In this Rose cafe, our house professor dean Garrick Blalock talked about what Rose means to people living in Rose and a farewell talk to him, since he will be leaving next semester.

This is a really touching moment for me to learn about all the thoughts and efforts that professor Blalock and our House assistance dean Jarrett Anthony to make this place a welcomy and warm home to the residents. Especially the efforts that they put into for Rose Scholar program, which is a unique program on west only for Flora Rose. Comparing to the active citizen programs which my friends are doing in other residence halls, I find Rose Scholar program is great in that it can really keep people who like Rose and want to put in the effort to continue to live in Rose, actually get to continue to live here. I think really like this program for that i get to know a lot of different ideas through the coffee chats that I have not foreseen before, and I also made some friends during this process. It was an amazing experience for me to have an hour a week to listen to interesting ideas of people who are experts in the field that I’m not familiar with and their perspectives on things that I ran across everyday.

While enjoying these interesting activities and a good variety of activities every week almost everyday, I think what I’ve overlooked is organizing and planning of the professor, deans and students put into these. For example the professors that were invited to give the talks, the themed talks led by house fellows and the activities we have such as massage, observatory. I’m really grateful for the amount of work and thoughts that our professor Blalock and dean Anthony put into this to make this such a rewarding experience to us, and after each activities, I really felt my time were well-spent.

Since this is my last rose scholar post this semester, I really want to thank our amazing professor dean Blalock for the caring of students living in Rose, the great amount of work to make Rose House a supportive home for the residents and the insightful ideas that he shared with us in weekly cafe talk. I really think I will miss the thoughtful talks and ideas by professor Blalock, and he has brought such an amazing change to the system of continue occupancy at west, which is the system I would suggest should be applied to other residential halls at west.

Also a lot of thanks to our assistance dean Jarrett, for the weekly email of upcoming activities, and cares and reminder emails to the residents. As a Rose resident, I can feel the cares that the house deans and fellows give to us and the help that they are willing to give, and I ‘m so grateful for all the effort that you put into and I fell really lucky to get to come back to Rose and live here agian next semester. Thank you again for everything and wish all the best for future life!