 My name is Emma Tischner, I'm a current senior in our College of Arts and Sciences, and this is why I think you should choose UVM. I chose UVM for a multitude of reasons. I think the biggest is the community of Burlington. I immediately felt a connection to the place as soon as I took a tour there at my junior high school. I would describe the student body if I had to pick one word and that word would be passionate. I think no matter what students are doing, whether they're passionate in skiing or mountain biking or they're passionate in their major like nursing or business, every student has something that they feel connected to. A really common question that I get from new students as well as students trying to decide where they would like to go is about how easy it is to have different areas of studies and majors across the campus. I think that's a really great feature of UVM is how easy it is to kind of be able to dip your toes in various plans of different colleges because there are multiple colleges, multiple programs. And like me when I came in, I had a ton of different passions. If you were a student and I was giving you a tour right now, I would love to show you our Davis Center. That's our student center on campus. On the first floor is a really cool restaurant that we had as well as some pool tables. The second floor is my favorite area to study. We call it the fish bowl. It's an all glass room that students do homework in. So it's kind of like your little fish swimming around in that room. That's why that name. On the third floor is my favorite coffee shop. And also where the student government is housed in our UVM bookstore. And then on the fourth floor is where a lot of the events take place. That's one of my favorite buildings on campus because you can kind of stay in that building to get a lot of different things out of your day. I feel like I've gotten a small liberal arts personalized education, but I'm at an institution with the resources for over 10,000 people. So I've gotten that personalized touch to my education, but I've still been able to do really incredible things.