<p>I heard it is 2 days, plus an overnight stay.. So, what do students typically do at orientation? Is there anything they need to bring with them?</p>
<p>They’ll send you a packet, if I remember correctly, so that’ll fill you in on what to bring and such.</p>
<p>You just go to lots of information sessions, meet with your advisor, meet other freshmen in your major. The actual orientation part isn’t great, but it’s fun to just be on campus and meet people.</p>
<p>Does anyone know the move-in date? My dad is making travel arrangements and needs to make sure he’ll be home in time. As part of the honors program, I think I’m supposed to go a week early… so is that when I move in?</p>
<p>We start classes, what, the 11th? 10? Something like that… So honors welcome week will be a week before. Last year honors moved in on Wednesday, and most other people moved in Friday-Monday. Not sure about upperclassmen though.</p>
<p>Oh, did you guys hear? We get three weeks during winter break this year! They pushed back the end of classes by a week by adding a third week during break. We get the first week in January as well. :D</p>
<p>^Thanks for the info!</p>
<p>Any idea when we have to register for orientation by? Or how long before it all fills up? </p>
<p>I’ve submitted my housing/tuition deposits, did the housing survey thing (just found out that it was due May 1!), and now I’m wondering if there’s anything I’m missing… is there anything that just says “I accept my enrollment” or whatever? I know you can decline online, but are the deposits enough to secure a spot?</p>
<p>My apologies for the double post, but when do you guys think it’s best to attend orientation? It’s either June or August for me, since I’ll be on vacation in July. June seems so soon after graduation, while August seems to be cutting it close… any recommendations?</p>
<p>Earliest as possible. Freshmen are the last to pick classes, and advisors typically will discuss class choices with them either close to the date of or at their orientation. I went to it in June and picked classes two months before my roommate, who went in August. For the most part there are so many freshman required classes for each major that your schedule will be fine, but I still had a better selection than my roommate, and my schedule looked a lot nicer than hers.</p>
<p>Plus I considered it good to get it out of the way. Finish the college stuff early, and then you get to focus on your last days as a high school student (even though you graduated already). Whereas I know if I had had orientation in August, I would have spent most of the summer focusing on college so much that I wouldn’t have had much fun. But that’s just me.</p>
<p>^Thanks for the advice, I’m probs going to be doing it in June! I’ll have to verify with my parents then hopefully sign-up tonight!</p>
<p>Now I’m super confused. I’ve heard from at least ten people that there is no special honors move in or orientation… </p>
<p>So what is it? Do we go early or is it just certain events during orientation/welcome week?</p>
<p>^I’m pretty sure that a week before classes start is when it happens… events such as the ropes course, meeting the author of the summer reading, etc.</p>
<p>Someone please correct me if I am wrong!</p>
<p>You have your normal orientation just like the rest of the university which is two days, one night. You do icebreaking activities, take the math placement exam, learn about cheating/facebook etc. For the honors program, you will move in a week before everybody else. It is actually really fun because there are some days where there is nothing to do and you get to hang around, meet people, explore the city, etc. In the honors orientation, you go to the ropes course, meet the author of the required reading book, discuss the book, do a community service project, have an ice cream social, and a few other things that I don’t remember. I really enjoyed my honors orientation.</p>
<p>I live right by Ashland (where the ropes course is), so I find it ironic that I’m going to school a week early just to come back home :)</p>
<p>I’m really excited about the honors week. I hope we get to explore Boston a lot, because while I am familiar with it living 20 miles away for my whole life, I definitely have a lot more to learn about it.</p>
<p>I don’t recall doing much with Boston during Honors Welcome Week, except for the volunteering day. At the time I didn’t really like the welcome week. It seemed like we had to wake up early and go to pointless events. But now I really am glad I did it. I got to know people so well during the week, especially since I lived with them. We all met at move in on Wednesday, got to know each other on the first welcome week event on Thursday, and then were inseperable by Friday. It was pretty awesome.</p>
<p>Yea, I mean there are no orientation events to explore the city but once you get the activities out of the way in the morning, there is plenty to do in the city. The first day when we had some spare time we went to the Pru, got charlie cards, one of the other nights we went to the North End…If you go to your RD and say “I want to explore Boston. I have 3 hours” i’m sure (s)he will lead you in the right direction.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info, neuchimie and RedSox2007 :)<br>
I’ve got the next 5+ years to explore Boston, so I’m not too worried about doing it all in welcome week.</p>
<p>I’m sure this question has been asked many times before, but while we’re on the subject… I know that in schools right outside of Boston, such as Tufts, they said that while Boston is very accessible, there was so much to do on campus that not many people were going into Boston every weekend… since Northeastern is right in Boston, do students rely more on the city for fun? Do extracurricular activities suffer at all because of this?</p>
<p>Depends. Most of the <21 fun is in off campus apartments. I have friends with apartments on Columbus, Hemmingway, and near the Pru. That is my weekend fun right there. Since extracurricular activities are during the day, they are not affected at all by the fun of the city. People don’t usually go to Newbury/Copley/etc in between classes (although I have) for fun. Schools like Tufts HAVE to make sure their campus is fun because there is nothing else to do. All of those schools say “well Boston is only a 45 minute bus ride” or whatever but none of those students ever come to the city (at least none of my high school classmates) because there is stuff to do on campus. But Northeastern has all the activities a school like Tufts would have but we also have the city. For example, there was a campus-wide Capture the Flag competition this past weekend. People had to show up to a given location wearing red or blue. A map was passed out showing the red base side (one half of campus) the blue base side (the other half) and the safe zone (forsyth street). I am at home and couldn’t make it in, but I know people who have done it before and they say it is a blast. There are all different cookouts/events in the spring and fall and there is always something to do. Now that I’m at home waiting for coop, I find that I’m very bored and just tend to relax and watch TV. It feels weird because I haven’t felt that in almost two years (last year I took my last final on a friday, started working on the next Monday, then finished work on a friday and moved into school the next day). If I’m at school and for some reason don’t have work to do/it is the weekend and I’m looking for something to do, I’ll take my girlfriend out to lunch or dinner at a new restaurant or go get a bunch of guys together and play football in the quad. </p>
<p>To get to your point though, Northeastern has the best of both worlds. Great campus/activities and we are 0 minutes away from the city.</p>
<p>And i just realized that is a really long paragraph. Sorry about that.</p>
<p>Last year we did a lot of friend making games… like you go off into a small group of kids that are your major and you do little games to get to know one another and stuff… you also have some talks, i believe there is a safety/alcohol one, a dining hall one, and someother ones… during the day you have to be with your group or eating, but at night you can just hang out and meet people… you’re not supposed to go off campus but i’m pretty sure it happens… its nothing great but i made some solid friends at orientation, a fun time, but sometimes you feel some of the stuff is stupid or pointless</p>
<p>Haha, no worries RedSox2007… it was pretty much exactly the answer I was looking for :)</p>
<p>And thanks for the info rdsoxman5!!</p>