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+ | ====== Launch Day 2008 ====== | ||
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+ | Planning information for the 2008 Launch Day. | ||
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+ | In 2008, the students are arriving very gradually, so trying to do all the forms at once doesn' | ||
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+ | ===== Schedule ===== | ||
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+ | * 10:30 - 11:00: Talk about residency, health insurance, mentoring and advising system, etc. Need gurus. Also have bagels to munch on. // | ||
+ | * 11:00 - 12:00: Q&A about classes with students and faculty. // | ||
+ | * 12:00 - ~1:00: Lunch at Faculty Club. // | ||
+ | * ~1:15 - 2:00: Talk about fun stuff to do in Berkeley. // | ||
+ | * 2:00 - ~4:00: Jobs meeting (fixed in time!). Meet rest of grad students in course of this. New students can likely leave early if desired since their jobs are easy to work out. // | ||
+ | * 5:00: Swing by Jupiter for pizza and beer. // | ||
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+ | ===== Postmortem Planning Notes ===== | ||
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+ | * Scheduling lunch at the Faculty Club wasn't bad. You can get away without a formal reservation; | ||
+ | * Plan an icebreaker for the new students. | ||
+ | * This year the new students ended up introducing themselves like 7 times as various new people came in the room. Would be kind of nice (but not huge) to avoid that. | ||
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+ | ===== Necessary Attendees ===== | ||
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+ | * The first-years (duh) | ||
+ | * A few faculty and grads for the classes Q&A | ||
+ | * A few grads more to talk about fun stuff. | ||
+ | * < | ||
+ | * Someone (Bill) to take pictures for the board. | ||
+ | * Mentors for the lunch. | ||
+ | * ~All grads for the jobs meeting. | ||
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+ | ===== Activities Brainstorming ===== | ||
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+ | * Bagel breakfast with coffee. | ||
+ | * Get students together to talk over Stuff To Do In The Bay Area. | ||
+ | * Could have a Department Intro, but the Chair will be away. | ||
+ | * A bit on the course offerings and choosing classes to take | ||
+ | * Have faculty and students present | ||
+ | * The mechanics of signing up for classes | ||
+ | * What's offered in F08 | ||
+ | * What to expect from grad classes, how to allocate time more generally | ||
+ | * Planning the first two years | ||
+ | * Lunch | ||
+ | * Faculty club? | ||
+ | * But probably should be faculty-free so we can tell them all the ways in which the profs lied. | ||
+ | * A session or sessions on residency, health insurance, all that fun stuff. | ||
+ | * We'll also hold the jobs meeting on the orientation day, which will have the byproduct of introducing the new class to most of the rest of the grads. | ||
+ | * Someone from the Grad Assembly wanted to come by the 2007 orientation to blab about the GA. He apparently came and handed out some info but it wasn't anything too interesting. | ||
+ | * Take pictures for the 6th floor board? Might be kind of fun. | ||
+ | * A low-key social event at the end of the day. | ||
+ | * Perhaps two get-out-and-about events in the afternoon? (Two since we have a largeish class.) | ||
+ | * Physics orientation stuff: see {{mentoring: | ||
+ | * (//ex post facto//:) Invite postdocs to introduce themselves and meet the newbies | ||
+ | * (//ex post facto//:) Keep on telling them their various obligations in near future: GSI orientation, | ||
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+ | People should go to the SWPS BBQ between Birge and LeConte, which is on the 25th from 6 to 8 PM. | ||
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+ | ===== Mini Outings ===== | ||
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+ | If things finish by the early afternoon, we could plan, say, two little outings that the students could optionally go on. Such as | ||
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+ | * That cupcake place on Cedar | ||
+ | * Indian Rock | ||
+ | * Gelato | ||
+ | * Fire Trail walk. Might be a bit long. | ||
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+ | // | ||