Here we are in another school year at Wentworth. Almost a month and a half passed and I must say a lot of interesting things happened. New people arrived at Wentworth, went through orientation week and started taking their first college courses. First grades were earned, first homesick moments passed, first problems experienced and many of those were solved. All that happened in a life of a freshman.

However, this is my third year at Wentworth. I am done with those first-year issues, and now I am the one helping others overcome them. Being a student leader for two years in a row, allows me to share the problems of students at Wentworth and assist them in solving those. In order to do that, every year, student leaders arrive on campus three weeks earlier than everyone else. To prepare for the year in front of us, we go through intensive two-week student leadership training.

I am a Senior Resident Assistant in one area of residence halls called the Apartments. My position is consisted of coordinating other Resident Assistants (RA) in the area, performing all of the duties of an RA and being a liaison between RAs and Housing Office. It requires a lot of knowledge, responsibility and dedication to accomplish these duties and that is what the training is all about. We spend two weeks in lectures and workshops, preparing presentations, learning about all of the possible problems and situations we might find ourselves in and the proper ways of avoiding or solving them. It sounds like a lot of work, and it is, but we also have a lot of fun.

During the training we go to a camp on a beautiful lake for three days. We have a lot of different activities while trying to get to know as much as we can about all 100 of us. We make camp-fires, swim in the lake, play all kinds of sports, compete among each other and learn. Those three days are always a highlight in the first period of the new school year of a student leader.