<p>Hey, I’m just curious when everyone’s orientation session is.</p>
<p>Mine is the first orientation for the College of Letters and Science, July 8-July 10.</p>
<p>Mine is for Bio Sci on Aug 5th…and after you come back can you tell how it went for you?</p>
<p>Mine is on the 15th. I also have the same request as Purply</p>
<p>Mine is the out of state/international one in September.</p>
<p>Mine is July 8-10</p>
<p>Mine is 8th-11th August…</p>
<p>College of Engineering , Davis.</p>
<p>Well, since I have a half hour to kill until I need to meet with my orientation leader…</p>
<p>It’s been fun so far, outside of the lectures. Those have been long, but they at least try to make it entertaining through skits and such. Some advice to you guys though: When you find people to hang out with, try to set up meeting spots. I’ve found a few, but we didn’t set up any initially. We now have a meeting spot for the rec center activities tonight, but we haven’t been able to find one person that we were with. So yeah, either that or exchange numbers so you can find each other (unless they all happen to be the same major as you, in which case just wait for the group meetings with the leader).</p>
<p>Hi PhantomVirgo,</p>
<p>Do you think its worthwhile for parents to attend the orientation? Do you see alot of parents there?</p>
<p>I can’t comment on the usefulness from personal experience since my parents aren’t here. It seems to be about 50/50 on whether a student has a parent with them. Just keep in mind that you’ll only get to see your child during meal times or any free times that the two orientations have in common. It seems that quite a few of the parents expected to be with their child for the entire time, to be honest. If there are financial issues or potential schedule conflicts, I’d recommend against the parents going just based on what I’ve read about the parents’ orientation. If you don’t have those problems, I don’t see why not. </p>
<p>I’ve met a couple people whose parents have come, so if I get a chance to talk to them about that I’ll report back.</p>
<p>Thanks, PhantomVirgo… definitely worth it for students, just not seeing value in being there a solid 3 days… seems like I could get topics from browsing the web… It seems like a few topics seem interesting like degree requirements and meeting the faculty, but for 3 days it seems a tad overkill (my 2 cents), unless we are going to be serious helicopter parents… </p>
<p>[Orientation:</a> Sample First-Year Family Schedule](<a href=“http://orientation.ucdavis.edu/first-year/schedule-family.html]Orientation:”>http://orientation.ucdavis.edu/first-year/schedule-family.html)</p>
<p>Yeah, after talking to the people whose parents came, it’s probably overkill.</p>
<p>Just a warning to everybody: The second day is exhausting! Partly because of the hours of lectures (where they don’t even try to be entertaining, unlike the first day), the placement exams, and the MU after dark. MU after dark was incredibly fun; the day was long and boring though.</p>
<p>And a note to other incoming freshmen: Do some research on your courses! It seems like most didn’t do any kind of research, and that even those that did are having trouble finding open courses. Apparently the system is acting up though, so that may be a part of it. In any case, at least go in with a general idea of what courses you might be interested in. Let me put it this way: I already had a detailed list of courses before orientation, and the only reason I’m still awake now is because of looking for classes for tomorrow.</p>