{"id":128266,"date":"2022-08-18T11:00:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=128266"},"modified":"2022-08-18T11:01:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T15:01:31","slug":"feels-like-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2022\/08\/18\/feels-like-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Feels like home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Around 100 Wright State University staff, faculty and student volunteers welcomed new and returning residential students to the Dayton Campus during\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/residence-life-and-housing\/operation-move-in\">Operation Move-In<\/a>\u00a0on Aug. 17\u201320.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI\u2019m excited to meet new people and learn new things,\u201d said Daniel Crockett, a first-year student majoring in management.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">More students plan to live in residential housing this year, with 665 moving into campus apartments and over 900 moving into residence halls, said Jennifer Attenweiler, associate director of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/residence-life-and-housing\">Residence Life and Housing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">New and returning students moved their belongings into residential housing on Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 17 and 18. Apartment residents will move in on Saturday, Aug. 20.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI visited a couple of colleges, but Wright State just felt like home to me,\u201d said Arianna Thomas, a first-year student majoring in nursing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wright State also kicks off First Weekend activities on Friday, Aug. 19, which are designed to acclimate first-year and transfer students to campus and get acquainted with each other before the Fall Semester begins on Monday, Aug. 22.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">First Weekend activities will include the Party in the Woods, Do the U, Movie Night, Mud Volleyball, Student Union After Dark and much more. A full list of First Weekend activities is available at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wright.edu\/firstweekend\">wright.edu\/firstweekend<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe are excited to have students here and we\u2019re excited for a great year, and this is kind of the kickoff for that,\u201d said Attenweiler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 100 Wright State staff, faculty and student volunteers welcomed new and returning residential students to the Dayton Campus during\u00a0Operation Move-In. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2022\/08\/18\/feels-like-home\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":128270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,725,727,715,4296,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-news","category-residence-life-housing","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128266"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128286,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128266\/revisions\/128286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}