Each year, Lehigh hosts what they call Diversity Life Weekend–a celebration of different cultures, heritages, and unity despite differences and each year, a group of newly-admitted soon-to-be-freshmen students are invited. There’s all sorts of crazy events like Breakfast Bingo (which I won a sweatshirt at! Oh yeah!!!) as well as plenty of opportunities for the visiting students to see the campus and learn more about Lehigh. Oh, and there’s Spectacular! Spectacular!, Lehigh’s talent show. Which was awesome. Dance teams, step teams, musicians, skill performers, and more–all Lehigh students–competed on stage in the gymnasium. I’m not sure if there are any pictures up yet, but here’s the Facebook page for D-Life.
Last year, I got to go–Lehigh even paid for my flights since I live in Kentucky–so I thought it’d be pretty cool to host a student this year. Actually, both me and my roommate did–our little dorm room was pretty packed! Our visiting students seemed to have a lot of fun, though. Oh, and we even played a few rounds of Xbox! (I was totally rockin’ the Rock Band drum set, by the way.)
On a parting note, if you don’t know what a laser harp is, I suggest you check it out. I know, totally off-topic, but I got the idea of building one while we were working with photoresistors in Engineering 10 class. Looks like I have another project for the summer.
And finally, the Star Wars theme played on Arduino: (I even got extra credit for programming it!)
First-Year Lehigh Engineers 