Graduate Student Welcome Night Video – Calvin Lab

22993038 200 Graduate Student Welcome Night Video   Calvin LabHere 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.

Don’t forget to leave a comment about how you liked the video.  Do you have a secret bin to help you out in a bind?  Hope to see you this Friday.

Graduate Student Welcome Night Video – Secret Agent

22992428 200 Graduate Student Welcome Night Video   Secret AgentHere 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.

By the way, just in case you are wondering, the video mentions ISM several times.  In 2009, we changed our name from ISM to IGSM (adding graduate to international student ministry) because we found out that there is another group named ISM and since they came first, we wanted to respect that.  Also, adding graduate student really reflects the make up of our group.  Anyways, hope you enjoy the video and see you this Friday for the third and final Graduate Student Welcome Night (hint there will be another video).

Don’t forget to leave your comments on what you thought about the video.

GSWN Part 2 – Recap

3890159338 763522b46a m GSWN Part 2   RecapThe 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. Continue reading

 

Graduate Student Welcome Nights 2009 (Part 3)

September 11, 2009
6:30 pmto10:30 pm

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!

GSWN Part 1 – Recap

3868086705 e5e055ea9f m GSWN Part 1   RecapThe 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:  

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Graduate Student Welcome Nights 2009 (Part 2)

September 4, 2009
6:30 pmto9:30 pm

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!

Graduate Student Welcome Night Trailer

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.

English Class Starting This Sunday

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.

First Graduate Student Welcome Night – August 28

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.