DDDal - HHHou - SSSie - DAL - DAL - DALHOUSIE!

Another Orientation Week at DAL has come and gone. We spend an entire year at the DSU gearing up for it and in 4 days it is all over.

This year it was phenomenal! Kris Osmond, Vice President (Student Life), and his committee did a phenomenal job at coordinating all of the events.

I loved being able to talk with students this year - and to talk with a lot of them, from all over. This was my first year not being a leader (having a designated group), or being on committee (running events), or being the VP Student Life (being everywhere at once) - I was able to actually go out and talk to our incoming students! And it was one of the best experiences I have ever had. All of the students that I talked to were excited to be here, they were having a great time, and they had a million questions - everything from where is a cool place to eat lunch, to how do I avoid plagiarism ,to what time the Grawood opens and closes. It was very refreshing to just stop and talk with them.

This was also the third year of having the Induction Ceremony (an event to officially welcome the incoming students) on the final day (Wednesday September 3) of Orientation Week. And this time it worked perfectly! I had met the students in the crowd, they already had seen me at events and had talked to me, we had already established a great relationship. I was so honored to be able to speak at the ceremony and to wish them all the best in their university career.

And it is my hope that all of those new students, and the leaders that were involved in creating such a fabulous event, will all feel a little more inspired to achieve nothing but the best from here on in.