 Hi, I'm Sabrina. I'm an English and Anthropology double major from Connecticut. Hi, I'm Walter. I am a Public Communication major from Brooklyn, New York. This is the Leadership and Social Change Community in Harris-Mellis. So for me, I knew right away that I wanted to be a part of leadership. It's something that I was always passionate about in high school, and so I really wanted to continue that on when I got here. And honestly, it worked out for the best. I got to meet Sabrina, and I also just found so many more people that I could really bond with and connect with over leadership, but also over our passion for local community organizations. Yeah, learning communities are a really great way to bring community involvement into the dorms. A lot of times it's very easy to fall into a trap of you stay in your dorm room and you don't interact with your neighbors, and it's difficult to make friends that way. And the Learning Community hosts events and classes that really force you to come out of your shell, and it's a really great way to get involved and make friends. We teach the Leadership and Social Change One Credit Seminar, and that is a really great space for first years coming in to understand what is college life like, as well as what are some ways that they can get involved and feel connected to the UVM community. So we meet once a week and we also bring in special guests to come in and talk about local organizations, as well as just how to find support on campus. Yeah, so we are currently entering week five and we spend the first five weeks completely dedicated to how to establish connections on campus, how to get involved in the community, and how to take care of yourself now that you're living away from home, which I think is a really good class for first years. This is our room. One thing I really like about the space is that it feels very personal. I've put down some thrift store rugs and that actually really helped with the echo and it made it feel very homey and colorful. I think overall, it's important as a student when you're on such a big campus to really center yourself, and so one thing that's really great about having this room is just to make sure that you have your own space where you can just be calm, reflect, study, do your work, stuff like that. We like to have friends over where we can just really decompress about our days, figure out what we want to do, stuff like that. Right now we are in the amphitheater, which is right outside Harris-Millis. It is a great spot to study and hang out. I come here during the day before the sun sets to do some homework. It is right next to the skinny pancake and the Marchet, which are some good restaurants on campus. And additionally, it's really close to Central Campus, so if you're running late in the morning, you don't have to worry about being late to class. As a person who regularly is running late to my 8 a.m.s, it does work out that I'm this close to Central Campus, but overall it's just really nice. There are a lot of teachers who will actually bring their classes out here. I think I would tell incoming students that all of their worries, concerns are valid, but also understand that they're not going to be the permanent way you feel about being here. It is hard in the beginning to put yourself out there, but as you continue doing it, as you continue to be pushed out of your comfort zone, whether in your learning community or in the classroom, you will find community, you will find comfort, you will find your own space.