today is a big day it's day full of firsts it's the first day of the
freshman class orientation week it's my first day as the campus vlogger and it's
the first day of the newest seated president of Michigan Tech and right now
it's almost noon and at noon he is going to give his first speech to the student
body let's get up to the ice rink and film it
it's an exciting opportunity to see you all here
and during move in yesterday what I thought was absolutely confirmed
that students that come to Michigan tech are special
I've heard parents and students say things like
you know Michigan tech isn't for everybody
and if you talk to our students and faculty they'll says that's okay
because the type of student that comes here
well they don't come here because their friends told them it was going to be easy
every year since 2009 the first year orientation
students are asked to come up to Sherman field and take a large class photo on
the field here and we're gonna stake out and wait for those freshmen to arrive
they let me up in the photo lift Sarah here is taking the photo
and from up here you can see all 1400 incoming first year students and transfer students
it's a little nerve racking being all the way up here we are very high up
and my only advice form Sarah was don't move too much
So, i'll talk to you again when we are back on the ground
so just rode my bike down from the football field where the first years
were taking the photo and now they're meeting with their orientation team
leaders on Walker lawn and their orientation teams where they're gonna be
learning about what college life is like what kind of programs they have to use
and doing some some little icebreakers to start off the year on a good note
what is your job here so my job is to rally up my group here which is right here this is half of the group actually
how many kids are in the group? twenty physics majors so what's the what's the
job of OTL so we're basically like the orientation for the first year yes gonna
teach them everything they need to know not everything but most of it the most
of the important stuff it's kind of to you know make everyone feel welcome and
and meet some new people and your week looks like what? what are you doing? a lot of team meetings meeting with faculty
learning all of the software and things like that well thank you I appreciate it Ezra.
So, that was actually my friend Ezra that I saw they're a little busy right now
I'll aim the camera over here they've got a lot going on and all of the
students and if I if I'm seeing this right here we have Bonnie
Gorman what are you doing today well and passing out buttons and trying to
meet every first-year students possible you're trying to meet every first-year
student how many are there I think the number is around 1200 1200 okay so you
hand up a button to everyone do you have a button okay you mind showing it to the
camera can you see it there we go so you meet every student can you keep
track of all their names I cannot keep track of all their hands some students
remind me regularly and I appreciate that if you don't get a chance to meet Bonnie you can actually
schedule to have coffee with her email deanofstudents@mtu.edu alright thank you
wow so we are meeting all the people
I would not be surprised if I saw Blizzard down here that's the Michigan Tech mascot well I'm
going to sign off for now I'm gonna go get ready for the dance that is
happening later
alright let's count down together michigan tech! ready here we go!
5 4 3 2 1
that was an incredibly jam-packed first day and there were dozens of things that
I didn't even get to go to and there's a whole week event scheduled for these
first year orientation students if you saw yourself in the vlog share with your
friends and family thank you for a great first day Michigan Tech