<p>Go on a weekend. Many of the parking lots are free then including some of the ones that require an A permit right up next to some of the colleges. Just make sure to check the posted signs to see when parking is enforced.</p>
<p>Yeah, I highly encourage you to go on your own little tour. I didn’t go to Spring Spotlight two years ago, but I went to the freshman orientation. You don’t really get a tour during your orientation, so I just went out on my own after I signed up for classes. I basically snuck my way into some of the colleges/dorms to see where I was living and what kind of atmosphere I would expect in the upcoming fall. I realized that I kind of wished I put Cowell as my #1 instead of C10, so maybe spring spotlight would have been good for me.</p>
<p>You guys have an advantage now because school is in session, so there are actual students on campus. Over the summer there are usually high school kids for dance/cheerleading camp, so you can’t really get access to all of the residential halls/can’t get a feel for each of the colleges’ environment. Students are usually more than happy to show you their dorms or give you a small tour of their residential hall. I just gave a tour to this mother and daughter today at C10 because they couldn’t get access to the dorms.</p>
<p>@inthemorning; Ahh, I see! I just want to visit each college (namely: crown, college 9/10, and cowell) to get the feel of them - see which college would ‘fit’ me best! (:</p>
<p>I wonder if I can just see the presentations(?) and slip away during the tour to go on my own tour with my family (me, my mom and two sisters). Or would they prohibit it?</p>
<p>i don’t think they would notice. after the presentation you go meet up with our group (which is about 15 people) and they take you around. its cool to learn about science hill and the mascot and such, so i would probably cruise around the campus after. but if not, you can always not do the tour and see that stuff yourself =].</p>
<p>I went yesterday, and I must say I lost like 10 pounds hiking everywhere. Just kidding, but it was a nice workout lol.</p>
<p>We went inside the yellow college, which is college 9? I believe, and the double rooms were way spacious.</p>
<p>Uhh, I didn’t know you had to reserve a spot, and it’s full the next two days.</p>
<p>I was planning on going tomorrow, Is it ok if I just show up?</p>
<p>They will not notice you at all if you slip off to do a tour on your own instead of the guided tour. : )</p>
<p>You can go, but you’ll have to find a way to get parking -.-. It’s not free either unless you have the temporary parking ticket thing XD</p>
<p>I went to the Spring Spotlight last Saturday, and I was disappointed as our tour guide barely gave us any info we didn’t know already, and we only saw a fraction of the entire campus. All we saw were trees and buildings and more trees.
Not the best way to see the campus IMO. I’m going to an Open House for the School of Engineering so I hope I can see more of the campus that way.</p>
<p>*I mean we barely saw any residential halls or dining halls.</p>