ABSTRACT
My name is April. I go to Big State University (BSU). We are a large public school with 40,000 students, about 15,000 ofwhom live on campus. I'm now in my third year as an RA. Last year I was an RA in Bowman Hall-the residence hall for students in our honors program. As the only returner on staff, I played a major leadership role in the building-advising hall council, answering questions of the other RAs when our Resident Director wasn't around, that sort of thing. I've always loved being an RA, though it can be taxing at times. I pride myself on learning all my resident's names within an hour of their arrival on campus. Last year they gave me a pretty big group of residents-60 women, all of whom were students in the honors program. Half of them (one side of a two sided hall) were first-year women.
