Should I go to Welcome Week?

tiva_mcabby5
Sun, 21 May 2017 00:15:49 +0000

@yodiemagical

You should know that many Welcome Week events are mandatory to attend with your hall/floor. For example: floor meetings where you meet your RA and floormates, an important presentation/improv show about consent and relationships, and a talk about diversity. Attendance is taken at these events using your ID card.

Besides these events being mandatory and important, Welcome Week is when I made my closest friends at BC. You will meet the people you will be living in the same hall with for the entire year and will go with them to these mandatory events. They’re actually really good events, too - not boring, I promise! And there are fun things to do that aren’t mandatory, like guided trips to Boston or a class movie night (they hand out free blankets at this!).

Here is this upcoming year’s Welcome Week schedule. Mandatory events are denoted with a star. http://www.bc.edu/offices/vpsa/welcome/events.html#Wednesday

I would strongly recommend going. Honestly, if you skip the mandatory events, you’ll probably have to sit with your RA or RD and explain why.

But then again, it’s your choice.