Blogpost #4: The Modern Frontier

   Welcome to my community: (most of) the floor I looked after as an RA, and where I lived last year.

   This floor will always have a special place in my heart. Its where I had my second job, and the first time I've lived by myself since coming to college. I looked after 22 residents, which included 4 triples, 4 doubles, and 2 apartments. My room, which is located on the bottom left, was right next to the water fountain (also pictured). The door all the way at the top, leads to a staircase that goes all the way to the top of the building, and outside. Not pictured in my community picture is the bathroom which I shard with my residents, the lounge, and some of the rooms that were on the other side of the hall. Our bathroom was the best in the building. The counter top looks like the top of a confetti cupcake, and the stalls are cerulean- by far more visually appealing than its grey counterparts across the building. 

   My floor theme for the first semester was roots (where you're from, heritage, and stuff). It didn't go over so well. The only "decorations" I had on my floor were the doortags I made for my residents that were cut out globes. The spring semester, I upped the theme a bit to be super heroes/villains. My doortags were pictures of super heroes/villains, and I cut out letters from quotes like, "With great power, comes great responsibility," and "Up in the sky look, it's a bird, it's a plane, no it's Superman!" and added them as decorations to the walls. I also added the Green Lantern and Batman symbols to the walls. My floor has three bulletin board, in which I created banners with information and helpful information for my residents. One is located across from the bathroom (between a resident's room and the lounge), another is within the lounge, and the last is right outside my floor, for anyone walking by.

   The decorations and door tags kept getting ripped down, but since I live a "never give up, never surrender" lifestyle, I kept making more and putting them up. To me, it meant they noticed the decorations. 

   In the fall, when the new semester starts, I will be an RA again, and I already planned my floor theme out to be sloths. One of my bulletin boards will have the saying, "Hang in there!" with a sloth hanging from a vine. It'll have helpful hints for a great start to a first semester in college. 

   And this is my community, my fishbowl: where I work and live, and where freshmen come to start their new academic journey.