The second installment in a year-long series chronicling two brothers’ freshman years.

The bathroom has yet to be cleaned in the Loftman Hall suite David Brodsky-Porges shares with four roommates.

“We haven’t cleaned it yet,” he said with a smile. “I think it’s okay though.”

College is in full swing for David and his fraternal twin brother, Jason, who moved to Boston from Seattle, Wash. in early September to begin their freshman year together.

Since classes started Sept. 8, David and Jason have been adjusting to their very different schedules and workloads.

David said he lucked out with his schedule because, while all his roommates have 8 a.m. classes, his earliest doesn’t start until 9:15 a.m.

“My roommates get mad at me because they wake up and I’m still in my bed sleeping,” said David, a communications major.

Jason, however, currently an undecided major, has 8 a.m. classes three days a week, but said they haven’t bothered him much. “I thought I wouldn’t like it at first, but then I come home at noon and I’m done [for the day], and I like that,” he said.

Both brothers have also begun their work-study programs, with David working in the library and Jason in Residential Mail Services.

“So far it works out pretty well,” Jason said. “It’s a pretty relaxed atmosphere.”

However, David said sometimes work-study isn’t convenient.

“It’s disappointing to be there for three hours then go home and be like ‘I only made $22.’ Sometimes I would have rather taken a nap,” he said.

Besides adjusting to classes and work-study, the twins said they are still working on adjusting to Boston, a city they said is very different from Seattle.

“I’m still trying to figure out the T,” David said, with a laugh. “I went to visit a friend from home who goes to Tufts [University], and I had to call him when I got home and say, ‘Just to let you know I’m here, I made it home.'”

The twins see each other less now that classes have started, they said, but are still comforted by the fact they have each other and their sister, a senior at Simmons College, close by.

“I hope my brother, sister and I can go out sometime, get lunch and catch up on how everything has been going,” David said. “I think that would be fun.”

David and Jason won’t make the trip back to Seattle until Christmas, although their father will be traveling to Boston to see them for Thanksgiving.

“It’ll be kind of fun, hanging out with my dad in the dorm … like, ‘Here’s what college is like, Dad,'” David said. Now that they have lived in Boston for nearly a month, David and Jason said they both have had their moments of homesickness.

“Yesterday, I went to Quincy Market, which is where my family and I went just before they left … it reminded me of my home and my family,” Jason said.

With David, he said he misses more of “the little things.”

“I miss my bed,” he said. “I wake up now to jackhammers and cars honking and traffic.”

David said talking to his friends back home who attend schools in and around Seattle is different for him now.

“They talk about being home for the weekend and being at each others’ houses and I think ‘Wow, that’s so far away now,'” he said.

A little piece of home is with the twins, because a group of about 20 Northeastern freshmen, all from Seattle, meet up occasionally. The group of them recently gathered for breakfast.

“I know some of them, but not all,” Jason said. “I at least knew their high schools, and where they were from.”

Both brothers said they have enjoyed their Boston experience so far, even though it is far away from home.

“I think I’m adjusting pretty well,” David said. “But I forgot there was going to be work [with classes]. Before it was just hanging out with my roommates, but now it’s, ‘Wait what? I have to do work?'”