Connor is a sophomore at Reed who is majoring in English and minoring in Russian. Watch as he takes you on a tour of his room in the Russian House and introduces you to Reed's language house community. Reed has five language houses—Chinese, French, German, Spanish, and Russian—all of which are open to returning students.

Reed College is an institution of higher education in the liberal arts devoted to the intrinsic value of intellectual pursuit and governed by the highest standards of scholarly practice, critical thought, and creativity. Its undergraduate program of study, leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, is demanding and intense and balances breadth of knowledge across the curriculum with depth of knowledge in a particular field of study. The goal of the Reed education is that students learn and demonstrate rigor and independence in their habits of thought, inquiry, and expression.