For the first week of my Earth Month Challenge, I made an effort to remember to turn lights and appliances off and unplug them when they were not being used. Over the course of the week, there were several thigs that I noticed. The first was that my roommates and I are very forgetful and oblivious to the fact that we leave lights on all the time. Even with stickers over all of the light switches, I still found that the lights to the common room, bathroom, and study rooms were constantly left on with no one in the room. Fortunately, a few of my roommates had the same challenge for week one as I did so we were able to pick up most of the slack. Another thing that being conscious of which lights are on and which are off made me notice is that there are a significant amount of lights in Morill which can never be turned off. For example, the lights in the hallway are always on at all times of the day. While it would probably not work to have a light switch in the hallways, some kind of motion detector could save a lot of energy. Additionally, the light in the center room which connects all of the study areas to the common room and bathroom remains on at all times and there is no switch for it. Unlike the hallway light, having this light on at all times is unnecessary and having a switch could easily fix it. Other than this, the challenge went well and I was able to keep lights off for the most part and remembered to unplug my phone and laptop when I was not using them. The first two weeks of my challenge are relatively easy tasks and can be done without too much effort, so I expect things to go well next week, but after that it will get much more difficult.