<p>Any CCers attending the June 9-10th Orientation session?</p>
<p>We are attending June 22/23rd.By chance, my D’s room mate is attending the same session. Since she lives OOS, I am excited to get a chance to meet her and her parents. : )</p>
<p>Gibson- we are attending june 22 too. Is your d in honors dorm-maybe we could meet. Gamomof3- i am so impressed yall got the first one. By the time my s got home from school they were all gone.</p>
<p>@gasenioryear. I was checking off and on since that morning. D was at school too but since I know all her logon stuff she told me to do the first one as soon as it became available. It did not take long for the first session to get filled up. I don’t think D knows anybody in this session so it will be good to get to know some people. I like the fact that you get to meet with others who will be in your dorm that will be good for those not in the high rises. D got assigned to her first choice for dorms - Reed.</p>
<p>gasenior yes- Yes, she is in Myers,
gamomof 3- let us know how orientation goes. I have no idea what to expect.</p>
<p>Just thought I’d mention that the students will be registering for classes during orientation. They will be seeing an adviser who can help them. If you want to start looking, you can go here:</p>
<p>[Bulletin</a> - Home](<a href=“http://bulletin.uga.edu/]Bulletin”>http://bulletin.uga.edu/) - look up your major and you can see what classes you need.<br>
[Schedule</a> of Classes | Office of the Registrar](<a href=“http://www.reg.uga.edu/schedule-of-classes]Schedule”>Schedule of Classes | Enrollment & Registration | Office of the Registrar) - schedule of classes. Not always updated, but if your student can get into Oasis (you can sign up for your myID now and then you should be able to get in), you might be able to go through the registration screen and look up available classes. </p>
<p>Previewing what you need and what classes you could potentially take might save some headaches when you get to orientation. There are good advisers and not so good advisers.</p>
<p>If the adviser tells you one thing, but the bulletin says something else, call the department and get what they say. My adviser told me to take a certain class, but it ended up being the wrong one (thankfully the class I took was still acceptable, but I was supposed to take another one). Don’t completely trust your advisers!</p>
<p>Great tips, jenmarie.</p>
<p>Also, if you/D/S is considering a major that uses a Permission of Department/Major system for registration, change major so you can take prerequisite courses in the first semester. I applied as an English major (no POD pre-req’s) but quickly decided to switch to political science (where the pre-req is POD only). Took two semesters to get a POD for this pre-req; if I had changed majors during orientation, I could have taken the pre-req immediately and started major courses a full semester earlier.</p>
<p>Of course, it would’ve been nice if my advisor mentioned the SPIA POD system off the bat. Like jenmarie said, D.Y.O.D.D. and don’t rely on advisors to guide your course selection.</p>
<p>Thanks Jenmarie and Jablalf. Your comments have ALWAYS been so helpful!</p>
<p>My Orientation Report:</p>
<p>From a parent perspective, be prepared to get information overload. With this being the first session and the large incoming class, they have a few kinks to work out. On day 1 you will get presentations from just about every department: Financial aid, student accounts, housing, campus security, food services, etc. They end day one with Orientation Live. Its was their version of Saturday Night Live done by the Orientation Leaders. I will say that was is a talented group of young people. It was entertaining. Day 2 you spend most of the day just waiting on your kid to do the stuff they need to do. </p>
<p>The kids have a full day as well. They have to take placement tests. The math is required. English is highly recommended unless you already have the AP credit. If you have just taken the AP test and waiting on scores, they still recommend you take it. One thing we found out late in the process is that you should take the foreign language test. They said if you plan to continue in the same foreign language you took in high school you should take it but my D didn’t think she needed to because she had not taken Spanish since 10th grade and just wanted to start over. But because she had taken it and even thought she wanted to start with beginning Spanish, she still has to take the test. She didn’t take on Day 1 so now we have to plan a trip back to Athens just to take that test.</p>
<p>Another tip: If you have a major in the Franklin College of Arts and Science be prepared to wait when doing your advisement. Because there are so many students in that area, they do a group advisement and you have an assigned time and then follow that we a few mins of individual advisement. My Ds advisement time was 1:40 and it took until almost 3 just to complete advisement. And you must complete advisement before you can register for classes. You also have to do your UGA card and can tour your actual dorm. All of this between 1-4. Needless to say it was a pretty hectic day for my D. One of her biggest challenges was trying to figure out the registration system on OASIS. It is not the most user friendly application. They do not allow parents to go to the advisement session or registration. So they are on their own. But at the end of the day, we left with our UGA id and a class schedule for the fall. Probably not the schedule I would have picked but then I don’t have to live with it.</p>
<p>We did get a chance to tour the dorm she was assigned, Reed. She is very happy that she got that dorm instead of one of the freshman high rises, no community bathroom!</p>
<p>The resources fair on the morning of Day 2 was pretty good also. It gave you the opportunity to ask specific questions to some of the departments from the previous day and see some of the student organizations…you can also get some free stuff and free stuff is always good :-)</p>
<p>It was a great experience but I am glad to be back home.</p>