LOSING?THINGS
Perpetual misplacers scour campus in hunt of lost items
Juliana D'Amico
Issue date: 12/4/08 Section: Focus
Junior Abbie Turnbull has lost five phones since coming to Hillsdale.
"I actually am using [another] phone now 'cause I don't know where my charger is," Turnbull said.
Thankfully for Turnbull, Hillsdale College students usually return lost items. She has had every one of her lost phones returned to her eventually.
Senior Lydia Melancon said she also has trouble keeping track of her belongings.
"I've lost my backpack when it was on my back," Melancon said. "If I misplace my glasses it's really ironic because I can't find my glasses without my glasses."
Melancon said she has discovered things that she did not even know she lost at campus security or at other people's houses.
Freshman Sonny Gast said she loses things every day.
"I swear my closet's like a black hole," Gast said. "And when people borrow things it's too hard to keep track of."
Gast said she once lost a Coach purse containing a large sum of money.
"It miraculously found its way to the lost and found; which was sweet," Gast said. "It was still zipped up with 80 bucks still in it."
While Coach purses are left in the lost and found, Olds Dormitory residents said that people often lose their food.
"We leave our doors open, and we find food missing all the time," Gast said.
One freshman said after she put her candy in the same drawer as her jewelry, she found all of her candy eaten with her jewelry untouched.
Freshman Caroline Cheatum said she had had similar problems with food in her room. She said she stepped out of her room and when she came back, her entire box of pretzels were missing.
"It's just random stuff like that," Cheatum said. "I guess it's kind of normal for college."
Last week Cheatum was drying her duvet cover down the hall, and before the drying cycle was over someone had taken it. Cheatum sent out an e-mail to the entire dorm, and it was returned after three days.
"Sometimes losing trivial things repeatedly makes you nervous when you accidentally lose more important things," Gast said.
"I actually am using [another] phone now 'cause I don't know where my charger is," Turnbull said.
Thankfully for Turnbull, Hillsdale College students usually return lost items. She has had every one of her lost phones returned to her eventually.
Senior Lydia Melancon said she also has trouble keeping track of her belongings.
"I've lost my backpack when it was on my back," Melancon said. "If I misplace my glasses it's really ironic because I can't find my glasses without my glasses."
Melancon said she has discovered things that she did not even know she lost at campus security or at other people's houses.
Freshman Sonny Gast said she loses things every day.
"I swear my closet's like a black hole," Gast said. "And when people borrow things it's too hard to keep track of."
Gast said she once lost a Coach purse containing a large sum of money.
"It miraculously found its way to the lost and found; which was sweet," Gast said. "It was still zipped up with 80 bucks still in it."
While Coach purses are left in the lost and found, Olds Dormitory residents said that people often lose their food.
"We leave our doors open, and we find food missing all the time," Gast said.
One freshman said after she put her candy in the same drawer as her jewelry, she found all of her candy eaten with her jewelry untouched.
Freshman Caroline Cheatum said she had had similar problems with food in her room. She said she stepped out of her room and when she came back, her entire box of pretzels were missing.
"It's just random stuff like that," Cheatum said. "I guess it's kind of normal for college."
Last week Cheatum was drying her duvet cover down the hall, and before the drying cycle was over someone had taken it. Cheatum sent out an e-mail to the entire dorm, and it was returned after three days.
"Sometimes losing trivial things repeatedly makes you nervous when you accidentally lose more important things," Gast said.
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