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Arjae Arco Villanueba, a biochemistry sophomore on campus the first Monday of classes at 6:36am.

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Q: Why are you here so early.

A: So one of the streamers I watch, they stream a little bit early, and so I wanted to get here early so I could catch the stream. Because if I'm getting ready and I arrive here exactly at 6:50, which is the time I need to be here to get to class at 7 o'clock, I'm getting ready, but they're also streaming. So I'm not catching the stream, but I wanna catch the stream. So I'm here super early, so I could catch the stream. So it's like that. Yeah. And also it's the 1st day because, you know, have some time to find new classes. Yeah. So that too.

Q: What are you looking forward to this semester?

A: Really cleaning up my act, really. These past few years, I've kind of been slipping. I don't think it's super representative of who I wanna be in the future. So I definitely wanna change that. Looking forward to that.

Q: What are you doing to change that?

A: Really just putting the time in. It's definitely in it's just putting the time in and definitely having integrity and really just putting the work
in.

Q: Why do you wanna change it?

A: The future's important and I'm a part of that future. And to manifest the future that I want, I can't really rely on other people to do it, and I have to be like that person to be there. And it's probably a better way to roll that out.

Q: What's the future you want?

A: A future where people could live a long life and people just live their lives as they wish without any restrictions. 

Freshman students file onto the field to create the iconic G logo for their class photo during the Freshman Welcome on the night before the first day of classes.

Gerry Cooke, program director of mentorship for the Seidman College of Business, pumps up the audience while processing with other faculty and staff members.

African Resource Center Of West Michigan student Isabelle Uwase, 12, uses a compass outside the Kindschi Hall of Science as part of a tour on June 19. 

Westin Essenburg, 12, smells the corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum) at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids on June 18. GVSU's corpse flower, lovingly named "The Beast," is a rare tropical plant that emits a rotting-flesh odor. It usually takes seven to 10 years for the huge, stinky bloom to appear.

Maurice Mason II, graduating in Business Administration, leaps and breaks out into a dance as his name was call during the African Student Programs Black Grad on Saturday, June 1, 2024, at UC Riverside. 

The dean gives remarks to a room full of bright-eyed, future lawyers at these law students' orientation.

First year law students attend orientation - officially beginning their law school journey. A few remarks from a student speaker had the 1Ls starting the big day with laughter and smiles.

Student carefully works to remove the Jenga brick as an audience of her friends watch with bated breath. 

Students play Connect 4 at Midnight BBQ as part of the semester's welcome week festivities.