<p>Just from FB pages, it seems like some people are pretty fired up about who was and wasn't chosen to lead O-Week. What's the reason they care so much? Just because it's really fun?</p>
<p>Also, what are the different levels of O-Week leadership you can take on, and what do they mean? I've seen some positions where you organize things, some where you lead a group within your own college, and even some where you lead groups within other colleges.</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity, which FB page are people talking about this on?</p>
<p>I saw them talking about it on the Rice Confessions page.</p>
<p>Also, I don’t know if you know or not, but there’s also a Rice 2017 group in addition to the page, since the page wasn’t working so well.</p>
<p>Yeah, cuz I certainly haven’t seen it. I’ve never seen anything like the implication of “who’s in and who’s out”. Rice is very cohesive. Rivalries are between colleges, not people.</p>
<p>Each college has a team of coordinators who organize orientation for that college. They also work together with the other college coordinators and the campus-wide coordinator to put together the larger, campus-wide events. Generally speaking, I don’t remember there being too much drama involved with coordinator selection; it’s a fun and rewarding position, but it also requires a significant time commitment for most of the year leading up to O-Week. If you’re an incoming student, you really don’t need to worry much about things like this, because you’re going to have a great O-Week no matter who coordinates it and you’ll be interacting more with the O-Week advisors and your fellow incoming students than the coordinators, anyway.</p>
<p>OWeek is the best week of your life, and some people get mad because they’re not chosen to be an advisor for OWeek. It’s just petty people being petty</p>
<p>What exactly does Oweek consist of? I think it is the first week of school. Is it required for everyone to be there? Or is it an optional thing for students to attend right before school? I couldn’t imagine anyone not wanting to attend however. What makes it the best week of your life? Are their any classes during that week, or is it fully stress free and fun? Do classes start the week after?</p>
<p>Oweek is far from the best week of your life. I personally find it a bit overrated. My Oweek experience was okay, but it’s not even in the top 5 of my favorite moments of my freshman year. </p>
<p>To answer some questions:
<p>That’s the most I will tell. Half of the fun of Oweek is being surprised by the things that happen.</p>
<p>@averageguy. Must’ve been a Will Ricer, heh.</p>
<p>OWeek for me was absolutely amazing. There’s some super secret moments when I just stood there thinking “wow, I’m sure as hell lucky to be here,” when OWeek was just magical, but I can understand not everyone thinking that it’s the best week of their lives.</p>
<p>But yeah, like you said, it’s a week of 90% fun and then some “transitioning to college” lectures, but it’s a fantastic experience overall.</p>
<p>honestly, the thing I liked most about OWeek (Baker’s at least) was the care that all of the advisors and coadvisors showed for us freshman. One thing that really stuck with me was when an advisor told me “Rice has two major traditions. Beer Bike and OWeek.”</p>
<p>Just to have an upperclassman put OWeek on the same level as Beer Bike spoke a great deal about how much the week means to everyone.</p>