UCI Happiness Week
Welcome to UCI’s inaugural Happiness Week, a campus-wide celebration dedicated to enhancing well-being and resilience during the inevitable stress of the last week of the winter quarter. From March 11-15, 2024, join us for a series of engaging activities and initiatives designed to elevate your spirits, reduce stress, and foster a sense of community.
Led by the Division of Undergraduate Education and joined by almost 400 Social Ecology students taking Positive Psychology and about a dozen campus units, Happiness Week offers a diverse range of events to help you thrive academically and personally. Explore the power of gratitude with acts of kindness, unleash your creativity with Powerpoint Karaoke, find your inner peace through meditation sessions, and widen your world view with awe-inspiring experiences. If that’s not enough, you’ll also be able to grab an array of happiness-filled free snacks and diverse activities across campus, and even throw a pie at Dean Michael Dennin in honor of this year’s Pi Day (3/14). With a focus on positive psychology and well-being, Happiness Week is your opportunity to learn, grow, and connect with others in a fun and meaningful way.
Join us and discover the joy of happiness at UCI!
Schedule of Events
DTEI
Cheers & Chuckles: DTEI Happy Hour & Powerpoint Karaoke
DTEI will be hosting CHEERS & CHUCKLES: A Happy Hour and PowerPoint Karaoke event for faculty, graduate students, and staff. Cheers & Chuckles combines the elements of a traditional happy hour with the entertainment of PowerPoint Karaoke, a fun improv game where participants volunteer to give presentations using PowerPoint slides they’ve never seen before. Join us on Monday, March 11th from 3-4:30 PM in AIRB 1030 for snacks, drinks, and laughs!
- Location: Anteater Instruction and Research Building (AIRB) 1030
- Time and Date: Monday March 11th from 3-4:30 PM
UROP
Affirmation Gram Station
UCI students will be able to create a gram for their fellow peers to wish them luck on finals. UROP will provide students with a gram card they can customize with markers/colored pencils as well as candy to attach to their gram.
- Location: Science Library Rotunda (area outside of the main entrance of the Science Library).
- Time and Date: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 11:30am to 2:00pm
DUE
PI Day
Come celebrate PI day (3/14) with us for some free pizza, pi digit memorization competitions for prizes, and more!
- Location: The Antrepreneur Center
- Time and Date: Thursday 3/14 at 4pm-5:30pm
WISE PAC
Flowering with WISE
We will be designing tote bags and making paper flower bouquets! The goal of the activity is to have students engage in stress-free arts & crafts event as a form of self-care. Attendees are expected to learn the importance of taking a break during their busy schedule and practice self-care.
- Location: SBSG 1517
- Time and Date: 3/13/24 @ 4 or 5pm (TIME TBD)
Undergraduate/Undeclared Advising
Games, Puzzles, and Coloring Books
Students can drop-in to the U/U student study lounge and partake in stress relieving and fun generating activities. There will be puzzles, games, and coloring books for students to play or do.
- Location: Undergraduate Education Building A, Room 107 (building 231 on the campus map/formerly Summer Session A)
- Time and Date: 9am to 4pm – M, W, Th, and F
Office of Campus Organizations & Volunteer Programs
Joyful Connections
Join the Office of Campus Organizations and Volunteer Programs to discuss the importance and power of maintaining and building nurturing connections through friendships at UCI and beyond. Learn about the connections between happiness and community while making friendship bracelets! We will celebrate the power of support systems and connections in the communities and organizations you are part of. Free snacks provided!
- Location: Dr. White Room, UCI Cross-Cultural Center
- Time and Date: Thursday, March 14, 2024 from 1:30pm – 3:00pm
Division of Career Pathways
Snacks during Career Pathways Drop-ins
We will have Kind Bar treats for student available as we do our drop-in advising. Please feel free to stop in and have a resume reviewed, ask career related questions, learn about our photo booth and grab a treat!
- Location: Division of Career Pathways lobby
- Time and Date: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 12:00-2:00pm
Womxn's Center for Success
Sad Girls Club at UCI & Study Session
Sad Girls Club is our ongoing effort to provide our community with social and emotional support in both the virtual and physical space! Our Sad Girls meet bi-weekly throughout the quarter to talk about a wide range of things. We end each quarter with a fun study session to prepare for finals season!
- Location: Womxn’s Center for Success G458 Student Center
- Time and Date:
- Sad Girls Club: Dates are ongoing and sign up can be found at this link: https://cglink.me/2eo/r1063256
- Sad Girls Club Study Session: March 18th from 12:00pm-2:00pm
International Center
International Coffee Hour: Pets Show and Tell
We serve free coffee, tea, and snacks at the event. Attendees will do pet trivia inspired by different cultures along with a paper craft activity.
- Location: Science Library Terrace (outside of the Science Library)
- Time and Date: Friday, March 15th, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Positive Psychology Class
A range of happiness promoting activities all over campus
Students from positive psychology will be doing happiness boosting activities all over campus
- Location: UCI campus
- Time and Date: Tuesday 11am-12:30pm
Center for Student Wellness and Health Promotion
Healing Through 1000 Paper Cranes
Help contribute to the paper crane project! Students follow a wellness writing prompt and write on a piece of paper that will be folded into a paper crane and added to a final display of origami cranes.
- Location: Ring Road
- Time and Date: 3/12 @ 11-2pm
Center for Student Wellness and Health Promotion
Sleep Week
Join us for the coinciding Sleep Week. Learn tips and tricks to improved sleep and how better sleep can lead to better moods.
- Location: Ring Road
- Time and Date: 3/13 @ 11-2pm
Center for Student Wellness and Health Promotion
Take a Note, Leave a Note
Happiness Week continues! Find our board display with positive inspiration, have the chance to take a note, and to leave a note for someone else as well!
- Location: Ring Road
- Time and Date: 3/14 @ 11-2
Office of Academic Integrity & Student Conduct
Decision-Making Workshop
The choices we make may directly relate to the happiness of ourselves and those around us. Students are invited to reflect on and advance their decision making skills to assist them making decisions that reduce stress and increase their happiness. In a 50-minute interactive zoom workshop, students will identify personal values, ethics, consequences, and explore steps for making responsible decisions.
- Location: zoom – sign up for zoom link
- Time and Date: March 13 2-3PM
UCI Cross-Cultural Center
TBA
Schedule of Events
Single-day Events
Monday, March 11, 2024
Color the Stress Away
UCI Dining
Coloring event with DIY brain-boosting trail mix and house-made electrolyte beverage. Students will learn the brain-boosting benefits of certain ingredients, and the importance of proper hydration while enjoying a relaxing activity.
- Location: The Anteatery & Brandywine
- Time: 11am – 2pm
Monday, March 11, 2024
Cheers & Chuckles: DTEI Happy Hour & Powerpoint Karaoke
Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation
DTEI will be hosting CHEERS & CHUCKLES: A Happy Hour and PowerPoint Karaoke event for faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and staff. Cheers & Chuckles combines the elements of a traditional happy hour with the entertainment of PowerPoint Karaoke, a fun improv game where participants volunteer to give presentations using PowerPoint slides they’ve never seen before. Join us on Monday, March 11th from 3-4:30 PM in AIRB 1030 for snacks, drinks, and laughs!
- Location: Anteater Instruction and Research Building (AIRB) 1030
- Time: 3-4:30 PM
- RSVP to Event
Monday, March 11, 2024
Sing Around the Ring, featuring Uniting Voices
Undergraduate Education
Staff from campus departments in Undergraduate Education to participate in a “Sing Around the Ring” beginning at noon, with a student a cappella group leading the way in song. We’d gather at a specified location and walk the Ring Road once around, spreading cheer to students, who are encouraged to join in.
- Location: Ring Road
- Time: 12-1pm
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Healing Through 1000 Paper Cranes
Center for Student Wellness & Health Promotion
Help contribute to the paper crane project! Students follow a wellness writing prompt and write on a piece of paper that will be folded into a paper crane and added to a final display of origami cranes.
- Location: Ring Road
- Time: 11-2pm
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
A range of happiness promoting activities all over campus
Positive Psychology Class
Students from positive psychology will be doing happiness boosting activities all over campus
- Location: UCI campus
- Time and Date: Tuesday 11am-12:30pm
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Spread Kindness and Take Kindness
LatinX Resource Center
Join the Latinx Resource Center (LRC) to engage in an activity that encourages positive affirmations among the Latinx community. Participants will be able to “leave an affirmation and take one” as they learn about the resources and programs available through the LRC on campus. Come chat with us Wednesday, March 13th between 11am-1pm on Ring Road near Zot N Go to learn about ways to spread healthy positivity within our Latinx communities and get a free goodie!
- Location: RISE Suite (Student Center – 3rd floor)
- Time: 11-1pm
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Paint and Destress: Happy Painting with Bob Ross
Cross-Cultural Center
Join us for our final Wellness Program of the quarter at the Cross-Cultural Center Ring Room. Take a break and unwind with a guided paint session led by Bob Ross. Snacks will be provided, and be sure to arrive early to secure a finals care package.
- Location: UCI Cross-Cultural Center Ring Room
- Time: 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Sleep Week
Center for Student Wellness & Health Promotion; ASUCI Mental Health Commission
Join us for the coinciding Sleep Week. Learn tips and tricks to improved sleep and how better sleep can lead to better moods.
- Location: Ring Road
- Time: 11-2pm
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Affirmation Gram Station
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program
UCI students will be able to create a gram for their fellow peers to wish them luck on finals. UROP will provide students with a gram card they can customize with markers/colored pencils as well as candy to attach to their gram.
- Location: Science Library Rotunda (area outside of the main entrance of the Science Library)
- Time: 11:30am to 2:00pm
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Flowering with WISE
Wellness Initiative of Social Ecology Peer Advisory Collective
We will be designing tote bags and making paper flower bouquets! The goal of the activity is to have students engage in stress-free arts & crafts event as a form of self-care. Attendees are expected to learn the importance of taking a break during their busy schedule and practice self-care.
- Location: SBSG 1517
- Time: 4 PM
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Decision-making Workshop
Office of Academic Integrity & Student Conduct
The choices we make may directly relate to the happiness of ourselves and those around us. Students are invited to reflect on and advance their decision making skills to assist them making decisions that reduce stress and increase their happiness. In a 50-minute interactive zoom workshop, students will identify personal values, ethics, consequences, and explore steps for making responsible decisions.
- Location: zoom – sign up for zoom
- Time: 2-3PM
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Take a Note, Leave a Note
Center for Student Wellness & Health Promotion
Happiness Week continues! Find our board display with positive inspiration, have the chance to take a note, and to leave a note for someone else as well!
- Location: Ring Road
- Time: 11-2
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Joyful Connections
Office of Campus Organizations & Volunteer Programs
Join the Office of Campus Organizations and Volunteer Programs to discuss the importance and power of maintaining and building nurturing connections through friendships at UCI and beyond. Learn about the connections between happiness and community while making friendship bracelets! We will celebrate the power of support systems and connections in the communities and organizations you are part of. Free snacks provided!
- Location: Dr. White Room, UCI Cross-Cultural Center
- Time: 1:30pm – 3:00pm
Thursday, March 14
PI Day
Division of Undergraduate Education
Come celebrate PI day (3/14) with us for some free pizza, pi digit memorization competitions for prizes, and more!
- Location: The Antrepreneur Center
- Time: 4pm-6pm
Friday, March 15, 2024
International Coffee Hour: Pets Show and Tell
International Center
We serve free coffee, tea, and snacks at the event. Attendees will do pet trivia inspired by different cultures along with a paper craft activity.
- Location: Science Library Terrace (outside of the Science Library)
- Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Monday, March 18, 2024
Sad Girls Club Study Session
Womxn’s Center for Success
Sad Girls Club is our ongoing effort to provide our community with social and emotional support in both the virtual and physical space! Our Sad Girls meet bi-weekly throughout the quarter to talk about a wide range of things. We end each quarter with a fun study session to prepare for finals season!
- Location: Womxn’s Center for Success G458 Student Center
- Time and Date:
- Sad Girls Club: Dates are ongoing, sign-up available
- Sad Girls Club Study Session: March 18th from 12:00pm-2:00pm
Recurring Events
M, W, Th, and F
Games, Puzzles, and Coloring Books
Undergraduate/Undeclared Advising
Students can drop-in to the U/U student study lounge and partake in stress relieving and fun generating activities. There will be puzzles, games, and coloring books for students to play or do.
- Location: Undergraduate Education Building A, Room 107 (building 231 on the campus map/formerly Summer Session A)
- Time: 9am to 4pm
M, Tue, Wed
Snacks during Career Pathways Drop-ins
Division of Career Pathways
We will have Kind Bar treats for student available as we do our drop-in advising. Please feel free to stop in and have a resume reviewed, ask career related questions, learn about our photo booth and grab a treat!
- Location: Division of Career Pathways lobby
- Time and Date: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 12:00-2:00pm
Ongoing
Sad Girls Club at UCI
Womxn’s Center for Success
Sad Girls Club is our ongoing effort to provide our community with social and emotional support in both the virtual and physical space! Our Sad Girls meet bi-weekly throughout the quarter to talk about a wide range of things. We end each quarter with a fun study session to prepare for finals season!
- Location: Womxn’s Center for Success G458 Student Center
- Time and Date:
- Sad Girls Club: Dates are ongoing, sign-up available
- Sad Girls Club Study Session: March 18th from 12:00pm-2:00pm
UCI Happiness Week Activities supported by:
