<p>i think i read somewhere that duke was going to send each of us a copy? am i mistaken? has anyone read it yet?</p>
<p>Yeah they are sending us a copy.</p>
<p>Awesome book! My book club read it, and it made for great discussion.</p>
<p>anyone know when they're sending it? Mid-july?</p>
<p>Yeah, Mid-July</p>
<p>and then you should also get letters from your facs around the same time!</p>
<p>(haha i'm excited-- still haven't received my fac copy of the kite runner, feel compelled to buy it everytime i'm at the bookstore, but i know a free copy is coming my way. get excited. also- i don't know when y'all are getting housing info. i found mine out around this time last year, but if any of you are in SOUTHGATE post because i'm a southgate fac so i'll be seeing you in the beginning of the year... and maybe you're a faclet!)</p>
<p>whats fac mean?</p>
<p>first year advisory counselor
theyre upperclassmen who show you the ropes during orientation and whenever you have a question. they also discuss the book with you during orientation.</p>
<p>bluestar- you wrote "y'all"!!! going through southern accent deprivation or something?</p>
<p>i miss my roommate and her y'all! (and was probably talking to her at the time, or something).</p>
<p>facs officially carry your stuff into the dorm, help you move in, give you tours, bring you to dinner, book discussion, answer any sort of questions from an older friend/sibling perspective. but we have no sort of authority over the freshmen so we can invite them to west to party, answer the sort of questions that may be off limits for an RA, stuff like that.</p>
<p>So where did you hear about the kite runner, and why exactly are we reading it (not to sound cynical, just what are we doing with it)?</p>
<p>theres a discussion session(s) that all first yr freshmen must participate in during orientation week, plus I heard we will be referring to it at times in our writing 20 class.</p>
<p>I never mentioned our TERRIBLE summer reading book in my writing 20 class-- it's kind of an "optional" sort of thing (though if they're telling you writing 20 will talk about it, then by all means read the book) but this time the book is supposed to be absolutely fantastic and worth reading. during orientation duke will assemble a panel discussion about the book, and i imagine yours will be far more interesting than ours, and after that, you have a smaller discussion w/ your fac & fac group. i'll be honest, i didn't finish my book because it was bad, and half the people in my fac group didn't even talk. some facs are like "hmm we're in the BC, let's go get snacks" and never even talk about the book. i mean, at least in our experience, the book never came up outside of that discussion (until spring sem when the author came), but they could've reformatted the program.</p>
<p>thanks for clarifying bluestar, I wasnt completely sure what the summer reading entailed.</p>