It is truly a beautiful thing when one has blossomed so much over the year. Nick Canaday has become one such person where it cannot be denied his nature has truly taken over both his work style and ethic with his residents. I believe that this has not only been beneficial to his learning community, but our entire residence hall. To start off with, Nick has made strides to bring diversity to his hall by bringing a speaker in to present "T-Time with Aiden," a program about transgenders. He had also started a bulletin board contest, where he accepted layouts of different boards to put up with a key theme of diversity. Here, he has put the objective of diversity in his residents' hands to shape it themselves. The designs have been put in and later on in April, they will be voted on and constructed. A need to appreciate diversity on the college campus is becoming more necessary, and Nick has taken a role in spreading this appreciation throughout the learning community. Finally, Nick has partaken in many Charleston Chews, whether they be his own or his resident's. Nick has supported his residents academically, hoping that they gain something from eating dinner with the faculty who have come. Additionally, many residents who hardly even participate in hall activities have been participating in "Academic Bingo," an academic initiative put on by the hall directors. Although no one person completed a blackout for the program, a lot of residents still participated and even got some lines--a success. Recently within Hall Council, a proposition to write a by-law concerning the method of voting on expenditure requests had been put forth with much debate among the other resident assistants, Nick being one of the few with an opinion. When the directors had explained it further and asked for resident assistants to take time for the by-law committee, Nick was one of the only freely willing to sacrifice however much time in order to get a resident assistant's point of view added into it. The by-law was eventually implemented and was accepted without any dilemma. Nick had also been asked to sacrifice a few hours of his days in order to interview potential assistant resident directors for this next year. No matter what the request, Nick is able to successfully put aside some time to help those in need--he always has. To sum up his accomplishments this month, I also believe it is noteworthy to mention his involvement with PRIDE this month as they have been working on and wrapping up the Sex Positive Fair which will take place later in April. Nick has put hard work into working with his residents to have the best residence hall experience this month. He doesn't just want his residents to have fun in a social environment, but also to be challenged through many different other factors, too. His work has been exemplary and worthy of praise as he is able to juggle so much and efficiently live contently. He truly is living according to his nature.

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