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In photos: Welcome Week 2025

What a week it's been! Relive the cheers, the joy, the vibes and the unbelievable energy of the reps at Welcome Week 2025.

August 29, 2025

A student stands up and cheers in the midst of thousands of students on the crowded stadium stands at Welcome Week launch.
What a week it’s been! Relive the cheers, the joy, the vibes and the unbelievable energy of the reps at Welcome Week 2025. (Abdo Habbani, McMaster University))

The joy, the vibes, the unmatched energy: From the first swell of cheers at residence Move-In to the final strains of music at night, Welcome Week 2025 has been one for the books.

Thousands of faculty reps poured all their energy into giving new students the most rousing, fun-filled, informative and embracing welcome imaginable.

There’s not enough internet for all the memories from the past week, but here are some highlights:

Welcome Week reps cheer and hold up signs welcoming first-years at Move-In weekend
Welcome Week reps helping first-years move into residence. (Abdullah Hyder)

A Welcome Week rep in a red [Engineering] jumpsuit pretends to pull in a first-year's car with an invisible rope while reps in other colours cheer and clap
If you’ve never had a Welcome Week rep physically pull your car into the right spot with an invisible rope, can you even say you moved in? (Abdullah Hyder)
Students clasp hands in the stands at the McMaster Welcome at the stadium during welcome week 2025

Mac the Marauder runs across the stadium turf, followed by a fan.
You could feel the love as big crowds – and one very big bird – showed up for the Welcome Week opener in the stadium. (Georgia Kirkos, McMaster University)
President Susan Tighe smiles and runs out on to the field between two smoke machines for the McMaster Welcome at the stadium during welcome week 2025
McMaster President Susan Tighe runs on to the field to welcome the incoming Class of 2029. (Georgia Kirkos, McMaster University)
Smiling Sean Van Koughnett and Piper Plavins run out on to the field with smoke from a smoke machine behind them. The crowd in the stands is cheering.
MSU President Piper Plavins and Associate Vice-President (Students) Sean Van Koughnett join the party, coming on to the field to welcome the Class of 2029. (Georgia Kirkos, McMaster University)
MSU Maroons cheering and walking across the stadium field during welcome week 2025
MSU Maroons get the party started with massive cheers and infectious energy. (Georgia Kirkos, McMaster University)
A group of welcome week reps in light green jumpsuits, some with fake facial hair, some with wig caps, walk out from under the University Hall archway.
We don’t know what’s happening here, but we like it.

Students get juice bottles and informational handouts at a table during Community Connections at Welcome Week 2025

A group of students chat with organizers at a table during Community Connections at Welcome Week 2025

A student in a McMaster Tshirt shows off their Marauders logo painted on their biceps.

Tw Welcome Week reps in School of Nursing yellow jumpsuits walk across campus with welcoming signs

A group of students and welcome week reps sit around a big blue tarp laid out on a field, doing art and crafts

A caricaturist works on a drawing of a woman seated in front of him during Community Connections at Welcome Week 2025

A big beach ball is in midair above stands full of students at the stadium during welcome week 2025

A circle of students play with a striped beach ball on the grass during welcome week
Safe to say, people had a ball. (Georgia Kirkos, McMaster University)

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