Changes

[[Category:Williamspeak]]Each student has a personal SU Box where they receive campus and postal mail. SU stands for Student Union, from the time when because the boxes were are located in the student union building (the [[BaxterParesky Center]]). Now they are located in the buildings of the four [[dining hall]]s:

* [[Mission Park]] - '''Building A'''* [[Greylock]] - '''Building B'''* [[Driscoll]] - '''Building C'''==Combination==* To open your box you need a combination which you receive at the beginning of the school year, mailed to your home. If you lose or forget that combination, you can always go to the [[Dodd Housecampus post office]] - '''Building D'''and ask about it. It is absolutely free.

The location of ==Opening your box depends on mailbox==Opening your geographical location on campus but, contrary mailbox is a little tricky. You have to popular belief, does not depend on turn right three times before stopping at the first number of the [[cluster]] you are in. For examplecombination, then go left passing by your second number once and stopping at it the residents of [[Spencer House|Spencer]], [[Mark Hopkins House|Mark Hopkins]]second time, and [[Bryant House|Bryant]] all have their mailboxes in [[Greylock Dining Hall|Greylock]], which would lead one then go right again to believe that all members of Spencer [[Neighborhood|neighborhood]] have their mailboxes therethe third number. However, this is not trueNow, as push the residents of [[West College|West]] have knob in and turn it to trek all the way to [[Dodd Dining Hall|Dodd]] to get their mailleft and pull the box open.

Fortunately==History of S.U. boxes==S.U. boxes are important to Williams students, very soon they will be moved to so we preserve some history of the new time before Paresky center (most probably during Spring Break). There will be new mailboxes with new combinations but the SU box numbers will remain the same.

==Combination=Mailbox size===To open your box you need The [[Baxter]] mailboxes were about three inches wide by four inches tall -- big enough for a letter, and big enough for a combination which you receive at folded magazine or large envelope, but not big enough for the beginning majority of three-dimensional packages. Hence the school yearhappily-received package slip bearing the words '''PACKAGE TOO LARGE FOR BOX'''. This slip was so popular that the Baxter mail room sold T-shirts bearing these words. The new boxes in [[Paresky]] are significantly bigger. This allows students to receive DVDs and other smallish packages in their SU boxes, mailed but it also means that the top boxes are very high up and the bottom boxes are very close to your homethe ground; see [http://wso.williams.edu/discuss/comments. If you lose or forget php?DiscussionID=758&page=1#Item_0 WSO discussion] on this topic. ===Mailbox-opening===It used to be, in [[Baxter]] and then in the [[Dining hall|dining halls]] (which used the old Baxter mailboxes), that one had to first turn the dial to the left three times until reaching the first number, then to the right, and so on such that everything was "backwards" from a standard combinationlock. However, you can always go the new Paresky mailboxes turn to the right first, and thus are less confusing for [[campus post officeFirst-year|first-years]] and ask about it. It is absolutely free.

Opening ===Locations during construction===The location of boxes during the Paresky Center construction depended on your mailbox is a little trickygeographical location on campus but, contrary to popular belief, did not depend on the [[cluster]] you were in. You have to go left to For example, the first number residents of the combination[[Spencer House|Spencer]], [[Mark Hopkins House|Mark Hopkins]], then go right passing by your second number once and stopping at it the second time[[Bryant House|Bryant]] all had their mailboxes in [[Greylock Dining Hall|Greylock]], and then go left again which would lead one to the third numberbelieve that all members of Spencer [[Neighborhood|neighborhood]] had their mailboxes there. When you feel However, this is not true, as the click, just go right a little bit and residents of [[West College|West]] had to trek all the box is openway to [[Dodd Dining Hall|Dodd]] to get their mail.