<p>So my question is basically about freshmen orientation. Does anyone bring there parents? Are they supposed to come? What am I supposed to do about getting their during registration at 8 since I have to fly in?</p>
<p>YAY FOR ORIENTATION QUESTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>I'm actually going to be a parent orientation leader for this summer, so the answer to your 1st question is YES!! Bring your parents. Parent orientation and student orientation are totally separate, and you won't really see mom and dad during orientation. I HIGHLY recommend that your parents attend orientation. The more information they have means the less they will be in your business once you get here in the fall (trust me). </p>
<p>You get to stay in East Quad, they should probably rent a hotel room (there are plenty of cheap options around Ann Arbor. If you live far away, you can request an extra night before your orientation starts to stay in East Quad.</p>
<p>Check the orientation website for more info. <a href="http://www.onsp.umich.edu/incoming_freshmen/orientation/fall.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.onsp.umich.edu/incoming_freshmen/orientation/fall.html</a> If you want to ask me more detailed questions, FEEL FREE to PM or IM me. All my info is on my AIM profile. Look foward to meeting you this summer.</p>
<p>KB</p>
<p>Who are you...and what did you do with KB?! LOL Man, what a total transformation. I remember not 3 months ago, KB was morning his decision to turn Dartmouth down in favor of Michigan. Today, the guy is involved in student politics at the University and has become an orientation leader etc...! You are doing us all proud KB.</p>
<p>Hah...as long as you don't start calling me a flip-flopper in the daily lol.</p>
<p>Actually, I think government had a lot to do w/ my reduced *****ing about Michigan. When you are on government, you learn a LOT about how the university works and why things are the way they are. I think that's probably it...or maybe its the East Quad water (I think they've been slipping something in there to make us forget that its April but still cold as hell lol).</p>
<p>At any rate...woot for orientation!</p>
<p>I'm rambling....time to get off of CC for today.</p>
<p>Don't sweat it kb, your secret is safe on CC! hehe</p>
<p>The water you say??? I knew there was a chemical explanation people in East Quad dressed like that....</p>
<p>YIKES! a chemistry placement test?!?!?!? uh oh....</p>
<p>Yep. Anyone who wants to be placed in East Quad gets a urinalysis, with the eventual outcome of the results of the test being the opposite of the policy of most major employers. (If that makes sense, the syntax is a little convoluted.)</p>
<p>Just kidding.</p>
<p>I get your drift Ahab. You might also think the same of West Quad upon walking into 2nd Wenley house any given evening and taking a nice whiff. It's no wonder that hall was the one who flooded the bottom 3 floors of west quad yesterday by playing soccer in the hall and breaking a sprinkler. Thousands of dollars in damage.</p>
<p>God, that was such a bummer of a story. I mean, what a terrible time of year for students to get their stuff ruined and have to move out of the residence hall. Besides which, even though kicking a soccer ball in the hallway was sort of a bonehead move, it's a pretty typical form of college goofing off and (until now) seems pretty harmless as far as fooling around in the dorm goes. It's lousy that it ended up being such a big deal (so much damage!)</p>
<p>wow i might as well not even take the chemistry placement and just tell them to put me in intro. lol</p>
<p>if you ever want to take a chem class, just go and take it. it couldn't hurt. i knew i was never going to take chem so i didn't bother. As far as the west quad incident, i think you underestimate the school's awareness on the actual boneheadedness of this activity. My first week here at school we were basically forbidden from throwing anything in the hall for that exact same reason. Supposedly something pretty similar happened in south quad a while back and they did over $30k in damage. I'd imagine my RA wasn't the only one who took that seriously.</p>
<p>Interesting! This I did not know. I've changed my mind--total bonehead move.</p>