Senior column: Small interactions make the biggest impact Short encounters shaped my college years My time at Binghamton has been influenced by small interactions. I came to Binghamton University as a transfer student from Stony Brook University. When I was transferring out, the academic advisers refused to help me leave the University, instead telling me to spend another semester there before making a concrete decision. But during my time there, I felt mutuality with so few people, and I felt I couldn’t achieve the things that I wanted to — only my writing professor was willing to help me transfer out.