Today, I will be talking about one of my very first friends I made here at Penn State University. Specifically, I met Jules the first day we moved in. Jules lives two doors down from me, and she is Pranavi’s roommate, the friend I just wrote about previously.

Pranavi moved in a few days later than the rest of the people on my floor, so Jules was alone in her room for the first 3 days of college or all of SHOtime. When my roommate, Erica, and I noticed that Jules did not have a roommate with her for the first few days, we made sure to make Jules feel comfortable. We would invite her into our room to hang out, and we ate a lot of our meals with her as well.

We both believed that Jules seemed very cool, nice, and definitely, someone that we could both become great friends with. Erica, Jules and I hung out a lot together since the start of college, and Jules is still one of our great friends. An interesting thing about Jules is that she is not only a really cool person but insanely smart too. She is a biomedical engineering major, which by the name is clearly extremely hard, and has been doing very well on her exams for this major.

Jules is a carefree kind of person and she makes everyone around her feel happy and positive. Throughout the time I have known Jules, I have never seen her make anyone feel anything less than great. She is a really good person and shows it every day. We also have a very important tradition of going to late-night dinner at Redifer dining hall whenever they have grilled cheese.

Jules has also gotten very involved on campus already. She participates in a club called EcoClub, but it is also like a job. She does a certain amount of hours per week, and she gets paid $500 a semester just for helping them. She found a good opportunity and went with it not only to benefit herself but because she is genuinely interested in helping the environment. Jules also enjoys the Schreyer for Women club, in which I am also a part of.

Overall, I am really glad that I became friends with Jules during SHOtime and I think it is awesome that she lives so close to me. Next year, Jules will be living in an apartment downtown and I will be really sad to not see her every day. She is one of my favorite people here!