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This weekend, Saturday, April 18th, is the annual Collaborations event. Every year during the spring the college takes a day to enjoy presentations from students and faculty about their work. For students, this could mean an honors thesis, special studies they’ve been working on, or a side project with their favorite professor.

All in all it’s a day to highlight intelligent, hardworking Smith students and their accomplishments over the last semester or year. The day always (it seems) falls on a beautiful Saturday in April and in-between presentations everyone enjoys a box lunch on Chapin lawn and the much-welcomed sunshine.

The Senior Campaign this year, as you may know, is celebrating a different designation every week in order to excite and better inform students about possible contribution locations. This week, we’re highlighting the Curricular Support designation and celebrating Collaborations! We’re hoping senior students will want to support their peers by giving back once seeing their hard work—and yes, maybe even feel a little nostalgic enjoying their final Collaborations.

Enjoy the day, Smithies and Seniors!

I received the warmest (or rather, coldest) welcome back to campus from not one, or two, but THREE huge snow storms! It definitely slowed down the beginning of the semester but now things are getting back on track. This week is my first full week of class and my first week back at work. It was nice being home but it’s even better getting back to work and back in the classroom.

This semester is the last in my Smith career and of course represents the end of things here on campus. In my coursework, I’m taking a seminar in International Trade and writing the longest paper of my academic career. In work, this is the last lap of the Senior Campaign! We have until May 15th to reach our goal and while we’ve already made leagues of progress, there is always more work to be done.

When planning out the semester Senior Campaign-wise, I decided to implement theme weeks to get students more involved with giving back on campus. This week has a holiday theme for Valentine’s Day, “Fall in Love with the Senior Campaign!” and has been a blast to plan and table for.

At the table we had bags of conversation hearts along with paper valentines for students to write and give out. All of this while talking about student philanthropy and ways to enrich our campus community through paying it forward and giving!