Peking University, August 31, 2022: Between August 29 and August 30, from 6:30 AM to 9:30 PM, more than 300 Pekingers stationed at six Peking University campuses (namely, Yanyuan Campus, Medical School Campus, Changping Campus, Wanliu Campus, Shenzhen Graduate School Campus, and Yuanmingyuan Campus) to help the freshmen move in. 

As the campus buzzed with newfound vigor, volunteers donning red vests hoisted luggage, guided students and parents to their dorms, introduced PKU to fresh faces, and helped the newcomers with registrations and nucleic acid testing (NAT). 

University leaders greeting freshmen during orientation

Volunteers helping freshmen with luggage at the school gate

Volunteers introducing the school to parents

 

Volunteers scanning QR codes for NAT registration

Volunteers helping with antigen testing

Volunteers welcoming students at the service stations

 

 

Peking University Youth League Committee conducting volunteer training

While the freshmen were exhilarated to begin their journey at PKU, volunteers too enjoyed the rite of initiation. “(Three years ago) I had settled in Yanyuan with the help of my seniors, and I aspired to do the same myself. Since then, I’ve volunteered for freshmen orientations every year, hoping to carry forward the spirit of dedication and benevolence,” wrote Dong Hui, an undergraduate student from Peking University School of Marxism. “Though the volunteering work might take some effort, what I had received in return—those thank-yous and smiles—rendered me with the meaning and spirit of volunteerism.”

Liu Ruiqing, an undergraduate student from the School of Law at Peking University, hoped that by offering a helping hand to the new faces at PKU, she could pass down the special inheritance of kindness to her juniors. “Two years ago, when I walked onto the campus with great expectations, I too was greeted by my solicitous professors and seniors. Now I wished that my doing the same thing could make the newcomers feel at home and help them adapt to college life as soon as possible!” she wrote.

Written by: Li Wanqi 
Edited by: Meng Bin 
Source: PKU News (Chinese)