean Mouton A passing walker stops to admire some recently constructed pieces of Art Prize 2012.
GVL Archive Senior Nick Gunthorpe follows through and watches his shot at the Ardenson last year. This weekend the team will be playing in South Haven.
GVL / Bo Anderson GVSU's Katie Martin points to her teammate after safely reaching second base.
GVL / Robert Mathews Mary Idema Pew Library Learning and Information Commons under construction.
GVL / Archive The Grand Valley Rowing Team during Spring Training in Florida last spring.
GVL / Robert Mathews Judge Glenda Hatchett, keynote guest for Monday's King celebration, speaks in the Grand River Room in Kirkhof.
GVL / Robert Mathews Judge Glenda Hatchett, keynote guest for Monday's King celebration, speaks in the Grand River Room in Kirkhof.
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