Freshman Orientation 2012
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Home of the Shamrocks
1997-2012
McGlinn Hall Mission Statement
We are the shamrocks, a community of friends, students, and leaders who come together to live, work, play, and serve, to better ourselves and inspire others in the spirit of Notre Dame. Through our activities, we seek to grow and develop a deeper sense of unity and tradition within McGlinn.
1) Check out our McGlinn Freshman Google Site!
2) Office of Residence Life and Housing's McGlinn Page, equipped with a gallery of McGlinn and its rooms!
3) Domer Dictionary, courtesy of O'Neill, our lovely brother dorm!
Meet Your McGlinn Hall
Frosh-O Staff!
This year's orientation coordinators are Mary Clare and Katie!
Frosh-O Coordinator
Name: Katie Puszka
Class of: 2014
Major: English and Psychology with an ESS minor (Education, Schooling, and Society)
Hometown: Buffalo Grove, IL
Section: 3B
Interests: I like taking long walks on the beach... Additionally I love sports, reading, traveling, running, learning new things, and meeting new people! I am also a passionate Notre Dame student and fan: GO IRISH!
Favorite ND Memory: I feel so lucky to be at Notre Dame because all of the time here has been extremely memorable and unforgettable, but I really enjoyed storming the field after a home football game. I will also never forget last year's McGlinn Dome Dance that we had in the Golden Dome after we won Frosh-O Girl's Dorm of the Year!
Find me… all the ND hot spots! Meet me in Geddes studying...it's going down. Meet me running around the lakes...it's going down. Meet me at the grotto...it's goin' down. Anywhere you meet me guaranteed it's going down! AKA come and find me if you ever want to talk!
Frosh-O Coordinator
Name: Mary Clare Houlihan
Class of: 2014
Major: Biochemistry and Spanish Supplemental
Hometown: Clarkston, MI
Section: 3B
Interests: Anything Irish! I studied abroad in Ireland this summer and am obsessed with everything Irish.
Favorite ND Memory: My favorite memories at Nd are hanging out with my roommates in my room after football games!
Find me…I will probably be hanging around my room or working in a lab.
Name: Katya Simon
Class of: 2015
Major: Chemistry
Hometown: Chicago, IL
Section: 1A
Interests: anything written by Agatha Christie, singing loudly at every opportunity, and baking banana bread
Favorite ND Memory: playing for Acousticafe with the ND Mariachi!
Find me… waiting in line at the Starbucks in LaFun
Name: Gabby Gonzales
Class of: 2015
Major: Biology
Hometown: Florence, KY
Section: 1A
Interests: playing piano, running, eating my mom's cookie dough, and getting sucked into an addicting book
Favorite ND Memory: playing a huge game of baseball on South Quad after dinner
Find me… running with the cross country and track teams or studying hard in CoMo
Name: Karen Lesiewicz
Class of: 2015
Major: Marketing
Hometown: Schaumburg, IL
Section: 4B
Interests: running! I also like Improv, Taylor Swift Songs, themed parties, and befriending!
Favorite ND Memory: going to mass on Library Quad at the beginning of the year, so many students came out and the weather was great; it really felt like I was part of the ND family.
Find me… at the JACC for cross country practice or at Reckers, spending those flex points :)
Name: Carlee Beckler
Class of: 2015
Major: Arts and Letters Pre-Professional & Undetermined Supplementary Major
Hometown: Burbank, CA
Section: 2A Potty Quad!
Interests: I love watching love blossom on the bachelor/bachelorette and in the wild. I eat mangoes and like to watch the national spelling bee. I'm on the rowing team so yes, "I'm on a boat" is my favorite song.
Favorite ND Memory: Winning the gold medal for soccer in Late Night Olympics, McGlinn's Dome Dance, winning the Big East Championship for rowing, any football weekend, and definitely Domerfest (best birthday party I've ever had. But really, it was my birthday. win.)
Find me… "quad sittin" outside south dining hall with friends when the weather is nice to scope out ND's finest men.
Name: Shelly Kim
Class of: 2014
Major: Program of Liberal Studies and Film
Hometown: San Diego, CA
Section: 3A
Interests: going on Facebook to look at someone else's really old pictures, eating my roommates' food
Favorite ND Memory: Reading to Father Hesburgh on the 13th floor of the library. He even gave me a cookie!
Find me… in my room, eating my roommates' food and looking at her really old Facebook pictures.
Name: Haley Johnson
Class of: 2015
Major: Business
Hometown: Potmac, MD
Section: 3B
Interests: interhall football ;) also baking cookies and blasting old boy band songs
Favorite ND Memory: coming together as a huge Irish family for football games and doing air pushups in the stadium!
Find me… "studying" on South Quad or frolicking in the McGlinn Fields
Name:Kaitlyn Keelin
Class of: 2014
Major: Science-Business
Hometown: Hoover, AL
Section: 2B
Interests: Dome Dancing the night away, working towards my goal of domesticating a Notre Dame squirrel, and dominating in McG athletics
Favorite ND Memory: Winning the flag football championship for McG in the stadium and going to McGlinn's first ever DOME DANCE last year
Find me… savoring the few sunny days we get in the Bend on McG fields
Name: Genevieve Crum
Class of: 2015
Major: Psychology Pre-Professional
Hometown: Louisville, KY
Section: 2B
Interests: Riding horses and equine veterinary medicine, watching Gilmore Girls, late night (or rather early morning) trips to Reckers, the tortellini in south dining hall, and impromptu jam sessions with my roommate (and anyone else who wants to join!)
Favorite ND Memory: There are so many to choose from but one of my favorite memories is going to my first ND football game as a student. I had grown up going to games with my dad, but being part of the student section was a totally different experience. I really felt like I was a part of something amazing.
Find me… running around the lakes or in the basement of CoMo studying organic chemistry ;)
Name: Allegis Snider
Class of: 2015
Major: Civil Engineering
Hometown: Moline, IL
Section: 2B!
Interests: quoting kids' TV shows and movies, dedicating my summers to the World Cup and the Olympics, and taking pictures with the performers who come to Legends
Favorite ND Memory: Muddy Sunday! Some girls from my section and I did the Rugby Run, and then made sure we were absolutely covered in mud by throwing it at each other and making mud angels.
Find me… studying at the cubicle in the 2B section lounge or in line for coffee at The Huddle or Waddick's
Name: Maggie Best
Class of: 2015
Major: Biomolecular Engineering
Hometown: Boulder, CO
Seciton: 4A
Interests: swimming, attempting to run, eating Chipotle as much as possible
Favorite ND Memory: I have way too many to count! But just a few are having front row football seats, rushing the court after the Syracuse game, and the first day in spring when it was warm enough not to wear a jacket.
Find me… studying/procrastinating in the elevator lounge or watching Gossip Girl and The Bachelor in the section lounge.
Name: Katie Hamel
Class of: 2015
Major: Anthropology & Spanish
Hometown: Mansfield, MA
Section: 2A
Interests: Irish dancing, writing novels, creating holidays, mourning the deaths of fictional characters, watching Doctor Who
Favorite ND Memory: McGlinn's Dome Dance
Find me… working or studying at LaFortune Student Center, hanging out in the section lounge, or Irish dance practice at Washington Hall
Name: Margaret Prakel
Class of: 2015
Major: Business Marketing
Hometown: Versailles, OH
Section: 2B
Interests: singing in the McG elevator, going to track meets, fashion design
Favorite ND Memory: when we sat on the quad on really nice days during Spring Semester and played music with friends and met all the passerbys who joined in!
Find me… playing piano in the McG chapel, running around campus, studying wherever is the loudest!
Name: Tara Crown
Class of: 2014
Major: Science Pre-Professional and Psychology
Hometown: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Section: 3A
Interests: Basketball, Catchphrase, and Resse's Pie
Favorite ND Memory: winning the interhall football championship for McGlinn last year.
Find me… McG Fields when it's nice, under my covers when it's not.
Name: Molly Visk
Class of: 2016
Major: Architecture
Hometown: Kennett Square, PA
Section: 4A
Interests: tennis, interpretive dancing, sampling chesse (my very favorite food), re-watching romantic comedies, sketching, and playing board games.
Favorite ND Memory: first football game in the student section!
Find me… bond hall (affectionately referred to as the only co-ed dorm on campus!!)
Name: Elizabeth Kellogg
Class of: 2014
Major: Film, Televison, and Theatre & American Studies
Hometown: St. Louis, MO
Section: 3A
Interests: Baraka Bouts, FTTostal, FRIENDS marathons, and people watching in LaFun
Favorite ND Memory: The very first time I saw the Dome as an ND student.
Find me… in Keough!
Name:Emma Collis
Class of: 2015
Major: Biology
Hometown: Fort Wayne, IN
Section: 2A
Interests: I enjoy searching for four leaf clovers and coloring in my Disney coloring books. I love to play soccer, and loved being on McG's flag football team, as well. Fun hats are a secret obsession of mine, and my favorite is a unicorn one complete with magical noises. I also love love love to cuddle, especially with babies.
Favorite ND Memory: hmm this one's a toughie! A couple of favorites are playing and winning the interhall flag football championship in the football stadium or meeting Father Hesburgh on the thirteenth floor of the library.
Find me… I can always be found in the near vicinity of either delicious food or a convenient napping location. Some of my favorite haunts include CoMo and the library as well as the McG lounges. I can also be found on McGlinn fields or at Stephan if it's time for some football or soccer!
Name:Sarah Ritter
Class of: 2015
Major: Electrical Engineering
Hometown: Cincinnati, OH
Section: 4B!!!
Interests: anything Notre Dame, CINCINNATI REDS BASEBALL!!!, and singing and dancing (badly) anytime, anywhere.
Favorite ND Memory: watching every single home football game from the front row and beasting it up on the bookstore basketball courts with my team "We Be Ballin'"!
Find me… at the Huddle standing in line for coffee or hanging around in McG.
Hall President: Madeline Gore
Class of: 2015
Major: Marketing Minors: Italian & Journalism
Hometown: Glade Park, CO
Section: 4A
Interests: plotting a way to get asked to the Yacht Dance and stalking members of the Undertones.
Favorite ND Memory: There's no way I could pick just one favorite memory, because there are so many that were just amazing. If I have to narrow it down, my top three would be 1) having front row tickets during football season 2) the freshman snowball fight at midnight after the first snow 3) rushing the court after the basketball team beat (then ranked) #1 Syracuse
Find me… at every football and basketball game, sneaking into the law library to study, grabbing a Starbucks in LaFun, hanging out on McGlinn Fields, or hosting Grey's Anatomy/Bachelor/Bachelorette watch parties in the section lounge.
Hall Vice President: Jen Cardinale
Class of: 2015
Major: Political Science Minor: ESS
Hometown: West Windsor, NJ
Section: 4A
Interests: Enjoying fresh baked cookies at South, participating in dance parties, singing Tswift songs...pom squad, hall council, and all things ND!
Favorite ND Memory: too many to choose just one! Definitely storming the court after the Syracuse game, my first home football game in the student section, and kickin it with friends on McGlinn fields on the first warm day of spring :)
Find me… at the dance studio in Rolfs or attempting to be productive in the section lounge
Hall Senate Rep: Ali Wellman
Class of: 2015
Major: Science Pre-Professional & Theology
Hometown: Bloomington, IL
Seciton: 4A :)
Interests: playing tennis, running, singing in McGlinn's hall choir, painting
Favorite ND Memory: I've had so many great memories at ND its hard to pick one! I would say that some of my favorites are decorating the section lounge for Halloween like a mad scientist's lab (I'll never forget that fork in the fake brain), singing the Alma Mater for the first time as a student at a soccer game, and Casino Night!
Find me… the student government office or trying not to burn my oatmeal in the microwave in the section lounge
Hall Secretary: Kate Kreienkamp
Class of: 2015
Major: Civil Engineering
Hometown: St. Louis, MO
Section: 4B
Interests: Harry Potter, reading, watching comedy tv, and Major League baseball (go Cards!)
Favorite ND Memory: Dressing up with friends as various parts of ND for the Halloween football game (I was the golden dome!) and spending a Saturday night sledding on one of the only hills we could find on the ND campus.
Find me… hanging out in McGlinn or in Stinson Remick working on an Engineering project
"May your thoughts be as glad as the shamrocks, may your heart be as light as a song, may each day bring you bright, happy hours that stay with you all the year long." ~Irish Blessing