Speaker One: I'd say at Booth, the community actually forms before you even touch down in Chicago.
Speaker Two: You can really chart your own path here and you have the flexibility to kind of join a lot of different groups and explore different interests. So for me, it started at my Random Walk where I went to Miami with a group of incoming first years.
Speaker Three: One of the first ways of forming a community was the Random Walk itself. Like, some of my closest friends here at Booth are the folks that I went on a Random Walk with.
Speaker Four: I really relied on my extracurricular clubs to find my community. I joined once based on what I was interested in professionally, and socially and just for fun.
Speaker Five: LEAD is a really good way to kind of get a base-level for a community.
Speaker Six: So it's either through classes, or like the social groups, or professional groups, just going out.
Speaker Seven: Because Booth has this like, looser cohort structure. It helps because there's so many opportunities to meet people. So I met people through my cohort. I met people through classes, clubs, and then just social events.
Speaker Eight: Being open to meeting people that, at a glance, aren't anything like you is important for me. I met friends and made friends from around the world. But it takes a little while. Just be open and say hello.