Hey guys, ISGM has it’s own viral videos!! Our videographer Josiah created these videos to promote the International Graduate Student Ministry Sunday Large Group Open House that we had this past Sunday. They were posted on the IGSM Facebook Fan Page. They are based upon the theme of Graduate Student Life. Check out the videos below and leave your comments.
Here is the first video that we made for IGSM for the 2004 Graduate Student Welcome Night. Hope none of you ever get an email from your adviser asking you to work on something that is due the next morning. The laboratory scenes are pretty cool. You didn’t think labs can be so awesome right? And wow, what is the Van Dyke method? Well hope you enjoy it. Read more »
Here is the video that we saw this past Friday at the Graduate Student Welcome Night. We made this video for 2006 and 2007 Graduate Student Welcome Nights. Don’t you think Jesse looks so young in this video? And Shufei and Karen are just so cool looking especially as they execute their secret operation to take the paper from Jungmo – poor Jungmo didn’t have a chance. Click Read More to view the video. Read more »
The excitement of receiving and welcoming new international graduate students continued in Part 2 of our Graduate Student Welcome Night series. Although the stress of school has begun to mount for some of our students, many of the new friends managed to join us again for the second Welcome Night. We also met many new friends. We once again packed Lipman Room with about 100 attendees. Read more »
Once again, we are thankful to meet so many new friends at our second Graduate Student Welcome Night. Our last installment of the three-part Welcome Night series is coming up on 9/11. Professor Chul Kim will wrap up his message series, Connect, with the final topic on how to connect with people in graduate school. A special video will be presented in this Welcome Night.
Friday 9/11 @ 6:30pm – 110 Barrows Hall
We look forward to seeing you there!
The long awaited Graduate Student Welcome Nights (Part I) finally took place on Friday, August 28, at Lipman Room (Barrows Hall, 8th floor). At the event, we had well over 100 attendees, who came from many different countries: Turkey, France, Germany, Korea, China, Iran, India, Greece, and right here in the U.S.
As life, namely stress and busyness, was the main topic of the night, we began with a fun game called “Stress Test.” Through this test, we realized that most graduate students experience stress in very similar ways. Does that count as “great minds stress alike”?
After the game, Dr. Chul gave us a very insightful message about the stressful life of graduate students. The unending cycle of work, stress, fun was particularly memorable because it summarizes the lifestyle of graduate students very well. You can listen to the entire message here:
We had a great turnout in the first of the three Welcome Night series. We are thankful to meet so many new international graduate students and had a lot of fun time with them, doing the stress test and playing games at the Underhill Field. Please see the pictures of that night below.
We are very excited about the next two welcome nights (9/4 and 9/11) as we continue to listen to Dr. Chul Kim, a professor at CSUEB, about how to perceive success and relationships in graduate school. We will also have a skit and a special video in the next two welcome nights, making each one of them uniquely special.
GSWN 2 – Friday 9/4 @ 6:30pm – Barrows Hall, 8th floor (Lipman Room)
GSWN 3 – Friday 9/11 @ 6:30pm – 110 Barrows Hall
So,don’t miss it!
The day has arrived!! Tonight will be the first in a three part series for Graduate Student Welcome Night. Come and join us. We will have a delicious dinner following by a special program. Afterwards, we will go out for dessert and games. See you tonight!!
I can’t believe we are less than 5 days away from the first Graduate Student Welcome Night. I am pretty excited about it. Last night we had a worknight to work on the various different aspects of the GSWN for this Friday, such as equipment, food lists, special music and skit. I hope that you will be able to join us this Friday 8/28 at 5:30pm at the Barrows Hall 8th Floor (aka “Lipman Room”). Go to the announcement for Graduate Student Welcome Night for more information. Well hope to see you this Friday. Till then check out this trailer.
The 6-week free English class is starting this Sunday!
This class is designed to help international graduate students & visiting scholars improve communication skills needed for graduate level research, coursework and presentations. This class is sponsored by International Graduate Student Ministry and it has been a very popular class for the past 5 years with a class size of 50-70 students and 8-10 English teachers.
Important! Please note that there has been a change of location for the class this week.
The class will be held at:
YWCA, Berkeley [click for directions]
2600 Bancroft Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
Class time is still 10am-12pm.
Please encourage your friends to sign up at the link below to register for the class.
http://www.igsmonline.org/announcements/free-english-class-823
There will be a nominal fee of $20 to be collected to cover the printing costs for the course material and also for refreshments on the first day of registration.
I hope you are looking forward to the first in a series IGSM Graduate Student Welcome Night, which will be on Friday Aug 28, 2009 starting at 5:30pm (Note: we postponed the first GSWN one week – it was originally Aug 21, 2009). The location will be the Lipman Room (the top floor of Barrows Hall) [click for directions].
Hope you can join us. We will have dinner, message and a special video. Afterwards, we will go to Underhill field to engage in some sports.
International Graduate Student Ministry (IGSM) is an official graduate student group at UC Berkeley. IGSM started in the fall of 2003 with the vision to help all UC Berkeley graduate students from various countries (including students from the United States) find out the true meaning and purpose of their lives through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Many of us also attend Gracepoint Berkeley, where Pastor Ed and Kelly Kang lead the ministry.
International Graduate Student Ministry (IGSM) is an official graduate student group at UC Berkeley. IGSM started in the fall of 2003 with the vision to help all UC Berkeley graduate students from various countries (including students from the United States) find out the true meaning and purpose of their lives through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Many of us also attend Gracepoint Berkeley, where Pastor Ed and Kelly Kang lead the ministry.
