Dates: September 8th -15th
Cost: $295
Locations:We are almost done finalizing our sites.   We are definitely going to the Upper Peninsula of MI, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania. Details are still being worked out for Tennessee.

Questions:

1. What ingredient would you be in a sandwich and why?
2. What is your favorite joke?
3. Describe your favorite place to be in the world.

Project Wildcat is a week-long wilderness backpacking program designed to build leadership and teamwork skills through experiential learning. Practicing Leave No Trace environmental principles, groups of eight incoming freshman-each lead by two trained upperclassmen counselors-hike through several of the nation's beautiful national parks. P-Wild is a fun opportunity to enter into Northwestern life with a heightened sense of confidence, a week full of fantastic memories, and a good bunch of new friends. A week spent enjoying the wilderness allows you to take a step back and get to know yourself and your group mates before being immersed in the hustle and bustle of your exciting new life at Northwestern!

Alternative Student Breaks

Dates: September 8th -16th
Cost: $215
Locations: 7 different locations through out the Midwest

Questions:

1. Please rank all 7 of the Pre-WW ASB sites in the order that they interest you.  BRIEFLY explain why you want to go to your top three choices. 
2. If you could lead a volunteer trip to anywhere in the world, where would you go and what would you do there?
3. If you were a superhero, what would your special powers be? What would your costume look like?

Alternative Student Breaks is a service-learning organization that sends Northwestern students to volunteer at non-profits across the country. ASB seeks to involve, educate and heighten students' social awareness and strives to encourage lifelong civic engagement. Each trip highlights a different issue, and participants have the opportunity to do work that ranges from teaching English to newly-arrived immigrants to staging a get-out-the-vote campaign. No matter the issue they work with, participants build close relationships with their group and their upperclassmen site leaders. After spending a week exploring and serving in a new city with their small group, students meet up with all the other ASB participants in Chicago, where they'll spend a day discovering the opportunities for fun and service that the city has to offer. Following an unforgettable week, students immediately become part of the ASB community, a dynamic group with a year-round presence and continued opportunities for leadership and service.

Web site: http://www.asb.northwestern.edu/

Freshman Urban Program

Dates: September 10th -16th
Cost: $215
Locations: Chicago and Evanston

Questions:

1. Describe an issue in your community that you are familiar with or that interests you and explain why.
2. If someone came to visit your hometown or city for the first time, what would you show them and why?
3. If you were writing your autobiography, what would the last paragraph of page 200 say?

The Freshman Urban Program is an introduction to the neighborhoods within Chicago and Evanston. The program examines the issues that face these communities, the organizations that serve them and the means by which Northwestern students can effect change . FUP employs the theory of Asset-Based Community Development in teaching participants about issues as varied as housing, education, health care, politics, gentrification and community organizing.   FUP is a pre-New Student Week activity open to all incoming freshmen. During this five day program, participants will stay in a youth hostel in Chicago's Loop area. From there they will be dispatched to volunteer at community centers, urban schools, homeless shelters and advocacy organizations throughout the city. Northwestern faculty and various community leaders will lead discussions on a variety of issues facing urban communities.