I cannot believe I will (finally) be ending my undergraduate career at Mac as of this April. I have had lots of good times (as well as some hard ones) here, met tons of people, and had a lot of shenanigans (random or otherwise). I'm very sad (bordering on despondent) that I will no longer be able to be a Welcome Week Rep.
I was a WW Rep for four years: I was a res rep three times (Whidden '05, Bates '06 and Bates '07), a Faculty Rep (Soc Sci '06) and a Maroons rep in 2008. My experience as a rep were some of the best I had at Mac: I met a lot of people; I got to initiate students into the traditions we created during my Welcome Week; I've helped start new traditions; I've raised money for Shinerama; and perhaps most importantly, yelled and jumped around like an idiot in a brightly-coloured jumpsuit.
I'm going to miss it so much.
My frosh have told me that they have wanted to become Welcome Week reps because of how awesome I made their Welcome Weeks. Not everyone enjoyed their Welcome Week (or even attended it, for that matter), but that doesn't mean you can't be a rep. Everyone I know has a better time being a rep than they did as a first year student, which is why so many people become reps year after year.
If you are thinking about becoming a rep, we have a stockpile of old articles that give first-hand experience to what it was like being a rep. Applications to become a rep for Welcome Week 2010 start soon, and we will be posting information as it becomes available.
In the meantime, please check out some of our existing articles on being a Welcome Week Rep. If you would like to tell the MacInsiders community about your experience please do so! You can
submit it here.
Welcome Week Reps Part One: IRC
Welcome Week Rep Applications Part Two: Faculty Rep
Welcome Week Rep Applications Part Three: SOCS Rep
Welcome Week Rep Applications Part Four: Residence Rep
Welcome Week Rep Applications Part Five: Maroons
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McMaster Combined Honours Cultural Studies & Critical Theory and Anthropology: 2008
McMaster Honours English with a minor in Indigenous Studies: 2010
Carleton University Masters of Arts in Canadian Studies: 2012 (expected)
We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed in universities, looking uncomfortably into the world we inherit. -- Port Huron Statement
