 So how do you think traditions foster community here? I think that having traditions just like kind of automatically like lets your guard down because like you're going to something and you're like Being silly or you're like participating in something and so it just like opens you up right away I'm thinking about when I was a first-year during orientation We did this event called first m&c's and it was in the library Which like usually m&c's are in your dorm room And I was very near residence hall rather and I was talking about Like we were just sitting there eating cookies and then one of my friends suggested like playing truth or dare Which was like very silly and it was like stupid things like we would be like go and find a book on the shelf and just like shout a Line out loud and the library workers thought it was hilarious. They were taking videos of us But I also just was like it was a group of people I had literally never met before like it was just Strangers and people who are now my best friends, but like at the time I would not have been confident enough to like just open a game of truth or dare with people But it was like a lot of fun and we like connected right away Yeah, sort of bouncing off of that m&c's which are our tradition of milk and cookies and residence halls every academic school night Are just a great way to like continue that throughout the year It's great to be able to like go downstairs if I'm studying at 9 30 and take my little study break and just get to meet The people in my residence hall and meet the people I'm like with every day But maybe don't have a whole bunch of time to talk to you There's also really fun times where? Say we'll be all sitting in a common room watching a movie or watching a show at our Monday night show group and M&C's will start and we'll always be able to grab cookies and juice and then hang out with the people who are also coming downstairs They'll join in on whatever we're doing when you're having this big gathering. That's really fun Yeah, and like another Tradition that you would do is like during orientation. You're a first weekend. We all watch dirty dancing Which is just you know, the most memorable nights of orientation Yeah But since baby's starting not whole yoke in the fall and so we're all we assault sort of silk are all of us We all like watch dirty dancing and it's just so fun and And you're like sitting next to random people that you've never met before because there's so many new faces Maybe like the one or two friends that you've made that past couple days like bring their other friends and you all just Really you meet so many new people. You're all experiencing this, you know huge amount whole yoke tradition that it's just so fun So silly as you said like also like you said like it's your first or second night on campus So like right away you're participating in those traditions getting to meet people and then you'll do it again Commencement weekend something funny that happened to me my this past semester where I was abroad My friends and I it was dirty dancing night Here and everybody was watching it at orientation I was feeling kind of sad that I wasn't here to see everybody's first dirty dancing night And so I was talking to my friends about it They're like let's do it here So we gathered on my friends and I told them about Mount Holyoke and we watched dirty dancing And it was just a fun way to kind of bring our community outside Yeah, and I just I feel like I've made most of my like really close friends through traditions like stepping out of my comfort zone And going to these places and acting crazy and just being within community I have really met other people from all over the world and it's great