Fall 2021 orientation activities (under construction):
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| June 24 - Sep. 9 | Bootcamp faculty talks (online) Thursdays at noon throughout the summer |
| TBA | Campus-wide new graduate student orientation Multiple online sessions on different topics |
| Sep. 8-20 | Campus-wide new international graduate student orientation (part online, part in-person) Two sessions are mandatory for all new foreign graduate students; see detailed info on these sites (Overview/FAQ) (Schedule/registration) |
| Sep. 13-17 | BISB Boot Camp (online) Last year's links may be replaced, TBA. FA21 links (TBA): (GitHub) FA20 links (old): (Schedule) (GitHub) |
| TBA | Campus-wide new IA Teaching Sympoisum For BISB, usually applies to 2nd-3rd year students, not incoming students. Last year's links may be replaced, TBA. FA20 links (old): (Flyer) (Schedule/registration) |
| Jan 2022 | BISB Exchange Some years this is part of orientation, but it is tentatively scheduled for January 2022 instead. |
Fall 2019 orientation activities (last one pre-pandemic; keeping it up for now):
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| Sep. 10 | Campus-wide new graduate student orientation |
| Sep. 16-20 | BISB boot camp (schedule) in SSPPS 1160 |
| Sep. 19-20 | Campus-wide new international graduate student orientation |
| Sep. 23 | Bootcamp Challenge Ropes Course at UCSD Forest |
| Sep. 25 | Campus-wide new teaching assistant orientations by ASE and The Commons (for BISB, usually applies to 2nd-3rd year students, not incoming students) |
| Sep. 25 | BISB Exchange at Sanford Consortium, Roth Auditorium |
The week-long boot camp for incoming first-year students of the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Graduate Program aims to:
- Introduce new students to the Program, its faculty and students, the courses, and research opportunities.
- Foster student community and collaboration among students of the first year class, and to students in upper classes.
- Convey the bar for the core curriculum and key classes, as well as the research excitement and work ethic characteristic of the program's best students.
- Provide incoming students with an opportunity to remedy deficiencies prior to taking the core classes.
In addition to boot camp, new graduate students should also attend the Bioinformatics & Systems Biology Exchange, and various campus-wide orientations:
- New Graduate Student Orientation (mandatory for all new graduate students)
- International Student Orientation (mandatory for all new international students). Follow the link for information on registering and what to bring.
- TA orientation and training (mandatory for all new TAs; usually 2nd-3rd year for BISB students):
- In September, there are campus-wide teaching assistant orientations by ASE and The Commons, usually announced by email rather than a website link. Sometimes these are repeated other quarters. These are for students doing their first TAship that school year; other programs have TAships in the first year, but BISB students typically do their first TAship their 2nd-3rd year.
- Throughout the school year, The Commons has many workshops and other programs available for graduate student TAs.