Your RCA
Residential College Advisers (RCAs) are a great resource; they are around to offer a helping hand if you have a problem, cheer you up with a bubbly conversation if you feel down and accompany you to the required frosh events. They also sponsor weekly study breaks, and many organize trips to local and city cultural events.
Each RCA is responsible for a group of 15 or so freshmen and sophomores who live in close proximity to each other and constitute a “zee” group (as in, adviSEE). Zee group life initially revolves around introductions to University life and guided discussions on relevant topics (things like race and ethnicity, gender, sexuality, socioeconomic class and culture shock). Later in the year the groups tend to draw together over more esoteric issues, such as "eating lots of free pizza" or "sitting in front of the RCA's big-screen TV."
