There are numerous benefits to living in a dorm. I can walk to almost anywhere on campus in under 10 minutes. When I want to talk to a friend, I merely have to walk to their door and knock. Each dorm has its own personality from the girls or boys living within it and the activities dorms do as a collective. In the Hill (junior/ senior girls dorm), every Wednesday, we have Team Time. Prefect groups are in charge of planning a fun group activity. The most recent tradition that we celebrated was the annual Pumpkin Carving Contest. In prefect groups, we chatted with each other and used our creativity, humor, and elbow grease to carve some pumpkins. Pumpkin carving was a great activity that offered time in the middle of the week to laugh, carve, and dance (spontaneous dancing is another wonderful attribute to dorm life). Other activities have been roasting marshmallows over our bonfire or watching a TV show together. The events are less formal than a dorm meeting and allow for time to catch up with one another. The Hill is a big dorm, composed of two grades, so we can be a bit spread out. But we see each other regularly and, like other dorms, the Hill is its own little community within the Thacher community.