You’ve probably seen her face somewhere around campus. She served as a Head Orientation Counselor (HOC) for freshman orientation, is a sister of Kappa Kappa Gamma, is the service chair for Rho Lambda and is an Emerging Leaders Mentor. Christine Sidoti is a master at multi-tasking: she is actively involved in multiple campus activities and is double majoring in chemical engineering and biomedical engineering.
In the past, Christine has held positions on the Panhellenic Executive Board, in the Society of Women Engineers, and been on the executive board for the TOC.
“Being so involved on campus has taught me so many things. I’ve learned time management skills, how to work with different types of people, conflict resolution and so much more,” Christine says about her involvement in extracurricular activities and leadership positions. Her involvement has shaped her experience at Carnegie Mellon, helping to gain useful skills outside the classroom.
Christine is extremely passionate about her experience as an HOC for freshman orientation 2013. Christine started her involvement in orientation as an Orientation Counselor her sophomore year. The next year she served as an orientation leader, giving her the opportunity to oversee a group of orientation counselors and help even more with orientation.
“I was lucky enough to be chosen to become an HOC. I was here over the summer working in the HOC office full time with Sun Bin Yim and Joe Frick,” says Christine. Each of the HOCs had their own responsibilities, and Christine was in charge of planning meals for the orientation leader and counselor training, planning orientation activities for freshman athletes, coordinating Greek events, planning sexual education programs and be ready to deal with any other issues that arose over the course of the summer.
“There is so much that goes into that one week; it’s truly unbelievable,” says Christine. Despite the intense workload, Christine says it was “the most rewarding experience I’ve had at Carnegie Mellon.”
Christine feels blessed to have had the opportunity to work with so many amazing members of the Carnegie Mellon community and lucky to have welcomed another brilliant class to the CMU family.