Blog post #1

As our first facilitation session nears, I'm getting very excited! I'm really looking forward to being able to meet new people with experiences that are different from mine and to be able to connect with them. I know that when I first started at UMich, I would've greatly benefitted from a group like this. I was always looking for a group of experienced people that could give me advice or simply talk to me about what being at UMich was like. I hope that I can be that for this group of people.

After reading blog posts from previous facilitators, I'm a little nervous about attendance and engagement in the sessions. In a perfect world, I would have a group of people who are as excited and enthusiastic about our weekly chats as I am. But, I know that for some people this may not be their cup of tea, or that life happens and sometimes we get caught up in other priorities and commitments.

Overall, I'm super excited to be able to engage with people and to be able to help in any way that I can. I joined this program with the hopes that I could learn more about the world through people and be able to do the same for others. I hope to be someone that these students can rely on and simply unwind with at the end of a long week or day.