This is the inside of my mailbox in Warren Hall. I usually check my mail once a week and it just so happened I got a handful of letters and a magazine this week in particular. Normally I would just find various advertisements that merely waste paper. I was excited to get my magazine - I am subscribed to Glamour - but the rest was just bills, which are less exciting. I thought I would use this image in the blog because the mailboxes is an important space for a lot of freshmen and sophomore students. For those of us that live on campus, this is the means by which we communicate with distant relatives, which can mean a lot for first year students who miss home. One of the most exciting things is opening your mailbox (or your email) and finding out you have a package waiting to be picked up. It may be something you ordered online - clothes or textbooks, for example - or if your lucky, it could be a care package from home. If you don't receive a package, you'll probably get a card or letter from someone who's missing you. In fact, I saw a girl today open a "Thinking of you" card from her grandma with a check for $100 inside. If you ask me, that's the best kind of care package!
I believe that the post office area in Warren Hall is being used exactly how the designers meant for it to be used. While technology today has made physical "snail" mail much less common, it is still an effective medium to communicate with people too far away to visit and is a great way to send and receive love. The only suggestion I would make is that the boxes be slightly larger. Some of the larger letters and magazines often get bent and twisted up when placed in our assigned space.
When it isn't bills or other junk that get placed in my mailbox, it can often be fun or exciting to find letters from home and package slips, and I think I will remember that feeling when recollecting about JMU.
-Stefani Backer
This picture brings up a lot of nostalgia from my freshman year. I agree that getting care packages is one of the greatest feelings. My freshman year, I received letters from my friends who were still in high school, and care packages from them as well as from their parents and my own parents. It reminds me of how much support I have had here and how receiving packages really does help the distance between people who care about you go away.
ReplyDeleteI agree that this space is used appropriately at JMU and it may be one of the most important places on campus.
- Jenelle Sills
I love that you picked this space since I was thinking of it too! All throughout freshman year, whenever I came to check my mailbox and found that I had a letter from home, a magazine, or a care package, it definitely brightened my whole day. This space shows one very important way that freshman and other students living on campus can connect with friends and family back at home. Even though “snail mail” is less common now that we have email, texting, etc. I know I feel a lot better coming to this space and finding something for me than I would feel getting an email! I think the space is very well used here at JMU and is important to a lot of students.
ReplyDelete-Kate Martin