Spring Break
Students stay for summer
Michael Peterson
Issue date: 4/28/06 Section: The Verge
When finals are done and the bags are packed, students at Eastern will leave their college lives behind for another three-month vacation known as summer.
It is during this time that Eastern's campus is transformed from a busy, lively community into a quiet, chill town.
While most students return home to their friends, families and summer jobs, not all do the same.
Some go overseas, while others stay at Eastern and take summer courses.
Evan Hill, a sophomore engineering major, is doing what the majority of students are doing, going home and working.
"Right now I am looking for an internship," Hill said. "But if I can't get one I will just work at the True Value near my house like I usually do."
In contrast, Mike Schulte, a sophomore economics major, decided to stay on campus and work with Conference Services like he did last summer.
While working as a guest service assistant, Schulte will accommodate the various camps that use Eastern's facilities while the students are gone.
"Basketball camps, soccer camps, football camps, band camps and even airplane flying camps," Schulte said. "You name it. We got it."
While some people may think it would be lonely or boring to stay in Charleston over the summer, Schulte would disagree.
He said his co-workers keep him company and usually he is "too busy to be lonely."
"I personally like it," Schulte said. "If I go home I have a job that pays better, but the reason I stay here is for the experience."
But students don't necessarily have to be staying on campus in order to keep themselves busy during the summer.
People who work on Student Senate don't throw down their work just because the summer has begun.
Tori Frazier, the Student Senate's diversity affairs committee chair, plans on working on Student Senate sponsored events as well as working at three different jobs, which is being a babysitter, an operator at Target and cheerleading assistant.
"I am helping Sean (Anderson) plan First Night," Frazier said. "I am also working on a Unity Luncheon, so Student Government members can get to know each other better on a social level and try to bridge the gap between the two parties. Right now there is a clear separation."
It is during this time that Eastern's campus is transformed from a busy, lively community into a quiet, chill town.
While most students return home to their friends, families and summer jobs, not all do the same.
Some go overseas, while others stay at Eastern and take summer courses.
Evan Hill, a sophomore engineering major, is doing what the majority of students are doing, going home and working.
"Right now I am looking for an internship," Hill said. "But if I can't get one I will just work at the True Value near my house like I usually do."
In contrast, Mike Schulte, a sophomore economics major, decided to stay on campus and work with Conference Services like he did last summer.
While working as a guest service assistant, Schulte will accommodate the various camps that use Eastern's facilities while the students are gone.
"Basketball camps, soccer camps, football camps, band camps and even airplane flying camps," Schulte said. "You name it. We got it."
While some people may think it would be lonely or boring to stay in Charleston over the summer, Schulte would disagree.
He said his co-workers keep him company and usually he is "too busy to be lonely."
"I personally like it," Schulte said. "If I go home I have a job that pays better, but the reason I stay here is for the experience."
But students don't necessarily have to be staying on campus in order to keep themselves busy during the summer.
People who work on Student Senate don't throw down their work just because the summer has begun.
Tori Frazier, the Student Senate's diversity affairs committee chair, plans on working on Student Senate sponsored events as well as working at three different jobs, which is being a babysitter, an operator at Target and cheerleading assistant.
"I am helping Sean (Anderson) plan First Night," Frazier said. "I am also working on a Unity Luncheon, so Student Government members can get to know each other better on a social level and try to bridge the gap between the two parties. Right now there is a clear separation."
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