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STUDENT LIFE

The Bronx Experience The New Rochelle Experience Residence Life and Campus Shuttles Clubs and Activities I’m First! Program

WHY MONROE?

Meet Monroe 360° Support Real World Learning We are Affordable Career Services for Life

FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE

Summer Slam August Bridge Semester Mentors Events Commit to Complete

FIND YOUR PROGRAM

Accounting and Business Criminal Justice and Human Services Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management Cyber Security and Information Technologies Education Health Care Nursing Jumpstart Program

ATHLETICS

Division I Mustangs Division III Express eSports
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Summer Slam

Summer Slam is Monroe’s unique orientation program, filled with games and team-building activities designed to get you settled into your new home. You’ll bond with the people who will go on to become your best friends and your biggest cheerleaders.

Summer Slam is the very first step of your First Year Experience, giving you the tools to hit the ground running on the very first day of class. And it works: students who participate in Summer Slam have the highest graduation rates at Monroe.

We created Summer Slam because we want you to start strong... so you can finish even stronger.

The best part of Summer Slam is watching students check in in the morning shy, nervous, not knowing anyone. And by the afternoon everyone is like a big Monroe family.

It's just been a great day, a wonderful occasion for the students to get to know each other, to get to know their mentors, to do some team building.

My favorite product today was being a group of people I didn't know that we got to meet each other. And you learn about other people, and you experience something new so.

And what I like about this exercise is the trust building exercise, actually. I was able to meet some people that I don't know about and then over time when we're doing this exercises, I got to trust them that way and get to know them better in the process.

My favorite activity was the team wall.

And my favorite part of Summer Slamwas getting to meet all the new students that we're going to be working with me for the first year. I am looking forward to it, and I am excited about it.

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