Space and Setting

The space I live in at college has become my home, although I use space in exceedingly different ways here than I do there. My room in my dorm is set up differently from my room at my house. At my house, I have a headboard and drawers under my bed, both of which store the majority of my things and allow me to do a multitude of activities without getting out of my bed, because everything is stored so close to my bed. In my dorm room, I do not spend as much time doing homework on my bed, mostly because I use my desk, which I did not have in my room at my house, and because I often leave my room to do my homework, so as to not disturb my roommate. My dorm room is my sleeping space, as well as occasionally my homework space. I have to walk further to get to common rooms, like the lobby, than I do when I’m at my house. This does not deter me from going to common rooms; rather, it means that I must make more of an effort to get to one. Living on campus also means that it takes less time for me to get to my classes now than it did in high school, since I live at the same place that I go to school. I find myself walking a lot more than I do when I’m at my house, which enables me to utilize space in a more personal way as I have more time to observe and interact with the space that I am passing through on a daily basis.
While there is a kitchen in my dorm, I do not spend very much time there. Instead, I walk across campus, across the quad, to get to the commons for most of my meals. I eat in a large space with a large number of people all the time instead of with my family in my more confined living room. I constantly walk across the quad to get to the other parts of campus, such as classes or common meeting areas, since I live in Fairmont. I do not normally go to the athletic facilities, or that side of campus, since I am not an athlete and I don’t often go to many sporting events as a spectator. I work at a location off-campus, but my workplace is close to my dorm. I do not often go to buildings where I don’t have class, so during the day I mostly go to Lewis, Larson, Hall of Letters, or Gregory, aside from the commons and my own dorm. I do not know yet where some of the other classroom buildings are, and if I never have a class in some of them, I may never visit them, since I would have no need to do so. I generally need to have an express reason to be in a particular part of campus, or else I will not venture to that area. I tend to walk along the same paths every week as my schedule becomes more and more set in a routine, limiting the space that I use to the set paths I tread.