 My name is Emma Taylor, and I'm a Romance language major with French and Italian and an Art History minor, and I'm a graduating senior. So Rudy is important because it's where I've taken my language classes since my first year. I would say I've grown in my time of Mount Holyoke through language learning. I decided to study abroad in Italy for a whole year, having never set foot in the country before. And I think that sense of feeling confident and powerful came from language learning. I kind of decided on a way in my second semester to start learning Italian just for fun and then had such a good experience with my professor that I decided to take another semester and then another semester. I definitely think language learning has changed me. I've met people that I never thought I would have met, whether that's here at Mount Holyoke or abroad. I don't think that would have happened had I not just had that kind of swear of the moment decision at Mount Holyoke to start taking it to Italian.