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First-year students: Making ‘the best out of this situation’
Resident advisors are creating ways to remain virtually connected while building a sense of community with first-year students in campus housing Author: Sandra Baltazar Martínez
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Social distancing, quarantine norms, and online learning kept the freshman experience at UC Riverside’s residence halls a bit quieter than normal, but resident hall advisors are making sure their students still find a sense of belonging.
Two of those advisors are Nick Leiva and Thomas Valenzuela. Both of these UCR students knew one thing: virtual communication had to be the central resource of making first-year students’ experience a memorable one at Lothian and Pentland Hills.