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5 Reasons I Love Living In The Fine Arts House

Dance, theater, acting, music and art.

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5 Reasons I Love Living In The Fine Arts House
Fiona McGrath Nagle

Living Learning Communities (LLCs) are a great way to meet people with the same interests as you or the same or similar major as you. I, as a dance performance major, live on LLC for fine art majors. I live on the amazing Fine Arts House at NIU. Living here, I get to meet other dancers, music education and music performance majors, all different kinds of art majors, BFA acting majors and BA theater majors. Although if you want to live on this floor but you are not a fine art major you still can; however, you must have a fine art major friend to live with in order to live on this floor. This in fact is my second year living on this floor. I loved it so much my freshman year I decided to live on it again as a sophomore.

1. Meet other artists.

As an artist, it is always great to make new friendships with other artist of several different areas of the arts. You never know how you can collaborate on projects to create something spectacular. Maybe an artist could draw a picture that a dancer and/or actor could use it to create a performance piece and then maybe a musician could play some music to go along with it. Anything could happen.

2. Connections through the arts

Whether you need them for something now or in the future you have a connection with all of the other artists on your floor. You never know when someone's artistic skills could come in handy for you. This way you will possibly already know someone who could do what you need for you with having to search too far.

3. Family

In the Fine Arts House, everyone becomes like one big family. Everyone knows everyone for the most part. You almost always see a cheerful face around the corner. You know if you need anything you can go knock on one of your neighbor's door and ask. Even after you leave this floor you are still apart of the floor somehow because you will probably always know at least one person who lives on this floor.

4. Lifelong friendships

You make the best kind of friendships on this floor. Friendships that will never disappear. It is probably because everyone on this floor is an artist and artists tend to be friends with other artists. At first people might be shy, but by the end of the year for the most part everyone has made tons of friends on the floor that they never want to loose.

5. Colorful hallways

Throughout our hallway there are many different murals on the walls. Almost every single room has their own surrounding their door. Also there is the one on the outside of the bathroom. Around my door I have a brick wall with a iron gate around it. To name others there is also one with The Beatles and another with Elephants.

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