AM: To me, an LLP is literally a living and learning program. It's a space where
you're able to live in the dorms and the dorms are you know super nice - that's
definitely a perk - but it's also more than that, because it's a community.
TL: It's a program that helps students for all, I think all kinds of majors or even
transfer students, get acclimated better to UK.
AM: I'm from a really small hometown,
it has about 400 people, doesn't even have a stoplight. I was a freshman, kind
of nervous about college, and there were so many students and faculty and
LLP Peer Mentors there to help me unload my stuff.
AB: Just about everyone
moving in that day was also engineering. Just lots of people that I see every day
in my classes, that I go to activities with, that I hang out with, grab dinner with,
I met a lot of them on move-in day.
GL: Through the LLP, just going to events and having
classes with the people that I'm living with, I got really close to people.
I'm still close with the people that I met freshman year and we've done
collaborations, we go on auditions together so we can all freak out together.
So that's really how I got connected when I first came here.
TL: It made me feel a lot more comfortable moving so far away from my home.
AM: I didn't know anyone coming to UK and I really wanted to go somewhere where people knew
my name and I wasn't just a number and through the LLP and my professors, I
really found that at UK.
TL: I think it helps, socially, like easy to make friends and
also, it helps you get acclimated more into the university.
GL: Having this built-in community really
made it easy to have a different group of friends, like I didn't
feel like I was hanging out with the same type of people all the time.
I didn't just hang out with dancers or just hang out with people in my major.
I was able to connect with people who did anything.
AB: My favorite part of being in
the LLP is the people. I like the community that it gives me. The people
who have similar interests in movies and books and games similar hobbies.
DK: Students who live in the LLP compared to students who just live on campus tend to,
tend to do better percentage-wise.
AM: We have events that we'll put on.
GL: I really enjoy just seeing people being connected with each other.
TL: In our LLP we try to make our events fun, interactive, but also professional.
GL: It's helped me create
a lot of connections, not only with students but with professors, as well.
I think being in an LLP has helped me academically by being able to connect
with so many people who are able to help me in a lot of different things.
DK: We offer tutoring and also we're connected with The Study and Academic Enhancement on
campus, so we're we're continuously plugging students into those different
elements, which helps a lot in the academic sense and also being there for
the emotional support side, as well, with having assigned peer mentor, having that
interconnectedness, we're able to talk with each other and support students in
whatever way presents itself.
GL: We do a lot of things that are just like outlets for
people to just, you know, get through and really be able to focus on their schoolwork.
DK: We find this to be something really special. It really connects our
students not only to the University but to the college and they develop a
lifetime relationship with other students.
AB: Future Wildcats should join an
LLP here at the University Kentucky because it will give you instant best friends
and people that you will not only make connections with in all your classes but
for the future, as well.
AM: I think it's priceless. It really gives
you people who you know you're going to get along with, who you know have the
same aspirations and dreams, you know, because it's by major, by interest and
you can really connect with them and form friendships that will last.
It will be one of the best decisions you ever made.