I don’t have much to update you all on since it was a short week (our Easter Break started Wednesday!) so I figured I would talk about my housing situation next year. As a senior, I have chosen to live in Special Interest Housing. Each year before the regular housing lottery, every student from each class year has the chance to form a group for Special Interest Housing and apply through the Residence Life office. This year, groups that were approved include a Spanish Language House, Colleges Against Cancer House, and a Mindful Living House. Next year, I will be a part of the Mindful Living group. The three themes of Mindful Living are community, service, and simple living. As far as community, we have “family dinners” every Sunday where a pair of roommates prepares a home cooked meal for everyone and Café nights on Wednesdays (similar to coffeehouses). Service means service both to Stonehill and the community around us. This could mean volunteering as group at a soup kitchen for the day, or organizing a trash pick-up around campus. Finally, to live by simple living, we recycle, use a compost, shut off the lights whenever possible, use hand cloths instead of paper towels, and other little things. The group is made up of 48 people from sophomores to seniors, male and female. I think it is great that the college affords us this opportunity, and I am really happy to be living with a group of people who share common interests! I am also super excited to living with my friend Becca again; she and I met freshmen year because we lived two doors down from each other and we were also roommates sophomore year. But this year, we were both abroad in the fall and this semester she is completing an internship in
of us all the way from frosh year...
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