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Hi, this is Joseph Goetz. I graduated in 1998. I was at Brown College, uh a Rice tradition that has been uh most meaningful to me, I guess would be the associates tradition. I'm a librarian on staff now at Fondren and I'm a Brown associate. And uh

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as part of that, I get to go and talk to uh current students and also interact with my fellow associates uh which has given me uh as a as a staff member. Um It's one of the ways in which I've been able to have longer term

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contacts, especially by being an associate with an o-week group, longer term contact with students uh as they go through their, their four years at, at Brown College and also long term contact with my fellow associates. It's been uh really good experience um uh advice I would

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share with the next generation of owls would be to take advantages of the city of Houston. Uh It's such a dynamic multicultural city. Uh the food that you can try um the cultural experiences, you can have the museums. And I would also say the, the natural

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environment around um the uh Prairie ecosystems that, that we're a part of the bird and animal species that you can see around. It's easy. Um In Houston to start thinking, thinking of nature is just like this benevolent force that uh hits you with rain and hurricanes

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and extreme heat. Uh But there's also a lot to enjoy in the, the plants and animals and landscapes around, especially uh with restored landscapes like uh like the prairies that you see on campus in Buffalo Bayou and in other places. Thanks.