<p>If they run orientation all week the week before classes start...is there typically work/reading you have to do in college for the first day of class? Or do profs usually give you the syllabus on the first day? (is it emailed ahead of time to give you homework?) cause I just don't know if they leave any time for anything else than orientation stuff...our schedule is packed pretty full. I don't even know when I'm going to practice piano that week!</p>
<p>80% of the time I get a syllabus online a few days before the class starts. 20% of the time I get a syllabus in the class on the first day of class. I’ve never had to do work for the class before the class has started. Rarely have I had anything due before the 3rd week of classes. If you have something due early on in the class it’s not going to be a surprise, professors aren’t out there trying to trick kids so that they don’t turn something in when it’s due.</p>
<p>I don’t think I’ve ever been emailed a syllabus before the semester started.
We did usually get a small assignment on the first day of class, though. Reading or a short assignment so the professors know a little more about us and our goals or something. But nothing assigned before the semester.</p>
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<p>Do most places have orientation the week before classes start? Here they have three-day orientations going continuously all summer, you just sign up whenever is convenient for you.</p>
<p>You do get the syllabus the first day of class. I think that is pretty standard. Sometimes it is emailed to you prior to class and you have to print it out yourself (budget cuts, you see) but the first day of class is almost always going over the syllabus. There may or may not be homework.</p>
<p>I have had professors email me of small assignments I was meant to do before class began as well. Nothing major though.</p>
<p>I got Honors College stuff during orientation, but no syllabi other than that.</p>
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Most large, state schools have three day orientations over the summer. However, I live 3100 miles away from the private LAC I attend so a three day trip over the summer would be very inconvenient and expensive. It would also be impossible for many incoming freshmen to attend due to vacations/traveling, financial restrictions, etc.</p>
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<p>Large state schools such as yours do that. I have a friend attending UW-Madison this fall who was telling me about how orientation works there, and I have a friend going to Iowa State who also had a 2-day orientation in June.</p>
<p>At small LACs, like mine, where they can take everyone at once for orientation, they tend to just do it the week before classes start. It’s more convenient actually, so you only have to go there once, not an extra week in the summer (especially if your’e far enough away, like ^ mentioned. I’m 500 miles away, so far enough that I wouldn’t want to go in June or July for orientation and then still have to move in in August.</p>
<p>The freshman at my school have orientation days all during June and they just pick one. For transfer students like myself (or freshman who couldn’t make it down) it’s a two day orientation the Wednesday and Thursday of the week prior to when classes start. We just move in during orientation and have to pay extra for “early arrival” (even though it’s mandatory and not early!).</p>
<p>Mine had an orientation day in june and then the rest of the week before classes started.</p>
<p>Normally in college classes the first class is to introduce you to the class, give out the sylabis, address homework, grade proceedures, the rules of the class, and so on. Normally if there is homework, it may just be reading the text.</p>
<p>Your piano practice can be done on the weekend, if there is not any time during the day or you could get up early if its so important to you.</p>
<p>Let me first address the whole piano thing. You’re not gonna be able to practice, it’s something you’ll have to compensate for later or get over.</p>
<p>Most of the time (in my experience), professors will not expect work to be done the first day, but MAY expect reading to be done. And the syllabus will be handed out the first day officially, but sometimes e-mailed out a few days before the course.</p>
<p>My school has 3 2-day sessions in June, every student attends 1 based on their major. If they can’t make it, on move in day they attend a make up session (about 6 hours) and move in before everyone else</p>