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Fall Back into Oneonta

SUNY Oneonta welcomed more than 1,900 freshmen and transfer students for the fall 2018 semester.

By SUNY Oneonta

August 27^th, 2018

New Year, New President

Our new college President, Dr. Barbara Jean Morris, hit the ground running and was eager to pitch in on Freshman Move-In Day. She greeted families, helped carry students' belongings and offered words of comfort and advice to parents.

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MOVE-IN DAY

Suitcases, blue rolling bins, and box after box! We welcomed 1,340 freshmen (and their families!) to campus this year. A huge thank you to all of the students, faculty, staff and University Police who volunteer and work so hard to make this day go smoothly.

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goodbye, for now

With everything moved in, it was time for one last family photo, word of advice and hug.

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Home Sweet Home

Roommates Brittany Champagne and Giulia D’Angelo had their room decorated to a T by mid-morning. The two connected through the Class of 2022 Facebook group and met in person at Academic Exploration Day in April. Throughout the summer, they decided on color schemes, brainstormed decoration ideas and coordinated who was bringing what.

“We’ve been talking about it every day for months!” said Giulia, a childhood education major from Massapequa, NY.

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LETTERs from alumni

At the beginning of August, the college put out a call on Facebook to alumni, asking them to write letters to students moving into their old dorm rooms. We received almost 70 letters from alumni recalling freshman year, many saying it was the beginning of the best four years of their lives.

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"Just getting to read it, knowing that there’s somebody else in my shoes, makes me feel a lot better."

The oldest letter was from an alumna who lived in Littell in 1965. She said that, despite living halfway across the country from one another, she still keeps in contact with one of her roommates from that room and tries to see her once a year.

"It's pretty cool to see someone who was here before me, in my shoes, write me a letter," said freshman Colin Davis, of Woodbury, NY. "The advice that they're going to give to me, I'm going to try and follow it."

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Freshman Aiden Davies, right, received a letter from alumnus and SUNY Oneonta staff member Kevin Sutton, who lived in the same room in Littell Hall.

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orientation

After moving in, freshmen and transfers had four days packed with informative sessions, getting to know campus, meeting faculty members and registering for classes. They also had some downtime to relax, play games and get to know each other better!

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freshmAn service project

The Center for Social Responsibility and Community partnered with the Office of Sustainability on a service project where freshmen made origami pots out of newspaper and planted herbs in them. Together, the freshmen planted 1,500 herbs to give to local elementary school children.

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Pass Through THe Pillars

During this well-loved campus tradition, freshmen and new transfer students walk as a group between the pillars of Old Main, the college’s first building, on the night before the semester begins -- with returning students, faculty and staff cheering them on.

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Class of 2022

Escorted by Red, the college mascot, SUNY Oneonta President Barbara Jean Morris led the Class of 2022 in passing through the pillars to the quad, where students celebrated the beginning of the semester with a photo booth and inflatable games.

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first day of classes

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Opening Day picnic

To kick off the first day of the academic year, the whole campus community gathered in the library quad for a festive, tropical-themed picnic, complete with music, Sno-Cones, nachos, burgers, fruity drinks and a buffet lunch.

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