Second Home

This year, as well as last year, I am living on campus in a dorm room. Similar to a hotel except this is where I live for roughly 8 or 9 months out of the year. It's my second home. Most of my belongings and living essentials came with me when I first moved in. If possible, I would like to stay here for as long as I'm supposed to stay here without having to get kicked out or sent home because of the coronavirus. And as far as I can tell by being on campus for a few weeks now, I think we'll be able to stay.

The University gave everyone who came back to campus a test for COVID-19. Once that first round of testing was over, they sent an email saying fraternities and sororities have a positive rate 3x higher than the rest of the school. That sounds bad but considering the rest of the school only had a positive rate of 1%, it's not too bad. The conclusion of this email stated that the frats and sororities were required to 

receive another test, round two. 

Greek Row at the University of Washington-Seattle

From what I've seen around campus, almost every student wears a mask with the exception of when they are dining. A few people here and there do not wear masks, seeming like they're only doing it to be rebellious. But it feels good to see that the students might want to stay on campus or so many of them would't be wearing a mask. Some schools have sent entire dorms home over outbreaks, some schools have gone back to completely online. Much of the outbreak issues resided with greek houses. But you can't blame them, frats are being frats, they're college kids like the rest of us trying to continue their college experience. The only difference between our University staying on campus and some in person classes is because our school singled them out and required them to have another round of testing. It's not a bad thing, they're finding a main source for outbreaks as seen with other schools closing again and taking action on it. Because of this, and students actually wearing their masks, I do believe that we will be able to stay on campus, and for most of us, continue to live in our second homes.