Even though rain and winds have been weaker than originally projected, students found themselves cooped up in their dorms due to the limited campus hours and availability of campus resources.
Despite Jon Dooley’s email that “strongly encouraged” Elon students to evacuate campus, approximately 1,400 decided to stay.
“It’s literally a ghost town here. There’s nobody here,” said freshman Alex Kamen.
Students have been resorting to completing homework, playing games such as "What Do You Meme" and "Fortnite," watching Netflix and hanging out with friends. With the possibility of power outages, however, students’ days of video game marathons could be numbered.
Freshman Kate Lengyel took these outages into consideration when deciding whether to stay on campus or make the hour-long trip home to Raleigh.
“[The conditions] were going to be about the same no matter what," Lengyel said. "And there’s going to be a generator here."
Lissy Shortall, a freshman from Rhode Island, said she chose to remain on campus because going home would have been an expensive hassle.
“I’m also close with my hall, so it’s fun to just hang out and bond together,” Shortall said.
Since the weather hasn’t been as bad as predicted, students still had time to leave campus and stock up on supplies. Two residents in the Global Neighborhood even bought a futon from Walmart to house a friend staying on campus who would have been living alone this weekend.
While those on campus were finding some ways to pass the time, the general consensus amongst students on campus was that boredom reigned.
“Everything’s closed," said sophomore Anne Williams. "There’s not many activities. I’ve made a couple of new friends which was good, but, for the most part, it’s kind of bland."
For those who remain on campus, only one day remains until on-campus offices re-open and two days until classes resume. Until then, rather than fighting flood waters, Elon students will be fighting waves of boredom.