A Monthly Guide to Your Students' Williams Experience

• Commencement! (We begin at the end.)
• New Students:
  • Receive a welcome message at their high school email address from Dean of First-Year Students Christina Walsh explaining how to...
    • Sign up for their Williams email account (a must for receiving all subsequent Williams communications).
    • Complete and submit medical forms, health insurance, and dorm room preferences.
    • Pay bills.
    • Sign up for EphVentures.
    • Connect with academic advisors.
    • Pre-register for classes.
    • ...and other essentials to prepare for Williams.
  • Weekly updates will guide them through all of this. 
  • New families receive their own welcome message from Dean Walsh reviewing the first-year experience and various ways families can support their students as they settle into Williams.
  • All families can learn much more about everything above on this website, by joining the families' Facebook group, subscribing to various campus newsletters, familiarizing themselves with Williams terminology, reading a book or two, and/or getting involved.
• Returning students (many of whom may spend their summer on campus, engaged with research projects) confirm the dates they're allowed to return to campus for the fall semester. 

• Fall classes begin.
• First-Years settle in, make early contact with the career center.
• Seniors attend Convocation and begin looking forward to Commencement

• Sign-ups for Thanksgiving Motorcoach transportation.
• Midterms. (Not to worry.)
• Mountain Day!
• Friends and Family Weekend

• Final exam schedule posted: a great time to finalize Winter Break travel.
• Thanksgiving Break: a great time for conversations and not a problem for students who choose to remain on campus for this short break.

• Last push before Winter Break! (Students may apply to remain on campus if absolutely necessary.)
• Spring term bill due soon.

• Winter Study: How to encourage your student to make the most of it.
• “Dead Week”: A weird name for the few days between the end of Winter Study and the start of Spring Semester. Some students travel off campus, many stay and relax.

• Spring classes begin!
• Sophomores prepare to declare their major.
• Claiming Williams
• Winter Carnival

Miderms.

Spring Break!

Getting ready for Commencement.

Final Exams!