Slime Making | Photo by Alexander Roberts | The Wright State Guardian
On Friday, Nov. 15, Residence Life and University Park’s Resident Assistants hosted a mindfulness slime making night in the Park’s community office. Students spent time creating different slimes to practice mindfulness and relieve stress.
Community check-ins
Grace Moore is a senior criminal justice major and an RA in the College Park community who plans community events.
“We typically get a bunch of the different RAs together, and then we all plan different events,” Moore said.
Moore explained that in her time as an RA, she has been able to meet and form connections with many different people. She also shared a lot of the responsibilities that an RA has, including “Raider-to-Raiders.”
“So we do like, check-ins this month; specifically, we're doing mental health check-ins with some of our residents, making sure that they're all doing good mentally, physically [and] grades are doing well, and then we collaborate with other orgs,” Moore said.
The RAs in attendance went around to ensure that everyone was signed in on Engage, and then they shared all of the many slime-related amenities with the attendees.
Slime making
Resources were provided for students, including printed handouts with information about mental health and how to destress.
There was a table in the center of the community center with all the supplies to make slime: glue, baking soda, saline solution, food coloring, shaving cream and essential oils to add for smell.
Mary Trittschuh is a senior at Wright State University who is working towards her degree in marketing. She was a fan of making slime.
“I just like the texture of it,” Trittschuh said. “I've never made slime before.”
Trittschuh attended with her friend, Ava Kugler, who is a senior psychology major looking forward to graduating this summer. Kugler had a good amount of knowledge for how to adjust the slime.
When students around Kugler struggled with their slime, she offered her advice to them, as well as words of encouragement.
“I feel like you can save it,” Kugler said about multiple slimes.
When asked about the event itself, Trittschuh and Kugler had only positive things to say.
“We thought it was fun. We had, we just got back from another event–” Kugler began.
“-- and we just thought it would be fun to destress,” Trittschuh added to her friend’s statement.
Attendees intermingled and created slimes of all colors, smells and consistencies, enjoyed the ambient music and relaxed for a little while.
The University and College Park communities along with Residence Life and Housing hosted many mindfulness events, all as part of their “Week of Mindfulness” series.
Students looking to destress before finals should visit Engage for campus events, specifically Counseling and Wellness' page.
