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October 25, 2022

Your guide to wellness programs and events, recreational opportunities and highlights, timely educational wellness information and service offerings throughout the academic year.

What's Happening in Wellness?

Party PAWS Hallo-weekend

Are you planning on dressing up and going out to celebrate Halloween? Remember to take a Party PAWS and practice these tips:

  • Keep Track. Count your drinks. Find a way that works for you: text yourself every time you have a drink, or check-in with a friend when ordering another drink.
  • Eat. Don’t drink on an empty stomach. Eat something before or during alcohol consumption.
  • Pace and Space. Pace yourself and sip slowly. Have no more than one standard drink (12 oz. beer, 1.5 oz. hard liquor at 80 proof, 5 oz. wine) with alcohol per hour.
  • Know your “No, thank you”. People may want to buy you drinks when you are out, but sometimes you may have already had enough. Have a polite, convincing “No, thanks” ready.

If things get too spooky you should always call for help. The Good Samaritan Protocol is designed to provide education rather than discipline when a student voluntarily contacts university personnel (e.g., Public Safety, Resident Advisor) or outside emergency services for medical assistance related to alcohol or other drugs.

Learn more about Party PAWS

Pack Your Own Play It Safe Kit

Oct. 31-Nov. 4 | 12:30-2:30 p.m. | Health Promotion Suite (Campus Center, 1760)

Need safer sex supplies? Stop by the Health Promotion Suite to pack your own personalized Play It Safe Kit next week! Supplies include:

  • Internal Condoms (AKA Female Condoms)
  • External Condoms (AKA Male Condoms)
  • Lubricant
  • Dental Dams (flavored)
  • Finger Cots

Can’t make it to Pack Your Own Play It Safe Kit? Place your order online! 

Perks of Playing It Safe:

  • Personalize your supply order
  • Select a pick-up location that is best for you
  • No limit on number of orders during the semester
  • Discrete packaging at pick-up
Place your Play It Safe order
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Each week, we are sharing a financial wellness tip to help you make the connection between financial management decisions, your overall wellness, and student success. Money touches every aspect of our lives, and a lack of financial literacy can cause unnecessary stress and negatively impact one’s mental and physical health.

Credit: What is it and how is it established?
In the simplest terms, credit is the amount of money you can borrow. Once you borrow money, it becomes your debt.

So why would you want to build credit? By taking on debt and paying it off in a timely manner, you are showing lenders that you are responsible with money and can be trusted to handle more money in the future. Once you have credit/debt, you are given a credit score, which is essentially a report card for how you handle your money. Credit scores are often reviewed by vendors when you apply for a credit card, buy a car, rent an apartment, and sometimes by employers when you apply for a job. If you have no credit or a low credit score, you might want to build a credit history in college.

Here are a couple of easy ways to start building your credi:

  • Get a secured credit card - A secured credit card requires you to make a cash deposit when you open the account. The amount of your deposit is often then the limit on your card. If you don't pay your bill, the issuer can take the money from your deposit. But by paying it off on time, you are building credit until you eventually become eligible for a regular credit card

  • Become an authorized user - This requires that a family member is willing to add you to their credit card. The payments they make are also recorded in your credit file so it is important to pick someone who has a long history of making payments on time.

  • Use a co-signer - You can get a loan or unsecured credit card if someone is willing to co-sign for you. In this situation, you are the primary person responsible for making payments.

Some of these options require asking someone you trust for help. Money, specifically debt, can be a stressful topic to talk about. It's important that you are upfront and set clear expectations about how any shared account or card will be used. Discuss all of the "what if" scenarios and decide ahead of time how they will be handled. Doing this can save a relationship and reduce stress for both of you.

Be sure to follow the Financial Literacy team on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram for more financial tips throughout the semester!

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Bow Wow Wellness
Wednesday, Oct. 26
Bamboo Room 2610, Campus Center, 12:30-2 p.m.

Your favorite furry friends are back! Stop by the Bamboo Room to de-stress with therapy dogs. If you’re missing your fur family at home, come hang out with these pups to feel refreshed and relaxed.

Learn more

Social Tigers: Embrace the Awkward Speed Friending

Ever heard of speed dating? What about speed friending?

Drop by an upcoming speed friending event and meet some new Tigers! Participants will be randomly assigned and rotated through a group of Tigers to engage in brief one-on-one conversation. You’ll leave the event meeting some new people who may even share the same interests as you!

Want to make some new friends? Drop in to an upcoming speed friending event:

  • Thursday, Oct. 27 | 10 a.m.-12 p.m. | Sentinel Sculpture
  • Monday, Nov. 14 | 12:30-2:30 p.m. | Fireside Lounge

Public Market Bus
Saturday, Oct. 29

Interested in exploring the city of Rochester and all it has to offer? Take a free ride downtown and shop for fresh produce, ethnic delicacies, and more at the Rochester Public Market! The Public Market Bus will be running most Saturdays during the Fall Semester.

Getting There:

  • Pick up from Grace Watson Hall (Lot C) at 10:30 a.m.
  • Pick up from Kate Gleason Circle at 10:45 a.m.

Coming Back:

  • Leave Rochester Public Market District at 12:30 p.m.
  • Return to the Rochester Institute of Technology at 1 p.m.

No RSVP required. Bus is first-come, first-served until max capacity on the bus is reached.

Learn more

Halloween 5k
Oct. 29-31
Virtual

Join RIT Recreation in a virtual 5k Run/Walk! Join the challenge on the RIT Recreation Strava page and complete the virtual 5k at any time between October 29 and 31. Winners of the challenge will get a free Intramural Champion t-shirt!

Join the challenge

Student COVID-19 Booster Clinic
Tuesday, Nov. 1
9 a.m.-1 p.m.

RIT is partnering with Wegmans to provide an on-campus COVID-19 booster clinic for RIT students.

Register here

Student Flu Vaccine Clinic
Wednesday, Nov. 9
8 a.m.-4 p.m., 1829 Room (Student Alumni Union)
RIT is partnering with Wegmans to provide on-campus flu vaccine clinics for RIT students. If your insurance is not accepted by Wegmans, you can get the vaccine at the Student Health Center for $20.

Register here

Outreach Opportunities

Stop by one of these tables on campus to learn more about Wellness, as well as tips for improving your overall health and well-being.

  • Take a Break
    Tuesday, Oct. 25 | 1-3:30 p.m. | Student Alumni Union Lobby

  • Zzz's Get Degrees: A Bedroom for Success
    Wednesday, Oct. 26 | 2:30-4 p.m. | Campus Center Breezeway

  • Speed Friending: A SocialTigers Program
    Thursday, Oct. 27 | 10 a.m.-Noon | Sentinel Statue

  • GYT: Pack Your Own Play It Safe Kit
    Monday, Oct. 31 | 12:30-2:30 p.m. | Campus Center 1760

  • Know Your Stress Trick-or-Treat
    Monday, Oct. 31 | 2:30-4 p.m. | Sundial Quad

  • GYT: Pack Your Own Play It Safe Kit
    Tuesday, Nov. 1 | 12:30-2:30 p.m. | Campus Center 1760

For additional events and event information, go to rit.edu/events.

 
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