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Carpet adhesive. Carpet adhesive and pleather. Those were the smells I
would always associate with the first day of college. Well, not college
really, because that didn’t start till Monday and this was only Saturday.
Still, it was move-in day and the first day of being away from home and
the first day of whatever this was. X-Men academy or Hogwarts, or
maybe just the school for the freaky and furry kids.
Caeco was sitting next to me, absolutely still, reclining in the plush
pleather cinema seats of the classroom, re-reading the material we had
received along with our ID cards and room keys. Not sure why she
bothered, as I’m certain she’d memorized the whole damn thing the first
time she read it. Having nano-sized computers in your bloodstream is
useful that way.
The room was brand new, as were the dorms, the student lounges, and
every other room and hall in the place. The building itself wasn’t new,
just completely redone and redesigned. The shell was an old industrial
building on Pine Street in Burlington, a remnant from the city’s youth.
There were numerous old factory and warehouse buildings along Pine,
now converted to artists studios, architectural salvage and recycling
stores and, of course, restaurants. In Vermont, everyone is a foodie, and
new restaurants pop up all the time.
The building stood a bit apart, surrounded by what might have once been
storage yards but were now newly paved parking lots. Beast, my trusty
‘72 Toyota Land Cruiser, was safely parked between the gleaming white
lines of a secluded spot, well away from the other students’ cars.
It was so bizarre—just a few weeks ago, I’d been in high school, a place
my friends, Rory and Jonah were still stuck in, and here I was about to
begin college.
Despite the smell of adhesive, which was strongest in the carpeted tiers
of seats, the room wasn’t classroom typical. The brick walls and
overhead steel beams had been left exposed and the floor of the room, at
the teacher’s level, was concrete that had been polished to a gleaming
shine. The effect was much warmer, more of an artsy marketing firm
vibe, like everything here was balanced to enhance the creative juices.
The halls and even our dorm rooms were similar.
Aunt Ashling, her partner Darci, Levi, and Caeco’s mom had all left after
helping unload our stuff in the freezing January cold and then taking us
to warm up for lunch downtown at the wood-fired pizza place. Since
coming back, we had barely enough time to meet our respective
roommates before all four of us headed to the largest of the three
classrooms in the building, following the instructions of the staff. It was
time for a mandatory welcome meeting with the program director, Gina
Velasquez. Caeco and I had met her once before. She was just a weary,
distraught mom then, excited and relieved beyond measure to get her
daughter back. But that’s a whole other story.
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