Graduate Student Welcome Night #1
This past Friday we had our first Graduate Student Welcome Night, and oh what a night it was! There were over 140 people in attendance and we had students from many countries including far east Japan, gregarious Germany, “Be the Reds” South Korea, the Pacific Ocean Philippines, valiant Vietnam, terrific Taiwan, and of course, the ever-so-populated country of China. It was nice to see so many grad students (and undergrads too!), many of whom had been in the U.S. for less than 1 month. Read more »
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. 
For the third part of the Connect series, we filled up 110 Barrows Hall, the room we will use for the rest of the semester. I was personally very surprised to see the hallway outside filled with people, pizza, and conversation- and all before 6:30pm. We started by watching our first video about Peter and the lab experiment and then an awesome video about a grad students fluctuating self-worth as he interacts and compares himself with the people around him. Dr. Chul Kim gave a message along the same lines about how we view people in our lives. You can listen to it here:
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. 
I hope you guys enjoyed the past two Graduate Student Welcome Nights. Now, the moment that everybody has been waiting for (or I think many have been waiting for this) – the posting of the GSWN Welcome Night Video. Today, we will post this year’s GSWN video – Graduate Student Life.
Hope you enjoy the video and hope to see you at the third and 
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. 
