The following post is written by UHP freshman, SPA member, and West Hall resident Dan Grover. —-
One of the biggest challenges about the college process isn’t the applications, it isn’t the essays, or even getting in. It’s figuring out where to go. Hopefully, by reading this, you’ve already settled on GW, (but just in case you haven’t, totally come to GW). Once I’d finally made that choice and let some relief settle in, I was confronted by an even tougher decision: do I choose to live in Honors Housing?
I’m sure I had some of the same fears that you prospective students are having now; will all of my friends be only Honors kids, will I make no friends outside of West Hall, will I be sad all the time on the Vern and so on. After much agonizing, I bit the bullet and went through with Honors Housing.
I don’t regret it for a moment. Continue reading “What It's Like To Live In West Hall [Honors Housing]”
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Add Us To Your Facebook Routine!
You check your Facebook morning, noon, and night. On the couch, in bed, and in class. On your phone, on your laptop, or even on the work computer! You probably use Facebook more than your toothbrush. So why not make following the UHP page part of your daily Facebook regimen? Our page is where you’ll find up-to-the-minute news stories as well as all of the great things you already expect from Facebook: walls, status updates, photos, things to “Like”, etc. All geared for UHP students!
So follow us on Facebook now and have one more page to look at before you start that Statistics homework…
Last Chance for Food for Thought [Lunch]
If you haven’t signed up yet, hurry up! Seats are limited.
Join us for this lunchtime event on Thursday, April 11th at 1pm in the UHP Clubroom in Foggy Bottom. Prof. Lori Brainard presents on police department use of social media, with the help of her research assistant, UHPer Andrew Beauregard.
Lunch is free, but seats are limited. So sign up now!
UHP Peer Advising Is Awesome [GW Hatchet]
If you’re a UHPer, you probably already know that UHP students have a great resource: the Student Peer Advisors (SPA). Thanks to an article in today’s Hatchet, everybody else knows too! Sunik Kim extols the virtues of a close-knit community and peer advising — just like what we have in the UHP with SPA.
Pretty awesome. SPAwesome.
From the Hatchet article:
Peer advising would not only help students from an academic standpoint, but new students could also benefit socially from older students who know more about campus life. As mentors to underclassmen, the older students in the honors program advising system hold get-togethers two to three times each month, where students can socialize.
Read the whole article here.
A Lucky Child [Recommended Event]
The following exhibition was created by students in Professor Walter Reich’s course on “Holocaust Memory” (listed as HONR 5701 and IAFF 0702). All members of the Honors Program community–including all students, faculty, administration and advisory board members–are invited.
A LUCKY CHILD
Invitation to the Opening of an Exhibition at The George Washington University on Professor Thomas Buergenthal, Lobingier Professor of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence at G.W. and the author of A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy
Date of Exhibition Opening: Tuesday, April 9, 2013.
Time: 5:00-7:00 PM
Place: The Dr. Yehuda Nir and Dr. Bonnie Maslin Special Collection Exhibit Hall at the Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library, 7th Floor. Continue reading “A Lucky Child [Recommended Event]”
Semi-formal with OLAS [SPA Event]
Join SPA member Yesenia Flores and the Organization of Latino American Students on Saturday, April 13th to celebrate the 17th Annual Noche de Cultura.
During this night, cultures around the world come together and embrace each other’s similarities and differences through the theme “Under the Moon: Todos Juntos.”
This spectacular evening features an array of Latin American cuisine, lively music, and fantastic performances.
Marvin Center 3rd Floor (Grand Ballroom)
9:00PM-1:45AM
Dress code: Semi-formal (Dress to impress!!!!!)
Ticket Price:
$7 for members
$10 for non-members
The event is open to everyone!
Enter UMD Humanities Research Symposium
If you’ve got an excellent research paper in the humanities, submit to UMD’s “Humans 2.0.” Presenting at a conference is a nice thing to have on your résumé, and a great way to explore other research in interesting (and sometimes overlapping) topics. Plus, with the event being so close, it’s easy to make!
Click through for the complete call for proposals for the University of Maryland Honors Humanities Program’s Sixth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, taking place on Friday, May 3rd.
Holocaust Remembrance and Genocide Awareness Week [Recommended Event]
Check out these events as part of GW Hillel, Kappa Alpha Psi, and SAFI’s Holocaust Remembrance and Genocide Awareness Week. The events will serve as a memorial to victims of the Holocaust, allow students of all backgrounds to take an active role in remembering the many victims of the Holocaust, and heighten awareness of genocide across the world.
The three events of the week will be:
Name Reading in Kogan Plaza – Monday, April 8th from 1pm-4pm in the mid-campus quad section of Kogan Plaza. Students will have the opportunity to read the names aloud of those individuals who perished in the Holocaust.
Memorial Service – Monday, April 8th in Marvin Center Room 308 from 6:00pm-7:30pm. A 10-15 minute memorial service will be held in honor the victims followed by a Holocaust survivor’s story.
Panelist Discussion – Wednesday, April 10th in Marvin Center Room 413-414 from 7pm- 8pm. Panelists will discuss the Holocaust, issues in human rights, and contemporary genocide. The last 15 minutes will be open to questions from the audience. Dinner will be provided.
For more information, please visit the Facebook event page for Holocaust Remembrance and Genocide Awareness Week.
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"The Tibetan Code of Happiness" – [Recommended Event]
This Thursday (April 4th), Khenpo Sodargye of the Laung Gar Buddhist academy in China will give a talk titled “The Tibetan Code of Happiness.” The talk will take place at GWU’s Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, Marvin Center (800 21st Street NW), 6:30pm. Khenpo Sodargye is one of the leading Tibetan Buddhist teachers in China. He is a published scholar and popular speaker in leading universities on the mainland. This is his lecture series in North America and Europe. Check out the poster below: Continue reading “"The Tibetan Code of Happiness" – [Recommended Event]”
