<p>Hey I am going to the transfer orientation on Friday (because I have summer school Monday-Thursday oh woe is me!) and I was wondering what it’s going to be like? I mean I know we are in meetings most of the day, are they going to walk us around the campus to get to the meetings and stuff like that, or is it mostly just being in one building all day?</p>
<p>Plus those of you who have gone, how was it?!</p>
<p>I went to orientation yesterday. To be honest? It was kinda boring! I mean, I did a lot of reading before hand and was pretty knowledgeable on making my schedule, classes, etc. </p>
<p>We went between 2 buildings…Tercero and where our advising meeting was. I’m a psych major and we did not have individual advising meetings. We were talked to as a group. It was pretty much exactly what we were told in our college meetings. What is your major?</p>
<p>There is a lot of waiting around…your orientation leader will register you and advise you. Getting to register for classes was worth it! And you can change them around later that night as well.</p>
<p>I’m an English Major but I am planning to double major with Philosophy, how will that play into it do you think? Where are the advising meetings in relation to Tercero do you know? Thanks for you response!</p>
<p>No problem. 
I’m not sure how that’s going to work with a double major! All the advising meetings are in different spots. When you check in, you’ll get a name badge and on the back it will have all your advising information. You’ll go with your group and orientation leader. Ask away if you have any other questions!</p>
<p>Thanks for your responses! Are we in groups all day or do we get “alone” time, lol?</p>
<p>And I guess we have to bring our laptops??</p>
<p>oh, do we get our photo IDs that day? What other stuff do we get, other than our classes?</p>
<p>You’ll be able get your photo ID taken before checking in if they follow the same pattern as Monday (when I was there). The ID room opened up around 7:30, while the check-in room opened up around 8. They sit you down, take your picture, and hand you your card within a couple minutes.</p>
<p>Swag you get:
*Your photo ID.
*A printed copy of the 2008-2010 General Catalog (the only one you’ll get for free)
*A printed copy of the Fall 09 class schedule (this contains all of the Fall classes, including the highly critical CRN (a 5-digit numerical code) that you use to sign up for a class. It’s really important to keep a handle on this booklet during the day if you haven’t already picked most of your classes via SISWEB.)
*A wall calendar containing useful dates for the year.</p>
<p>Important things you should remember to take/memorize:
*Your Student ID number will be asked of you multiple times. In most cases it can be looked up, but it goes much faster if you have it available from memory.
*If you have a laptop already that you’re planning to use on campus, yes, you should bring it with. They’ll get it set up so that you can use it when you’re able to get on the campus network.
*A smallish water bottle that you can refill during the day: it hit 92F on my day there (Monday), and weather.com said it was hitting 96F today. You’ll potentially be walking around quite a bit, so dehydration is a definite risk in the hot weather.
*If you have the time to do so, and you’re relatively confident in your various requirements, pay SISWEB a visit (you can access it through your MyDavis page), go to the Registration portion, and look through the “Classes to Add” search function. You won’t be able to register for your classes yet through there, but you can work out a schedule ahead of time and get CRN’s for your ideal classes then. This will save time for both you and your student advisor.</p>
<p>You will have some “alone time” if you wish it; there’s a lunch period during which you don’t HAVE to participate in activities (though several service groups will have people there to be available for questions). You will also have time during most of the small-group activities as in these cases it’s usually a matter of the 9-ish people in your group each getting some one-on-one time with the student advisor rather than everyone doing something together at once.</p>
<p>Beyond that, you’re mainly shuttled around to a few more (your college dean’s presentation) or less (Aggie Pack rah-rah) informative “lectures”, for lack of a better term, then given to your Orientation Leader (a current or recently-graduated student) to go over the degree requirements specific to your college. Then there’s lunch, and a series of presentations that seemed quite optional to me if you’ve read through the website (financial aid info, a health and safety lecture, etc). These are optional-feeling, I think, because this is when most people will be visiting their faculty advisors: it would kind of suck to send a student off to a mandatory meeting and thus make them miss an important presentation.</p>
<p>Finally, you get sent back to your Orientation Leader, who approves your Fall 09 class selections and makes some notes in their software package, and then you get to register for your classes!</p>
<p>Magc8ball pretty much covered it all!!</p>
<p>I also 2nd what was said. It’s much easier to have your student ID memorized (although it is printed on your student ID). Oh and make sure you know your student PAC and Kerberos login information!</p>
<p>I missed all those informative lectures. My advising appointment was from 1:30-3:30.</p>
<p>Wow thanks for all of the information. My main concern was how hot it was going to be and how much they were going to make us walk, lol, bummer.</p>
<p>Thanks for all of the information though!</p>