Hello, I'm Solomon King-White, I'm a sophomore
here at the University of Kentucky and also
a sophomore member of the First Gen Living
Learning Community.
It's so warming to have a family away from
family because that's the big transition in
life right now being an undergraduate is being
away from family.
But the idea that you have a family and you
all have something in common without there
even being that much effort, it was already
set up for you and then you just take it and
run with it.
The way they have it set up is that a lot
of the living learning community members participate
in the same things together.
So, K Week, a lot of us were in the same K
groups, so that just started off a lot of
friendships and it made it easier because
you see the same people day-to-day.
So it was like a continuous building of community.
What was really important to the living learning
community, besides this home community of
students, were the advisors.
They were very aware of what you were going
through and they made themselves to available
that we felt comfortable going to them constantly
and they were just so supportive that's all
I can say, they were so supportive.
Being a first gen you have a lot of weight
on your shoulders, like there's a lot of people
wanting you to succeed so you're carrying
a lot on your shoulders, so to be able to
walk into a community and everyone has this
on their shoulders, well my family wants me
to be one of the first ones to graduate college
and this is hard, to be able to lean on each
other as students and peers, that's so important
because believe it or not we're impressionable
of each other so for that being a common factor
gluing us together, I love it.
With this living learning community you already
have a family here.
You already have a family here waiting to
be made for you.
I'm Solomon King-White and being a part of
the First Gen Living Learning Community is
how I "see blue."
