Monday

• Get To Know NI-You: CAB Edition: The Campus Activities Board will host a virtual scavenger hunt at 12 p.m. for students to get to known CAB members. Contact [email protected] for more information. 
• Everyday LinkedIn Workshop: Career Services will host a virtual LinkedIn workshop to give students tips and tricks on how to improve their profile. It’s recommended that students already have a profile built. Contact [email protected] for more information. 
• Well-o-Ween: Trick or Treat Yo’ Self: NIU Recreation will host a weeklong Halloween-themed wellness week to help students de-stress and practice self-care at 4 p.m. Registration is required to participate. Contact Meg Burnham at [email protected] for more information. 
•  NIU Esports and STEMFest’s Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Tournament: Join NIU Esports and STEM Fest’s Online Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Tournament at 5:30 p.m. Admission is free, but you have to register in advance. Sign up using our online form. Contact Alex Kramer at [email protected] for more information. 
• Noche de Poetas: I Am Precious Knowledge: Housing and Residential Services will host a virtual poetry night at 7 p.m. Contact Elbia Del Llano at [email protected] for more information.

Tuesday

• Resume Q & A: Career Services will host a virtual resume question and answer session at 12:30 p.m. for students to ask questions on how to create a resume. Contact Career Services at [email protected] for more information.
• Finding Forward: Counseling and Consultation Services will host a virtual workshop at 1 p.m. for anyone wanting to boost their resilience to respond to life demands, COVID-19 transitions, and painful emotions in helpful ways. Contact Giselle Navarro at [email protected] for more information.
• Essentials of Resume Writing: Career Services will host a one-hour virtual resume workshop at 2 p.m. to show the essentials of a good resume. Contact Edward Heard at [email protected] for more information. 
• Spooky Movie Night: CAB will host a spooky movie night at 7 p.m. to feature Hocus Pocus in the Holmes Student Center. Space is limited. Masks are required. Contact [email protected] for more information. 

Wednesday 

• Ask Us Anything – Talk with NIU Career Services: Career Services will host a talk session at 11:30 a.m. with staff to discuss common career concerns and answer any career-related questions. Contact Career Services at [email protected] for more information.
• Introduction to Mindfulness: Counseling and Consultation Services will host a virtual overview of mindfulness and how to apply it with a guided meditation and mindful techniques. The event is held at noon via Zoom. Contact Kelsey Boll at 815-753-1206 for more information. 
• Resource Panel: Preventing and Responding to Sexual Assault on Campus: Join the Pick Museum of Anthropology and the Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality at 1 p.m. for panelists to review NIU initiatives to respond and prevent domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking. Contact Rachelle Wilson at [email protected] for more information. 
• Financial Literacy Program – First Year Success Series: A presentation on financial aid and student account basics will be held at 3 p.m. Contact Melanie Griegoliet at [email protected] for more information. 
• Interviewing: The Essentials: Career Services will host a workshop at 5 p.m. for students to learn how to prepare for internship and job interviews. Contact Joyce Keller at [email protected] for more information. 
• Well-O-Ween: Paint Night: Career and Consultation Services will host a virtual paint night at 5 p.m. and will also feature Jack and Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas! Registration is required. Contact Marissa Mazur at [email protected] for more information.
• Hall-O-Week: Stevenson Journey to Candyland: The Residence Hall Association will host a scavenger hunt in Stevenson Towers at 8 p.m. Contact Elbia Llano at [email protected] or Lindsey Komes at [email protected] for more information. 

Thursday

• Social Justice Town Hall: Whiteness and the Construction of Race: The Academic Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Office will host a town hall at 11 a.m. to discuss the construction of race, how whiteness is manifested in society, and how these ideas are duplicated by systems of oppression. Contact Jane Pappas at [email protected] for more information. 
• CODE 1 Workshops – First Year Success Series: The Academic Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Office will offer CODE workshops for first-year students to learn how to effectively engage in conversations and resolve conflicts. Registration for the event is required. Contact Melanie Griegoliet at [email protected] for more information.
• Well-O-Ween: Movie & Mindfulness: Counseling and Consultation Services will host a virtual Halloween-themed coloring and origami while also featuring The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. The event starts at 5 p.m. Contact Marissa Mazur at [email protected] for more information. 

Friday

• Free Fitness Friday – Butts & Guts: NIU Recreation will host a virtual strength and resistance training at 4 p.m. focused on the core and lower body. Contact Leanne Kulchawik [email protected] for more information. 
• Hall-O-Week: Neptune and Gilbert Spooky Stories and S’mores: The Residence Hall Association will host a socially distanced bonfire at 7 p.m. to hear everyone’s spooky ghost stories and eat s’ mores. Contact [email protected] for more information. 
• Pop Up Shop: NIU Rec Custom T-Shirt Sale: NIU Recreation will host a pop-up shop at 7 p.m. in the Holmes Student Center to sell archived NIU Rec t-shirts. Contact Jessica Wind at [email protected] for more information. 
• Trick-or-Treat Hunt: NIU Outdoor Adventures will host a trick-or-treat egg hunt at 7 p.m. near the MLK Commons. Costumes are encouraged. Contact NIU Outdoor Adventures at [email protected] for more information. 
• Halloween Fest in the HSC: Halloween events in the Holmes Student Center include Grocery Bingo, Fall Festival Pumpkin Painting, ESports – Super Smash Bros Tournament & Jackbox Stations and Spades Tournament. Space is limited for each event.