Wick Weekend
August 22, 23, 24, 2025
Your journey on the Hill begins with Wick Weekend – three days of fun, food, new friends, and favorite traditions. This welcome celebration is designed to help you feel at home, right here at Hartwick College.
New Friends
Move-In Day! Decorate your shared space and say hi to your neighbors. But don’t worry about having to lug a refrigerator or heavy suitcase up the stairs – student volunteers are ready to get you settled in.
Commuting from home this year? We want campus to be your home away from home. Every student activity, every fun event, every special meal and pop-up food event, every Hartwick resource is open to you. You’ll see, starting with Wick Weekend.
Whether you’re a First-Year or Transfer student, a campus resident or a commuter, Wick Weekend gives you lots of chances to meet your classmates and make friends. Grab something tasty in the Commons, play games in Stack Lounge, win prizes in activities across campus. This gorgeous campus is all yours. Make yourself comfortable.
Here to Help
There are lots of people here ready to answer your questions. Your Flight Crew and Resident Assistants remember when they were new at Hartwick, too, and want to help you get comfortable.
Your first days on campus will bring connections, including your Faculty Advisor of your individual Guidance Team. You’ll join workshops on Diversity Equity, Inclusion and Belonging, Academic Preparedness, Campus Life, and Wellness. You’ll experience opportunities and interactions with peers and professionals, which will help you launch your personal FlightPath. By the time you and your classmates arrive at the overlook on Founders’ Way, you’ll feel at home on this Hill.
There are so many great and time-honored traditions that come with being part of the Hartwick community: Matriculation and Opening Convocation, your first formal ceremony as a Hartwick student. After you join in for your class photo, you'll pick up your class shirt. You might even snag that coveted spot next to our mascot, Swoop!
Welcome and Move-In Day 2024
Traditions
The weekend caps off with opportunities to make your mark in Hartwick’s history. Meet with President Mullen, sign your name in the College’s cherished Matriculation Book filled with the names of decades of new students, then take an evening candlelit First Walk up Founders’ Way.
Classes begin the next morning, but during Wick Weekend, your only assignment is to relax, have fun, and begin where you belong!
Event Highlights - 2024
Founders' Way First Walk
Walk in the footsteps of the Founders of Hartwick College. Each class walks the Founders Way, a path through the heart of the Hartwick Campus that was dedicated during True Blue Weekend in 2017.
First Walk - 2024
Opening Convocation
The time-honored ceremony marks the official start of the academic year.
Full Schedule of Events Coming Soon!
Questions?
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