First-year and transfer George Washington University students were welcomed to campus Saturday with helping hands, warm smiles, a presidential lemonade stand and GW sweatshirts.
Sydney Walker, a transfer student from Upper Marlboro, Md., was still in the process of moving into Somers Hall on the Mount Vernon campus when her family decided to take a break and visit the GW Family Welcome Suite in the Marvin Center’s Great Hall on Saturday afternoon.
Being an only child, Ms. Walker said that she was a bit nervous about sharing a space for the first time, but that she is excited to get started studying creative writing.
Her parents, Sam Walker and Kenya Ulmer, graduated from George Washington University in 1996 and 1997 respectively. They first met in Madison Hall. Both said they were happy to see their daughter at their alma mater.
“It’s kind of surreal, being back on campus and seeing how things have changed and some things are the same,” Ms. Ulmer said of moving her daughter to campus. “I think I have one more cry left in me.”
In her first year, Ms. Walker’s parents said they hope she becomes even more independent, meets new friends and embraces GW’s international community.
“I would hope that in terms of being around this community that she gets to absorb all of the different cultures that she’s around and gets to know how it is to do her own thing for a little while,” Mr. Walker said.
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