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HNS July 16th-17th group of eager freshmen!

HNS has been excited to have so many new freshmen to meet! We are seeing a wide variety in majors and future career options, including plastic surgery, the rare mortuary science, nurse anesthetist, and optometry—careers we're finding we need to learn about and become experts on! We're seeing an increase in students over years past, perhaps due to the ever-increasing popularity of health careers, or putting more undecided major (but decided on career) students in our office, or simply the rising high school juniors and seniors are hearing how fantastic our advisers are (haha). Regardless, we're happy to have them and excited to be working with such a diverse and strong group of students.

To give you all an idea of just how much of an increase we're seeing, a bit of data! As of today's appointments, CLA has seen 2,225 students (including all student communities, MLK, ATS, and UHP). Of those, HNS has seen 478 (or 21.29 percent). By the time summer is over, we're projected to see approximately a third of the total incoming class. Wow! We're eternally thankful for the work of all advisers in this office including our magnificent peer advisers. And, again, we're SUPER thankful for the laptop loans.Our students thank you.

Since we have such a big incoming HNS "class," we thought it to be the perfect time to try some new ideas. One is giving each incoming student a schedule of our projected fall and spring programming—dates, titles, and brief descriptions. We're even piloting (for us...) an open house! Mark your calendars and stop by on September 9 for treats and fun and to meet our students.

We've found that many programs (both inside and outside the U) send emails to our office of special opportunities for certain groups of students. Not wanting to inundate our students with constant emails (thus creating the Pavlovian response of hitting the "delete" key!), we found it difficult to remember which students expressed an interest in which areas. This summer, we are initiating sign-up sheets for a variety of listservs that we can use to send targeted emails to groups of students, such as pre-med (and other health science), forensic science, and even a book club! We hope to find many ways to use these lists in the future, and add to the names during the academic year.

We're excited by the number of students wanting to join HNS and enjoy our work with them every day. Students are staying optimistic and upbeat (and downright funny!) despite closed classes or classes not at ideal times (evenings and 8 a.m. chem lecture). We hope this trend continues through the rest of the summer.

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