<p>Nice!! Guess you had the same urge to write about everything like me, haha. Good stuff, this should definitely help people.</p>
<p>For those who have already gone to orientation, does anybody know how you sign up for english composition 3? All the sections are listed as closed on the schedule of classes.</p>
<p>They’re filled, but they typically open up again during each day enrollment is for the individual orientations</p>
<p>Thanks everyone!</p>
<h2>I’d like to amend my original post. Now I’ve read what I wrote and noticed some missing things but it’s too late to actual edit the post. I’d also like to answer some of the questions you’ve posted.</h2>
<p>Day 1 (adding in stuff that happened after lunch; refer to original post for better context)</p>
<p>After lunch, you go to more lectures. Then you go to the infamous “barbecue.” It’s basically a bunch of tables with hundreds of Styrofoam take-out cartons with some chicken, bread, a very soft cookie, and something else inside. If you’re a vegetarian (like me) then there is one table at the end that has a vegetable burrito instead of chicken. Either way it’s not good food. It might have been good but it tasted like it had sat in the carton for a few hours before we ate it. You go find a table outside on the Ackerman Terrace. The chairs are like made of the heaviest metal ever. To move the chair it just drags along the ground creating an acrimonious sound not unlike nails on a chalk board. The only good part of the meal was the lemonade (or water) they provide with the meal. So yeah food during orientation (in my opinion) isn’t that great unless you’re buying it from Carls Jr, Jamba Juice, Sbarro, etc in Ackerman Union. </p>
<p>During and after the meal there are several (10+) tables setup in Ackerman terrace for various clubs and fraternities/sororities at UCLA. You can go up to the tables after you’re done eating and they’ll tell you about it, give you some brochures/papers and ask you to sign up for their mailing list. I got stuff from a lot of cool clubs. Keep in mind that this is only a handful of the nearly 900 clubs UCLA has. You will see a lot more clubs during the student activities fair during zero week of the fall (so I hear). I recommend going to get some brochures and learning about some of the clubs (but pay attention to the signs, if you’re not into LGBT or w.e., then avoid those tables because it’s very hard to refuse a smiling UCLA student handing you brochures and stuff). </p>
<p>After eating and visiting club tables, there was a show (read: cabaret) put on by the orientation counselors in the grand ballroom at the top of Ackerman Union. Honestly the show was very unprofessional and at times silly, but overall it was pretty funny and stuff. Expect a lot of USC jokes. Oh and you also learn the UCLA 8-clap which is like something you do at sports games and stuff to root for UCLA. You clap 8 times, say “U” while sticking up right fist, clap again 3 times, “say C”… well just wait you’ll see. It was really hard for me, they did it so fast. I think I’ve got it down now though, i’ve been practicing.
-After this is the Club Jamba and stuff which i mentioned in original post.</p>
<h2>Skipping to Day 2:</h2>
<p>Day 2, morning
Believe it or not, but I forgot to pack shirts. WOW. I packed everything else, even undershirts, but not actual shirts. So I ran down to Ackerman Union in the morning in my undershirt, waited outside for 15 minutes until it opened, and bought two UCLA shirts for $40 (one for today, Day 2, and one for tomorrow, Day 3). It’s all good though, now i’ve got some Bruin Wear. There were a LOT of UCLA shirts. Lot’s of choices. You could probably have your whole wardrobe consist of UCLA clothes and never have to wear the same thing twice in a week or so.</p>
<p>Day 2- afternoon
Also on Day 2 while everyone was in a lecture, my orientation counselor spotted Reese Witherspoon in Jamba Juice. Unfortunately I didn’t personally see her but it was cool to know I could have, had i been in the right place at the right time. Jenn (counselor who saw her) said she looked like she had just got done working out because she was wearing work-out-type of clothes. Cool stuff. However, I did see a famous Italian soccer team (Football Club Internazionale Milano…more commonly known as just “Inter”) on campus. I didn’t know who they were at the time but they were famous. It was cool looking them up online and recognizing them since I saw them no more than 10 yards in front of me. There wasn’t a lot of hoopla about it either, just a small gathering. Obviously no one knew they were gonna be at UCLA until right then.</p>
<p>-Day 2, evening
I’d like to add something about Carpe Noctem. A good way to find things is to ask random people. My group was having difficulty finding something so I got the brilliant (lol) idea to ask someone where it was. I suggest you do the same if you can’t find it on your own. You’ll see random like maintenance people or security guards around, just ask them where something is and they’ll more than likely tell you. </p>
<p>Day 3, afternoon —
After some lectures on sex and alcohol, you meet with orientation group and combine with another group to go on a very long campus tour. Toward the beginning of the tour you get a coupon for a free cappuccino at Kerckhoff coffee place and you get a small cup of baskin robbins ice cream. Oh but before you go on the tour but after you’ve combined with another group you eat lunch at Ackerman Union with the two groups. And it just so happened that the orientation counselor of the other group we combined with was the creator of the internet-famous UCLA squirrel video ( [YouTube</a> - Try to do](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jByfWOLmjo]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jByfWOLmjo) ), his name is Aldrin Gamos ( don’t worry his name is already all over the internet). His video has been featured on several TV shows including the Bonnie Hunt show. He became a small internet celeb and even made a few hundred bucks from his video. Kinda cool to meet the creator of the video, even more so because I had seen the video before I met him. He’s a really cool guy. Anyway after that you start on the long campus tour.
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<p>Now I’ll answer some of your questions.</p>
<p>*I DEFINITELY RECOMMEND BRINGING YOUR LAPTOP. No you can’t use it to actually enroll and no it’s not necessary to bring it but you can use it to help plan your schedule. It makes it so much easier to plan if you have your own computer. Also, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND using the “Class Planner” application that is on MyUCLA. I planned my schedule without it but I played around with it after I planned my schedule and man it would have been so much easier had I used the online Class Planner.
You only get 30 minutes during your academic appointment with your counselor in which you plan your schedule using their computer. It’s definitely possible to do so, because most everyone did, but it’s a lot less stressful if you can use your own computer later on to help plan it and take as much time as you like. My friend even let a hot girl borrow his laptop to help plan her schedule. The Class Planner on My.UCLA makes it really easy to spot time conflicts and things in your schedule. Also you can probably more easily make a schedule that has days off if you use it. Okay I’ll stop going on about how good it is…
Other than planning your schedule you probably won’t use your laptop as you’ll be too busy having fun. And there is no wireless internet in the dorm rooms themselves. There is internet in study rooms and a lot of other places though.</p>
<p>*Oh and btw, I knew absolutely no one at orientation before hand. Many other people did know someone already (especially the athletes), but nonetheless I made some friends and had a great time so don’t worry if you know no one going into it.</p>
<p>*As for the Poker question, no you don’t play with real money. You play with chips that represent nothing. There are like 5 tables and at each table someone wins, then all those winners go to one table and do a sort of play-off game. Then the winner of that gets like $20 bucks or something. And it’s Texas Hold 'em of course.</p>
<p>*Your Bruin Card is pre-loaded with $15. You can use it to buy anything you want anywhere you want that accepts the Bruin Card, just keep in mind you have to use it the first day for lunch and the third day for lunch. If you don’t use the $15 then it will stay on your Bruin Card and you can use it in the fall or whenever you want.</p>
<p>*I saw a question about needing your parents. You don’t need them for anything, get rid of them as soon as possible. =p</p>
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<li>(not really a question I saw but I’ll add this anyway:) More than likely all the interesting G.E. classes will be filled up so you’ll end up taking something like “Introduction to Asian Civilizations: History of India” which is cool I guess if that’s what you’re into. I ended up getting a class called “Cinema & Ancient World.” You’re basically just gonna be looking for a class that fits into your schedule. Also signing up for G.E. clusters is different than a normal class. You like have to try to enroll but you won’t know if you actually get in until later that day when your counselor will tell you. But your counselor will probably tell you if you have a good chance of getting into it or not.</li>
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<p>Wow so helpful!</p>
<p>You don’t have to bring sheets/pillow right?</p>
<p>Can you check in at like 7 in the monring? I need to go a bit early.</p>
<p>You don’t need to bring sheets or a pillow. The bed is rather comfortable in my opinion (although I got a top bunk which might somehow be more comfortable than a bottom one)… At least when it’s 1:30 am and you could fall asleep on a pile of rocks. There is one thin white sheet and then a slightly thicker sheet but it’s got “holes” in it. I just used the one with holes in it. A towel was also in the room where the sheets were (on top of the bed) although I recommend you bring your own just in case. You’ll need soap, shampoo, etc. There are drawers to put dirty clothes in.</p>
<p>I’m not sure when the earliest time you can check in is but if you gotta get there early and you can’t check in then just chill. I’m sure you can find something to keep yourself occupied until check in begins.</p>
<p>do you need to bring a blanket with you?</p>
<p>the “slightly thicker sheet with holes in it” IS the blanket UCLA gives you. turn up the heat a bit, and itll be okay. </p>
<p>i personally would bring my own b/c it gets cold, just saying. :D</p>
<p>I’ve always wondered if Moore 100 is really the biggest lecture hall on campus, I mean they say that, but I think Broad 2160E gives it a run for it’s money. I dunno.</p>
<p>Anyway, good tr.</p>
<p>According to the OID website, Moore 100 fits 13 more people than Broad 2160E</p>
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YES. They are pretty famous :)</p>
<p>Is there a blow dryer? Or do you have to bring your own?</p>
<p>You have to bring everything of your own except the following:
- A room
- A bed to sleep on
- Sheets to go on the bed
- A shower (water included)
- A toilet (water included)
- A sink (water included)</p>
<p>Anything not on that list you have to bring yourself.</p>
<p>so you have to bring your own toilet paper?</p>
<p>Check in is at Rieber Vista?</p>
<p>hahaha i just can’t win with you confidentiality.</p>
<p>Yes, toilet paper is provided… my list was incomplete</p>
<p>Check in for your room is in front of Rieber Hall which is also on the side of Rieber Vista… they’re all in the same area.</p>
<p>Thanks for the fact ThisCouldBeHeavn. Maybe I think that just cause Moore is way darker than Broad. I had a class in both rooms each quarter last year, Broad did seem a lot bigger, oh well.</p>
<p>Haha, I wasn’t trying to be funny or anything. It was a serious question because the site said to bring “toiletery.” I assumed it was toilet paper.</p>
<p>Do we have to bring our own water? Like bottled waters?</p>
<p>O lol.</p>
<p>Nah, id just bring like one bottle and fill it up with the water fountains.</p>
<p>Are the rooms all doubles?</p>
<p>They’re mostly all triples, but some kids got roomed with one other person or got singled. I went to 102 and stayed on the 5th floor as well.</p>
<p>Bring your own towels and everything, basically. I skipped out on as many lectures as I could by attending the ones relevant to my interests, and did not take part in all the socializing going on. I kept to a few nice kids from my orientation group and walked around at 1 am outside, enjoying the quietness after a shower. Also, I have never seen so many blonde heads in my life before my orientation! It was certainly a new experience.</p>