Building Community
Sharing ups and downs, finding hidden strengths, even baking together 鈥 your campus family makes you feel at home.
Belonging to a Residential Commons community provides unexpected openings for students to expand their view of the campus and their place on it. Junior Aanika Gupta 鈥22 never considered herself a leader, but when she saw a need for change, she stepped up.
Faculty in Residence, known as FiRs, live and work in each Commons. They not only contribute to academic life, but they also find creative ways to bring their communities together. As education professor Ann Batenburg tells it, conversations that begin during the Commons鈥 legendary 鈥淪unday Night Snacks鈥 never really end.
Listen in as Alexa May 鈥23 and Emma White 鈥23 swap memories about the good times 鈥 and the cringey moments 鈥 while getting to know each other as first-year roommates.