 Old Grissom was not the most pleasant space. It was very 1960s, 1970s, beige, low ceilings, not a lot of natural light, and this program started as a way to liven the place up. To make the environment more inviting and show that you were making a lasting impact on the space that you spent a lot of time as a student. So Beautify Grissom is a competition we hold in the spring each year. You and friends, at least one of you has to be an I, can submit drawings. And the competition prompt is what does industrial engineering mean for you? So it still has a really strong place in the building. We've reviewed those initial submissions and chosen at least five. And then we provide the large canvases and the paints and everything so that they can actually go and paint the ideas that they had. Each of the contestants, they do include a piece of paper that has a description of explaining what their vision was and why they think this represents IE to them. If you go up the stairwell, you see all the way back to the beginning, all the way back to the first submissions for Beautify Grissom, it's here. So it's a really nice lift for I think everybody in the building. The thing that intrigued me the most about the contest itself was the fact that even though we're industrial engineering majors, there is something that is set aside for artists within our niche. A lot of people don't think of engineers as very artistic. I'm an engineer as an example that is not very artistic. And I think showcasing the multifaceted aspect of what it means to be an engineer or could mean to be an engineer is a really cool thing. It just provides a space for a creativity that the coursework and so forth doesn't necessarily provide. Over time, getting to see how excited students get to have a chance to showcase something that they already are doing on the side. We've had past participants where they do portraits just because. And it is a nice release in another part of them. And I think it's a great reminder for students that you're not just an engineer. You can be so many different things. It made me really excited because I'm a very creative person and I really love expressing myself through art. And so knowing that there was an opportunity to do that within my major specifically was really encouraging. I was always an artistically inclined person since I was a kid. My parents are both really sciencey people. My dad's a chemical engineer. My mom's a genetic biologist. But it never came across in my mind that art wasn't accessible. I was encouraged to express myself in any way that I chose to. I've always been the girl who's like doodling in my notebooks in class. I like to DIY a lot of things. It's just kind of always been my nature. I really got my creative juices flowing in that I had to somehow combine engineering and Purdue into this like massive canvas. It makes me super excited that all of the engineering schools do have their own traditions because that gives everyone their own sense of belonging. But I do love that IE's is artistic. I feel like there's a part of the student body that isn't necessarily to do with academics or professional life that's always going to be a part of Prism. And that's really nice and it gives a more personable touch to the IE building than other engineering schools I feel for that reason. It's like a part of their student bodies forever going to be in a hallway. And that's special. So many students at Purdue feel like they have to put themselves in a box. Like they have to be an academic. Like they have to be an ME or an AE or like you just have to be this person. And the truth is you're going to be so much more well rounded if you don't put yourself in that box. Allow yourself to be in all kinds of boxes. So for me, I'm an industrial engineer and I'm a musician and I'm an artist and my life is so much fuller because of it. And so knowing that this is a tradition for industrial engineering and this is something we're encouraging to me feels like we're encouraging a more holistic lifestyle, which is really cool.