<p>How important is all of this welcome stuff? What exactly is it?</p>
<p>Don't go (10 char)</p>
<p>more details on why we shouldn't go?</p>
<p>Are you talking about the orientation programs? Most of them are worthless. Honestly, I would sleep in.</p>
<p>New</a> Student Convocation - Aug. 30, 2007</p>
<p>New</a> Student Convocation 2006 - Aug. 30, 2006</p>
<p>Office</a> of the President - New Student Convocation - 9/1/05</p>
<p>If you can read through all three of those, and are still interested in waking up early and walking to Crisler to hear a fourth speech by Mary Sue Coleman verbally masturbating about how freakin great we are, by all means, go for it.</p>
<p>I didn't mind convocation, plus I got a free Maize and Blue "I Change" bracelet and the Convocation copy of the Michigan Review! (we have a Mary Sue Coleman mad libs in there, you can fill in the words "diversity" and "greatest university ever" and so on...)</p>
<p>Nah I'd go - it's a nice opening to college life...the praise of the entering class being the best ever..the student government president speech which is normally pretty good, seeing Mary Sue Coleman and the rest of the dignitaries...singing the Victors in a packed Crisler Arena..good stuff. I would go, simply for the experience. </p>
<p>We had ours in the evening, so need of waking up of anything of the sort..</p>
<p>The pre-convocation dinner though is $15 a person and my parents are very frugal despite how rich they are. I'm sure they'd go if I told them it was important, but I'm planning on asking for a lot of other things. Is it one of those things that pretty much every student does? If it is, I'll go.</p>
<p>Very few people that I knew freshmen year went to convocation, and the one or two that did said it wasn't worth their time.</p>
<p>People go to convocation...but I've never heard of anyone going to the pre-convocation dinner...</p>
<p>Michigan doesn't really have a beginning of your college years tradition (unless you count walking across the fountain during orientation), and convocation's as close as it gets to one, so you might as well go.</p>
<p>Yeah not heard about pre -conv dinner, still I'd go for it.</p>