Thousands of Purdue students are moving onto campus this week

Thousands of Purdue students are moving onto campus this week

Rush is underway.

Thousands of students are settling into their dorms and houses on campus.

Many of today's movers are going to be experiencing college life for the first time.

News 18's micah upshaw shows us how move-in day will work.

B: welcome to bgr 2020 obviously it looks a lot different.

M: one of purdue university's biggest social events is the week of move-in day.

Under this pandemic, the process is operating much differently.

Instead of move- in being one weekend, the university has expanded it across five days.

B: in the past during those two days, lots of groups coming together, lots of pods across campus, marching through campus.

M: ben shepard is the assistant director for residential life.

He says there are a number of safety procedures in place before families even step out of the car.

This includes a drive-through check-in to get student id's and dorm keys.

And every person in the car must get their temperature taken.

B: we're so excited to see everybody back, we are all working through this together and it's going to be a really exciting year.

M: in-coming freshman are excited to start the school year -- even in the midst of covid-19.

P: i'm not too worried, i know that purdue has guidelines in place and i know that i'll follow them and i think the biggest thing that i'm worried about is just getting moved in and adjusting to my new classes and what not.

M: in may, purdue laid out its list of safety procedures for students to follow as they head back to campus.

Students and families have faith it will work.

R: i definitely wanted it to be in person and not online to get the full academic experience and as long as i follow the precautions, i know i'll be okay.

M: all students were required to get covid-19 tested before coming back to campus.

And they had to show proof of negative results at check-in.

Reporting in west lafayette, micah upshaw, news 18.

Nearly 6- thousand students are expected to move in these next few days.

Move-in time for boiler gold rush started on friday and will end on tuesday august 18th.

We will continue our back to school coverage all this week on news 18 this morning.