ORIENTATION!!! WOO!
So yesterday I got back from orientation and i figured i'd give the lowdown on how it went.
The drive down there wasn't too bad seeing that my mom drove, and i slept! We stayed at a Holiday Inn the night before because we had to be there for 8:00 the next morning. We got to Eastquad to check in and everything and as soon as i got off the bus to walk in i knew the heat was going to be a nightmare... and i was more right then i wanted to be. The dorms have no AC, and there are a couple hundred people and heat builds up pretty fast... so staying in the dorms when it's hot out plain sucks. And the best part is that it was around 90 out by the time it was 10:00 each morning.
We had an awesome counselor named Byron. There were 4 or 5 other ones, but he was by far the coolest. It was really funny because he was down to earth and normal, not to mention a little ghetto (he loved wearing a du rag), but he had the craziest test scores ever. For some reason someone asked him what he got on his tests to get into college and he had a 35 on his ACT and a 2250 on his SAT's... nutz! He had also been accepted to Stanford and Yale, but chose Michigan.
After we checked in we went and got lectured on everything we needed to know... which was EXTREMELY boring and lasted for about 3 hours. Then we went to lunch. Placement exams were next and everyone had to take chem first. I didn't remember everything very well but i thought i did at least okay on it. After that, just for a lot of giggles, i took the Spanish placement test even though i hadn't taken any in high school. It was terrible because there was a listening portion and i was beyond confused when they were speaking it. I was one of the first ones done because after a while i just started making patterns with the scantron bubbles.
We ate dinner and then went to more boring lectures about campus life and all that good stuff. Then they brought us downstairs in Eastquad and had us watch a play about things that are bound to happen to you during your time at school. I'd have to say that some of it was EXTREMELY funny... like one skit involved a GSI (graduate student instructor) with a class and he was chinese and no one could understand him... it was great, and what made it even better was that he dressed up with short purple shorts, a pirate shirt and had a mongolian beard.
The night was horrible... it was SOOOO HOT and i haven't felt so disgusting in a longggg time. A shower lasted for about 20 minutes and then you were disgusting once again.
Woke up, reluctantly, ate breakfast and then went to more boring lectures... that day was even worse because i was tired and it was hard just staying awake. However, the psychology professor's part was pretty interesting and i think i want to take that class sometime. He taught cognitive psych and it's actually really cool. That boring block lasted some 4 hours and then since i was with the engineering students we got to go eat on north campus at Bersley. I WANT THAT FREAKING DORM!!! its kitchen is air conditioned, has the best food, and it probably has the best rooms.
Advising was next and all that was basically talking about required classes, meeting with some current students for advising, and meeting with your adviser that you're supposed to keep for the duration of college. It actually wasn't too bad. And i was kind of shocked when i met with my adviser because i thought i had done so-so on the chem test but i guess i did really really REALLY good according to her... hmmm.. well anyway i took the highest chem they wanted us to start with... out of all 2 choices, and it happened to be something i have heard some nasty reviews about: ORGANIC CHEMISTRY!!! AHHHH!!! And then came the hilarious part... her words were something to the effect of,"oh, and you placed into the first semester of spanish" and she had this sort of look on her face that was like "what the hell kind of score is that?" haha. she started cracking up when i said i had never taken it and told me that that's what she hoped had happened... i think i wound up with a negative score because it's a 1/3 point off for each wrong answer.
After that we had dinner and then whoever was in any MLC's had to go to their respective meetings... i got into UROP... which is pretty cool because i get to pick out a research project and help out a professor thats trying to do something groundbreaking... hopefully. Next was trying to 'backpack' our classes... which is pretty much picking out your classes and scheduling them accordingly, but not actually registering for them. We saved that for the third day.
I was hoping to God that i got the classes i had backpacked the night before because in about 3 of the 4 there were only 2 available spots! But before that we had the funniest night on EARTH!
So going back to the first night we stayed at the dorms some of the people i met and i went around the town and checked everything out. I guess there were a couple frat parties going on that night too and some people went and had a good ole time there.
Well on the second night a couple people went in search of frat parties. When they came back it was absolutely hilarious. One kid had passed out in the elvator and 2 other people that were drunk found him when they opened the elevator and he had no clue what was going on after he woke up. The 2 other drunks happened to be a football player that made the team (he was a BEAST!) and a shorter kid. This is when i almost cried from laughing. Supposedly one of the kids that went with the 2 of them was coming back from the frat party and had to go to the bathroom, so he started going on a tree right in the middle of town. As he was doing this a cop drove by and SLAMMED on the breaks. The kid just booked it and no one had seen him since. The short kid was so drunk too... he kept saying,"oh man dude! I AM SO WASTED!!"... it was hilarious... these typed words don't explain the laughter. They wound up going back to the party 3 times and got in around 6 in the morning. The rest of the dorm decided to try pulling an all-nighter for no reason. Me and my room mate finally said screw it and went to bed around 4:30.
Moving on... i had to get up at 7 because i was an engineer and we had to be at North campus to register for classes by 8. We barely made it to the bus on time and got to North campus... I was kind of worried because i didn't know if i was going to get into the classes i had picked out, which would suck because it had taken hours the night before to even pick them out and have them work! Long story short... there were about 2 openings left for 3 classes i wanted and i got all of them... it was crazy too because as soon as i clicked the button 2 of the classes were full! talk about getting lucky...
I really don't feel like typing a ton more so i'll try and keep it short(er)... after that we were basically done so i went and tried to find out if i had housing yet. I don't have any yet and when i found that out i was IRATE! they're like,"call back in a week or 2"... ok, i'll be lucky to have housing in college. Then my mom came and got me and i picked up some of the books i needed. I got the books i needed for Organic Chemistry and Calc... i had 5 books for 2 classes that are a semester each... WOW! and the prices, even thoug they were used, was INSANE! It's kind of interesting too because my chem books are written by the professor that teaches it... the organic chemistry book the 1120 pages... for a semester... oh, boy...
Got on the road, drove home, and that was that.
Overview: U of M is SWEETTT!!!! WOO!!!
The drive down there wasn't too bad seeing that my mom drove, and i slept! We stayed at a Holiday Inn the night before because we had to be there for 8:00 the next morning. We got to Eastquad to check in and everything and as soon as i got off the bus to walk in i knew the heat was going to be a nightmare... and i was more right then i wanted to be. The dorms have no AC, and there are a couple hundred people and heat builds up pretty fast... so staying in the dorms when it's hot out plain sucks. And the best part is that it was around 90 out by the time it was 10:00 each morning.
We had an awesome counselor named Byron. There were 4 or 5 other ones, but he was by far the coolest. It was really funny because he was down to earth and normal, not to mention a little ghetto (he loved wearing a du rag), but he had the craziest test scores ever. For some reason someone asked him what he got on his tests to get into college and he had a 35 on his ACT and a 2250 on his SAT's... nutz! He had also been accepted to Stanford and Yale, but chose Michigan.
After we checked in we went and got lectured on everything we needed to know... which was EXTREMELY boring and lasted for about 3 hours. Then we went to lunch. Placement exams were next and everyone had to take chem first. I didn't remember everything very well but i thought i did at least okay on it. After that, just for a lot of giggles, i took the Spanish placement test even though i hadn't taken any in high school. It was terrible because there was a listening portion and i was beyond confused when they were speaking it. I was one of the first ones done because after a while i just started making patterns with the scantron bubbles.
We ate dinner and then went to more boring lectures about campus life and all that good stuff. Then they brought us downstairs in Eastquad and had us watch a play about things that are bound to happen to you during your time at school. I'd have to say that some of it was EXTREMELY funny... like one skit involved a GSI (graduate student instructor) with a class and he was chinese and no one could understand him... it was great, and what made it even better was that he dressed up with short purple shorts, a pirate shirt and had a mongolian beard.
The night was horrible... it was SOOOO HOT and i haven't felt so disgusting in a longggg time. A shower lasted for about 20 minutes and then you were disgusting once again.
Woke up, reluctantly, ate breakfast and then went to more boring lectures... that day was even worse because i was tired and it was hard just staying awake. However, the psychology professor's part was pretty interesting and i think i want to take that class sometime. He taught cognitive psych and it's actually really cool. That boring block lasted some 4 hours and then since i was with the engineering students we got to go eat on north campus at Bersley. I WANT THAT FREAKING DORM!!! its kitchen is air conditioned, has the best food, and it probably has the best rooms.
Advising was next and all that was basically talking about required classes, meeting with some current students for advising, and meeting with your adviser that you're supposed to keep for the duration of college. It actually wasn't too bad. And i was kind of shocked when i met with my adviser because i thought i had done so-so on the chem test but i guess i did really really REALLY good according to her... hmmm.. well anyway i took the highest chem they wanted us to start with... out of all 2 choices, and it happened to be something i have heard some nasty reviews about: ORGANIC CHEMISTRY!!! AHHHH!!! And then came the hilarious part... her words were something to the effect of,"oh, and you placed into the first semester of spanish" and she had this sort of look on her face that was like "what the hell kind of score is that?" haha. she started cracking up when i said i had never taken it and told me that that's what she hoped had happened... i think i wound up with a negative score because it's a 1/3 point off for each wrong answer.
After that we had dinner and then whoever was in any MLC's had to go to their respective meetings... i got into UROP... which is pretty cool because i get to pick out a research project and help out a professor thats trying to do something groundbreaking... hopefully. Next was trying to 'backpack' our classes... which is pretty much picking out your classes and scheduling them accordingly, but not actually registering for them. We saved that for the third day.
I was hoping to God that i got the classes i had backpacked the night before because in about 3 of the 4 there were only 2 available spots! But before that we had the funniest night on EARTH!
So going back to the first night we stayed at the dorms some of the people i met and i went around the town and checked everything out. I guess there were a couple frat parties going on that night too and some people went and had a good ole time there.
Well on the second night a couple people went in search of frat parties. When they came back it was absolutely hilarious. One kid had passed out in the elvator and 2 other people that were drunk found him when they opened the elevator and he had no clue what was going on after he woke up. The 2 other drunks happened to be a football player that made the team (he was a BEAST!) and a shorter kid. This is when i almost cried from laughing. Supposedly one of the kids that went with the 2 of them was coming back from the frat party and had to go to the bathroom, so he started going on a tree right in the middle of town. As he was doing this a cop drove by and SLAMMED on the breaks. The kid just booked it and no one had seen him since. The short kid was so drunk too... he kept saying,"oh man dude! I AM SO WASTED!!"... it was hilarious... these typed words don't explain the laughter. They wound up going back to the party 3 times and got in around 6 in the morning. The rest of the dorm decided to try pulling an all-nighter for no reason. Me and my room mate finally said screw it and went to bed around 4:30.
Moving on... i had to get up at 7 because i was an engineer and we had to be at North campus to register for classes by 8. We barely made it to the bus on time and got to North campus... I was kind of worried because i didn't know if i was going to get into the classes i had picked out, which would suck because it had taken hours the night before to even pick them out and have them work! Long story short... there were about 2 openings left for 3 classes i wanted and i got all of them... it was crazy too because as soon as i clicked the button 2 of the classes were full! talk about getting lucky...
I really don't feel like typing a ton more so i'll try and keep it short(er)... after that we were basically done so i went and tried to find out if i had housing yet. I don't have any yet and when i found that out i was IRATE! they're like,"call back in a week or 2"... ok, i'll be lucky to have housing in college. Then my mom came and got me and i picked up some of the books i needed. I got the books i needed for Organic Chemistry and Calc... i had 5 books for 2 classes that are a semester each... WOW! and the prices, even thoug they were used, was INSANE! It's kind of interesting too because my chem books are written by the professor that teaches it... the organic chemistry book the 1120 pages... for a semester... oh, boy...
Got on the road, drove home, and that was that.
Overview: U of M is SWEETTT!!!! WOO!!!