Are YOU a caltech prefrosh?

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<p>If you are, then email me with your AOL IM screenname, the name you go by if it is not the one in the directory, the orientation field trip you are doing, and your orientation "country". I am compiling an online version of the directory (with the help of Andy Matuschak) that will have a little more information to give more prefrosh the opportunity to interact with other prefrosh in the coming weeks before Caltech (and even after!).</p>

<p>lizzardfire at gmail.com </p>

<p>replace the at with @ obviously</p>

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<p>You got a directory already? Hm... O well, I'll just wait for the snail mail...</p>

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<p>You mean frosh right?</p>

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<p>we are not frosh until the cannon fires at the end of rotation, I don't think.</p>

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<p>Yup yup. Prefrosh become frosh and frosh become sophomores when rotation ends. Sophomores become juniors when the school year ends. Juniors become seniors and seniors become ghosts on Ditch Day.</p>

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<p>Disregard the above post. You're prefrosh until the end of Rotation, but you don't stop being frosh until you stop acting froshy. :P</p>

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<p>So we go to school for a whole week without being considered frosh?</p>

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<p>Yup. The reasoning behind the system is that every house always has to have frosh and seniors. If you were frosh when you came on campus, the houses wouldn't have their own frosh to boss around (e.g. in my house, the frosh are supposed to answer the phone, and have frosh offices.) That means that the second year students have to stay frosh until rotation ends and the house has new frosh, which means the first year students have to remain prefrosh to avoid confusion.</p>

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<p>Country? <em>confused</em></p>

<p>I haven't heard anything about this yet...</p>

<p>-Oren</p>

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<p>[03:37] Oren Hazi: what's this about an orientation country?
[03:38] lizzardfire: during prefrosh camp we are assigned a country
[03:38] lizzardfire: your upperclass counselor is supposed to email you what your country is
[03:38] lizzardfire: but many people have not been emailed</p>

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<p>Tom, you and Andy must be reaaaaaaaallly bored.</p>

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<p>Yeah, look up and email Malina Chang in the Dean's Office if you haven't been contacted. She'll probably want to know.</p>

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<p>Craig, I sent out your post to the entire email list. It takes me 3 emails to get it all out, gmail won't let me send it out to all at once. lol</p>

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<p>Poor Malina will have to deal with a slew of emails tomorrow. If your UCC hasn't emailed you, it's not a big deal. There's no reason you need to know who it is before you get on campus.</p>

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<p>Malina's name, however, means raspberry in Russian. So I think she will be okay.</p>

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<p>Yeah, disregard my earlier message, you don't necessarily need to hear anything from your until Sept 17th. The UCCs received their information quite a bit ago, though, and I thought that we were supposed to contact you ASAP.</p>

<p>My mistake.</p>

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<p>haha, poor Ms. Chang is going to hate me (or you). I sent out the email last night with your statement. I guess I could retract it now, but I don't think it matters at this point.</p>

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<p>Yeah, my fault. Sorry about that.</p>

<p>I started getting antsy that people haven't heard who they can talk to if they have questions. I think I'm going to organize the UCCs and assign someone else the work of worrying about them. Get the list of people from each House, find a volunteer to contact all of the UCCs and make sure no prefrosh are all confused-like. We don't need to be like IMSS, the Bursar's, or Parking in keeping people in the dark.</p>