Post by: Grant Austin

I think that I would have been totally lost without the Wired program. I came from out of state, and not out of state like Ohio or Tennessee, I came from Minnesota. This means that I came into college without any of my high school friends and without the ability to visit home more than twice a year. This was, to say the least, daunting, but thankfully I had applied to live in the A&S Wired Living Leaning Program. I would not trade my experience in Wired for anything, because it gave me what I needed more than anything else that first year: a community. From move-in day to moving out, I was constantly being impressed by the ways that the residents of Keeneland Hall bonded together and helped each other. In the hall, I made some of my best friends that I have in college. More than that, everybody in the hall was willing to go the extra mile for his or her fellow resident, whether it be folding someone’s laundry instead of just leaving it in a pile if you needed the dryer, to being able to loan something like a hairdryer to a neighbor. It was these little things that made the Wired Community so close and so much fun to be a part of. If weren’t for the Wired Community I don’t think that I would have been able to succeed in my first year of college.