Community in the Honors College follow-up
January 29, 2016
By Emma Alexander, Honors Communications Intern
Last week, we encouraged students to take a moment and reflect on the communities they are a part of. With the spring semester now in full swing and students settling into their routines, we checked back in with some of our Honors students.
As a member of the Honors College, students currently have three residential communities available to them. As we saw last week, community means much more than simply a building or place. However, to draw a fine line between these subsets of the greater Honors community, we have separated them by residence hall: Shreve Hall, Third Street Suites, and Duhme Hall. Now, let’s delve further into the perspective of students from each.
To begin, we hear from Natalie Lamport, an Honors Residential Assistant in Duhme Hall.
Being an Honors College RA is perhaps the most fun job a student could have. My residents are very intelligent, diverse, involved, and openly quirky. Sometimes planning events can be difficult because everyone is so busy. I have to be especially aware of residents’ schedules and interests in order to make the most of our time together. Overall, the time and care I’ve poured into my job had been so worth it, because of the friendships and connections created in my floor community.
Next, we visit Shreve Hall, where we speak with freshman engineering student, Barbara McAnulty.
I enjoy living and learning among fellow Honors College students in Shreve. Being surrounded by a community of focused, friendly, and fun people create an environment for compelling conversations and unbreakable bonds.
Finally, we stop in at Third Street Suites, a residence hall primarily composed of upper division students. Our Third Street resident is Beau DeLaet, a sophomore in Construction Engineering Management.
Living in Third Street, I’m surrounding by motivated students who have found a balance between school and their social lives. We learn from each other when we do our homework from separate classes. Even apart from coursework, we make each other better, just by the way we live day to day.
Although we have heard from students living in all of our current residential options, let’s not forget the upcoming addition to the Honors Residential Community. Although students will not occupy the new Honors College and Residences until next fall, many students have already completed contracts to live there. We caught up with one, Madison Thomas, to see what she is most looking forward to.
I'm most excited to be living in the Honors dorms next year because of the general atmosphere that it is going to provide. Living in an honors community now, I know that the people are all great to live with. Also, my future roommate and I are both very excited about the proximity to academic campus as well as the cafe that will be in the building!
Being a part of an Honors residential community is obviously a unique and exciting experience. However, it’s important to remember that all of these smaller communities are just a piece of the greater whole. We, as an Honors College, are much more than the buildings we occupy. Our breadth and our influence span the entire campus and student population at Purdue. That is powerful, and with all of these resources at our fingertips, the possibilities are truly endless.
For current Purdue students, the on-campus housing contract renewal portal will remain open until February 29, 2016. A small number of spaces are available in double, triple and single occupancy rooms in the new Honors College and Residences building. For more information, please visit: https://www.housing.purdue.edu/
