 as a maholyuk through it, I think it's like everyone always says it's like the empowerment thing but like I think in a sense it's true because like I said when I was applying to college I was just looking at what was my best option I wasn't looking at anything too specific but then here came a maholyuk and because it isn't all women's college they naturally just have a lot of women in STEM you know they have a lot of biology uh STEM majors and that was there was something reassuring in that and that my classmates were also they were just going to be somewhat like me they were going to resonate with me in one way or another and I thought that was kind of nice because there was just something reassuring about that that if all these other my classmates were also there and they could do it you know women of color and black women as well and along with my other peers that there was just something reassuring about that and so talking to upperclassmen who had are about to graduate or something like that I remember there was another one of my teammates was also a biology major and she spoke about um it was hard you know and there was just something nice that if she got through it that I could get through it as well there's a place for everyone whether that's um you know being minorities people of color that we can find our space on campus that um whether it's athletics to academics um to accessibility like there's just always a space for everyone there's always someone willing to help you there's always someone that can you know guide you down like the path that you need to get more help or something and I think this has a lot to do with the fact that um being on the squash team you know you have your teammates who help you and so um when you make your friend group when you make your relationship with your professors it's just like the community is just so helpful and it's like so supportive and that's something that I just always love and so I've always felt that I want to help everyone else when it's like my younger teammates when it's just someone in my class like needs advice I remember um last last mod of last semester one of my classmates needed help trying to um use like a science system on zoom for our class and she asked me like okay I know we don't know each other but can I zoom with you and like you can help me do it and I was like yes sure why would I say no and so it's like someone's always willing to help you and like it's just a great atmosphere to be able to learn