<p>So we were there in force: DS, DH and me. I didn't learn much new (thanks to CC and the Explore session I attended), DH went to EVERY parent event and will submit his analysis in the next 72 hours, DS said it reaffirmed his decision to go to USC and walked away with a nice looking schedule for fall. He thought the dorm (North, also his dorm of attendance this fall) was smelly. I have to second that and hope they clean the carpets before fall.</p>
<p>Anyone else?</p>
<p>Haha, sorry if this sounds stupid, but what does DS and DH mean? xD</p>
<p>But glad to hear you guys had a great time during orientation! And that’s great that your son got a good schedule for the fall. I remember last year I got so frustrated during registration that I ended up taking all classes that I didn’t need and just redid it at home. But New/North does smell, lol, but normally not that bad…or at least you get use to it. But at the beginning it was clean, then it was up to us to maintain whatever level of cleanliness we wanted, lol</p>
<p>Dearest Husband, Dearest Son, etc. </p>
<p>I thought they replaced the carpet in New/North last year, but I agree, it does have a funny smell.</p>
<p>New/North is kind of a dump. At least they get sinks in their rooms though.</p>
<p>I actually thought a lot of the meetings were kind of pointless. It also felt a little overwhelming and tiring without any breaks, so I had to make my own break time. My orientation adviser was pretty cool though. I think your time’s best spent just chatting with your adviser, asking any questions, spanning from school business, to everyday life, to some of the type of questions you wouldn’t want to ask any of the adults. </p>
<p>Oh, they also could of told us that the entire packet, filled with 2 huge catalog books, they gave us wasn’t needed until registration the next day.</p>
<p>But enough complaining. The rally at the end was amazing, and everyone is pretty friendly. Makes you feel like a Trojan, doesn’t it?</p>
<p>I agree with longnguyen, it was a little overwhelming and most of the sessions were pretty pointless. I loved the spoken word artist dude for Visions and Voices, though - I would have gone to orientation just to see him.</p>
<p>The social was soooo awkward and reminded me of a middle school dance. Because really, all anyone wanted to do was just hang out and meet new people. And that was hard with the blaring music. Or even during the actual orientation, it was a little hard to meet people because you had so many things to attend. In the end, I recognized a lot of faces, but I can probably only name 10 of them.</p>
<p>My roommate (for the night) and I ended up sleeping until 9:30 on Friday so we missed the morning meetings and just went to the Expo, which was really fun because there were really cool freebies, haha. Registration was easy for me because I had actually built my schedule before I got there, so all I had to do was press the Commit Changes button when the time came. I got all the classes I wanted, met a ton of smart (and really good-looking) people, and walked away with a lot of USC paraphernalia, so I would say it was pretty successful. =)</p>
<p>(Although I’m from NJ, so it was SUCH a shock when it was raining Friday morning.)</p>
<p>Oh, and I went without my parents, which was fine so don’t stress if your parents can’t go. I thought about half were with and half were without. And I felt like it was more awkward when kids had their parentals around because they were definitely more clingy and less inclined to sit with other students, whether it was at a session or lunch. Since my parents weren’t there I HAD to introduce myself and sit with new people - (or I could have sat by myself, I guess, haha) so it worked out for my benefit. A lot of the parents I did talk to said they skipped out on some of the parent only sessions or did not pay attention to it because it was pretty repetitious.</p>
<p>n|n is not the nicest but it’s a really fun dorm. don’t worry, he’ll get over it.</p>
<p>not to scare you but was the smell perhaps reminiscent of beer? ;)</p>
<p>—class of '12</p>
<p>More like a by-product of beer, if you know what I mean. And feet.</p>
<p>Hey so what did kids at orientation wear? I’m trying to decide… was it super casual like jeans and t-shirt, or did students get more dressed up? Jw.</p>
<p>When I went last year, everyone was VERY casual, I mean it’s really more like we’re just hanging out.</p>
<p>Just wondering: do your advisers recommend that you take a Category VI GE with your Writ 140 class fall semester, or do they just recommend that they be taken sometime in the freshman year?</p>
<p>You can’t take them separately, that’s why they are linked. The extra spaces in the classes are for personal interest or to satisfy diversity.</p>
<p>Ah, my question was posed awkwardly. I was wondering if I could take the two in, say, spring semester freshman year. They do offer the courses in spring, so I don’t see why not, but everybody I’ve talked to have signed up for the Cat VI+Writ140 fall semester.</p>
<p>It does not matter whether you take it fall or spring. They encourage you to do it in fall to get it over with (and also to “prepare” you for other classes - even though it is not a prereq to anything, except writ 340, the idea is that you need to know how to write for your other GE’s ans possibly major classes)</p>
<p>Technically, you’re supposed to take it freshman year. But, some people push it off until sophomore year. I personally put it off as long as I could :)</p>
<p>Oh thank goodness! I wanted to take “The World of the Red Chamber Dream” class but it’s only available in fall! Now I can take it :)</p>
<p>Edit: Ah poop, it’s closed! I’ll try to steal some spots on orientation day then. And my Cat I GE class of choice (Love&Its Representations) conflicts very perfectly with my Biology lecture. :(</p>
<p>12layla12: everyone was pretty casual; i.e. jeans, tee-shirts, flip-flops. USC gear was also quite popular and always a safe route to pick.</p>
<p>Did anybody change majors at orientation? I was wondering how hard it is to do that. Im in CLAS and i just want to switch from Political Science to Biology (both in CLAS). Thanks.</p>
<p>Since its in the same school, call before you go to orientation, I’m pretty sure they can do it over the phone.</p>
<p>Since you’re switching majors within one school (CLAS), it doesn’t really matter. That’s what I was told when I wanted to switch from physics to undeclared.</p>