A Dorm Room Through the Year
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Student
Publication Date
3-2020
Description
This is a video, partly filmed by myself, partly filmed by my roommate, Alice Riley. I edited together two video segments of our dorm, Lewis 206. The first was from August, 2019. Alice arrived before I did for cross country training, and she filmed a spin of our room to show me what it looked like. The second segment was one that I took in March, 2020, the day after we were told by College administration that we had a week to pack up our belongings in person, if possible. My dad and I had just finished packing up my half of the room -- Alice lived too far away to react as quickly as we did -- and I felt that it was fitting to take a second video, mirroring the first but under completely different circumstances and feelings. My half of the video replaces the anticipation and excitement that Alice's incites with a kind of sadness and disappointment -- but with the thumbs-up and half-smile that I offer in the mirror, at least I can tell there's a hope that this will all be over soon, that I won't be separated from my best friend for too long, that my College experience won't be completely taken away from me by something that no one could have predicted or controlled. I hope that my video reminds others that even when we are away from each other and from Kenyon -- because it's not our time to be there yet, or because our time has come to an abrupt end -- we are together in spirit, no matter what.
City
Gambier, Ohio
Keywords
Lewis Hall, dorm room
Recommended Citation
Foight, Maggie, "A Dorm Room Through the Year" (2020). In Audio and Video. 6.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/covid19audiovideo/6
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