Welcome to Mercyhurst! Welcome Week, Flash Mob, Day of Service

I must say- at Mercyhurst, we REALLY know how to welcome new students.
I just wrapped up "Welcome Week" here at Mercyhurst. I was the Student Chair for Summer Orientation and Welcome Week along with my co-chair, Richard. He and I along with the "Laker Leaders" worked extremely hard to lead the freshmen and new students and help their transition into college. I am pretty sure that all had a blast!

Just a few of the things we did throughout the weekend were help the students move in to their campus residence halls, a Kick-Off party in the Mary D'Angelo Performing Arts Center where the students got a chance to meet their Laker Leaders.
Our Student Activities Council help a "Casino Night" in the park where students had a chance to win really cool prizes- even an iPad - pretty awesome! A "Blacklight Bash" was held in our rec center where students were able to dance the night away wearing white t-shirts which glowed in the dark and one of my facorite events- a Hypnotist- Keith Kartkut always comes to Merychurst during Welcome Week, his shows displays to students that you can have fun without drinking! 

My FAVORITE part of the weekend was the big surprise that we worked on all summer -A FLASH MOB!
Check it out on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7TAkiKhUQ0
We worked extremely hard on it and it was so much fun- we were even on the news. The flash mob took place before our Annual Day of Service in which over 800 students went to locations all over Erie to provide service- part of the mission of Mercyhurst College. Freshmen were able to see that:
1. There are a lot of things to do on campus outside of the class room and
2. Service is extremely important to the school and we are dedicated to helping others.

Here's some pictures from the weekend:

Now that Welcome Week is over, I am exhausted, but ready for classes to start!

Picture of the Week - Summer Orientation #3

Here's all of the Laker Leaders who worked our 3rd Summer Orientation. It was a great day, we got a chance to meet a lot of the incoming freshmen. It was a great day for them too- they got to meet other students who are in their class and meet their academic advisor.

A students' academic advisor is extremely helpful! When I started out as an undeclared student, my advisor was helpful in directing me towards the area I was interested in. Once I declared as a Business major, my new advisor, Dr. Yalcindag meets with me before each term to make sure I am working on track and taking all the right classes. We're very lucky to have such dedicated and hard working professors :)

Welcome to Mercyhurst, Class of 2015!