<p>are there elvators in mission? if you re on third or fourth floor is it about dragging suitcases up one step at a time? are there helper elves?</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure Mission has elevators; I know the frosh quad does. But there's probably only one or two and they'll be really busy, so expect to be carrying most of your stuff up the stairs unless it's <em>really</em> heavy. Your JAs will probably be around to help you bring stuff up.</p>
<p>Jeke, glad to hear of the elevators.
What is the situation for street parking around the dorms? At Stanford, most parking requires 3-$1bills each time the car is moved (no change readily available). Other schools in our area require vast numbers of quarters. I expect to make a zillion trips between Paresky and Mission with my daughter's stupifying amount of gear .... is there a special coin of the realm? Any other advice about unloading, moving, local chiroprators, or perhaps suggestions for a suitable site for a primal scream? Thanks.</p>
<p>You don't pay for parking on campus--or anywhere in Williamstown, for that matter. I think they make all the parents park in Thompson Parking Lot, which is right next to Mission. From the lot they run trucks that will shuttle all your suitcases, boxes, etc. up to your dorm. There are helper-types around-JAs and some other upperclassmen-but it's easier to get help when fewer people are moving in (read: early in the day).</p>
<p>Thanks! I love this school.</p>
<p>Son's going to be a soph...Moving in day last year was as efficient and easy as one could imagine. Just well done with lots of help, if needed...and it was raining! I do remember President Schapiro hanging out in the rain greeting people...and when he met my son, he knew his name already and recited his high school (public in LA). Impressive. Just relax; they do a great job.</p>
<p>I have a pretty ginormous family, do you guys think it will matter if a very large, but unneccesary number of people come up with me moving day lol?</p>
<p>As you know by now, Mission has no elevators.
My D was on the 4th floor, but the JA's were a tremendous help in moving ALL of her earthly possessions that she accumulated in her 18 years into her 10X16 room.
Sophomore year, there are no JA's. So we had no help moving 1/2 of her earthly possessions into her 4th floor room in Greylock.
I'm sure next year we'll be down to 1/4th of her possessions, and by senior year....well, you get the picture.
While I was lugging her 100 lb trunk up to the stairs, I wished my D didn't pick the 4th floor again, but she loved her entry mates and they wanted to stay together.
Williams is great! If you need help, you'll get it.</p>
<p>I watched a girl with a huge trunk move in. She pulled the trunk out of the car, opened it up, and removed two mid-sized/big IKEA tarp bags that had been filled inside the trunk, handed one to her father, took one herself, and relocked the trunk. They carried them upstairs in a leisurely way, and then came back for the other two and the trunk. Clever idea: splitting the load into four manageable parts.</p>
<p>Another kid had a set of door stops. He put them in for his family each trip up, and then took them out each trip down. They were very nice about holding the doors for other people, too.</p>
<p>Another 4th floor Mission frosh parent. The day was so beautiful that the stairs faded as a minor inconvenience. However, we were happy about getting back to civilization (Manhattan haha) and its elevators when we moved DD into her seventh floor room, especially since it was our first move in without DS.</p>