<p>Just wondering if anyone knows what book it'd be?</p>
<p>It's "Things Fall Apart."</p>
<p>is everyone actually planning on reading it?</p>
<p>i think your supposed to go to a discussion on it during O week
the discussion will probably be more interesting if you've read the book.</p>
<p>really? I read that in 10th grade english...did anyone else? i guess i could read it over again...maybe...</p>
<p>Ahh I read that book in 8th grade. It's been awhile.</p>
<p>Oh and are we suppose to get the book ourselves or will they send it to us like certain schools?</p>
<p>LA teacher said "pick a book and read it" so I read Things Fall Apart :-)</p>
<p>Good book!</p>
<p>they send it to you</p>
<p>it is a great book !! i love it. I am half nigerian ( and half kenyan) and my dad( whose nigerian) really relates to it because it happened to his side of the family, the later generation- iguess my grandparents his parents...thankfully. My dad is Catholic,,,,</p>
<p>What really struck me as interesting, moochy, was at the very end when the white guy decided to sum up Okonkwo's entire life in just one chapter (or paragraph!) in his book...</p>
<p>The summer reading is just like the swimming test; you have to do it! I didn't do all of the reading, assuming they would never test it. However, I ended up in the lowest quartile of the discussion session. I'm in the engineering school, and the dean was the moderator. Every time I pass him in Carpenter Hall, I relive the session. It is an understatement to say that the past four years have been unpleasant.
The summer reading sets the tone for freshman year. Every freshman class covers the reading, even math. If you ace this, you are set for the next few years.<br>
This summer is your best chance at getting ahead. Don't waste it.</p>
<p>how do classes cover/relate to the book? jus wondering...</p>
<p>My year, the book was "Guns, Germs, and Steel." It discussed the rise of western civilization. So, in Math 192, we used an example from the book to learn about exponential growth.</p>
<p>My writing seminar was "History of the Future," where you learned about how people in the past predicted the future. We had a critical writing assignment where we had to discuss how our world would change if some of the theories in the book were different.</p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
<p>Read the book but for 95% of the students it will be useless. Some of the writing seminars use it but most don't.</p>
<p>Do we need to buy the book or will they send it to us?</p>
<p>Pretty sure they send it.</p>
<p>i haven't recieved any book yet?</p>
<p>And are you guys serious? I mean i always thought that summer reading for orientation was optional</p>
<p>It's not going to kill you to read a book over the summer. I will be attending MCAT classes 4 days a week, doing 2 hours of HW a night in addition to my own preparation, and spending at least 5 of my Saturdays taking the 6 hour practice tests.</p>
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<p>it's not going to kill you not express your fustration studying for the mcats elsewhere.</p>
<p>I'm sorry but many premeds are doing the same as you.No sympathy for you there. Don't bite back at people because your life is stressful right now.</p>
<p>I simpy stated that i thought it was optional; to me many of the comments made so far on this thread seem to be over the top. </p>
<p>Don't bite back just because you are fustrated studying for the mcats. BY the way, i am reading several books this summer.</p>
<p>norcal, are you taking the mcats this summer?</p>
<p>anyway, I got an internship over the summer in the clinical chem department. 12.50 per hour 40-50 a week is not bad</p>