What a great time to be a Wildcat. The volleyball team has been successful, the football showed up the Pac-10 and to top it all off, the University of Kansas lost.

All wins and embarrassing losses aside, I really think we have something special here at K-State and it's not just the athletics, it's the attitudes that K-State students hold.

While this attitude is hard to categorize, I see it in action every day when I'm on campus. I see students helping each other out, smiling, saying "hi" to one another and generally looking out for others on our campus. We have something very special here that is very hard to describe, but I would not change it for the world.

Pat Bosco, vice president for student life, said his favorite thing about K-State is, bottom line, its students, describing the campus as "a little slice of heaven" in a recent interview with the Collegian.

"The ownership our students have for their university community, the way they wear the purple, the way they support each other, the way they smile going from class to class," Bosco said. "It's a very special kind of experience that some of us sometimes take for granted."

I reap the benefits of going to K-State on a daily basis, and I've noticed it has had an effect on me. I tend to smile more when I'm walking around from class to class, I can't think of a day that I've been on campus when I haven't stopped to have a chat or at least had someone ask me about my day. Maybe it has something to do with the color purple, but this place lifts my spirits. I'm also more inclined to help people while I'm on campus. I cannot count how many times I've helped people find where they need to go, and after having this conversation with other students I know I'm not the only one who K-State has changed.

A friend of mine from high school recently transferred to K-State from KU and she told me the attitudes are night and day different. After my bias shut off, I realized she was speaking the truth. She described the encounters she had with students on the K-State campus as less judgmental and more like a family. I totally agree with this sentiment, and I think I too have described K-State as a family, but not for the same reasons. I think I'd have to credit all the great times I've had with my friends and at athletic events for that.

Keep up the good work fellow Wildcats; let's make K-State the friendliest university in the U.S.