This past Saturday, we drove out to Point Reyes to hike along to Palomarin Trail to reach our destination of Alamere Falls. Our 8 mile (round trip) hike took us to see lakes, wild flowers, the beautiful Pacific Coast , and lush landscapes. Some people even commented that it was like Narnia. Towards the end of the trail, obstacles of dense brush, poison oak, and steep slopes met us, but we were undeterred and reached our destination. The day started out overcast and foggy, but like typical Bay area weather, the skies cleared up in the afternoon as we reached the waterfall transforming the gray skies into blue. After eating and playing at the beach, we headed back to see the coast again and then onto Ranch 99 for dinner. Click on read more to see the pictures. Continue reading
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GSWN 3 – Recap
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:
Point Reyes Outing
| September 19, 2009 |
Come join us as we go hiking on the beautiful Pacific Coastline on 9/19. Note: we changed location from Big Sur to Point Reyes; both are very beautiful. So come join us.
Event Details
Date: Saturday, Sept 19
Time and Location: We will be leaving at 9:30am from Barrows Hall
Fee: $10 (includes lunch, snacks and trip expenses); please bring extra money for dinner (on the way back we will stop by a restaurant for dinner)
Sign up below. Signups will close Thursday (9/17) midnight, so sign up soon.
GSWN Part 2 – Recap
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. Continue reading
Graduate Student Welcome Nights 2009 (Part 3)
| September 11, 2009 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 10:30 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
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:
Graduate Student Welcome Nights 2009 (Part 2)
| September 4, 2009 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 9:30 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!
Showing San Francisco to New Friends
It was a really fun one-day tour around San Francisco on Monday (8/10) with the new friends that we have met through dinners and airport pickups. The weather was perfect. Although the trip was not exhaustive in terms of the number of sites that we visited, We hit several famous spots including Fisherman’s Wharf (and had clam chowder for lunch), Lombard Street (and the flowers were blooming), Golden Gate Bridge, and Golden Gate Park.
Graduate Student Welcome Nights 2009
| August 28, 2009 | ||
| 5:30 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
For three consecutive Friday nights (8/28, 9/4, 9/11), IGSM will host a special series of welcome events for the incoming graduate students.
GSWN 1 – Friday 8/28 @ 5:30pm – Barrows Hall, 8th floor (Lipman Room)
GSWN 2 – Friday 9/4 @ 6:30pm – Barrows Hall, 8th floor (Lipman Room)
GSWN 3 – Friday 9/11 @ 6:30pm – 110 Barrows Hall
The main speaker, Dr. Chul Kim, a professor at CSUEB, will share his wisdom about how to perceive busyness, success and relationships in graduate school.
We will also have a special video, music, and a skit in these three welcome nights, making each one of them uniquely special.
Come and join us!
Below are some pictures of the Graduate Student Welcome Night last year.
Gilroy Garlic Festival
The IGSM Girls & Garlic: A Match Made in Gilroy… Ten of us drove down to Gilroy, CA to attend the annual Gilroy Garlic Festival. We sampled a ton of yummy food, including such items as garlic ice cream (quite edible) and garlic kettle corn (sweet crunchiness with a zing!). You can probably tell which of us went by our sun tan and garlic breath!
