Monday, August 29, 2011
And Let the Festivities Begin! @ 7:36 AM
Good morning Pictor and welcome to Barnard move-in!
From the front gates, everything looks super chaotic. Students, their families, and all their luggage are lined up in multicolored chalk boxes all around Barnard's campus and everywhere you look, Orientation Leaders (in green and blue shirts) are running around helping people check out carts and move in.
Constellation Leaders are the only "helpers" in white shirts so you can't get us confused.
I have already come around to some of your rooms to introduce myself and I am super excited to meet everyone else as the day progresses.
Just a small tip: Orientation week is, hands down, overwhelming. You will meet a bazillion people this week, many of whose names you may forget. But, don't worry about that. Once school starts, things will go to "normal", or at least calm down a bit. But remember, it's always helpful to have upperclassmen friends in addition to your fellow first year friends! So don't shy away from the many activities that you have!
Anyway, again, I am very excited to meet all of you!
Labels: move-in
Monday, August 29, 2011
And Let the Festivities Begin! @ 7:36 AM
Good morning Pictor and welcome to Barnard move-in!
From the front gates, everything looks super chaotic. Students, their families, and all their luggage are lined up in multicolored chalk boxes all around Barnard's campus and everywhere you look, Orientation Leaders (in green and blue shirts) are running around helping people check out carts and move in.
Constellation Leaders are the only "helpers" in white shirts so you can't get us confused.
I have already come around to some of your rooms to introduce myself and I am super excited to meet everyone else as the day progresses.
Just a small tip: Orientation week is, hands down, overwhelming. You will meet a bazillion people this week, many of whose names you may forget. But, don't worry about that. Once school starts, things will go to "normal", or at least calm down a bit. But remember, it's always helpful to have upperclassmen friends in addition to your fellow first year friends! So don't shy away from the many activities that you have!
Anyway, again, I am very excited to meet all of you!
Labels: move-in
constellation pictor.
part of the Barnard universe!
Pictor is a small and faint constellation in the southern sky (declination −50° to −60°), located between the brilliant star Canopus and the Large Magellanic Cloud. Its name is Latin for painter, but it is in fact an abbreviation of its original name Equuleus Pictoris, the 'painter's easel', and it is normally represented as an easel.
Sruthi Swami
Class of 2012
Sruthi Swami and is a senior majoring in Psychology and French from Saratoga, California. She loves to eat, walk, read books, learn new languages, attend free food events, play volleyball, sleep in parks, and cook pasta. In the Barnard/Columbia community she is involved in a few things, namely Columbia Raas (a competitive Indian dance team), she is a Barnard Student Admissions Representative, and she writes for the Nine Ways of Knowing Blog. Off campus she work with kids and she also have an internship with an e-learning startup that works with flashcards and iPhone apps. And finally, her favorite thing to do in NYC is sit in Central Park in the middle of a field and eat cupcakes.
