Graduating from college is exciting and shows how hard you worked through dedication to earn that diploma. Some of you may be earning Bachelor or Master Degree. Regardless of the diploma, it took you countless hours of cracking open those textbooks and studying. Most of you even studied the night before or the day of the exam. Extracurricular activities and a high GPA are needed in tough economic times. You worked hard and diligently and put up with whatever your professor dished out. Education, challenge, commitment, perseverance and teamwork are the formula for success and graduation is about acknowledging that achievement and rewarding you for it.
On November 4th (Thursday), the school had held a senior year celebration. Although all students were welcome to attend, the event was more geared towards seniors. The purpose of the event was to prepare students for graduation day and post graduation and at the same time make it entertaining. Food was also served such as Italian heroes, vegetable heroes, chips, soda, water bottles and candy. The event was sponsored by Career Services, Golden Key, Kaplan, NYIT Food Services, Housing & Residential Life, Dean Marcia Singer, Brooks Brothers, Island Photography, Mary Kay, Advising & Enrichment Center, Arborne, Heroff Jones, Dean Michael Burnett, Office of Alumni Relations, Coca Cola, Office of Campus Life, and Special Events & Hospitality.
There were many tables arranged with important information ranging from various topics. For each table that was visited, each student was presented with a ticket by a representative. The ticket would be filled out with the person's name and address. Half of the ticket would be ripped off and dropped into a raffle box. Obviously, the chances of winning a prize increased when more tickets were placed in the box.
At the tables, a representative was encouraging senior students to purchase a college ring. It is considered to be the second most important jewelry purchase you will ever make in your life. For some, a college ring shows your level of accomplishment and commitment you had in college. Each ring is personalized and custom tailored to your preference. It's a reflection of you, your hobbies and your friends and has sentimental value. Each ring comes with true base alignment, premium quality, high reflection gemstone, hand polished, deeply carved custom designed, expansive design area, fine line engraving and electrolytic deposit finish highlights for long lasting luster. The women rings consisted of different styles such as heritage, signature, Cortina, Olympia, viscount, signet, dynasty 2, lady renaissance, miniature, century, lady infinity and lady liberty. Some of the designs on the man's ring had the same names except it also included traditional, collegiate, renaissance, collegiate, classic, omega, orion, sovereign, ovation, liberty, challenger and infinity. The ring itself can be made out of yellow gold, white gold, white ultrium, natural finish or antique finish. There is also a choice of having curriculum sides, sculptured palm side and/or name engraved. On the base you can have a metal, greek, polaris, luster, celestial, freedom star panel, crown or royal setting. The genuine gemstones assorted from black onyx, cats eye, tiger eye, mother of pearl, jade, opal, blue lapis, azalea pink, cornflower blue, shell white and honey black sapphire. They had stones such as encrusted, sunburst, imperial, smooth, diamond and galaxy. The Cubic Zirconia and birthstone point sizes go from 2 pts to 33 pts. The rings are made exquisite and have a lifetime warranty on defects and resizing.
The representative at the next table was focusing on Job Choices in 2011 for Business and Liberal Arts students, discussing the rights and responsibilities job seekers have; such as confidentiality, freedom of choice, access to all services and events, access to career information and testing information.
They had tables that would give information about signing up for football, selling perfumes and much more. The raffle prizes were a Netbook Computer, 50% discount Kaplan GME, GMAT, MCAT, LSAT course, gift certificate for commencement regalia, Mary Kay gift certificate & product bag, island photography NYIT portrait package, Arbonne certificate & product package, four (4) extra commencement tickets with VIP parking pass, DVD combo package/commencement & school commencement, NYIT tee shirts, Office of Career Services gift bag and much more.
During the event, they had music being played by the WNYT radio station and the NYIT bear walking around. The sorority group, Zeta Phi Beta, performed a very talented dance towards the end of the occasion.
To all the seniors at NYIT, congratulations on your awesome achievement and may you be prosperous and intelligent in your career search and all your future endeavors!
Alumni are always welcome back with open arms.
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