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College & Orientation - I'm Psyched!
Zephyr_Fate
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So I'm officially registered and all my Fall Term classes are set in stone at University of Oregon, down in marijuana-infested Eugene.
Okay, so it's really not that bad. In fact, I loved the experience. I met four new people, all of the same intellectual wavelength. Two of them are English majors like myself, one is majoring in Education, and the last is going to be an Architecture major (UofO provides one of the top-ranked Architecture programs in the nation, too bad he's deciding between it and Cal-Poly). Of course, the Architecture major is also a super-hot Asian guy and we hit it off really well. I spent all of Sunday walking around the campus w/ my new friends, as well as exploring downtown Eugene.
I recommend the Pearl St. Ice Cream Parlour for anyone visiting, just sayin'.
Anyways, wow, I am so excited about college that I feel restricted and bored in Portland. Anyone else ready for college / about to go to orientation?
Okay, so it's really not that bad. In fact, I loved the experience. I met four new people, all of the same intellectual wavelength. Two of them are English majors like myself, one is majoring in Education, and the last is going to be an Architecture major (UofO provides one of the top-ranked Architecture programs in the nation, too bad he's deciding between it and Cal-Poly). Of course, the Architecture major is also a super-hot Asian guy and we hit it off really well. I spent all of Sunday walking around the campus w/ my new friends, as well as exploring downtown Eugene.
I recommend the Pearl St. Ice Cream Parlour for anyone visiting, just sayin'.
Anyways, wow, I am so excited about college that I feel restricted and bored in Portland. Anyone else ready for college / about to go to orientation?
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I know this will sound nerdy but I really don't care, I can't wait to get back to college in September. I'm a Biochemistry major and I love learning about science. Going to classes and doing homework will be a lot better than my summer job.
I will say that I thought orientation was pretty boring/annoying. We had to do a sleep-over orientation for two days in the summer and then the first few days of the semester was more orientation. I only went to the first day of orientation when the semester started. It was pretty much being put randomly into groups and then playing games to learn each other's names.
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Don't fall into the trap of clinging to the first people you meet. Granted, it's a stressful and quasi-overwhelming environment, but you're really bottlenecking your social life by focusing your time amongst the first friends you meet.
I admit, though, that I still have a connection with the first kid I became 'real' friends with at college... and we don't even talk that much these days.
Have fun; go to class; watch your diet (college food sneaks up on your waistline).
At times it sucks, but it is really manageable.
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!
I think I still talk to one other person from my freshmen year, who was the guy that was my roommate. Sure, he didn't bathe, clean, or cut his hair, but he had a heart of gold.
Basically, to all you freshies out there, don't worry about clinging to people like you did in high school. Also, strike up conversations with people you are in class with, even if you would never usually talk to them. Having a few good friends is good, but having a slew of people you can call when you forget homework assignments is necessary.
The only orientation I went to was an informal meet-and-greet in some town a few train stations away, and I don't remember any of them. Fresher's Week was a far better orientation for me, as I got to find my way around Cambridge and chat idly with the other people in my corridor.
Get out, have fun, meet people. Alr so, don't kill your roommate. They could be smart/useful! (kidding...)
Prince Puckler's is better than Pearl St.
Also, when you get out of the dorms, avoid Bell Real Estate. Those people are pigfuckers.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
<- private room, because soooooo special.
Incompetent shitheels.
Having a roommate sucks big balls. I'm so glad I moved off campus after freshman year.
Its like necessary as a freshman though. I mean if you could get a single in a suite that would be cool . . . but otherwise its a bit weird.
I had one even when I was a freshman, because other people are teh lose.
They were for handicapped people at my school. And anti-socials who wanted to pay more for housing. Just saying.
Roommates aren't always bad though. I mean, mine sucked, but most of my great friends at school were all roommates together.
Rule #1: I hate you.
Rule #2: There is a distinct possibility I will kill you in order to seize your living space for my own should the opportunity present itself.
Rule #3: Rule #2 is less a "distinct possibility" and more a "resolute certainty."
EDIT: It's probably worth mentioning that I'm a transfer student, and should not have to put up with this shit.
God I was such a horrible roommate.
He'll get one warning shot before I go for the kill.
The warning shot may or may not be in the vicinity of his penis.
yeah, I never did that one. You'd totally be justified in kicking his ass if you wake up and he's jacking it tho . . .
yeah.
That said, my orientation at Cal Poly almost four years ago was one of the best experiences of my life. Here we do a whole week of orientation where we're split into groups that are led by a pair of sophomores or higher and basically spend the whole week going out and doing fun things around the area. Obviously, we have some presentations about awareness and the like, but it's still great. The leaders are all volunteers who have to do quite a bit of training too, so you rarely get stuck with shitty leaders that don't want to be there.
It was so much fun I volunteered to be a leader last year. Good times, even better than being a freshman.
At my orientation they showed us a video that was supposed to like be some anti-rape thingy that showed examples of unacceptable scenarios. Basically, parts were hilariously stupid, and other parts taught us that rape means you peaced out in the morning and the chick regreted it, so she figured she might as well fuck up your life. It was pretty bizzare.
I'm like 100% certain that we were the only class to see it.
I start classes August 20th, and move in on the 11th, and the wait is starting to kill me. I'm so fucking bored here at home.
To flat-out ban masturbation from your roommate is just evil, IMO. I'm not sure who my roommate is yet, but if that Asian guy switches to UofO I'll definitely recommend him.
It's not banning masturbation, just setting a ground rule not to do it while the other roomie is present.
I'm only in my room when I'm doing homework or sleeping, and I'm going to practice my people skills during neither of those. :P I could probably tolerate a roomy if I had one, but the chips are stacked against any would be roommate, because I'll see him when I'm most prone to being annoyed by other people.
I was wondering if you never masturbated in college...
Whacking it while I'm in the fucking room, on the other hand is not cool by me.
Although I ended up with two roommates. The only thing is that I'm not sure if my room is a double or triple so it could be a moot point.
Anyway my actual orientation is at the end of august so we see how that goes.
Anyone else going to University of Portland with me?
I am looking forward to the Week of Welcome mentioned a few posts back, though. It seems like a good time to get to know the people you'll be living around and with.
I got paired with a guy who I became pretty good friends with freshman year, but who ended up being into different scenes than I was.
In fact, almost all my super close friends freshman year just sort of drifted apart, because the only thing holding us together was our floor, not common interests. However, I found a whole new group of friends sophomore year, and in addition to remaining close with all of them even after college, I didn't stop meeting people the entire time I was at school.
I met my girlfriend of a year and a half at some random orientation ice breaker, and I met my future roomate and now-close friend on the bus back from some random orientation party.
College, man. College.
*sniff*
I miss those times.
Yeah, the summer orientation stuff is basically worthless. WOW is the best thing ever though, as I said above. I would have been a leader again this year, but classes interfered with the training. I know a crapload of leaders though, so maybe you'll get one of them.
Do you know what dorm you're living in yet?
Sophomore year was decent, my first roomie that year was just a pig and I can deal with that. My second one was a comic dork and we knew each other from being in the anime club together, so that was pretty enjoyable.
Junior year, after I got back from Japan, I had my worst roomie yet. He'd masturbate loudly every night he wasn't with his girlfriend. No joke, he was such a fiend he and his girlfriend were making it on Easter Sunday while my mom was in the room visiting me. He was also the worst slob I've ever known, as in he'd leave his dirty underwear everywhere. Not few was the number of times I had to kick his semen-encrusted drawers off my PS2 controllers...
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