In the Press!

The JHU Outdoor Summer Film Series was just featured in a summer events write-up in the Baltimore Sun. Click here to read more!

Film Series!

We had our first film series night last Friday. Local folk/indie band Man&Dog played, and at sunset we watched The Addams Family. It was a beautiful night, and a great way to celebrate the start of summer as well as the newly re-opened Gilman Hall.

This Friday is kids night. Magicians and balloon artists will stroll through the crowds as Dean John Bader's a capella group, The Tone Rangers, entertain. The featured movie is "Up."

See you on the lawn!

Meet Your RA's!

Today is OFFICIALLY summer, and the 2010 JHU Summer RA's are all on campus now! They're busy planning fun weekend trips, dinners at cool Baltimore restaurants and other activities on and around campus.

Visit this site to read RA bios. If you notice you have something in common with an RA, don't be shy at orientation- go up and say hello!

See you in two weeks!

Q&A

Q: What is the schedule for the mandatory weekend activities?

A: We've been getting lots of calls about the activity schedule for this summer. The trip locations are previously mentioned but we forgot to include the dates. They are listed below.

July 10- Baltimore's Inner Harbor
July 17- Hershey Park (Hershey, PA)
July 24- Washington D.C.
July 31- Gunpowder Falls Park

Time Flies...

We can't believe summer is almost here! We've been working hard in the Summer Programs office to make sure your time here is the best it can be. We've posted the orientation information on our site, are gearing up for RA training, and just got our final version of the outdoor film series poster!

We'll send an email to remind you, but please don't forget to carefully read the orientation information- it answers a lot of important questions and directs you to our BWI shuttle site. If you haven't done so already, be sure to get your medical/personal information/agreement forms back to us.

Also, keep an eye on your mailbox over the next few weeks... we're sending out a welcome gift to all our enrolled students.

See you soon!

Sneak Peek

Take a peek into Dr. Andrew Ketchum's Intro to Biological Molecules lab. To learn more about the course or to download a syllabus please visit this link.

Q&A

Here at Hopkins, we do our best to help. Whether it's explaining the pre-college admissions process over the phone or helping your luggage onto the BWI shuttle on move-out day, we work hard to be a solid support system for you. We get all kinds of questions every day, and this new Q&A section will serve as a place to to ask for guidance, voice your concerns or just check in to see what your peers are saying. For our first post, we sent a very popular question over to Erin in Residential Life.

Q: "I'm not sure which program is right for me...Discover Hopkins or Summer University. What are the differences in the experience and pros and cons of both? "

A: As a Discover Hopkins Resident Advisor, I can give a lot of insight to this question.

Although both programs are academically oriented, fall under the umbrella term “Pre-College,” and interact with each other on a daily basis, there are important distinctions that may determine which program you choose.

Duration: SU: Summer University lasts for five weeks. DH: Discover Hopkins has two sessions each lasting two weeks.

Age: SU: Is open to students turning16 by June 1st. DH: is open to students turning 15 by June 1st.

Housing: SU: Summer University students will spend their five weeks in Buildings A and B, suite-style dorms. Each suite contains two double rooms and one bathroom and are separated by gender. DH: Discover Hopkins students reside in AMR II, community-style dorms. Each floor of the dorms is divided into gender, and each floor shares a community bathroom. Each room on the floor is a double.

Food: Both Summer University and Discover Hopkins students dine at FFC- the Fresh Food Café- where they will have a meal plan.
Academics: SU: Summer University students take 2-3 classes over a five-week period. These classes are taken with current Hopkins undergraduates, and are thus at a higher level. Class times vary day-to-day and tend to be more spaced out. DH: Each Discover Hopkins student takes one class during their one or two week session. These classes are exclusively for Discover Hopkins students and resemble college “freshman seminars.” Discover Hopkins classes typically last from 9/9:30 am to 4/4:30 pm, Monday-Friday

Class trips: SU: Class trips for Summer University students, because their classes are also those of Hopkins undergraduates, are not guaranteed and are left to the discretion of professors. DH: Discover Hopkins courses begin each day with lectures and typically end with a guest speaker, field trip or class activity. Potential 2010 trips include The Johns Hopkins Medical Center, Sheppard Pratt, the Babe Ruth Museum, the BGE Incinerator, Washington, DC, a local yoga studio, and various Baltimore "field study" locations.

Large-scale programs: Both Summer University and Discover Hopkins students go on mandatory, large-scale weekend programs. Summer University students attend all weekend trips, while Discover Hopkins students attend the weekend trip that occur during their session. Weekend trips this summer will included Hershey Park, the Baltimore Artscape Festival, Orioles Games, and Washington, D.C. Also, each Friday night the lower quad is transformed into an outdoor movie theater- live music plays at 7:30 and the films begin at dark. Visit the film series site to see the 2010 line-up.

Please feel free to post any further questions you may have regarding this matter.