By Kara Augustine

At 8 p.m. on Tuesday, “My Sweet Song” by Toby Lightman echoes through the maroon doors of Miller Residence Hall’s girl’s fourth floor and into the hallway. Freshman undecided major Tamara Gilreath sits in her wooden desk chair and awaits a phone call from her roommate.
“I’m waiting to go to my sorority intramural bowling game,” Gilreath says.
Gilreath and her roommate, freshman psychology major Meghan Rouse, are members of Kappa Delta sorority. Their room is decorated with various KD insignia and different shades of pink and green. For the Christmas season, it is decorated with an array of multi-colored Christmas lights. 
Gilreath has enjoyed living in Miller Hall and claims that her activities within the hall usually include sleeping often and hanging out with her friends that also live on the fourth floor.
“Miller Hall has helped me adjust because it allowed me to meet people who are also adjusting,” Gilreath explained. “So, we all just bonded and adjusted together.”
Gilreath’s zebra plated cell phone receives a text message. It is Rouse telling her that she is ready to go.
Gilreath closes her door and heads downstairs. The yellow tinted stairwell smells of various microwaved foods.
The sound of clothes tumbling in the dryer becomes louder as she reaches the bottom floor laundry room. 
As Gilreath exits Miller Hall, she passes a group of people sitting around a table in the lobby.
Psychology and Biology major Corey Anderson shares his Sour Patch Kids with the other four people sitting at the table. Anderson lived in three different dorms this semester.
“I lived in Center, Threlkeld and Unitas. Miller’s atmosphere suits me,” Anderson said.
Several people pass through the lobby including freshman undecided major Amelia Titus. She is carrying a light blue Charlotte Russe bag, returning from some holiday shopping.
As Titus begins her trek up four flights of stairs, freshman undecided major Laura Sievers comes into the lobby and begins to shuffle a deck of cards.
“We always play cards,” Sievers says. “We usually play euchre, kemps or phones, which is like spoons but with cell phones. Phones can be very violent.”
As the people around the table discuss plans for the evening, freshman music education major Marquese Carter scurries into the lobby escaping the cold. He holds a “Classical Singers” magazine in his right arm.
“I am wandering around because my keys are lost,” Carter says.
Behind Carter, someone shouts, “Bull!”
A game of bull shit has begun. Everyone begins to laugh. Junior equine business major Liz Young and three other R.A.s come up the stairs from the basement of Miller Hall.
The basement is a large open room that used to serve as a recreational area. Now, it will be the site of the R.A.’s formal dance  called “The Event,” which Young and the other R.A.s have just returned from an organization meeting for.
After around 15 people accumulate in the lobby, a resident walks by and says, “Partay.”
Young describes this to be her favorite thing about Miller Hall.
“There are always people in the lobby and there is always someone to hang out with and something going on,” said Young.
After an hour and a half, senior sociology major Mike Oghia walks into the lobby barefooted.
“I have complete faith that this floor is clean. I know they clean the floor with bleach. So far, I have been okay,” Oghia said.
After chatting with people in the lobby, Oghia heads upstairs for the second floor boys meeting. 
At 9:30, the meeting begins and Oghia hands out surveys and golf pencils to the residents. The survey is to help collect information about class schedules.
“This isn’t another evaluation is it?” a resident asks.
Every guy in the hallway turns to the cement block walks and uses it to fill out their surveys. 
After the surveys are turned in, Oghia discusses 24 hour visitation, quiet hours and winter housing.
As ten o’clock approaches, the boys of second floor Miller Hall scatter to their rooms. After throwing an object across the hallway and wrestling for a split second, the floor returns to its quiet state with the sound of video games whispering in the background.