 Hi everyone! I'm Althea and today I'm going to talk a bit about housing at UBM and in Burlington and I'm just gonna start by sharing my kind of story and personal experiences with living here. So my first year I came to UBM not knowing anyone. I didn't really want to find a roommate online so I decided to get randomly assigned a roommate. How that works is UBM sends out this survey that has questions including like are you clean or messy? Do you like having people over what time do you go to bed? Questions like that and based on your responses they pair you with the person who has similar responses. So I did that my first year. My roommate and I lived wonderfully together and we became really really good friends. We lived in Central Campus Residence Hall. It's a beautiful building. We were on the seventh floor and had a wonderful view. It was really enjoyable. I had a great time there and so did she. My sophomore year I was placed on Trinity Campus which is about a 10, 15 minute walk from Central Campus. It's a bit farther from classes and activities. There are fewer people on the campus in general. On Trinity I was in a suite so it was my roommate and I had a double room and then my suite mates had a double room. We were connected by this little hallway and then we had a bathroom in our suite as well. I liked having that set up because I didn't have to worry about taking my shampoo out of the shower or making sure I had like my toothbrush and my face wash and all that when I went to get ready for bed every night. So I did enjoy living in a suite. Halfway through my sophomore year I actually moved rooms into a double room in Marsh Austin Tupper which is on Athletic Campus. I was the only person in a double room. I moved for a number of reasons but my roommate ended up going home halfway through the year so I was alone in that room in MAT and I actually really enjoyed it in there. My RA's in all of my buildings actually really cared about me and we're always checking in on all of the residents but I really got a close bond with my RA in MAT. She was really fun. Always had fun little activities for us to do and try to create a community despite like COVID kind of going on. So that was really nice. And then after that I moved into an apartment in the old north end of Burlington with four of my friends and one of my friends, boy friends. So there were six of us living in an apartment. It was quite crowded. It was definitely a change especially from the UBM res halls but we had a lot of fun together. I really liked being able to decorate my room the way I wanted to and just like having a kitchen was a really nice really nice thing to have. We had them in the res halls but they weren't right next to your room. It was really fun being downtown. I liked being able to just take a five minute walk and be on Church Street or like a 10-15 minute walk and be down at the waterfront. It was really close to where I worked and pretty close to campus as well. So I did enjoy that apartment and then I decided to move my senior year and I actually didn't have a plan like I hadn't signed a lease or anything. Usually you have to do that about nine months in advance in Burlington because it can be very hard to find housing. However if you are one person not picky about where you live or who you're living with you will be able to find housing which is good. But I ended up signing my current lease in April of last year and I moved in in June and I love my roommates. They are friends of friends and now we are all really close and I really like my new location. I'm even closer to campus. I'm kind of by city market which is like a little grocery store in downtown Burlington once again really close to the waterfront. Very central location. Overall I've had great living experiences here in Burlington. Living in res halls by yourself, living in apartments like on your own without support of your parents can be like very challenging to navigate but it's a really important learning experience and there are also a lot of resources to help you out. UVM res life can if you need to move rooms or move locations on campus they can help you out with that even off campus like if you're having any sort of trouble navigating situations like UVM res life can help you out with that. So I hope this was informative and helps you get an understanding about what living here at UVM might look like. Yeah.