I'm not going to lie: being here with ~200 people on campus is fricking weird.

It's kind of nice though, because it's causing me to evaluate Stonehill on a less biased level. Well, now wait a minute, I don't know if that's true.
I was going to say that my opinion of Stonehill would be less biased now that everyone is gone for the summer because there is no one clouding my view of what the school is really like. It's like... I can see the school's inner workings, the metal structure that holds it together and keeps it functioning.
But how much of Stonehill/my experience of Stonehill (which is what the school really is to me, anyway) is actually interacting with or affected by this inner functionality?
Stonehill students, staff, ad professors, as far as I'm concerned, are the community. It's these people that make me come back- everything else is just to deal with the logistics (which apparently get really really complicated, given the amount of "support staff" people who are needed to make the teaching and learning and living go smoothly).

It kind of reminds me of when my pastor did this unit at church on the church building itself. We started having worship outside a lot and doing some less typical church activities. He even spent a bunch of nights sleeping in a tent on the lawn, though I forget exactly what that part was proving.
It seems similar, though, because we were learning that the idea of a church community and the physical "necessity" of a church building often get conflated, and unnecessarily so.
I think I tend to do this with Stonehill. It's really the people that I'm here for- the Wendys and the Lizas and the Jamies and the Emelyes andandand- which is separate from the actual place itself, which really has nothing to offer me.

So yeah. It is weird being here with so few people on campus.
It's like Diet Stonehill.