#sulm

What others that had thought was something of no use to them, intrigued me and allowed my mind to go places it didn't go before. This space, those doors, inside of that room was strangely connected to this idea of success and it belonged to complete strangers than our own very students. Many people envision the idea of a home with a house and success with money but this room connected to my idea of success. It disconnected itself from students and connected to strangers, complete strangers that had made it in life and disassociated it with students who were still struggling to bring up their grades.  It made me wonder, who were the people that went into the room and what their roles were? Most of the time, the people I would see walk in, weren't people who I had ever seen before. But I knew they were members of this school and made decisions on how this school runs. The people walking in looked very professional. Men wearing suits and women walking in heels and wearing dresses. Men and women walked with confidence and enlightenment as they stepped into the room. When these men and women walked into the rooms, there were carts and carts of food, coffee, water, and other refreshments waiting for them to be enjoyed. This room had become a topic of interest when space was talked about in all my geography classes I had taken over the years. This was a space that couldn't even be booked by students or student groups to be used as a resource. Though I pass by it on a daily basis, it does give a feeling difficult to describe, it was like a goal that could not be attained because of the schools restrictions but being possible in the future. But the reassuring feeling that there is a maybe factor that could contribute in gaining access to this room in the near future or far future, makes it worth it. I think it's the idea of boardrooms, council chambers, etc. that make me feel like it may be associated to my idea of success. To be apart of a group creating decisions that impact the lives of people within the campus, building, or any other place that contained purpose, being apart of something bigger than yourself that could improve others and create advancement in the world. The placement of the room is in the corner of the building and it also make me feel like this is another factor in it's exclusiveness and exclusion from other student and some staff around the campus. The space is like a stranger on campus and it further creates that image as other strangers walk in and out of it everyday. The placement of the space make me feel as if it is put to the side as something not as important when it comes to the majority, being the students of this campus. Since it wasn't so important for us, it could be placed on the side as if it was something to be hidden. For myself, I didn't even know that it existed till the beginning of my second year. For a whole year, where I constantly had classes in the AA building, I never thought to look on my right when I exited. I didn't even realize it was there till second year came along and there was a meeting taking place where people that didn't look like students were grabbing their name cards and entering the chambers. That first moment I realized that there was a room in the space I passed through daily had me interested in why I didn't notice it before and why it was closed the majority of the time. From that moment on, the more I saw people that didn't belong to the school as students, the more I wondered what went on in the room and who those people were. Nevertheless, it became apart of my story and makes me feel encouraged every time I pass by knowing that there will be a day that will come where I am formally invited to enter those doors to the council chambers and participate in the future of the schools decisions.