<p>Okay, I am in my hotel room right now waiting for tomorrow, so what exactly do we do on our first day besides unpacking?</p>
<p>hide your condoms in your wallet</p>
<p>Say hi to everyone. Though it’s going to be raining, so I guess you should do stuff inside. Just go about your day like it was your summer vacation. Napping isn’t a bad thing too since you’ll be tired out anyways. That should cut it towards dinner time.</p>
<p>When you arrive in your room, you should have a sign on your door from your orientation leader welcoming you to Cornell and telling you that they will be swinging by your room to pick you up later in the day. The orientation leaders are supposed to pick up their group of students (ranging between 5-10 students) and then bring them to the university sponsored event. If, for some reason, you do not have a sign on your door or are not contacted by your orientation leader, ask one of your neighbors and you can join that orientation group. It’s a day to unpack, meet people on your floor, meet your RA and meet your orientation leader and group - enjoy! It’s the beginning of a great week!</p>
<p>do most freshmen start eating lunch and dinner with their hallmates/friends on the first day? or with parents?</p>
<p>You will get moved in.
You will go to Bartels to register and pick up your registration packet.
Don’t forget to pick up your Big Red Sports Pass right outside.
If you signed up for it, you will take your swim test (girls at Helen Newman, guys at Teagle)
You will walk around the campus
You will read your New Student Orientation Guide, found here <a href=“Tatkon Center for New Students | Student & Campus Life | Cornell University”>Tatkon Center for New Students | Student & Campus Life | Cornell University, and figure out if there’s anything you want to go to
You will go to your first RA meeting and meet your floormates, do some icebreakers with them
You will get picked up by your OL and have icebreakers with your OL group.
Then you will participate in First Night, which is cheesy fun.</p>
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<p>Thanks resurgam :).</p>
<p>Umm…should my roommate and I buy some white board to put on the outside of our door? Also, are there parties that people go to on the first night?</p>
<p>everything takes longer then it should. trust me you won’t be starved for activities. a lot of socializing will happen naturally. if theres a group from your dorm or something going to eat go with them, most people eat with their parents as a backup if they don’t have a group to go with.</p>
<p>and yes there will be parties, they’ve already started :)</p>
<p>@outoftown</p>
<p>Most people will not fully be moved in during lunch time, so you will most likely do that with family</p>
<p>Saturday, however, most people do usually go with their floor or suites and eat together.</p>
<p>thanks for your posts!!</p>
<p>agh! i hope i wont be left out of this group eating thing haha
im a little paranoid about not knowing anyone at all! and im guessing that quite of few of freshmen already have friends from summer/preorientation programs…</p>
<p>and also, parents are allowed to eat in the dining halls? is this only for the first day, or for the weekend as well?</p>
<p>I’ll be eat with your if you like over there =) So you won’t feel left out.
Oh yea, when I move in, I’ll be typing that Grapes of Wrath essay to kill the time.</p>
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I feel similarly. I know absolutely no one at Cornell, and the few people i’ve made small-talk with on facebook already know ppl at cornell through PSPs. So, if anything, we could eat together. I’ll be wearing a Cornell t-shirt with a big “C” on it and a black cap.</p>
<p>I know absolutely no one as well. Well, I take that back. One kid from my school is going, but I don’t talk to him much, so essentially I’ll be friendless. I don’t think it’ll be an issue to make friends though- if anything I’ll be begging people for advice on the Grapes essay. I haven’t read but the first 5 chapters… Hopefully I can sparknotes it.</p>
<p>You guys shouldn’t worry about not knowing anyone because that changes pretty quickly! 
You’ll meet a lot of people during O week, and they’re not going to say “no thanks, I already made friends during my pre-orientation program.” lol There isn’t a friend limit, it’s not Facebook. ;)</p>
<p>Facebook knows no boundaries for making new friends… Haha. I’ve had people from Taiwan and Singapore and Europe ask to be my friends randomly. If making friends at Cornell is half that easy, the entire school will be friends with me.</p>