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Orientation 2011 started out wet, but the rain was giving way to clearer skies and a gentle warmth as Josh Quint ’14 moved into a ground-floor double in Parker Hall.<\/p>\n

It took only about 15 minutes for Josh and his parents, Colleen Quint ’86 and Bill Hiss ’66, to haul Josh’s stuff into the room.<\/p>\n

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This despite the fact that the back of the family’s SUV had been full nearly to the top: several shrink-wrapped flats of bottled water and soft drinks, paper towels, a laundry basket of clothing and linens, and myriad other belongings including a small stainless-steel refrigerator and a Keurig cartridge-style coffeemaker, still in its carton.<\/p>\n

The family piled Josh’s stuff on the bed. This was old hat for the 20-year-old Josh, who had taken his first year of college elsewhere and then spent two years in Washington, D.C. working for Maine Rep. Michael Michaud.<\/p>\n

“I’m excited to be back here,” said Josh, a tall sturdy guy with a friendly, open face. His father, now a senior leadership gifts officer at Bates, has had a long history in the college’s administration. “I pretty much grew up on campus,” said Josh.<\/p>\n

The room in Parker seemed smaller to Josh than it had during a quick visit earlier in the week. The heaps of laundry in the middle of the floor between the two beds could have been a factor.<\/p>\n

But the room “seems massive to me,” said the laundry’s owner, Quint’s roommate, Matt Neal ’14 of Indianapolis. He too was a transfer student, from a school back home. “It’s like twice the size of my dorm room last year.”<\/p>\n

It’s all a question of perspective. Looking back to 1962, Josh’s dad said he had shown up on campus from New Jersey with two suitcases. “I certainly didn’t have a coffee maker,” mused Hiss. “I didn’t have a refrigerator.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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