2008 Woodie Awards
The Freshmen: Class of 2010
Facts and Figures
Emily Passey
Issue date: 9/22/06 Section: News
They may have arrived here only a few days before their upperclassman peers, but the class of 2010 has already made Lawrence University home.
The freshmen arrived with boxes, bags and parents in tow Wednesday, Sept. 13. Welcome Week officially kicked off the next day, replete with the usual activities: a welcoming convocation issued by President Jill Beck, a class dinner and Playfair.
The assortment of concerts, shows, meetings and activities certainly kept the freshmen busy for their first few days as college students.
Gabriela Johnson from Little Chute, Wis. and Grace Christiansen from St. Paul, Minn. are freshmen roommates in Ormsby who shed some light on this year's freshman mentality.
For Johnson, a possible biology or biomedical ethics major, Lawrence was her first and only choice. She also applied to Beloit but knew all along that she was going to Lawrence.
Lawrence was also Christiansen's first choice, but she applied to a few other big universities including University of Chicago and University of Minnesota.
Johnson cites Lawrence's liberal arts learning philosophy and general campus atmosphere as her two deciding factors. Christiansen, a prospective English and/or anthropology major, speaks of Lawrence's philosophy of educating the whole person as being important to her in her decision, and remarks that she "visited and loved it" before applying.
As for Ormsby, Lawrence's oldest residence hall, the roommates both say it was their first choice based on the hardwood floors and architecture and are happy to be living there.
"I love it," Johnson says of the family-like feeling of the small Ormsby community. Christiansen shares many of Johnson's sentiments, and the two gush over how well they and most of the other freshman roommate pairs on their floor are matched.
Johnson and Christiansen are excited to be the youngest kids on campus again. Johnson puts it aptly: "[As a freshman] you can mess up and no one's going to care." She says the prospect of four full years ahead is exciting.
The freshmen arrived with boxes, bags and parents in tow Wednesday, Sept. 13. Welcome Week officially kicked off the next day, replete with the usual activities: a welcoming convocation issued by President Jill Beck, a class dinner and Playfair.
The assortment of concerts, shows, meetings and activities certainly kept the freshmen busy for their first few days as college students.
Gabriela Johnson from Little Chute, Wis. and Grace Christiansen from St. Paul, Minn. are freshmen roommates in Ormsby who shed some light on this year's freshman mentality.
For Johnson, a possible biology or biomedical ethics major, Lawrence was her first and only choice. She also applied to Beloit but knew all along that she was going to Lawrence.
Lawrence was also Christiansen's first choice, but she applied to a few other big universities including University of Chicago and University of Minnesota.
Johnson cites Lawrence's liberal arts learning philosophy and general campus atmosphere as her two deciding factors. Christiansen, a prospective English and/or anthropology major, speaks of Lawrence's philosophy of educating the whole person as being important to her in her decision, and remarks that she "visited and loved it" before applying.
As for Ormsby, Lawrence's oldest residence hall, the roommates both say it was their first choice based on the hardwood floors and architecture and are happy to be living there.
"I love it," Johnson says of the family-like feeling of the small Ormsby community. Christiansen shares many of Johnson's sentiments, and the two gush over how well they and most of the other freshman roommate pairs on their floor are matched.
Johnson and Christiansen are excited to be the youngest kids on campus again. Johnson puts it aptly: "[As a freshman] you can mess up and no one's going to care." She says the prospect of four full years ahead is exciting.
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