What is POW you ask? POW stands for Pre-Orientation Weekend and is a great opportunity for incoming first-year students to take advantage of over the summer. There are three POW weekends each summer and each has a different team, giving talks and interacting with the new SMC students, answering questions, easing nerves and spending time with the students. I am writing this blog because I am going to be one of these team members on POW 3 this summer!
I was asked to give the "adjusting" talk. I thought a lot about what I wanted to say and wrote the talk last weekend. I debuted it last night to a few of my roommates and my RA, then read it to Mallory this afternoon and presented it at the POW meeting this evening. It was received well and I am really excited to share it on the weekend. I don't want to give too much of it away, but basically I am going to talk about my my experiences adjusting to college and how my initial ideas about this adjustment ended up being totally wrong. If you are going to be an incoming first-year, you should DEFINITELY go on POW - I did when I was a first-year and it was a great experience. If it works in your schedule to go on POW 3, that would be optimal...I might be biased, but because both Nick (my fellow blogger and good friend) and I are on team, you won't be disappointed. Our team is shaping up really well and I can't wait to meet all of the students!
If you read Mal's blog about LEAP you know that it is quickly approaching - I couldn't be more excited! My team still has a good amount of work to get done, but we are getting more and more excited every day. We have an extra meeting this Thursday night, so hopefully that will but us ahead of the game!
Before the POW meeting tonight I attended an Extended Service reunion dinner - all of the trips that went over Spring Break gathered together to reflect on our experiences and present a little bit about our trip to the other students who took part in Extended Service. It was great to see the girls from my trip! This weekend we are actually all participating in a huge scavenger hunt called Midnight Madness, which benefits Best Buddies, a national organization that works with adults who have developmental disabilities. I can only imagine the crazy things that we are going to have to find during the day long hunt...it will be so much fun and it will be great to work with all my friends from my trip.
That's what's new here...as always, I welcome comments and/or questions!! Enjoy the spring weather!
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