{"id":340,"date":"2013-04-23T13:53:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T13:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/?p=340"},"modified":"2013-04-23T13:53:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T13:53:33","slug":"laney-stem-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/2013\/04\/23\/laney-stem-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Laney – STEM (Part 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For the most part, Residential Colleges are made to group together like-minded people. And that can be really nice, but it\u2019s not like we\u2019re just a bunch of clones. You will meet all kinds of different people when you live in a Residential College, just like if you were to live in a regular dorm.<\/p>\n

During my freshman and sophomore years here there was an RA on the guys\u2019 side that was from Burma. Prior to him telling me that, I didn\u2019t know that Burma existed. And this guy was a really amusing and fun person. Everyone in the building knew and loved him. Because you couldn\u2019t help not to. All three years that I have lived in STEM, there have been foreign exchange students from Rwanda. And these guys are some of the nicest people you\u2019ll meet while here. And they grew up in a completely different environment than I did for sure. So, I\u2019ve learned a lot about Rwanda and about how very different life can be. STEM even started a study abroad program that involves going to Rwanda and teaching cool hands-on science and math lessons. And in May they are going to back to also teach about canning food and making ovens.<\/p>\n

In my experience, you don\u2019t even necessarily have to leave your room to see the diversity that Residential Colleges have to offer. I\u2019ve had more than my share of roommates over the years. Once I had a roommate who was from Kenya. She had the most beautiful accent. Another of my roommates\u2019 mothers was from\u2026I think Korea. And she grew up near a big city. So, having grown up in a pretty small city myself, that was pretty different all on its own.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t matter where you\u2019ve come from, what you\u2019re interested in, or what personality type you are. Like I said in my first post, STEM is a family<\/i>. And from what I\u2019ve heard, that\u2019s the same type of experience you\u2019ll find in any of the Residential Colleges. And what does that mean? That means that you\u2019ll fit in just fine. And you\u2019re also sure to meet all kinds of interesting people while you\u2019re here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the most part, Residential Colleges are made to group together like-minded people. And that can be really nice, but it\u2019s not like we\u2019re just a bunch of clones. You will meet all kinds of different people when you live in a Residential College, just like if you were to live in a regular dorm. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[33,9,18,7,22,37,27,16,28,20,17,35,13,14,15,11,8,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}