<p>For UCLA,</p>
<p>Just wondering how I should navigate around this day, cause I certainly am NOT going to arrive at 7:30 am and leave at 9:30 pm.</p>
<p>Is it essential to get there at 7:30 am?? It shouldn't be right?
What's a good time to go, around 9:30 am perhaps?</p>
<p>Just wondering if anyone can share anything with me before I go Friday, like can I leave early, what I should bring, etc etc. Anything helpful, would naturally help me.</p>
<p>I haven't had my orientation session yet, but I think someone on here posted a while back that orientation usually lasts until like 4 or 5 pm. Granted this could vary, but that gives you a rough idea.</p>
<p>I wasn't planning on arriving that early either, but I have a feeling that the later you arrive, the longer you will have to wait around. </p>
<p>Any July 3rd orientation people out there to help give some insight?</p>
<p>The first few hours are mostly speeches and stuff. Registration doesn't start till 8PM, but you can do that at home if you want to leave early.</p>
<p>8PM?! Say wha? Who in their right mind would stay that late? So if we can register at home, what exactly do we do all day long?</p>
<p>I think there are workshops and stuff, or you can just wander around campus. For hours.</p>
<p>Basic around lunch you talk to your counselors and they recommend what classes you should take, and from then its mostly work shops you can attend until dinner. After that you meet back with your group and walk up to their dorms and they give a presentation, and you register after that. It wont let you register till 8 even if you try earlier.</p>
<p>You should bring your most current transcripts and some water, since you will probably be doing a lot of walking. They give you a bunch of papers and booklets so a backpack will be nice also, but they give you a sack to put your stuff in if you want to use that.</p>
<p>Here are some scans of the schedule they give you:</p>
<p>do parents usually go to orientation with you ? even though there is a separate day for parents during orientation</p>
<p>Thanks for scanning the schedule, extraghost :)</p>
<p>did you get a chance to glance at the line for people getting bruincards? if so, was it long?</p>
<p>I sent in my form and when I went to sign in they had my card at the table. The line for the bruin card didn't look too long, if there was even a line at all.</p>
<p>thanks for the info. :)</p>
<p>What time would you recommend to arrive at? If we don't do much in the mornings then I'm definitely not going to be getting up that early.</p>
<p>10:30am - it's when you meet with your orientation groups. Anything before that is unnecessary and dull (imo). For example, you get a person talk for about an hr to an hr and a half about why you should not cheat, what UCLA's values are, etc.</p>
<p>If you don't want to miss too much, arrive at 8:30am, that's when things actually start - I guess they wanted to give everyone ONE HOUR from check in to the first item on the schedule.</p>
<p>Just went on Friday.</p>
<p>Didn't go to any of the workshops, was planning my own classes. Workshops wouldn't have done anything for me at all, none of them really applied for me.
So I did whatever from 1:30 - 5, slept in front of Powell library most of the time actually. It was pretty comfortable.</p>
<p>The only thing that was useful to me from 7:30-10:30 was that video about plagiarism that had a funny ending. R = Thursday on Class Schedules.
Everything else is cliche blah blah. </p>
<p>Aside from that, definitely recommend showing up at 10:00 get your sign in crap and walk to Broade or w/e to meet your orientation group by 10:30.</p>
<p>If you're interested in switching majors, your orientation counselor has a list of majors willing to see people who are interested, even ones that were shown as impacted on the UCLA site (obviously not for Biz/Econ etc though).</p>
<p>Aside from that, you can actually just leave after you eat lunch with your orientation group if you find them all odd, boring, and no potential for them to be your friend. Because you can easily plan out classes for yourself to take, just use the Class Planner on MyUCLA. You really don't need the counselors at all, you can just leave at 1:30 ish then go home, sign up when everyones registration window opens at 8.</p>
<p>Thanks for the report, TrEbOr. I'm so glad I spent the money on food & gas instead. I was pretty shocked at the kind of pressure they used to try to get people to pay for this (if somebody found it useful, that's great).</p>
<p>umm, yeah. I just went to orientation today and it was long and boring. I did meet a couple cool people, but a few weird ones as well. There was this girl in my group who would just randomly start smiling for no reason. It doesn't sound bad, but it was borderline creepy. All in all, it was pretty chill.</p>
<p>I went to orientation today too. Kat. What was your major and who was your OC, if you don't mind me asking?</p>
<p>I am an English major and I kinda don't want to tell you who my OC was on the off chance that the girl posts on here. ;) lol There were only like 3 English orientation groups though so that narrows it down a bit. haha</p>
<p>Oh, okay. Good thinking, haha. My orientation group was cool, even though we didn't really stick together. My OC was really nice even though she had to deal with eight very frustrated poli sci majors.</p>
<p>If I signed up for Orientation, but would not be able to attend it...would I still be able to register for classes?</p>
<p>I think the question has been answered by some members...anyways, i'm coming back here today to visit this CC forum but I see so many new faces now... </p>
<p>A big hello to all of you UC transfers especially the ones attending UCLA!</p>
<p>My orientation was quite good. I however wasn't able to attend any of the workshops and sort of spent a lot of time doing the work list study- trying to find classes that would work. </p>
<p>But, the atmosphere, the people, and my counselor, MARY QIN, were awesome. </p>
<p>I think you'll like it. . .</p>
