Throughout this past year I've been pretty grateful for social networking sites, like Facebook, that have kept me in contact with my friends. However, at times, I've been even more grateful for UPeers - a Mizzou sponsored networking site.
Once you've been accepted to MU you're encouraged to register on the site. You can make friends, start and participate in discussions, and write on each other's "walls". Because choosing schools can be very overwhelming I found this site was very helpful in asking questions and hearing the responses of my peers. There are a few upperclassmen on UPeers who are also available to answers questions about Sorority/Fraternity rushing, residence hall choice, and other common areas of interest.
As more and more students joined UPeers the discussion topics became broader and broader. As I mentioned in my previous post, I am going to Mizzou not knowing many people. As I suspected there were many others who would be flying solo next year. Eventually a boy named David came up with the great idea to have a Chicago Area Meet-Up for all the kids from the Chicago area that were headed to Mizzou. This was a great experience, and while there were only six of us we really got to know each other. I took the train in with Maggie and Caitlin, my two Rockford peers, and we met up with everyone else at Millennium Park. After enjoying lunch at Bennigans we walked to Grant Park, and from there to Navy Pier.
Since it was such a close-knit group we were really able to get to know each other. I met Pelumi who was rooming a floor below me, as well as David, who was hilarious. It turned out that Lisa, from Elgin, knew some people us Rockfordians knew so we chatted about that. I walked away from the experience feeling like I already had made friends and would recognize some faces this coming fall!
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