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Academics and exploration
Hawk Week is the chance to survey your new horizon. Meet your professors. Visit your classrooms and libraries. Stop in at open houses and support centers. You’re crimson and blue now — these are the resources that will cultivate your future.
Connect
Mount Oread is packed with places to explore. Hang out with the crowd on Wescoe Beach. Scope out quiet study spaces. Consider different majors at KU academic department open houses. And visit our museums and libraries to explore our past and imagine your future.
![Students looking at an old book while touring the library](/sites/otp/files/images/2021/hawk%20week/1803388_MK_French177.0300_800.jpg)
Engage
Communication is essential to unlocking possibilities. The faculty and students you meet during Hawk Week will welcome you, challenge you, and encourage you. The activities are casual and relaxed — so that you can be yourself and have a good time. And there are events specific to your interests – all you have to do is plan your Hawk Week.
![Students outside Allen Fieldhouse during a Hawk Week event](/sites/otp/files/images/2021/hawk%20week/1903911_MK_Welcome.0117.jpg)
Repeat
Now, make these patterns of success a habit. Hawk Week is the beginning of a grand adventure where you choose how to spend your time and efforts. Every Jayhawk you encounter is ready to help you raise the chant and rise to the occasion of your future. And we will be there to help again and again.
![Engineering students playing video games](/sites/otp/files/images/2021/hawk%20week/1803340_AW_Union%20Fest-288.jpeg)
Spaces and Places
![Students attending a career fair](/sites/otp/files/images/2021/hawk%20week/1803473_AW_Legal%20Career%20Options%20Day-358.jpeg)
University Career Center
![Interior of the Basketball Experience at the DeBruce Center](/sites/otp/files/images/2021/hawk%20week/101209_museums_800.jpeg)
KU Museums
![Student volunteers raking leaves at The Big Event](/sites/otp/files/images/2021/hawk%20week/2104756_MK_BigEvent.1113.jpg)
Center for Service Learning
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