Li Shuen’s RVRC Story
Written by Li Shuen
As RVRC e-Open Day is coming up, the student blog team will do a series of #myRVstory where residents share their #whyRV and their favorite parts about RVRC! To start of the whole series, here’s my own story!
To be very honest, RVRC wasn’t my first choice, but I’ve never regretted staying in RVRC. I love how close we are to everything – YIH, University Sports Centre (where sports halls act as exam halls during finals) and also the University Health Centre! I remember waking up just 20 minutes before my finals once, but thankfully the exam hall was just opposite where I stayed and I was right on time for my final paper.
I would like to compare RVRC to a kampong. Not really in a backwards, un-modern kind of way, but really more of the look of RV (the way our buildings are arranged), and the kampong spirit that we have here in RV. I really love the community here, I can just be walking through the blocks and I’ll hear friend calling me from level 3, asking me to have dinner together. It’s really the small things in RVRC that makes RVRC home.
Not only the students here are great, I’d like to think we have the best advisors. Take my Residential Fellow (RF), Ms May, for example. She really makes an effort to know every single one of us, knowing what we study and when she sees us she’ll always catch up with us, making sure we’re fine in (& outside of) RV. She’s kind of like my second mother outside of home, where she’ll periodically check on me, trying to get me attached with a boy of her choice and have I mentioned? She also bakes the best brownies (we’ll literally fight for it when she bakes a batch).
Throughout my three years in RVRC, I really felt like I stepped out from my comfort zone. RVRC was a pretty new college when I first entered. There were so much room for growth, and I would like to think I was part of that growth. I saw how RV changed bit by bit, how there are so much more new students-led initiatives, and that really warms my heart. People tend to compare us to the UTown RCs, but I don’t think there’s anything to compare about. We should embrace the different characteristics of various RCs, and look at it as 2 independent colleges.
There’ll be more #myRVstory coming up these few weeks and if you want to be featured, just leave a comment, or contact me at wee.lishuen@u.nus.edu!