Monday, August 29, 2011
Convocation @ 7:58 PM
What an exhausting day right? All you lovely Pictors met so many people, played even more ice breakers, and had a lot more to do today than I bet any of you counted on. All I did today was talk to people and I feel exhausted!
That brings me to what I like about Convocation. The lights are dim and you get to listen to people talk while a slideshow is playing. It sounds like the perfect formula for going to sleep, right? Well, yes in some cases, however, I'm hoping that none of you feel asleep as Convocation is generally something that Barnard students tend to remember FOREVER as many of the speakers mentioned.
Anyway, in case any of you did doze off, here is a photo (taken by my not so great camera phone) of the beginning of the candle lighting portion that took place at Convocation.
Labels: candle lighting, convocation
Monday, August 29, 2011
Convocation @ 7:58 PM
What an exhausting day right? All you lovely Pictors met so many people, played even more ice breakers, and had a lot more to do today than I bet any of you counted on. All I did today was talk to people and I feel exhausted!
That brings me to what I like about Convocation. The lights are dim and you get to listen to people talk while a slideshow is playing. It sounds like the perfect formula for going to sleep, right? Well, yes in some cases, however, I'm hoping that none of you feel asleep as Convocation is generally something that Barnard students tend to remember FOREVER as many of the speakers mentioned.
Anyway, in case any of you did doze off, here is a photo (taken by my not so great camera phone) of the beginning of the candle lighting portion that took place at Convocation.
Labels: candle lighting, convocation
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.
