![]() ![]() I decided to work within Welcome Week because I felt like I missed out on so much from holding back.” Kat Facchini talks to her colleagues during an NYDM meeting. I was shy and I didn’t put myself out there right away. “All of my friends were across the country and I was very nervous about starting college. “I moved into NYU on my 19th birthday and I was actually pretty pissed about it,” Facchini told WSN. While the yearly campus-wide engagement of over 500 activities and programs for the thousands of firstyears is her happy place, her own Welcome Week in 2015 was quite the opposite. It may only take up a small percentage of her 365-day calendar - her schedule is more overwhelming than her resume - but it’s truly her time to shine. In a few short semesters, Facchini would rise to the top of student life at NYU to become the chair of Welcome Week and experience director for the New York Dance Marathon, executive board member for Alpha Sigma Tau and the Gallatin Student Council, producer for the Gallatin Mental Health Arts Festival and an employee at NYU’s Office of Sustainability.įacchini may not cry out about her love for event planning, but every Welcome Week gives her the chance to personalize every first-year’s experience, which is where her true passion lies. I probably won’t go anyway.”įour years later, the Gallatin senior is more grateful than ever for the sudden surge in connection that night so she could attend the school that would shape her in countless ways. She thought to herself, “I guess I just won’t apply then. The Facchini Matriarch’s house was notorious for its spotty WiFi and Kat grew more and more weary of missing the midnight submission time. The high school senior was visiting her grandmother, just hours before the regular decision deadline to apply to NYU. ![]() It was an oddly warm New Year’s Eve in Metuchen, New Jersey for Kat Facchini in 2014. ![]()
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