WISE


SISTERS Summer Program.

It’s wonderfully warm outside and hope that Stony Brook is treating you well. We’re so glad that all you chickies could come spend the next few days with us at camp. Learn lots, and leave us messages in the comment box below. We’ll make sure to read it– you can give us helpful comments on how to improve the program, tips for games, and maybe even snack suggestions? It’s your call.

Stay wise.


SISTERS Tech Prep Session 5

hey chickies…

hope you enjoyed the day making databases and learning about algorithms! let us know what you liked, and what you didn’t. only one more session left till summmmmerrrr!


Pictures <3


SISTERS Tech Prep Session 5

hey chickies…. you know the deal: tell us what you liked, what you didn’t. Hope you enjoying learning about computer-human interactions and learning more fun technological tools!


a pretty wise chick: Karen Bulaklak

After accepting the offer to be a part of the WISE program at Stony Brook, I had mixed feelings at first. Coming from a small high school, Stony Brook University was a huge change for me. I was used to 30 max students per class, seeing the same familiar faces as I walked down the hallway, an 8 to 3 schedule, and coming home every day. Now, I would be surrounded by thousands of students, in classes with hundreds of people and no one from Stony Brook to help me out. Needless to say, I wasn’t exactly looking forward to college and afraid of becoming lost in the crowd.

Over the first few weeks, I realized how great the WISE program was. I met so many new and interesting people at WISE orientation events, in Gray College (my residence hall), even my roommates were in WISE! I began to feel less alone as I sat with my new friends in Chemistry class and met up with my WISE study group and upperclassman mentor, someone who went through the same intimidating and challenging experiences during her first few years at Stony Brook.

Being a part of WISE helped me adjust to the new challenges and added stresses I faced as a freshman in college and as a woman in science. While WISE introduced me to college life, it has also opened so many doors. I have learned so much from my new friends and WISE-specific courses about different topics in science. For example, in my WISE 187 Research class, I was able to examine how a specific gene influenced the development of a mouse embryo for one project as well as collect zooplankton samples from Stony Brook Harbor for another project. I never expected to learn so much in one semester! All in all, WISE has been such a great experience for me, and I’m sad to see such a fun and eventful freshman year end. I’m excited to see what the next few years will bring me.

Karen Bulaklak


SISTERS Tech Prep Session 4

hey chickies…

so glad you could come and spend the morning with us! enjoy the weather later today!

we hope you loved learning about programming today, and that all of you were able to start your websites. let us know what you liked, what you didn’t, what you learned, and what you’re interested in for next time.

we used this website for our animations today: http://scratch.mit.edu

check out ours at: http://scratch.mit.edu/users/techprep


SISTERS Tech Prep Session 3

Hope you girlies had fun today! Let us know what you thought of today’s program….


goings on… April 2009

4/15:

WISE Academic Advising

Wang Center Zodiac Gallery

Campus Lifetime

4/19:

Admitted Students Day

Engineering Ball

4/23:

WISE Pizza Party for ALL admitted students

4/30:

WISE Annual Banquet


SISTERS Tech Prep Session 2

hey  chickies!!!

we had so much fun with you today!! this week we focused on networking and communications… check back in a little bit for some photos…

so ladies, what did you think of today? comments? questions? concerns? (let us know…)


a pretty wise chick: Taylor Coghlan

So I randomly decided to apply for the WISE program before coming to Stony Brook and I got in.  At first I was not really sure what it meant to be in this program, but I knew it would look good on my resume.  As a freshman WISE student you are required to attend 6 hours of mentoring in the fall and 4 hours in the spring.  At first I thought (kinder words) “what a drag” but honestly I enjoy going to mentoring.  Personally freshman year has been mostly about making friends and connections so by having mentoring I got to meet four other freshman WISE students and my upperclassman mentor Maria.  During the first week of mentoring Maria took us to the lab that she was doing research in and introduced us to some of the professors.  Mentoring is also great for getting …well almost all of your homeowrk done so you have more time to either study or relax.  Your mentoring groups are made regarding what classes you are taking so someone in your group is able to help if you don’t understand a topic.   This was sooo useful when having to complete Lucid quizes for chem 131 and 132.  The really cool part about mentoring is that if everyone doesn’t have much work to do as a mentoring group you can go do activities instead of spending the mentoring hours studying.  This is a great mental break from …well six straight weeks of studying for consecutive midterms.  We’ve gove to Wolfies(on campus dining),  Cold Stone, Cheesecake Factory, and we’ve had sleepovers.  These mentoring groups start really great study habits, which I had none, and you get great friends from it too.
Once you’re in WISE I do suggest a visit to the WISE office.  This place is one of the best resources ever.  Previous WISE students save their old reviews and midterms, so you’ll have great studying tools(much needed for 132).  Also the people inside are very helpful for just about any need.  Carrie-Ann and Doreen offer great recommendations and help you find internships, scholarships and research opportunities.
My favorite part about WISE, thus far, is the WSE 187 class you have to take your second semester.  Instead of taking an intro 102 class you get to take an intro to research labs.  This class has you inside of labs preforming experiments under the supervision of professors and graduate TA’s.  Most students at Stony Brook don’t get this opportunity until their junior year at Stony Brook, and this class happens in freshman year.   With this class I’ve taken intro to MATLAB, and preformed experiments with electrospinning.  In the electrospinning lab the tests my group ran were used as results for the experiments that the lab was conducting.
Just join WISE….it’s worth it!!!!! ( It’s far better than honors college! =P )