If you pass Hodge Hall and venture up Fee Lane, you will come across the McNutt Quadrangle, home of the Kelley Living Learning Center. This community of over 500 students consists of 10 floors of McNutt, where its residents take similar classes, attend events with impressive business figures, and navigate through freshman year together. The KLLC has a “work hard, play hard” attitude, attracting a killer collection of students. Since it is a living-learning center, there tends to be a strong sense of camaraderie among the individual floors. Each floor tends to develop its own persona, which can influence someone’s expectations of you if they only know what floor you live on. These personas vary from year to year, as new blood cycles through the KLLC, and the directors work to match up residents’ personalities to create positive and close-knit floors. So, without further ado, here is a completely and totally objective and unbiased overview of the different floors in the KLLC:

Bryan 3: This will probably be the most in-depth analysis, as I personally live on this floor, and have therefore spent the most time on it and know the most information about it. Bryan 3 began the year as straight fire. There is a great deal of sharp, determined students that came to IU ready to face whatever. When I tell people that I live on Bryan 3, many say, “Oh, I heard you guys are crazy!” or “Oh, I heard you’re floor is so LIT!” This may be true, but we were in no means out of control and were actually just a social, happy and fun floor. First semester was a time where whenever you passed someone in the hallway, you would smile and say hello at a minimum. You could catch a lot of Bryan 3 residents out and about together, which persisted throughout the entire year. The close-knit nature of the floor dissipated some second semester, as many guys ending up pledging a fraternity this semester, and the majority of the girls joined sororities. Even if residents did not go Greek, many were in something or another that kept them away from the floor more than it did first semester. I’m sure this happens on every floor, but it seemed more apparent on my floor. At the end of the day, everyone was happy to be back on Bryan 3 and hang out with their floormates, even if they were hanging out there less often than they were first semester.

Bryan 2: There are a lot of cool people on Bryan 2. I think that they want to be known as the “cool floor.” Contrary to what you might expect, the KLLC is a not a huge collection of nerds. Many of the residents of Bryan 2 prove this, even if some may be actively trying to do so. When Bryan 2 comes to mind, many think of the term, “floorcest.” I cannot say that this doesn’t come to my mind, but this isn’t the only thing, I promise. The floor seems like they all hang out a lot together, and I see Instagram posts of B2 people often hanging out with other B2 people, in and out of the residence hall. I don’t know too many people on this floor that well, but the ones I do know are happy living where they do.

Bryan 1: Bryan 1 is low key a legit floor. They’re all going about doing their own thing, killing it in all different realms, but keeping it all on the DL. Unless you are directly paying attention to Bryan 1, you don’t know all the awesome stuff they’re up to. There is a positive vibe that carries through the floor and into the lounge, where people are always just hanging out and talking. They seem to be a very close-knit floor, and a little more to themselves than others. I don’t mean that they’re shy by any means; they have just realized that the people on their floor are the coolest and best. When I go to B1, their residents always warmly welcome me. Even if I didn’t know a person all that well, I’d be greeted happily and welcomed into their little family. They also have really cool quarter zips that I’m low key jealous of.

Bryan Ground: This is one of the most outrageous collections of people I have ever come across. The fact that all of these ridiculous people all ending up living on the same floor is unbelievable. Bryan Ground is only half of a floor, so they have less people on it than the rest of the floors. You don’t notice that there are less residents on this floor, though, because they are such a rambunctious group. I have many friends on this floor, and find myself down here quite often. The lounge is never empty; there are always people watching movies, doing homework, conversing, or just messing around. There seems to never be a dull moment on the floor, no matter what hour of the day. Bryan Ground residents are always up for something whether it’s 2 am on a Wednesday or noon on a Saturday. On other floors, everyone knows all their floormates’ names. But on BG, everyone seems to know each other’s life story and what they did last Friday night. They are also a very loud floor; so many other KLLC residents also know what they did last Friday night.

Crone Tower: I am sorry to lump everyone on Crone together, but it’s kind of the lesser of the building. I won’t say it’s irrelevant, because this is very obviously an objective review. But I will say that less happens on Crone floors. Since you usually have to walk through Bryan to get to Crone, there is just more traffic on Bryan. Bryan residents don’t often go onto Crone, while Crone residents walk through Bryan every day to enter and leave McNutt. The people in Crone are no lesser than Bryan residents individually, some of my favorite KLLC residents live in the Crone tower, but their floor does not adopt its own unique identity like Bryan floors do. They seem to have a similar culture to its Bryan counterpart, but watered down. Many residents will go onto other floors and will get adopted into another floor, to find that sense of community the KLLC supplies you with.

Bordner Basement: I’m sorry, but I almost forgot about this floor because it’s just so random and isolated. It’s kind of like the Alaska of the KLLC. The KLLC takes up the entire Bryan and Crone towers, but only one floor of the Bordner tower. I have never been to Bordner Basement because I never did see the need. I know pretty much no one on that floor, which is a shame because I’m sure there’s some wonderful people down there and I want to ask them some questions. Do you feel like part of the KLLC? Do you talk to people in other floors of the KLLC? Does your floor have some identity that I don’t know about or did you go elsewhere and got adopted into some other floor? The KLLC is expanding to more of the Bordner tower for the 2016-17 school year, so I’m glad that Bordner Basement will no longer be so isolated.

So there you have it – a completely and totally objective and unbiased overview of the Kelley Living Learning Center. No matter what the individual floors are like, the entire KLLC is filled with awesome residents who will do amazing things. It was a great year in the KLLC, and I am honored to have called it my home for nine months.