STATE COLLEGE, PA—Unhindered by a curfew and free from parental oversight, freshman Phil Melton, 18, spent his first night of independence Saturday inside his Pennsylvania State University dorm room and was asleep by 11:45 p.m.
After driving with his mother and father from their home in Carnegie, PA to the 43,000-student college, Melton carried his personal belongings into his new dormitory and said goodbye to his parents, who then returned to Carnegie without him.
Although Melton had not yet met his new roommate, whose belongings were already stacked beside the other bed by the time he arrived, the probable biology major said he is confident the two will get along and maybe even attend a few campus parties together."As long as he's up for anything, we'll get along great," said Melton, taking a break from a sixth consecutive game of Minesweeper. "And it looks like he brought a microwave. Cool.
Utterly free to mingle with fellow incoming students in the Student Union or attend any of the numerous Welcome Freshmen activities being held across campus until the wee hours of the morning, Melton opted to leave his fifth-floor dormitory room only once, at approximately 9:15 p.m., when he entered the hallway and positioned a dry erase board on his door.
Dr. Dennis Misercola, a psychologist at Penn State's student health center, said experimentation during the first few months of college is not uncommon, and can help a student make a healthy transition into newfound independence."New freshmen like Phil must push their boundaries in order to learn their own limitations and begin establishing an identity separate from their parents," Dr. Misercola said.
After sleeping soundly for 10 hours and then not taking a shower, Melton is expected to leave his dorm room for the first time since moving in to walk directly to the building's cafeteria. Once there, he will likely eat a breakfast of hash browns and soft-serve ice cream and meet the two guys he will hang out with for the next four years.
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