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My name is Anna Meriano. I graduated 2013 from, uh I was at Martel College. Uh I went to Rice, uh, you know, graduated in 2013 and my little brother came to Rice. He was a class of 2020 two. Um And every time I would ask him

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about things, I'd be like, oh my gosh, do you remember, you know, did you go to a lot of the costume parties? Did you, you know, did you go to Sid 80s or whatever things that I really liked or cared about? He would just tell me

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like, oh, no, nobody cares about that. Uh And so slowly I started to realize that the things that I thought were the most meaningful traditions were just not going to be the same as the meaningful traditions that he experienced at Rice. But we both had a

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great time. We both loved Rice. Um So I wanna share a tradition. It's not a very widespread tradition. It was just something that me and my roommates did. Uh, we were at Martel, we lived uh on different floors throughout the years, but we had a tradition

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of at the end of the night when we were on our way back to the room, ah, we would get on the elevator at Martel and we would go all the way up to the top, ah, and work our way down to whatever floor we were

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trying to get to. We would basically just hit as many floors as possible. Uh, and we would just scream things whenever the doors opened and then continue up to our next floor. Um And that was one of my favorite things that we did. It was just

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a, just a personal tradition. My advice for the next generation of owls for future generations of Rice kids is to make your own traditions to find the things that matter to you and they might not be the same things that matter to anyone else. Um But

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it doesn't really matter. Institutional memory is short. Uh But your experience is the thing that's important. Good luck.