EGSA Digest 02.22.13

Important, Updated Proclamation by President Kilpatrick on the Prospective Student Weekend: Now with Typographical Corrections and Never-Before-Seen Content!

Greetings to all and sundry: I send you this note to remind you of the prospective student weekend’s happenings next weekend, on the afternoon of Friday, March 1, and the morning of Saturday, March 2. This is the first time the department is holding such an event, and Dr. Barcus has asked that the graduate students be a strong presence at the event, as he thinks we are one of the better selling points for the department. Consider yourself honored.

There are 16 confirmed attendees, so we actually will need you to be there. Consider joining us for the afternoon of Friday, March 1, from 1:00-3:00 in the fourth floor lounge for a very informal meet and greet or for the 19 Century Research Seminar at the ABL at 3:30. Dr. Ralph Wood will be speaking, and there will be cookies served after the presentation. Saturday morning’s festivities will begin at 9:00, where there will be another reception, this time with both graduate students and faculty members, in the fourth floor lounge. Immediately following the reception, there will be a conference panel of faculty members and graduate students at 10:00. We need your participation in this activity. Please make an attempt to be active presence in the department for this weekend.

Bad Wine, Bad Poetry, Good Times

• The fine ladies of the EGSA social committee announce the successor to past years’ wonderful badness.
• Fri., 22 Mar., 6:30-9:30pm, Location TBA
• So mark your calendars. Or just continue to rely on the EGSA Digest to order your life and make sense of the world.

If You Have an Organization That Needs to Grow in Leadership, You May Want to Pay Attention to This Announcement of Unclear Origins I Was Told to Include!

• Outdoor Adventure is offering a unique, free opportunity this semester only for organizations to grow in leadership! Bring your sorority, fraternity, leadership group or any other established group of 6 to 30 people to work on team building and leadership skills at the BU Challenge Course, 3-6 p.m. on Thursdays For additional information or to schedule your event, contact Cody_Schrank@baylor.edu.
• BU Challenge Course: http://www.baylor.edu/campusrec/oa/index.php?id=6927

Advice for Life

• There are emails that you should always ignore and emails that you should always heed. Any email requesting your help with an EGSA Book Sale is an email you should heed. Any email that quotes Mark Twain also falls under this category.
• And while we’re at it, this: Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any, also to strangers, and sometimes to others. If a person offend you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick. That will be sufficient. If you shall find that he had not intended any offense, come out frankly and confess yourself in the wrong when you struck him; acknowledge it like a man and say you didn’t mean to.
• And don’t forget that bit about the EGSA Book Sale. Contact Adam Marshall.