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 »
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. Read more »
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.
It is a video about some of the funny moments of graduate student life. Learn what some of the interesting habits of graduate students such as how they great each other, practical skills they learn and most importantly how to deal with those pesky undergrads 
Hope you enjoy the video and hope to see you at the third and Final Graduate Student Welcome Night this Friday at 6:30pm. Click on Read More to see 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.
To increase the publicity of the Graduate Student Welcome Nights on the Berkeley campus, we started to pass out the newly designed flyers to the graduate students on campus. The publication team (also known as the infrastructure group) uses the iPhone layout for the backdrop. A table view is used to display the three-part message series: Connect Life, Connect Future, and Connect People. The tab bar items on the bottom highlight the special components of each welcome night, which include message, free food, video, and music.
If you have not gotten a flyer from us, you can contact us for one. Or, look for our table at the I-House Resource Fair on 8/19. We will also have our table at the Sproul Plaza on the Southside of campus and at the North Gate during UC Berkeley’s Welcome Week.
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.
