September 23, 2011
BINGO for Books, Sundaes on Mondays, Movie on the Lawn, Involvement Fair. These are only a few of the 18 events featured during “Welcome Week,” a new event series sponsored by the Office of Student Engagement. “We wanted to really showcase for all students things to do on campus, ways to get involved,” ...
Tags: freshmen, Office of Student Engagement, orientation, OSE, Welcome weekNews
August 25, 2011
The two of us have been roommates for four years (including a semester in Budapest) and so as our time on the Hill comes to an end we’ve come up with a few tips that made the past four years together not only bearable but amazing. 1. Forget about the little things. Roommates tend to ...
Tags: dorm, freshmen, friends, roomate, RoomatesOpinion
August 25, 2011
So you just graduated high school and you’re thinking, “My gosh, the best years of my life are over, and now I have to face college. How the hell am I going to do this?” By June, you’re getting millions of emails with an unbearable amount of information about registering for classes, what to bring ...
Tags: freshmen, freshmen year, high schoolOpinion
August 24, 2011
“Don’t have sex if she’s too gone.” I never want to be that girl. Or that one. Why is every girl in this video naked? “And when it comes to condoms, put two on.” And why is there an old lady playing pong in this video? That’s pretty unrealistic. Like, you’d never see anyone over ...
Tags: freshmen, friends, RoomatesOpinion
September 17, 2010
Amber Slater Staff Reporter Amid the chaos of saying goodbye to family, trying to fit all their belongings into a cramped space, and meeting the stranger they were to live with for the next year, two in every five freshmen faced an additional challenge on move-in day. They were about to embark on a four ...
Tags: first generation students, First Year Students, freshmenNews