 DataMind is a really great opportunity for living and learning within the student environment. So there's a heavy emphasis on data science and statistics, but overall it's just a very collaborative environment where you get to work with like-minded peers and both expand your interest academically and personally. My favorite part of the DataMind is definitely the people I've gotten to interact with and the teammates that I've had through the projects that I've worked on. I love a lot of the students that I've worked with, a lot of the mentors that I've had, being able to ask them personal questions, professional questions, go do activities with them. I know TAs like to do rock climbing or game nights, movie nights, things like that. So there's always opportunities to meet with other people. And especially when you have all that project time and you're heavily focused with the project and then you just have that final step to just like their final presentation's over. You can take a step back and just have fun with a group of people that you all sort of share the same goal with of leading that respective group of students that you have. Some of the stuff that we do for fun are just going outside. I'm a big sports person. I love just going outside. I'm outside of that watching movies and just having a good time, I guess, playing video games as well. In a school with 50,000 students like Purdue, having a smaller subsection of people who do have that one thing in common makes it a lot easier to find that bond, that common ground that you can instantly talk to someone about. I know, especially as a freshman, just being able to talk to people and say, oh, I'm part of the data mine and having them say, yeah, me too, immediately takes away some of the awkwardness and gives you something to talk about initially and makes Purdue feel more accessible. So the experience in Hill & Brand has been awesome. I lived in Hill & Brand as a sophomore and specifically like on my floor. We had a lot of students that were part of the same data mine class. They were all on that floor. Every weekend, if there was a project that needed to be done or within our project, like specifically, we needed to get something done. We would go to like, within you have like the wings, you would have like this middle lounge area and we would all just sit there in the lounge and get our work done. But then also, sometimes we would come downstairs over here and then we would just like play ping pong every once in a while, play pool and just hang out and just be college students because we have the work that we did but then also you have to have fun. I think one of the most prominent thing is the learning community. I mean we have like, I think Hill & Brand next year is going to be like a lot of the floors are reserved for data mine and I'm a residential assistance. I know one of my team members actually lived on my floor and I just remember him knocking on my door sometimes saying, hey, Kai, we got to figure this out. You know, we got a meeting tomorrow and being part in the same building. You know, they know where my room number is. They can knock whenever they want and you know, they know I'm available. We help each other out. Spaces are amazing. Like right over there we have our, we had our game night which we all played Super Smash Bros on the Wii U and that was like the best time ever last year even this year we tried to do it. People that I've met within the data mine have definitely fit within my life. I have some very good friends that are part of the data mine. I'm living with one of my one of my roommates. I had met through the data mine and like my students, I consider them my friends and we have a good time during all of our meetings just chatting for a little bit and getting to know each other and then talking about our week but then also getting our work done. It's nice because I get to you know learn about different people on the team, different majors what they're up to. There's like quite a few international students on the team and it's just great for the whole team as collectively to be exposed to all this like different people with different perspectives. I think you know being exposed to data mine allowed me to you know see people from you know computer science, a graduate student from Bangladesh and then another student from China who's also like has two master degrees and is doing a lot and it's amazing. I remember like since they're international students I invited them to Thanksgiving dinner at Hillenbrand thought it'd be nice to invite whoever wasn't able to go home for Thanksgiving to dinner so you know we had dinner and then we played some board games. A lot of the data mine team is super accessible and they're able to be reached at all hours of the day. That's what like really stood out to me is like people here really do want to help you and really want you to kind of learn more about data science so they're only here to help. I'm here with Maggie, Heather, Dr. Ward and everyone with the data mine staff. It's more than just an academic level of support. It's a personal level of support. You can go to them about anything that you need and they'll always be there for you. It was unique for me to interact with them because it seemed like they really cared and to be in a situation especially as a freshman to have a professor or a set of adults really care about you in that sense. I knew that the data mine was going to be a good place, a safe space. I would say 100% do it. It was definitely the best decision I've ever made at Purdue. Without the data mine I really don't know where I would be and I know it sounds cheesy but it's true. But it's definitely a space where no matter what you end up doing, no matter who you talk to, you will learn something and it will help you become a better student, a better community member and just generally better you.