Blog #7

I have chosen to nominate Haleigh Miller for best Resident Advisor. I have chosen Haleigh because of all the hard work that you can see on a day to day basis. Because she contributes so much to our team and the amount she does for her peers. She shows her dedication in this job by being a full time student studying pharmacy. This major requires her to put an extreme amount of time into her already busy life for school work. This major also requires her to have as close as possible to a 4.0 grade point average. Haleigh is one of these few that hold a 4.0 grade point average; which is impressive as itself. But the amount of time she spends on her floor studying is only matched by the amount of work she puts into her floors community and her floor itself. She spends most if not all of her spare time on her floor building the community that makes up the fifth floor of Stephenson South at Washington State University Pullman. She has many community building Bulletin boards and Programs where her floor and herself get together and decorate the floor; and they did a program to decorate for Halloween, and that was a hit and to top it off even more; she had a program for Christmas Decorating and her floor put every floor in the Stephenson Complex to shame. The entire floor got together and wrapped doors in wrapping paper and they all decorated the halls with snowflakes and Snowmen. They also decorated the lounge with 3 Christmas trees and Christmas lights so that anyone one the floor studying could have some holiday cheers. Nor does she have one of the more challenging majors here at WSU but she makes room in her already insane schedule for her floor and her staff the same. She doesn’t just share holiday cheer but also shares that she knows when one of the staff members are hurt. She not too long ago gave me a gift bag for when I was feeling down after an exam, though she gave me this handmade gift bag that had pieces of candy and a feel better card. She doesn’t know it but this little act of caring made me feel extremely happy that she knew and she actually cared about me. She hasn’t started this just this year either but she started this way of being an RA last year when I was a freshman. She came onto our floor 2^nd semester and was great! She brought together that floor and made everything work how it should and made everyone happy to be there but because she has brought that skill to this year with her floor and extended it to her staff. She is an exceptional Resident Advisor and deserves recognition for being so.