<p>@dgchills How was Engineering Day? :D</p>
<p>It was great! It got me really excited for this fall! Okay, so I’ll give you a play by play now haha. </p>
<p>So first, we signed in and whatnot, and since we were free to go to whichever event we wanted (some of them overlapped), we went on a campus tour first. We learned the basic things most students know: the campus works with quarters (each 10 weeks) but will soon be transferring to a semester system, classes are typically as big as high school classes but rarely, you may get that 200ish students class, the university library usually closes at 10 on regular days and 1 on finals week but has a computer lab that’s open 24/7 (also called the procrastination lab), the bronco student center usually closes at 10 and has rooms available for clubs to reserve and meet in (not to mention a food court, an arcade, and a lot more), the bookstore sells books at cheaper prices than Barnes and Noble and others, but sometimes they’re even cheaper online (we got a 20% discount on any apparel we wanted), and last of all, the dorms—he said it’s a great experience for your first year and the friends he’s made are lifelong and that the suites are less social and typically for upperclassmen. </p>
<p>After that, the majors were split into two groups: chemical, aerospace, civil, and some other ones I don’t even remember were in one group, and industrial and mechanical (yay for us!) in the other group. Then we went to the science building and had the engineering overview. So basically there’s this thing called the MEP and it stands for Maximizing Engineering Potential and it’s designed to help engineering majors with homework, projects, careers, etc. They had students in MEP talk about it and they explained how helpful it was towards their grade and how much easier it was to understand because of the MEP workshops. Applications open this week, and they are due May 6th! Requirements include having to take the MDPT (unless you are exempt from it with a score of 3 or higher on the AP calculus exam). The professor recommended taking the MDPT even if you are taking calculus now because you won’t receive your test results until July and by then, they’ll already be doing your schedule and you’ll start a year behind on math. She said the only way you are completely exempt is if you have already passed the test a previous year and already have your scores by the time of registration. Going back to MEP, if you’re interested, they told us to sign up/be available July 1-3 for an orientation specific to MEP. Other organizations to join would include Society of Women Engineers (SWE), Cal Poly Pomona Women Engineers (CPPWE), Society of Hispanic Science and Engineering (or something like that? I forgot but it’s acronym was SHSE), and other societies specific to ethnicity. They also have engineering specific clubs (like clubs dedicated to your specific field of engineering).</p>
<p>After that, we were split into our individual majors and sent to go to another overview but this time, of our specific major. I can’t tell you what happened in Industrial Engineering, but in ME, we talked to the chair of our field, Angela Singh, and she sent us off to wander the labs on our own (which was pretty damn cool. There was a lab for simulation, fluids and thermodynamics, strength which is where they break things, and more haha). </p>
<p>After I saw all the labs, my boyfriend and I just went off on our own to the Japanese garden since it’s right in front of the College of Engineering and we just enjoyed the pond. At 11:30, I went to the women’s reception, which was held in the BSC. We were given gift bags that included one of those exercise water bottle thingies that said Cal Poly Pomona and then on the other side, Society of Women Engineers. We also got this stress ball thing, sunglasses, pamphlets, and Kotex coupons (LOL). Then we went to a room that looked a lot like it was set up for a banquet and we were served lunch. Afterward, they had two alumnae speak to us about their jobs and how CPP helped them. Then the guests were asked to stay in the room while the students were transferred to another room. There, they went into further detail regarding CPPWE and SWE and told us about different events and opportunities it gave them (networking being the biggest). Then they told us they offer a mentoring program (almost like a big sister/little sister thing) and they would help you with homework, interning, personal matters, etc. and that we were free to sign up (which I did). </p>
<p>After that, we were split into groups of two majors each (I was with mechanical and aerospace), and we went outside and sat in a circle and played a game to get to know each other more. We went back inside after that, and the reception was brought to a close. The housing tour came after that but I left after the women’s reception (it was already 2 by then)!</p>
<p>And that was my Engineering Scholars’ Day :)</p>
<p>:o That’s a very nice descriptive day! Lol the Kotex coupons were funny. I’m really interested in the MEP. How do I sign up for that orientation?</p>
<p>BTW, how much does orientation cost? Have you checked your financial aid? It says on my financial aid that orientation is $177. O.O I thought it was suppose to be $100.</p>
<p>They actually didn’t tell us how to sign up for the MEP orientation (I imagine they’d email whoever got in). And yup, fall class orientation is $177. Financial aid doesn’t cover it since it won’t make the deadline, but anything you have left over from your grants, you’re allowed to keep (assuming there’d be anything left).</p>
<p>Oh I found the application. 
[Cal</a> Poly Pomona: Maximizing Engineering Potentional Applications](<a href=“http://www.csupomona.edu/~mep/application.html]Cal”>http://www.csupomona.edu/~mep/application.html)</p>