Finals Challenge 2020
Get ready for finals and enter to win a prize!
For the end of the semester, AOK Library has put together a Finals Challenge!
From now through December 15, do
five of the activities listed below and take a picture--either while you complete it or of your finished product. Post the photos on social media and tag the library (on
Facebook,
Twitter, or
Instagram). You can post all of them together or separately--just make sure they’re posted by the end of the day on December 15th and that we’re tagged in all of them.
If you do more than five activities, you’ll get an extra entry in the prize drawing for a gift from the bookstore! Winners will be announced December 16.
Challenge activities:
- Take part in a RAC streaming wellness class
- Attend a virtual performance or exhibit (some UMBC options: music and Arts at UMBC)
- Organize your study space or organize your class materials
- Make a finals study plan- how do you plan to organize your study time? Don’t forget to include short breaks :)
- Share a study tip for fellow Retrievers
- Do a coloring page--if you don’t have one, try our Special Collections coloring book
- Share a photo of your favorite UMBC spot
- Take a nature break
- Make a list of things you’re thankful for this year
- Review your class notes one module at a time and write a brief summary of each
- Create some study flashcards and quiz yourself
- Clear your head and go on a walk
If you have any questions, please ask. Good luck!
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Retriever Essentials Update!
Hello everyone!
First of all, we hope you all had a wonderful and safe holiday. Secondly, Retriever Essentials currently has a lot of things going on, and we wanted to share with you!
As you may know, Giving Day is tomorrow, December 1st. Because of our Home for the Holidays Food Drive being such a success, we are low on a lot on a lot of items, including the following:
Toiletries (soap, toothpaste, and deodorant)
Soups (especially vegan and vegetarian soups)
Baby items (formula, diapers, baby food, soap, and lotion)
Feminine health products
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Condoms
If you would like to donate to our pantry, items can be dropped off at our 24 hour Campus Police Station or donated contactlessly via our Amazon Wishlist. If using the Amazon wishlist, use the following address and contact information:
Deveraux Smith
Retriever Essentials
Sherman Hall 205
University of Maryland Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
Delivery Instructions: This is not College Park. Please deliver to UMBC (on campus). If you have trouble finding the building, please get in touch with 202-704 7840!
The Stay Black and Gold Fund also gives aid to the students of UMBC. Please consider donating to this fund as it helps provide financial support for things such as food, transportation, off-campus rent, medical care, child care, and utilities.
Lastly, we would like to invite you to our Community Dinner on Thursday, December 3rd at 7 PM via Google Meet. We are so thankful for all of the donors and donations who made our food drive possible.
Wishing you all a safe and great end of the semester,
Retriever Essentials
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A Special Thank You!
Retriever Essentials wants to give a big thank you to some special people that played a huge role in Home for the Holiday's success.
To our volunteers Fariha, Nyla, Sabrina, and Rebecca, thank you so much for helping get our Thanksgiving bags all together and ready to be given out.
A shoutout to The Chapter of Young Alumni, who raised a total of $813 for our food drive. We are so thankful for their gracious contribution.
And last, but certainly not least, a big thank you to our donors. We appreciate everyone who donated items for our food drive.
Please join us in celebration of the holidays and in the spirit of (virtual) togetherness for our
Home for the Holidays Community Dinner. This event will take place on Google Meet on December 3rd at 7 PM.
by Meghan Lynch '18, M.P.P. '21
Chair, Legislative Concerns, Graduate Student Association
On the day after Election Day, I felt exhausted. I had followed the election closely and participated actively in what had felt like the longest campaign season I had experienced. I struggled to process all that was happening:the messiness of democracy playing out on a 24-hour news cycle, on top of the long overdue reckoning on racial justice and the global pandemic.
But what struck me most about that anything-but-ordinary Wednesday morning was a conversation I had with my neighbor about the events of the night before. For her, it had been like any other night, but with her favorite TV programming replaced election results coverage. I asked her what she thought of all of it, and she noted that while she had gone out to vote the day before, it had been no big deal: “the sun was still going to rise the next morning.” Life would go on.
Initially I was impressed by her untroubled perspective. But in the days since, I’ve been thinking about her remark and the other versions of it I have heard from friends, neighbors, and loved ones. What strikes me is that they share the assumption that politics--or at least the need for them to participate--begins and ends on Election Day. I think that perspective misses both our power and our responsibility between elections.
Voting is not and has never been enough. Is there an area in your neighborhood that could use a stop sign? Do you need a sidewalk to connect your community to the next one over? A thriving democracy takes time, commitment, and perseverance. I keep thinking of the work of a local group of Baltimore residents who over the years organized to prevent CSX trains from carrying volatile crude oil through their backyards. It was because they connected with their community members, organized, and pulled together that they were able to work with local government to bring about change/advocate for the safety of their community.
There is still a lot to process after the election and the coming weeks will be difficult. But if you need a reminder that the work is not over, let this be it. Our duty as members of a community and as participants in a democracy is to keep working to bring about the changes we want to see.
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