<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I'll be a incoming direct admit freshman. Due to other really important commitments I will only be able to move into my dorm on the 26th. So, I'll be missing all of welcome week.</p>
<p>Is welcome week important for incoming freshmans? Will there be lots of meetings with various clubs/ university things?</p>
<p>Also, I'll be missing the mandatory direct admit meeting. I have a good reason to miss this week, so I'm sure if I email the people in charge and tell them ASAP, I will not be able to attend, things can work out. There are a a lot of things listed on what they will be doing in the meeting. Is there anyway, I can make up the lost information (perhaps online)? I don't want to struggle through the first semester to only find out, one little thing would have solved everything easily. </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>It's not university things and clubs that make Welcome Week so fun, it's the one time where you meet everyone, party like no other, and there are so many campus activities going on. It's the best week of the year, everyone goes crazy, well, outside of Little 5 week.</p>
<p>The mandatory direct admit meeting is stupid, they just hand you a booklet saying "sign this, we need an information release from you", give you a t-shirt and a flash drive, and then you are on your way. Then they talk about how glad they are that you came to IU, only to ignore you for the next 4 years.</p>
<p>I agree with A2Wolves6 on this one. The fun part of welcome week is meeting people at the dorms, the late night shopping at the mall and Wal-Mart, the induction ceremony at the auditorium and the picnic and a few of the parties--but not the academic meetings, which are just fluff.</p>
<p>Don't worry about missing those meetings.</p>
<p>Speaking of that meeting-- I forgot where I put that letter. Are they going to remind with an e-mail or something, or do I need to actual try to find it? thanks =P</p>
<p>No, I threw my letter away after the meeting. They won't care.</p>