One of the great things about TU is how culturally diverse our campus is! This past weekend the Chinese Student Association celebrated the Chinese New Year and held a Spring Festival. They had catered Chinese food (which was delicious) as well as a talent show. The acts ranged from traditional Chinese dancers to an awesome game of charades (which is always funny despite the fact that I know little to no Chinese). Overall, it was a great night making new friends and eating some amazing food!
It’s TGIF- not Tuesday with Tulsa- but we have a special guest blog post for you anyway! We asked Lizzie, a Freshman Communications major, to tell us about her experiences at TU, and this is what she had to say…
My name is Lizzie and I am a Freshman here at the wonderful University of Tulsa! I am from Little Rock, Arkansas and I am nineteen years old. As of this moment, my major is Communications and I am a double minor in dance and Film Studies.
In life, I hope to become an established broadcast journalist or a photo journalist. Photography has always kind of been a hidden passion of mine, but how can you keep that a secret when you live on a campus as beautiful as this! Every day I discover new things about this campus and every day I get inspired to do what I love.
TU has inspired me more than any place I have ever been to reach beyond what I think I am capable of and really get me thinking outside the box. I have really been pushed to my limits and I am only a freshman, what will happen in the next three years? That is part of the appeal to TU. I am also astounded at the amount of friends that I have met while I have been here. I would not necessarily consider myself a home-body but I did get homesick coming to TU and was worried about not going to school with anybody I knew. However, I have met my best friend here along with dozens of other good friends who enjoy going off campus and eating, seeing concerts, and watching movies as much as I do!
I love to dance so much that I was recently involved in the Theatre departments production of “So TU, think you can dance?”, a contest within a show where dancers were voted on by the audience after being narrowed down to a top 10 and then a top 5. I feel very blessed to have received the chance to perform in our new performing arts center (Lorton Performing Arts Center) with its state-of-the-art technology and its brand new stage! TUPAC (as it is more affectionately known by students) was just opened this fall, 2011! The dance concert was the best experience I have had to date and influenced my opinion to take up a dance minor. Another great thing about TU is that it has virtually any minor or major you could think of and if it does not then you can basically handcraft your own education by picking different minors and/or majors that work for you! It is great!
I hope you continue to investigate the University of Tulsa with your other schools as you choose which college is right for you! I honestly believe that TU is a right fit for those who want to succeed in there future and those who want to find out what life has to offer! I wish you all the very best and hope you never take life for granted!
Go Golden Hurricane!!!
Look how hard everyone is working!
We're worn out, but oh so proud of our progress
Painting with my Little Sister
Today’s Tuesday with Tulsa post comes to us from Corey H., the former president of TU Treks, a student organization on campus.
Hello Prospective Students!
My name is Corey H., and I am a sophomore Petroleum Engineering student here at Tulsa! I am also the former President of TU Treks, the outdoor adventure group on campus. I am going abroad this semester, so we elected a new president for spring. We had a fun fall, and I want to encourage you to check us out if you do decide to come to TU. Here’s our fall semester in a nut shell.
As the outdoor adventure group on campus, you may think we like camping. You’re wrong. We LOVE camping. To kick off the semester, we started with a combo camping/kayaking trip. We went to Tahlequah, OK to kayak the Illinois river. It was a lot of fun, but with some spills.
We also had a paintballing event, with great success! We played capture the flag, civil war, Alamo, and more.
We recently went camping at Greenleaf State park, where we Geocached, fished, and camped.
We have also gone indoor rock climbing, twice!
Overall, it has been a fun semester. TU Treks is school supported, meaning that all of these events were free! We are always looking to include new members, and your level of involvement is entirely up to you. You can plan the events with the executive council, attend meetings, or just come partake in the events! Come check us out when you arrive on campus, we look forward to Trekking with you!
Corey H
Hello!
Today, let me give you some encouragement and roommate situations and tell you about an awesome opportunity I had because I decided to get involved!
So I’m actually writing this post having gotten off of a plane from Chicago a few hours ago! I am a part of the Society of Women Engineers and had the opportunity to go to a conference this past week in Chicago! We got to go to sessions about everything from how to interview to how to know if a company is right for you. We also got to go to a job fair with about 250 different companies. I got to learn about different internship opportunities for this summer and a TON about jobs in the real world. While I am only a freshman, I thought that this was such a great experience to get to learn about the engineering world beyond school. I went with six other girls and while I learned a LOT form the sessions and the job fair, I probably learned the most simply from advice the other girls gave me throughout the week! The reason I got to go to this conference as a freshman was that I was eager to be involved in activities and learn about engineering and life. I say this to encourage you, a junior or senior, to start thinking about what you would like to be involved in at TU or wherever you decide to go. I decided I want to be involved in the Society of Women Engineers and pursued an officer position, even my freshman year. As a result, I got the AWESOME opportunity to go to a job fair in Chicago!
First, let me start by talking about something that I was nervous about when I came to college. I came to TU as only the second student from my town to ever come here, so I was uneasy, to say the least, about the roommate situation. I did not know anyone who was going here and had to sign up for a random roommate. Terrifying, huh? Let me tell you, though, my story has been a great success story!! My randomly chosen roommate and I love living together, and while we are very different people (I’m an engineer and she’s in musical theater!), we get along very well. And though we don’t always get along perfectly (I have an eight am class on mornings she wants to sleep in), we are both freshman and are both just as lost as the other. We have had so much fun figuring out how college and life without parents works! We’ve cried together, eaten PB&J on the floor together, and stayed up half the night together. I say all this to encourage you that while everything doesn’t always turn out perfectly, your roommate is probably just as nervous and excited about college as you are and, chances are, you’ll have a lot more in common than you think!
It’s Emily here. I have reached the point in the semester at which there is a brief lull in the total insanity characteristic of my life. It’s at about this point every year when I just want this semester’s classes to be over, and I start checking the utulsa site every day in the hope that the new schedule of courses has been posted early (it officially becomes available October 17). I couldn’t tell you why thinking about swapping this semester’s classes for a whole new batch is always soothing somehow, but I can tell you that it probably has something to do with getting closer and closer to graduation.
In other news, I have a feeling not many seniors pick up new clubs and activities in their final year, but I’ve gotten involved in a couple of organizations I’m happy to have the opportunity to be part of. The Collegian, where I am a staff writer, has become an addiction, and it’s a great excuse to talk to really interesting people on campus who I may not have gotten to know otherwise. I’ve also gotten involved with Earth Matters, and the dedicated people who are part of the group are really working to make TU a more sustainable place. We’re starting a campus garden and holding a kickoff October 22. Hooray for fresh produce!
from student blogger Quinn…
So last night the Association of Black Collegians hosted their first event of the year under my presidency. The event was held in the Student Activity Center of Mayo Village. This is an event where invite old members and prospective members to come and hang out and learn about our minority organizations on campus. After everyone finished eating, the executive officers of ABC gave brief introductions. Also in attendance were the executive officers of Leaders Incorporated (LINC), National Association of Black Collegians, and National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). We have a good group of freshmen interested in getting involved. Overall, the event was a successful one, and there is no doubt in my mind that the rest of the year will be a great one!
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