Meeting the Roommates

We met our son's roommates tonight. He decided to attend the University of Utah after high school and moved up in the middle of August. He is living in the dorms and has a room roommate plus 2 "suite mates." I offered to have them all over for dinner and tonight was the night although one of the suite mates went out of town so we didn't meet him. But it was nice to meet the rest of them and get a clearer picture of what life is like in the dorms.

It's definitely been an atypical first year of college. Because of COVID, they can't eat in the cafeteria. They can't play ping pong or pool in the Union. Almost all of their classes are online. They basically have no social life outside of the friends they've made in the dorm room. So it's definitely not what they could have hoped for. But no one is having the year they hoped for so that's a small consolation I guess.

But they seemed to enjoy their visit. We gave them a home-cooked meal and played ping pong and Codenames. We'll have to invite them down again sometime.

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