<p>I just got the letter with all the info on what courses you're allowed to preview and whatnot-- so excited! Do you think it is a good idea to visit as many courses as the schedule allows, or should there be time left in between the courses (I'm like a kid in a candy shop--so I already wish I could visit more classes than will be possible, haha)? Also, for the language classes especially, where it says 'beginner' is that the actual first class of that course or will I be completely lost? I'm bound and determined to go anyway, of course, but I wonder. </p>
<p>Oh, and who's going when? Unfortunately I have a choir competition the week in between the two days, so the scheduling is fairly evil either way (be sick for competition, be sick from competition), but I think it's probably pretty important to go (and, I want to!).</p>
<p>I'm excited to meet people!</p>
<p>The students in the beginner language classes that you'll be sitting in on have actually been taking the language since September, 5 days a week, and intensively during J-term. So you'll be in a class that's halfway through it's second full semester of French/Spanish/German/Arabic/whatever. You should be fine, as long as you've taken the language before. I know when I visited, I sat in on a beginning French class (as I was certain that I'd be at sea in anything above that, despite having 6 years of French under my belt...anemic language departments unite!) and it was very fun. Everyone was very into the language and I could understand everything perfectly well :)</p>
<p>And visit as many classes as you want to. I wouldn't recommend going overboard, as you'll want to have time to explore. Unless you don't, in which case...go overboard. If I remember correctly, there were lunches and activity fairs during the day, so you'll probably want to make room for that.</p>
<p>...I was just looking at the Admitted Students webpage and !!! there's a forum! You guys are lucky. We didn't have any of that, and it was really irritating having all of my friends meeting future classmates on their Special Official Message Boards while I was left with nothing. Kudos to admissions.</p>
<p>I really shouldn't be waxing nostalgic about last April. It was really stressful (to choose!), but going to all the admitted students weekends was a blast. Have fun, all of you.</p>
<p>THERE IS?!?!?!?!?! this is new. the whole reason i came here was because i couldn't find a forum. on the other hand, i also didn't find an admitted students page. THANKS! </p>
<p>also, thanks for letting me know about the language-- now i will change the one i visit, seeing as i have only taken one language but plan on taking many many more. (i'm a little overambitious-- don't worry, i deal okay with reality checks)</p>
<p>wait, if you could tell me how to find the admitted students webpage (i'm a little slow as far as computers are concerned) that would be uber uber wonderful.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/welcome%5B/url%5D">http://www.middlebury.edu/welcome</a>
There's a link to the forum in the right-hand column. Also, according to the scrolling Java applet thing, there are 8 oboeists in the accepted class. Hee. That's fun, but we'd benefit more by having some french horn players, and some low brass. That's just an orchestra dork speaking, though.
(I also know that a lot of students from other colleges started up [college]2009 communities on sites like LiveJournal.com, but I don't think that there's a Middlebury community yet...Just another way that you might be able to get in contact with students)</p>
<p>Highly encourage you to take as many languages as possible. I'm hoping to start German next year, but I have a friend taking French, Spanish and Portuguese, and well, the amount of languages spoken in my comparative linguistics class is incredible.</p>