An office on the fifth floor of Founders Hall houses over 1,000 occupants and yet it isn’t that crowded at all.

Maybe it’s because all but one of the occupants are worms that are housed in a green box in the corner of the office while Rosie Santos, interim director for the Center of Environmental Education, works at her desk.

"It was something brought about to teach about decomposers in the nitrogen cycle,” Santos said. “It’s really cool because it’s super sustainable to have worms in your office because they eat all the scraps for the most part… You can put all of your biodegradable food produce in the waste with the worms… Then also they can eat shredded paper and things like that so an office space is a really cool place to have them."

Along with her worms, Santos’ walls are also decorated with pictures and a box that houses a lot of family history.

The colorful box is called a Santos Box, a type of box that is used by many Mexican families to house their favorite saint. Santos’ box houses Saint Francis, the guardian of animals.

“My mom found the box at a yard sale,” Santos recalled. “It just happened that we had this [saint] and then my mom found the box and I thought it was perfect. It’s probably my favorite thing in the office.”

After stumbling through many offices on her way to Founders Hall, Santos has only had the office for a few months.

In her short time there she still hasn’t done all that she’d like to her office.

“I kind of dragged stuff along with me as I went to all of the different offices so that just kind of went up on the walls and what not,” Santos said. “I would definitely get more pictures, but since I’m interim… I’m contract to contract so I brought things that I’ve had with me, but I didn’t put a lot of effort into decorating. If I was going to be here long term it would be really fancy.”