<p>yankees, coste and rrah have already done a great job at answering the latest questions. I’ll add my answers, which are slightly different.</p>
<p>As far as registering for classes, to make the best use of your time at orientation, you may want to do some research ahead of time. Most importantly, get familiar with IU general education requirements and requirements for your school/major. Then look at the course descriptions for the classes that meet the gen ed and major requirements, along with pre-requisites for those classes. Once you have a bunch of classes that seem interesting, you can use the course search tool to find what sections are available for the course. Here you will find the dates/times, location and instructor (sometimes instructor is not listed). Now you can really go crazy and look up the instructors on ratemyprofessor.com, look up grade distributions for the courses, look at a campus map to see where the buildings are located, etc. There are so many things to consider, so it all depends on what is important to you. You should make note of the exact class sections you are interested in, so you don’t have to start from scratch when registering at orientation. If you have a later orientation date, you can double-check the availability of those classes just before you leave for orientation. One additional thing to consider, that didn’t come up until orientation, is the timing of final exams. Your advisor will probably advise you not to register for two classes that have final exams at the same time. Unfortunately, my daughter’s schedule results in two final exams that are 15 minutes apart. She really doesn’t want to change her schedule so she is hoping one of those classes will have a flexible final exam option.</p>
<p>If you are in Hutton Honors, you will still just have one advising session, and it will be in the Hutton Honors college building (at least that’s where my daughter’s was). My daughter is a Kelley direct admit and her advisor was from the Business Honors program, so he was very familiar with Kelley requirements. His regular office is not in the HH college building, and she’s not sure he will be her advisor in the fall.</p>
<p>For orientation housing, they provide bed linens and pillow, towels and a bar of soap. For our orientation all students were housed in the Union Street apartments. I’m not sure if that’s the location for all orientation sessions, but I can’t imagine they would spread the students out over multiple dorm locations. You can either check in your bag at Wright when you arrive for orientation and pick it up there after dinner before heading over to your housing, or keep it in your car until after dinner when you head over to your housing (assuming you drive). My daughter kept her bag in the car just because we didn’t know there would be an option to check in the bag in the morning.</p>
<p>The final exam link determines your final based on the lecture time. If your class is one of the ones listed (ie, Chem C117, etc.) the final may be different. If your professor decides to have the final during dead week instead of finals week, it could be different</p>
<p>As much as you probably don’t want to hear it, freshmen get the short end of the shaft. Classes with finals scheduled late on Friday or back to back to back to back, things like that. It gets better, generally by senior year you only have 1 or 2 finals during finals week</p>
<p>Octoberdana, we just returned from orientation yesterday. Our 14yr old was originally going to go but we changed our mind after talking to FYE and I am so grateful that we did. Our schedule A was long and tiring and our daughter would have been incredibly bored (even the 2nd day). The meetings can be long and they are really only interesting to parents. I made notice that I saw only two other kids there, one about 9 and one about 12, both were very well behaved, but they had to have been terribly bored. We remarked several times that we were thankful we changes our plans. </p>
<p>Btw, my 2 cents. The orientation staff was amazing, students were especially impressive. We did not experience the problem with smokers or housing complaints. I am not sure I can find anything negative about the entire experience and I can be pretty critical. </p>
<p>Parents, go to the optional Health Information and Security information sessions, very informative. (Schedule A was in morning 2nd day, Fine Arts building). There is tons of construction on campus, ask any walking student and they will tell you how to find something. Wear comfortable supportive walking shoes, you will need them!</p>
<p>I agree with Mama. We had orientation on Monday. I thought the schedule was long and much for parents was a bit unnecessary. (Although the staff was great). I think it is just a way for them to keep parents away from the kids. My D said she was surprised by the number of parents hovering during the advisement. She said some parents were following from one location to the next on the second day. </p>
<p>We took advantage of having nothing to do and went to breakfast and a long walk on campus. The campus is just beautiful.</p>
<p>Did Orientation Tuesday-Thursday for DS, who is a Kelley direct admit.</p>
<p>On Tuesday night he took his Calculus test.
Wednesday started the Orientation, with the B group beginning at 11am.</p>
<p>Lots of great info, and students are separated from parents. The parent schedule is what I would call grueling and went into much more than I anticipated. It was incredibly well done with lots of information. IU seemed to anticipate just about everything and I appreciated how well organized they were with the information and presentations. We finished up the parent session around 4:30pm and met up with the student and then went into a session on registration. Jacobs and Kelley students are pulled out while everyone else goes into a large hall. DS is a Kelley DA so we were in a very small group which was nice. </p>
<p>We were given info from the Kelley staff on schedules and balance, in preparation for advising. We left around 6pm for dinner. There were evening events and the student could spend a night in the dorm. Parents could stay in a different dorm but I really liked the idea of my hotel. lol. DS was originally signed up for dorms but didn’t care to do it, so he un-registered and we went to dinner. That night we did not go to any of the evening things mainly because (1) he didn’t care about playing volleyball and meeting people he would never see again and (2) I was exhausted and had a headache and needed to get back to my hotel to work. </p>
<p>Thursday morning (Day 2) there was another session beginning at 8:50am which meant getting there pretty early for parking. We choose not to go as it was a preview of the Arts Season and billing/payment, which was pretty clear on the IU web site. 10:30am had some “sprint sessions” for students with Careers and Health Care, followed by Study Abroad options. Since we had already been to IU several times and did a Kelley meeting in early March, we were aware of the Study Abroad opportunities. At 1pm the dorms opened up and we could go and get a tour which we did. DS had advising at Kelley at 3:30pm, he got his schedule and went to the Library to register and then got his ID. We were in the car heading home at 4:45pm. (His advising was pretty short due to ACP and many of his pre-reqs are done.) We wasted quite a bit of time in Bloomington between the dorm tour and his advising and I was glad the mall is just a couple minutes away. </p>
<p>If I can figure out how to post the NSO schedule I will!</p>
<p>Comfortable shoes, umbrella, pen, water bottle, maybe a light snack, cell phone to meet up with your student. And information overload always gives me a headache, so I add ibuprofen to the list! You will get a bag at registration to carry the papers and other goodies you will receive.</p>
<p>I agree with Stbemptynest, that should be about all you need, perhaps a small notebook if you need to take any notes. We did not take umbrella but we were not forecast rain and figured we could take cover if needed. I have done a college visit in rain though and it is no fun. I also took thin sweater, most buildings were cold and outside was sweltering, I get chilled easily. Those comfortable shoes (even good supportive walking sandals will do if it is hot) are a must.</p>