{"id":140718,"date":"2023-08-23T15:44:16","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T19:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=140718"},"modified":"2023-08-23T15:44:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T19:44:16","slug":"home-sweet-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2023\/08\/23\/home-sweet-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Home sweet home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Over 200 Wright State University staff, faculty and student volunteers welcomed new and returning residential students to the Dayton Campus during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/residence-life-and-housing\/operation-move-in\">Operation Move-In<\/a> on Aug. 23\u201324.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited about meeting all of the new people,\u201d said Noah Mansfield, a first-year student majoring in finance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>More students plan to live in residential housing this year, with over 2,000 students moving into campus apartments and residence halls, said Jennifer Attenweiler, director of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/residence-life-and-housing\">Residence Life and Housing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>New and returning students moved their belongings into residential housing on Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 23 and 24. Apartment residents will move in on Saturday, Aug. 26.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>On Friday, Aug. 25, Wright State also kicks off First Weekend activities, 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. 28.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>First Weekend activities include the Party at Barty, Student Organization Expo, Movie Night, Mud Volleyball, Student Union After Dark and much more. A complete list of First Weekend activities is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/wright.edu\/firstweekend\">wright.edu\/firstweekend<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\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<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 200 Wright State University staff, faculty and student volunteers welcomed new and returning residential students to the Dayton Campus during Operation Move-In. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2023\/08\/23\/home-sweet-home\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":140721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[733,729,725,727,715,4296,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","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\/140718","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=140718"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140741,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140718\/revisions\/140741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}