<p>bring laptops if possible cuz computer labs are full or closed most of the time when i was at orientation. it's frustrating to wait for a computer to look up classes.</p>
<p>you'll need a towel after shower and the first few hours we met our counselors, filled out a survey everyone have to do, met our orientation group which will be your friends since there is a lot of group activities, then we went to moore 100 to listen to a couple speeches which are quite interesting.</p>
<p>i wish i had brought a laptop. everythign would have been a lot easier.</p>
<p>They have a towel and a washcloth in the rooms for you, but I brought my own so it was nice to have the second set in case I wanted to go swimming.</p>
<p>btw kirbydee73, do you have facebook? kind of curious who you are since you post so much</p>
<p>were the rooms you guys were in shared bath with like a couple rooms or did most of them have private? just wondering =p</p>
<p>it is shared bath with another room</p>
<p>You can go swimming? o_0</p>
<p>and someone said it was organized by last name right?</p>
<p>organized by last name? well I think room assignments are by last name and orientation group is by major... well my group was all engineers...</p>
<p>fastmed: who doesn't have a facebook?! i live for facebook! haha i was just on facebook two mins ago.</p>
<p>charisma: i personally didn't for certain issues but a couple of my friends did. went swimming that is.</p>
<p>groups are organized mainly by major, i don't think last name played a big part to be honest. however i think rooms were by last name since my roomie also had a b last name.</p>
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I don't know, but didn't I suggest for incoming students to plan their schedules BEFORE coming to orientation? I was there in the Rieber lab myself and I saw the long waiting list.</p>
<p>This could have been avoided if you read the threads a few weeks ago.</p>
<p>I agree with BH, planning out your schedules ahead of time helps especially if you know the info you'll need to look up for your OC's. The only thing is I had planned out a schedule then went to orientation and completely changed it after talking to my peers and oc. The one I have now is amazing, I even get to take thai (my mom is from Thailand and I never learned thai so my relatives pick on me a lot)</p>
<p>How do we plan a schedule ourselves before Orientation? I saw the General Catalogue online... do we refer to that and randomly chose GE courses? I don't exactly understand how we start from scratch and draft a schedule. Maybe I'm missing something here...If you guys could explain, that'd be great. Thanks.</p>
<p>Start with <a href="http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule%5B/url%5D">http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule</a> for the actual schedule of classes. Determine what your requirements are for your major and ge's. Look up appropriate classes and try to put together a study list of ~13 units (or more if you'd like). For an online tool to help, you can also use the Class Planner feature on MyUCLA (you have that right?). That plots it out for you based on time slots you've chosen and it can even suggest all the possible combinations of lec/disc for your courses based on your criterion (early/late, minimize gap).</p>
<p>ucapplicant05, thanks for that! Now... what about the people who aren't quite sure of their major? We still plan out GE courses like everyone else, right?</p>
<p>ok, for example. I searched under "GE CLASS SEARCH" and randomly clicked on "Arts and Humanities-Literary and Cultural Analysis" and from what I see there are many, many courses to choose from. We must choose from ALL of that? I'm not complaining, but it's a lot to go through and there are tons of codes and annotations that I don't even know the meaning to... (Does TYPE: DIS mean the class is discussion-oriented?) ... Is there an easier way to sort through all of this ... ?</p>
<p>Have you decided on at least a particular area of study in broad terms? You can try to complete some of those courses that are relevant to most of the majors you might be considering.</p>
<p>For picking out GE's, you might prefer to look at the PDF list instead at <a href="http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/ge/%5B/url%5D">http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/ge/</a>. Just pick the college you're in (L&S right?) to see a full. yet concise list (just dept, course number, and title).</p>
<p>The way it works is that typically a class will have a lecture and discussion component. You enroll in both, but you have more flexibility in terms of which one discussion associated with your desired lecture that you want. Sometimes, the class may only have a discussion, so there won't be a lec option.</p>
<p>Besides the main ge and major stuff, try to satisfy other stuff you might need (e.g. eng comp3).</p>
<p>The dis refers to discussion. Many classes have them, usually larger classes or ones that require active participation. Lec refers to the lecture. All classes have a lec type slot, some have the dis. You must enroll in the lec and a dis if the class has a dis. The nice thing is there are usually quite a few dis so you can decide when you want it to be (right before class, right after class, a day you don't have class)... The dis is usually run by TA's in small groups, I think the ones I signed up for are between 15-20 people. Does that make sense? I hope that wasn't as confusing as I think it was.</p>
<p>As for organization, the lec should also be the first line followed by it's corresponding discussions. If there are multiple lectures, the LEC should be bolded and beneath each individual lecture is its corresponding discussion dates.</p>
<p>Boelterhall,
i planned my schedule before orientation but once i got there everything got really confusing (ex. final conflicts, ge requirements) and i had to pretty much start from scratch. </p>
<p>moral of the story: bring a laptop, you won't regret it.</p>