During Wednesday’s Rose Café, we had a conversation about facilities and maintenance of the facilities. Before the conversation, I did not know what happened to the dorms when the students leave for summer break, and the rooms were vacated. I had assumed that they were left vacant until the start of the next semester. However, during the conversation, I learned that the dorms become like a hotel for alumni’s returning for reunions and for people attending conferences at Cornell. I did not realize how much work is put in to make the dorm rooms like hotel rooms and also how much work is done in general during the summer. Furthermore, I learned about how maintenance requests are handled. Someone during the Rose Café mentioned how they had called facilities about the cleanliness of their bathroom, and people from facilities took time out of their busy day to meet with the student and look at the bathroom. It is amazing that they care so much about the students that they would meet with them and go over their concerns. I am appreciative of all the facilities staff who make sure that our buildings are clean. Anytime I see one of them, I will make sure that I say thank you and make sure that they know how appreciative I am of them.