<p>vanillacutie - your mom can go on the transfer to WashU with you. She will have to get to her hotel on her own. Don’t plan on spending a lot of time with her, since they will keep you quite busy during the weekend.</p>
<p>vanillacutie- when I said the schedule was busy, I meant that it was busy in the sense that there was always something you could be doing. However, there will be more than enough time for you to stop by the financial aid office- the times it’s open are even listed on the schedule you’ll be given when you get here.
Everything is also very informal- there’s nothing I can think of where you’d need anything fancier than jeans.</p>
<p>As to the general procedure of how to get here, it will be obvious. There will literally be dozens of people to greet you at the airport- there is no way you could possibly miss them and get lost. You’ll then take a shuttle over to the south 40 and check in, and then you’ll probably meet up with your host to leave your bags in their room, or whenever you mentioned you meet them.</p>
<p>For the record, there will no doubt be copious amounts of alcohol available this weekend- whether you want to drink is really up to you. The admissions office just strongly discourages it so that they don’t have any liability. So long as you aren’t making a complete fool of yourself, you should be fine.</p>
<p>okay then :] well i’ll be without a host until dinnertime so if anyone wants to hang out… ^^ pm me or something?</p>
<p>fai - trust me, you won’t need to ask around to find someone to hang out with. You’ll meet plenty of people within the hour and there will definitely be more than one person waiting for their host, so as long as you’re not ridiculously awkward, you’ll be meeting plenty of people within minutes of arriving!</p>
<p>Haha. It is a little funny, my situation. I’m Asian too and I think my host is Chinese, a language I horribly fail at. </p>
<p>I’m crossing my fingers that she’ll see my email and reply back within an hour or so. If not, I will follow through with the awkward conversation. Probably will have to ask my parents for pronunciation help XD</p>
<p>I’m Chinese. But I have no idea how to pronounce my host’s name. Any ideas? Her name is Xenia :x</p>
<p>Xiadane: This is without a doubt a guess- and therefore quite likely really wrong, but maybe ‘zen-ee-uh’</p>
<p>Have you guys considered the option of asking your host? haha</p>
<p>Yeah I’m in the same boat. I’ve emailed my host, and now it’s the night before and I’m wondering if I should call her. …</p>
<p>I’ve emailed and called but no response :(</p>
<p>JakaAmalgam: Definitely try to call your host. It was kind of awkward, but I was getting worried that she wouldn’t check her email so I called and we made a plan to meet. Good luck =)</p>
<p>Just called and she told me that she’d meet me at around noon (I’m arriving at 10-ish)
I’m so excited!!</p>
<p>I emailed and called and received a response back today. Nice guy but he has a hectic schedule.</p>
<p>Hah thanks for the clarification johnson, I didn’t realize that. I initially thought we’d like follow our hosts around for almost everything. I appreciate the flexibility.</p>
<p>But anyways…wooo first time flying alone.</p>
<p>You guys are so lucky. Does anyone else have a host who’s not answering? I feel kinda sad.</p>
<p>~6 hours until I fly to Phoenix and then to St Louis.</p>
<p>Whooooooooooooooooooooo.</p>
<p>At xiadane–I’ve met Xenia a couple of times.</p>
<p>I pronounce her name like “zenia”</p>
<p>writing this post from the olin library. I already applied ED…but I think this library and the “yogurt parfaits/subway” sold me. I’ve never really visited a university library but I have a feeling this one is one of the best. You can’t even hear the people from the cafe in the library floor next door. I loved the earth and planetary science building too, the model mars rover is neat. </p>
<p>My brief review of my weekend…
The campus isn’t as large and confusing as i thought it was on the first day. I feel like by the second day I could find everything on campus. Coming from high school, I’m not accustomed to walking this much but perhaps that is why i haven’t really seen any fat people here. The holi water baloon fight was kind of nasty. People were gleefully rolling in the mud like pigs but the water baloon part was cool. The thurtene carnival was average(didn’t live up to expectations) and the rain didn’t help. The classes were neat for the most part but some of them lacked order and resembled high school classes.</p>
<p>Also, whoever said “not to listen to the people who are just in on this weekend for the free ride” was completely right. Those people are arrogant and very rude, but other then that I haven’t met a mean soul. There does seem to be a lack of religious people here, though, thats just from my general observations from the past couple days.</p>
<p>FHN_dent - thanks for the update. My daughter is at WashU now for multicultural weekend and she’s acting like she’s online for a sorority…she’s not sharing any details. I wondered how the water fight went! I know she’s having a blast–she’s already made some friends and won’t answer my phone calls. Well, she’ll be home tomorrow!!!</p>
<p>akward313: Your post gave me a giggle. I had an identical experience last month when my D went to Finalist Weekend last month at WUSTL. She blamed the lack of communication on cell phone coverage. (Oh, that’s original.) When she got back home (!!!) my disappointment melted when she gave out the biggest hugs and thanked my husband and me endlessly for everything we’ve done that helped mold her into the person she is today. She talked about her weekend non-stop for three days, and her excitement was genuine and contagious. It’s difficult letting go of my biggest investment, but seeing how happy she was when she returned from the WU weekend has helped with separation anxieties and made me realize unequivocally that, come this fall, she will be attending a really fantastic school.</p>
<p>kn12213: So well put. Thank you. I think my husband and I are the ones that are going to be suffering from separation anxiety!</p>