{"id":105265,"date":"2025-09-22T09:46:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/?p=105265"},"modified":"2025-09-22T09:46:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:46:23","slug":"gms-celebrates-fourth-annual-gear-up-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/2025\/09\/22\/gms-celebrates-fourth-annual-gear-up-week\/","title":{"rendered":"GMS Celebrates Fourth-Annual Gear-Up Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Community Catalyst Center&#8217;s fourth-annual Gear-Up Week brought students together for a week of connection, academic skill-building, creativity and more.<\/p>\n<p>Gear-Up Week, hosted this year from Sept. 8 to 12, offered four different activities and events throughout the week.<\/p>\n<p>The week began with\u00a0Community &amp; Belonging Office Hours, hosted by Dr. Karin Schon in the C3 Suite. The next day, students joined C3 in L-403 for the C3 Grad Lab, a night of painting, snacks, and swag pickup.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Dr. Aaron Young hosted his annual &#8220;Thriving, Not Just Surviving, in Graduate School&#8221; seminar, an academic development program that shared tips and tricks for managing the challenging coursework of graduate school.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the week concluded with a Fall Kick-Off Pizza Party on Talbot Green, where over 150 students, faculty &amp; staff enjoyed pizza, games, and more. Check out a full slideshow of the week&#8217;s fun below, and keep an eye on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/students\/gms-calendar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GMS calendar<\/a> for more upcoming events this semester.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bu-slideshow-container 2025-gear-up-week autoplay\" id=\"bu-slideshow-container-105299\" data-slideshow-name=\"2025-gear-up-week\" data-slideshow-delay=\"5000\" style=\"width: auto; \"><div class='slideshow-loader active'><div class='loader-animation'><\/div><p>loading slideshow...<\/p><\/div><div class=\"bu-slideshow-slides\"><ul class=\"bu-slideshow transition-slide\" id=\"bu-slideshow-105299\"><li id=\"bu-slideshow-105299_0\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/gms\/files\/2025\/09\/IMG_9237-636x477.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-105299_1\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img 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Gear-Up Week, hosted this year from Sept. 8 to 12, offered four different activities and events throughout the week. The week began with\u00a0Community &amp; Belonging Office Hours, hosted by Dr. Karin Schon in the C3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20706,"featured_media":105272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7173,1,795,54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105300,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105265\/revisions\/105300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}