New BICLC President: Rohit Ayyagari

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Rohit Ayyagari has been elected by the BIC Leadership Council as the 2015-2016 BICLC President. Rohit is a senior majoring in supply chain management and has been involved with BICLC since his freshman year. Congratulations to Rohit!

In addition, the following BIC students will serve as chairs of BICLC committees for 2015-2016:

Academic Committee: Rebecca Easley and Andres Umana

Alumni Committee: Rohit Ayyagari and Candace Woolverton

Events Committee: Daniel Chao and Kayla Murphy

QuickBIC and PR Committee: Ashanti Williams and Lee Shaw

BICLC is accepting applications for new members through Sunday, August 30. Apply here.

Welcome to New BICers

Fellow BICers,

Greetings and welcome to the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core! We are truly blessed to have another class of some of the most talented and intelligent students that Baylor has to offer join the program that we have come to love. The transition from high school to college, from your parents’ house to a dorm can be challenging. But when you joined the BIC, you joined a tightly woven community of motivated individuals who look out for and take care of each other. It will take some time for you all to meet your several hundred mentors here in the BIC program, but making your way through our cohort will be extremely worthwhile.

As the BIC Leadership Council, each of our four committees is dedicated to ensuring that the BIC is as strong and productive as possible. While the Events Committee, needless to say, plans activities that bring our cohort closer together, the Alumni Committee links BIC graduates with current students, delivering valuable insight. While the Academic Committee links BIC students to their professors (proving that they are normal people as well as geniuses), the QuickBIC helps connect BIC students to each other and to the larger world. Just as the BIC links disciplines of thought and study, as the BICLC we hope to encourage you to connect with each other.

If you are interested in any of our committees, we encourage you to apply and contribute. We are looking for driven, creative individuals who are excited about deriving the most from their BIC experience. Apply here.

To keep up with what’s happening in BIC throughout the year, be sure to follow us on Facebook.

We hope you enjoy your first year at Baylor and learn more than you thought possible in a single semester through BIC. Welcome to BIC, welcome to an examined life!

Best,

Your BIC Leadership Council

Welcome to the QuickBIC blog!

Hello BICers! How are you today? Caffeinated, I hope?

If you didn’t know already, the QuickBIC is now completely online. Sophomores and upperclassmen may recall that the QuickBIC used to be a paper newsletter that was distributed in large group every month.

Well, we have decided to leave the dark ages behind us and embrace this new thing called The Internet.

Moving the QuickBIC onto The Internet is a really great thing because now, you can read and re-read QuickBIC content whenever you want, wherever you want (as long as you’re near a computer or have a smart phone); you can sleep sound knowing you’re saving trees and being environmentally friendly (go green!); and you’re still getting to read top-quality editorial content. (Did I just flatter myself? Yes.)

In other words, don’t worry. This blog is not going to turn into a Tumblr filth hole of Kim Kardashian GIFs. Not under my watch.

If you’re not already, please follow the QuickBIC Facebook page. That way, you can instantly be notified when there’s a new post.

For freshman who aren’t really sure what this QuickBIC thing is, here’s a brief overview of what sort of content we put out:

  • Political columns – This is the BIC, so who would we even be if we didn’t stay plugged in to current events and talk about them.
  • Advice columns – Upperclassmen BICers have a lot of sage wisdom to offer.
  • Important BIC news – Get all the details on what BIC event is going on where. (But more importantly, know what free food is being provided.)
  • Humor columns – The  QuickBIC is all about that laughter.
  • Kim Kardashian GIFs – Just kidding.

Our content is 100% original, written by members of the BIC Leadership Council as well as the occasional outside contributor. If you wish to contribute an article, send a message to ada_zhang@baylor.edu to pitch an idea.

Last thing: give us a follow on Instagram (@quickbic) and double-tap our photos if you find them amusing.

Hope everyone’s midterm week is going swimmingly!

Godspeed.

 

(Author: Ada Zhang)