Watch out! Here comes Joe Stieb!

Joe Stieb, Winn third RM and Huma peer tutor. He likes to act very serious and tough but in truth he is sweet heart and super nice. Even though very few of our RM group members are actually in the Huma section he is the peer tutor for, he helps us nonetheless at very late hours of the night to proof read and help us form the ideas for our essays. As an RM he is the one that enforces the rules of the hall and also the one that comes up with all the fun activities we get to engage in. For example, just a few weeks ago we went to Jacala and this weekend we will be going to a Tex-Mex restaurant. Also, during our fun games of Apples to Apples and Pictionary he is the provider of cheesecake and chocolate covered strawberries. Joe is there for us during both the hard and the fun times of being in Huma and living in the hall. For example, last week during midterms the tension in the hall was tangible. Everyone was in the lounge studying and was being especially loud in their attempts to study as a group. Joe, who is rarely in his room during the day, was seen wandering the halls and helping students almost all day up until the Huma midterm. Conversely, he comes up with the fun topics, such as "If you could have 1 famous person or fictional character as a roommate who would it be?", before every RM group activity that we each give both silly and serious answers to. Overall, Joe is a great RM, extremely helpful and very kind, who I am glad to have met and be my RM.

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Week Before Midterms

It’s the week before midterms. Everyone is sleepy, tired, hungry, and on top of that nervous as well. It has been extremely cold in the hall this week. Everyone tends to be in sweats and sweaters in the building. So far it has been a lot of work. My particular Huma section had an essay due last Thursday, another one on Monday, and yet another one this Thursday. On top of that we have had to finish reading Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War and Euripides’ The Bacchae. Even with the sleepy, tense environment everyone here seems to still make an attempt to get together and have fun. These can include simple late night get-togethers or 3 a.m. trips to Taco Cabana. Everyone seems to be up until at least 1 a.m. doing homework. Midday naps become a necessity and 11 p.m. trips to Coates to get something to eat become a routine. Perhaps due to the fact that everyone here is in humanities we tend to spend a lot more time with each other, usually due to homework. Hence, we all tend to be together all the time. Yes, we do break up into groups but even those groups tend to consist of just students in humanities. Overall, this may be a hard class but it is worth taking and living in the huma hall builds strong relationships with people such that you bond for more reasons than the simple fact that you are forced to live together.