<p>Hey guys. I got session 110 (freshman student), and I was just curious about a few things regarding orientation.</p>
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<li>Do you do something throughout the entire day, or do they give you free time to do as you please?</li>
<li>How do meals work?</li>
<li>When is the last time you get food? (Sorry if the question is a little odd)</li>
<li>Do they give you a bedtime or let you sleep when you please? (Yea, sorry if this question also sounds a little odd)</li>
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<p>Thanks in advance for any responses.</p>
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<li>you are pretty much busy throughout the entire day. They will give you some down time, but that’s just so that you can plan your classes and meet with your orientation counselor. But you pretty much have activities throughout the day. You will have activities at night to do too, but I’ll let you wait until orientation to find those out</li>
<li>Some meals you eat in the dining hall, last year we ate dinner outside of ackerman, and you will have some money on your bruin card to buy lunch around campus. They pretty much cover your meals, but I still ended up having to pay a little for my meals because the money on my card ran out, so I would bring like 10 or 15 bucks just in case.</li>
<li>Dinner started at 5 o’clock i believe and that was the last meal that they provided, I got hungry at night and didn’t have anything to eat. I would definitely recommend bringing snacks or buying stuff there. Literally the last meal lunch on the last day of orientation</li>
<li>you are a big kid now, so you get to sleep whenever you want or not sleep at all. Just know that you will have to do a lot of walking, so I would at least get a few hours of sleep</li>
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<p>Hi! I just came back from orientation (Session 108)
- The second full day of orientation is mostly unscheduled time in which you plan your classes. The first day you’re busy with a lot of lectures (some more interesting/useful than others). The third day you enroll in classes, listen to a few more lectures, then take a ~3 hour walk around campus.
- brosiedon’s right. They provide all meals except lunch on the first day and the last day. For those lunches, you’ll use your Bruin Card (preloaded with $15) to buy from various fast foodesque restaurants.
- Exactly what brosiedon said
- There’s no curfew or “lights out” time. You sleep whenever you want. </p>
<p>Have fun! My one recommendation: do some class planning beforehand so you don’t feel totally overwhelmed when you get there. Use the class planner and class optimizer feature on myUCLA.</p>