It’s been over a week since Welcome Weekend, and Jean and I are still reeling from all of the adrenaline, hard work and excitement. Welcome Weekend is held annually for accepted students and is an awesome way for prospective students to get to know potential classmates, current students, faculty and staff. I can’t believe that after months of planning, it’s finally over! We had an incredible time getting to meet so many cool people. It was a pretty full weekend, with lots of eating, mingling and general fun. The theme of the weekend was “Kicking it New School.” Details of the weekend are below:
Ambassadors lining walls in auditorium
Friday:
· Optional Sessions: Optional information sessions kicked off the weekend and filled prospective students in on housing, health insurance and financial aid.
· Welcome: Julie Barefoot, Director of Admissions, and J.B. Kurish, Dean of the Full-Time MBA Program, welcomed everyone to Welcome Weekend 2009.
· Reception: Goizueta’s Cool Blue Nights, the evening reception, followed with delicious Southern fare like cheese grits and corn bread. YUM!
· Late Night: Prospective students and current students enjoyed Late Night at Front Page News, a great bar in Midtown.
Saturday:
- Welcome: Larry Benveniste, Dean of the Goizueta Business School, welcomed students to the second day of activities.
- Program Office Overview: Prospective students then received information from the Program Office about curriculum, important dates and scheduling during B-school.
- Round Robin Sessions: The Round Robin Sessions followed, where prospective students rotated through three sessions- Career Management Center (CMC), Student Life and a Ben & Jerry’s Case with Professor Peter Roberts.
- Lunch: Prospective students then broke into their assigned lunch groups with current students, where they could ask whatever questions they had about concentrations, school life, local hangouts, etc.
- Academic Concentrations: Following lunch, prospective students headed to sessions on Academic Concentrations. They choose two academic sessions to attend and interacted with lots of current students, professors, and great alums from across the country.
- Closing & Kegs: J.B. Kurish closed the day’s activities and dismissed students to a Goizueta tradition- Kegs! All prospective students received beer steins for use when Kegs kickoff in the Fall. Though the rain kept us out of Jenkins Courtyard, where Kegs is normally held, we had a great time drinking Blue Moon and Stella in the Coca-Cola Commons!
- Reception: The weekend officially closed with a fabulous evening reception at the Miller Ward Alumni House, where everyone was dressed to the nines!
- Late Night: And of course, what would Goizueta be without a Late Night? Prospective students and current students kept the party going at Hand in Hand, a staple Goizueta hangout in Virginia Highlands.
More happy full-time Ambassadors
I’d like to extend a very big THANK YOU to all of the prospective students who attended and to the over 120 volunteers from the Classes of 2009 and 2010. You all made this a weekend I will never forget! For those of us who couldn’t join us for the weekend, please feel free to contact Jean or me with questions regarding Goizueta or Atlanta.
-Ceili Cascarano & Jean Downing
Co-Chairs, Welcome Weekend 2009
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