<p>What should the kids bring with them to orientation? Sleeping bag/pillow?</p>
<p>bedding, towels, casual/comfortable clothes for two days is all they need. IIRC, they sent in the info and the photo in advance so their key cards were waiting for them when they arrived.</p>
<p>we gonna sleep over in the dorms, right?</p>
<p>Did you get your Be Ready kit yet? If so, there’s a whole brochure about orientation. They now provide bed linens and towels (but knowing my D, she’ll bring her own anyway in case their’s are scratchy or don’t smell “right”) </p>
<p>To bring:
photo id
parking permit/vehicle info
alarm clock
fan
clothes
umbrella/rain gear</p>
<p>Students stay over in Wilkeson Quad</p>
<p>Do they have programs for parents over the 2 days?</p>
<p>Here’s part of what I posted on another UB thread about our experience last summer at orientation:</p>
<p>The parents orientation is a full day, but certainly optional. Lots of parents (especially those living locally) dropped their kids off and did other things. Some did part of the day only. Others (like us) did the full day. Many families doing the orientation had younger kids with them.</p>
<p>Here’s my hazy memory of the schedule:</p>
<p>The orientation begins in the morning with checking the kids in at the Ellicott Complex, getting their overnight room assignment and dropping their overnight gear off. Then a large assembly for parents and students. Welcome from the President and senior academic and adminstrative staff, history of the school, UB pride, university initiatives, etc. Then the kids leave for their activities (broken up into smaller groups). Parent stay put and have a couple of sessions devoted to things like moving in FAQs, leaving home, academic issues, housing, student services, etc. There are tours of the campus. Meanwhile the kids are having their own sessions on similar topics (but geared to the students’ perspective). Parents have lunch together, kids have a separate lunch. In the afternoon there are choices of smaller group sessions that parents and students can choose, on topics like campus security, dorming, academic areas, technology, library services, etc. The kids have the opportunity to meet with their advisor at some point during the day, and also representatives of the department they’re entering (if that’s set). There’s a family picnic dinner for family and students at the end of the day. Then the parents leave. The kids have activities during the evening. Next day pick them up in the morning and check them out after breakfast.</p>
<p>I think the orientation lasts until 3 PM the second day.</p>
<p>Need blanket and pillow? What’s with the fan? I thought it would be cool summers in Buffalo, especially at night. No?</p>
<p>The dorm room was hot and stuffy last July. We did not take a fan, nor did any of the other girls my D shared with. They survived. But they all DID take sheets and pillows from home, like sk8rmom said. maybe it’s a girl thing.</p>
<p>Well, crazed, if your kid gets roomed with mine no need to worry. D takes a fan to every hotel or sleepover. Hope her roomie next year likes sleeping in the same room with a wind lover! Drives me nuts, but she can’t seem to sleep without air moving…she has her little quirks.</p>
<p>sk8rmom</p>
<p>Would your daughter like to room with my son?
He likes the cold! (hence Buffalo)</p>
<p>Lol, no thanks! She’s had enough of living with her brother (Felix and Oscar) and looking forward to sharing with another girl!</p>