<p>On average, how long does orientation take. For the people who went how helpful was it and is it really the only way I can sign up for classes now?</p>
<p>It takes the full week? Other than for registration, it’s worthless. Most of the required activities are pretty stupid, but you have to go to everything if you want to register (on the last day). Their are parties off campus, but beyond that and registration it was a pointless waste of money.</p>
<p>most of the orientation sessions are from tuesday at noon to friday at noon. I’ve never been to one but for now, it is the only way to register for classes and strongly recommended that all admitted students attend.</p>
<p>Is the July 13-16 session too late? More important than anything to me is getting the professor I request.</p>
<p>They keep spots for each orientation. First orientations have some better selection in terms of timing though. Regardless, freshman almost always have early classes, 9:30 may not seem so bad after waking up early for high school, but the idea of a 9:30 class now makes me gag.</p>
<p>sprintuser, if you sign onto your UT account, go to “My Home”, look down the right hand column, and click on ‘orientation’ near the bottom of the page, you can click “change registration” and see which sessions are still open. the availability of each session is different by majors. if the session is open, you can see the date, if not, then the date will be gone.</p>
<p>What about the transfer registrations? They look like they are only one day. I hope they aren’t for a week; I need to work.</p>
<p>cancellations are updated on mondays at 8am(next day if monday is a holiday). You can sign in at that time and try to change sessions if there is available space.</p>
<p>You can’t go to transfer orientation unless you are a transfer. I assume they think that would be quite obvious.</p>
<p>You have a registration time assigned to you based on when you register for orientation. You must then meet with an advisor to get an advising bar cleared so you can access the system.</p>
<p>Your Orientation Advisor has the authority to bar you from registering if you miss certain required sessions–I don’t know if they actually do or not.</p>
<p>But you should go to orientation. You meet a lot of people and it helps you get to know UT better. It’s fun too. If you think it’s boring or worthless you don’t know the right people and need to get out more, because it’s basically one big four-day party if you do it right.</p>
<p>It is one big four-day party and most people enjoy it quite a bit. If you are travelling or working this summer and really can’t give up the four days, you can go to the orientation session at the end of the summer. It’s okay.</p>
<p>If you have never used facebook before, orientation is the time. Friend the people you meet at orientation - you can’t avoid meeting at least a dozen or so new people - and you will easily find them in the fall.</p>
<p>Do you have to go out on your own and find your own fun? or do they have groups set up for activities?</p>
<p>All my friends got late sessions so I don’t know anyone at mine.</p>
<p>There are a lot of things set up for you, meeting with people from your College and meeting with people on your floor (“wing meetings”). People seem to like the midnight tour thing.</p>
<p>Last year there were facebook groups for each of the weeks. You could check on that. </p>
<p>If you are looking for party-type parties, my understanding is that it is not difficult to find out which fraternity house would be a good one to visit.</p>
<p>If the transfer orientation is 4 days long, why are my session choices only 1 day? They give me the choice of either 6/15 - 6/15 or 7/6 - 7/6</p>
<p>when you register at orientation, do you register just for classes in the first semester or both the first and second? and do people usually go ahead and buy their textbooks at that time? I heard that the co-op allows you to sell their textbooks at the end of the year back to them at full price (assuming there’s no damages).</p>
<p>No you register for just a semester a time. Do not think of a year as a year from now on. College courses are all one semester, no more year long classes. </p>
<p>Everyone buys their books right before classes, not at orientation. Only go to the Coop for school supplies or books you cannot get online or elsewhere. It is a rip-off, they do not buy books back at full price, that would be a ■■■■■■■■ business model. They give back 10% of your purchases if you keep your receipt, but it’s still a rip off with 10% back. Maybe 3 weeks before school starts, I recommend buying books off of amazon or ebay(international editions are cheap, paperback, and almost always the same).</p>
<p>do they give you a list of the books you need for each of your classes? If so, when?</p>
<p>If not, is there a website that tells you?</p>
<p>[The</a> University Co-op - Shop for University of Texas Longhorns Football, Basketball, Baseball Jerseys, T-shirts, Apparel & Merchandise](<a href=“http://www.universitycoop.com%5DThe”>http://www.universitycoop.com) has a textbooks section. You go in there, click on the link to the course you are taking with the professor you are taking, and it will provide a list of textbooks either required or recommended for each class. It has not been updated for the fall semester yet. I’m not sure when that takes place. </p>
<p>Also too, in the course catalog section of the UT website, you can find a link to the textbooks. It takes you to the universitycoop.com site as well. If you prefer to do it this way, here is how. Find the course you are taking in the online course schedule, then click on the course number, which will be a blue link. It will take you to a course description page, and at the bottom of it will be a link which says, “Check textbooks for this course.” Click there, click OK to leave the site, and it will take you to the coop site which lists the textbooks for the course, if they have been posted. </p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
<p>thanks foxshox.</p>
<p>I Hope UT, I heard that you get your list of textbooks along with your class schedule. probably when you register at orientation.</p>
<p>When I went to orientation last summer, there was no list of textbooks given.</p>
<p>Text book list is available at the coop website around 6 weeks before school starts. They are sorted by unique number, so its very easy to access.</p>