Adventures in A wing :)

With rarely a dull moment in 02A, the girls have all settled into the life at IMSA fairly well. The Seniors have settled into learning the demands of college apps; the Juniors with their heavier course loads (minus the study hours); and the Sophomores with just about everything. We've had several events within the hall and the wing to foster not only community, but also in an attempt to help the girls with the previously stated stressers of IMSA. We've had bonding activities, goal writing events, a wing wars competition within the hall, and a great first program with our brother wing in 1504D.

One of my favorite programs to do is one I call "Connecting the Pieces" where each girl gets a puzzle piece that they need to connect to another girl in the wing. One girl starts by writing something she loves, and another girl will connect to her, and then write her own thing she loves, and then someone else will connect to her, and I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this -- it turned into one big, beautiful (unintentionally) almost heart shaped puzzle :)

We had our hall's wing wars competition, and we went into it the defending champions of last year, so expectations were high! The Sophomores did a great job, with Gowri & Doreen helping us to finish first in the roommate wars event, and several others helping us rack up points in the trivia contest and our talent show! We ultimately finished 2nd this year, but I am extremely proud of how well the girls did, and how they came together as a wing. They showed their creativity, energy, determination, and genuine love for the wing, and it was really wonderful as their RC to see that :) One of my personal favorite moments from that week was during roommate wars, when our French exchange students even participated! They had to leave the day after roommate wars, but made us promise to work hard, and proudly insisted to the rest of the hall several times before leaving that A wing was the best wing ❤ (I'm hoping to have more pictures in the upcoming blog post -- it was a week of really fun events!)

Roommates Dooreen & Gowri and French exchange students Anais & Noemi are ready for roommate wars!

 Most recently we had our goal setting activity, which I think helped a lot of the wing decide what was most important to them, based off of their experience so far this year. It's something we'll revisit next semester, but for now, I saw several really great goals that I know the girls will work hard to achieve! One goal in particular (seen at left), set by Sophomore CJ, has to be my favorite as an RC, and it definitely gave me a good laugh! Many of the other Sophomores also spent a lot of time on theirs, really wanting to ensure they had goals that were attainable, but were also ones they knew they would have to work hard to achieve. Overall I think the program went over really well, as girls from each of the grades took time to really think about what was important to them.

Sophomore Gowri Warikoo shares her goals

Sophomore Riley Brutto added a flower for some flair to her goals

Junior Eden Gorevoy continues her goal setting from last year!

Until next time!

-- Robyn and the lovely ladies of 02A♡