Brick City, Brick Brick City

This weekend is Brick City Homecoming & Family Weekend at RIT, woooo! The event as a whole is a chance for students, alumni, and their families to spend time together, connect with RIT, and participate in some amazing events such as the Horton Distinguished Speaker Series (which this year brought in Michael J. Fox, what!), a big name comedic act (Kevin Hart), the homecoming hockey game downtown at the Blue Cross Arena, among others. There are also countless reunions and other events - to try to look through the full schedule of events practically takes hours (trust me - I tried). 

My Brick City itinerary kicked off yesterday with the the Faculty/Staff Alumni lunch. All faculty and staff from across campus who are also RIT alumni are invited to enjoy a tasty lunch, enter raffles, score some swag, get their picture taken with Ritchie, and see who wins a Golden Brick Award. The Golden Brick Awards, in their second year, are awarded to RIT Faculty/Staff Alumni whose engagement with RIT alumni has furthered the mission of the Development & Alumni Relations Division, as well as the mission of the University. So I didn't win one this year, but I doubt they award back-to-back Bricks - that's right, I won in 2010 (woo! -though I had to leave early to present at a high school class, so I never had my moment of glory :-(  ). Anyways, I didn't know a whole lot of people there but I did run into some newly-made friends from the College of Science, thanks to the retreat we had a few weeks ago. The food was fantastic and we all had a great time - especially getting our pictures taken!

Ritchie & I made the cover of Geek Weekly.

A bunch of us COS gals, exhibiting some model behavior in an attempt to further RIT & Alumni Relations' missions. *cough cough* 2012 Golden Bricks *cough*

We had a lot more pictures taken with a lot of funny poses, but they haven't been posted online. I'm hoping I can contact the photographer directly to get them... If so, you know I'll be posting them here!

Stay tuned, further updates of Brick City shenanigans are to come. Up next, the event we've all been waiting for: The RIT Presidents' Alumni Ball!