1. General Body Meeting 9/18 Please sign in!

2.  President: Farrah Alkhaleel  Vice President: Amanda Chin  Budget Manager: Diana Blidarescu  Fundraising Chair: Palmila Liu  Secretary: Rebecca Trillo  Public Relations Chair: Jordyn Tumas  Community Service Chair: Carly Sokach  Graduate School/ Professional Liason: Kelly Eberle  Webmaster: Jennifer Liu

3.  Provide information and opportunities pertaining to graduate schools, med schools, careers in the biomedical field  Bring together a diverse group of women  Promote high academic achievement in science  Serve as positive mentors to young girls in the community  Engage in science-related educational activities

4.  1. Go to office hours

5.  2. Shop your recitations/TAs

6.  3. Make a friend

7.  4. Don’t miss class

8.  5. Do the practice exams

9.  6. Use Penn Course Review

10.  7. Use the Tutoring Center/ workshops

11.  8. Don’t fall asleep in class

12.  9. Balance your schedule

13.  10. Use PWBS Study Buddies for group studying

14.  Split into groups of 4.  Each person will get an index card with instructions. ◦ Make sure to follow the instructions and don’t let your other group members know what they are.  You have 5 mins to create the tallest structure with the materials given.

15.  Sunday October 6 th ◦ 9:30am- 12pm: cheering station ◦ 12pm-2pm: closing ceremonies ◦ 2pm-4pm: closing ceremonies ◦ Think PINK! ◦ Signs Posters/Decorations ◦ Please include all requested info on the spreadsheet  Opportunity to help those suffering from breast cancer

16.  Opportunity to get more involved with PWBS  Potential Opportunities: ◦ Fundraising Associates ◦ Community Service Associates ◦ Event Coordinators ◦ Marketing Associates  Committee members required to attend 2 to 3 of GBM’s and PWBS sponsored events  APPLICATIONS DUE: Fri Sept 20th at 11:59PM

17.  Make sure to sign up!  Study Buddies- find members in your classes to help each other study.  Sisters in Science- get an upperclassmen to mentor you about classes, advice, etc.

18.  No GBM next week! ◦ Study hard!  Wednesday, October 2 nd @ 7:30pm ◦ Research ◦ Princeton Review ◦ CURF- Dr. Wallace Genser Speaker ◦ Grad/Med school preparation books

19.  Website: http://www.dolphin.upenn.edu/pwbs http://www.dolphin.upenn.edu/pwbs  Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn  Weekly Listserv Newsletter  Any questions? Email Farrah at farraha@sas.upenn.edu