Warm Welcome 2024

Coming back and serving as a new grad student, and still having an opportunity to provide assistance to Tigers starting their journey is truly rewarding. I'm grateful to Weeks of Welcome, Housing and Residence Life, and Student Involvement for allowing Warm Welcome to be an all-hands-on deck experience that the students will remember.

I definitely gained so many skills during move-in. I learned the best ways to interact with people during this process, the benefits of being empathetic, and especially the best ways to move-in! Helping people move-in deepened my connection with the on-campus community, and strengthen relationships I already had. I gained a greater understanding of my role as mentor to the students in my small groups over the summer and as a mentor in the Emerging Leaders community. I'm not only someone they relied on to answer questions, but also a friendly face in the crowd to help them feel more comfortable. Because of these relationships, I want to be further involved on campus and join more organizations I didn't dip my toes into my freshman year. I hope to be a Weeks of Welcome leader again next year because of how much I had and because of how grateful I am for this experience. I didn't expect to be challenged as much as I was about the weight of the objects I was moving, but instead of giving in and letting someone else carry the heavy things, I continued to do it on my own.