What it Means to Be a ResGrad

The ResGrads are a specially selected group of AUR graduates and upperclassmen, chosen for their happy enthusiasm for Italy and its local lifestyle, foods and traditions.  Their goal is to help AUR students have fun the Italian way and on a student budget by offering inexpensive (if not free!) activities – “helping you feel at home in Rome!”

Students first meet the ResGrads at the airport, where they help meet and greet students arriving in Rome. Also during Arrivals week, they lead neighborhood tours for students in housing, as well as their popular “Rome Walk”, a practical tour showing students how to navigate Rome.  All their events offer the opportunity to meet other students.  Throughout the rest of the semester, they host events such as Beach Days, Cooking Lessons (free and with supper, of course!), English Movie Night, Language Exchange, Rome Walks, Rome Day Trips, DVD Night, Salsa Lessons, Aperitivo Night, and so on.  ResGrad events are advertised in MyAUR and in the ResGrads Facebook page as well as on the ResGrad and electronic bulletin boards on campus.

ResGrads are recent graduates and current students who have been in Rome for several years; their events are peer-based.  On occasion they’ll host a special cooking lesson that will offer students an informal environment where they can chat with their visiting Dean or Study Abroad Advisor.

You might also meet the ResGrads when they knock on your door to say, “Shhh! it’s after Italian quiet hours!”

To find out about their activities, join them on Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/pages/AUR-Res-Grads/125602090857485

or email them at resgrads@aur.edu

For the Fall 2011 and Spring 2012 semesters the AUR ResGrads are Nohea Reveley, Ajda Birgen and Edgar Barrales.