Cars slowed to a crawl around campus Aug. 19 and 20 for freshman move-in days while thousands of students and their totes of clothes, DVDs and plastic dishes were clustered in dorm parking lots. “When I was with my sister when she moved in Illinois State University, it took a couple hours,” said Thomas Siegele, freshman in pre-computer science. “Here it was like three minutes.”
Part of that is due to the Move-In Crew, Siegele said. When Move-In Crew started 5 years ago, it had a couple hundred volunteers. Now, it has grown to more than 900 volunteers.
Ryan Komosa, sophomore in aerospace engineering, has been involved with Move-In Crew for two years. Even as a freshman, he thought it was a great opportunity to meet new people, like Laura Michaelson, who is a freshman in mechanical engineering. Michaelson is excited to learn more about future engineering careers and chose Iowa State because of the engineering program.
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