<p>i heard from a ucla student that you should bring a laptop to orientation so you can sign up for your classes...because the computer lab gets full? i thought we signed up for classes with our counselor? or do they just help us pick and then we sign up for the classes by ourselves online?????</p>
<p>I left my laptop in my car and brought it to the registration session in the evening. Wasn't worth it though since a lot (most?) of the OC counselor's rooms don't have wireless. It was hard to pick up a connection and I ended up just using the computers in the counselor's room. And my session was so late that, really, an extra 5 minutes most certainly did not make any difference. </p>
<p>But yeah, your counselor will suggest that you stay in the evening to register but it isn't mandatory. I found a lot of the class planning the counselors helped with to be pointless, but I suspect this is because I'm a transfer and had been creating schedules for over two years. It's probably best that you stay and have the counselor walk you through the URSA process. </p>
<p>Anyways, it's your choice. Won't make or break you.</p>
<p>hmm my friend told me that if you bring your laptop, you wont be able to connect to UCLA's wireless because you dont have the code and password and stuff to set it up, so bringing it would be useless. Is that true?</p>
<p>we sign up for classes at 8 am on the third day.. so i suppose there will be a mad rush to the computer lab.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, I keep forgetting that transfer orientation is different than freshman orientation. I'm pretty sure the counselors might still have you do it in their rooms (or some, at least). Could be wrong, though. </p>
<p>And about the wireless thing, good question. Last year at orientation I did manage to connect and didn't need a password, but it's likely that I got a hold of someone's personal signal and not the school connection. All you need to sign on to the school system is your BOL id. So it would probably work.</p>
<p>A <em>rush</em> to sign up for classes? I'm getting a bit nervous now since I don't really have any idea of what classes I want to take my first quarter at UCLA...</p>
<p>wait so on the third day at 8am, EVERYONE rushes to the computer lab to sign up for classes? or do each of the orientation groups go 1 by 1 until every group has gone? er if they do this, would it be a good idea to bring your laptop since the computer lab would be full and no computerS?</p>
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we sign up for classes at 8 am on the third day.. so i suppose there will be a mad rush to the computer lab.
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<p>wait... when i did freshman orientation, students signed up with their orientation counselor. meaning about 10 people get to use a counselor's computer to sign up. my counselor had us draw random lots. so i dont think this mad rush to the computer lab exists.</p>
<p>but... if you HAVENT looked at the course offerings/scheduling and availability, then you're probably going to need a computer to do that. and plenty of people havent yet before orientation so everyone hogs the computers in the computer lab to do this. so to avoid this, you should do all the planning now and check up on availability the day before orientation</p>
<p>alright, so you can only sign up for classes with the orientation counselor, and the only reason you'll need a laptop is to look up courses and their availability?</p>
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i heard from a ucla student that you should bring a laptop to orientation so you can sign up for your classes...because the computer lab gets full
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<p>Maybe its been so long since that student did it that they completely forgot about their orientation... the computer lab is completely unnecessary since they have a printout of every single available class taped to the wall when you're planning out the schedule, and the sign up is like what kfc4u said.</p>
<p>The only reason why you might consider bringing a laptop is if you think a few minutes might make a difference, which doesn't, and you end up worrying about what might happen to your laptop while you're gone from your room since you never really know your random orientation roommate for those 3 days, especially if they're like mine who leave the door open the entire time even theyre not in.</p>
<p>OTS, a cheap trick to do is if you know a current UCLA student who hasn't taken the classes you plan on taking and having them just hold a spot in one of the more popular classes so you can go to a later orientation (so they can drop the class at some obscure hour saturday night when people are commonly asleep and you can add it right away). Then you can sign up for a later orientation session and not worry, unless of course there's a wait list, but with the exception of labs in my experience, most people get off the waitlist since professors will grant PTEs (codes to sign up for the class).</p>
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the computer lab is completely unnecessary since they have a printout of every single available class taped to the wall when you're planning out the schedule
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<p>although i kinda wished i could hog one of the computers in the computer lab cuz scheduling based on the printouts took longer than i thought, esp. since for me many classes were either full or conflicted with each other</p>
<p>again, do all your scheduling/planning backups now and check availability the day before you go and you'll save an hour and be more knowledgeable at orientation lol</p>
<p>They update the printouts throughout the day, and once people sign up for their classes from earlier, they don't do too much rearranging (since the smart people rearrange their schedules before the next orientation starts registering). It probably took me about an hour to do my whole planning. I think most people when I went usually took no more than 2 hours- youre grouped by majors, and your counselor will give you a barebone skeleton recommendation to work off of</p>
<p>having a laptop will help if you need to plan out your schedule. i suggest you bring a CAT5 cable if you do bring it, although the lounges in Vista or Terrace (i think thats where you guys are staying...lucky bastards) should have wireless. doing it by the printout way was frustrating (for me), and the computer labs will be packed with people trying to figure out their schedule too. definitely bring some kind of lock to lock it up though. as already mentioned, you dont know the people you'll be rooming with for orientation, and you'll likely never see them again after those 3 days. not to mention, vista/terrace are suites, so its definitely possible the people in the other room might go into your room and snoop around or something.</p>
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again, do all your scheduling/planning backups now and check availability the day before you go and you'll save an hour and be more knowledgeable at orientation lol
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<p>Where exactly do I go for scheduling and availibility? I know what classes I have to take for my major (or can find out) but what about GEs? Clusters? Fiat Lux etc? Where do you check availibility and times?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/%5B/url%5D">http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/</a></p>
<p>Use MyUCLA to help you too if "class planner" is available. I can't remember...</p>
<p>kevin, did some orientation groups go before others or was everything at the same time? and what do you mean by random lots?</p>
<p>all orientation groups go at the same time. your orientation counselor will have their own method of deciding who will go first. my OC went by the order in which we turned in our proposed schedule to her. others might have you draw straws, pick names out of a hat, or something like that (aka random lots). they will have one or two computers set up for you guys to register.</p>
<p>where does your orientation counselor actually bring the group to choose their classes? is it like individual classrooms or do all groups go to a computer lab and separated by orientation groups?</p>
<p>You register in your councelor's room.</p>
<p>do people generally get the classes they want? </p>
<p>...have any of you ever missed out on classes?</p>