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Last Wednesday was the move in day for Freshman up here at Michigan State. I was on the "Welcome Team". Essentially, we answered questions at the front door and gave directions to new students and parents. Now, I'm just a sophomore, so I went through this last year, but being able to sit back and watch both the Freshmen and the parents during a defining moment in both their lives was pretty cool. I saw lots of smiles, lots of trepidation, and many tears (all from the parents).

Now, my question to NSG. Many of us are presently attending College/University, or have graduated.What was move in day like your freshman year? How scared/nervous were you? How about your parents? What were your thoughts?

Do tell. TSI wants to know.

I move in to OSU on the 17th. Once I'm moved in and I've got all the shit done that I have to I'm going down to the new rec center for a few hours...that thing is awesome. I'm not really nervous or sad or anything about leaving; in fact, I'm looking forward to it.

Of course, the school thinks its a good idea for us to do some kind of dumbass community service project when we first get there...I'd really prefer it if they just gave me time to look around the campus and just hang out for a few days before classes start.

You know I sound pretty stupid in saying this but:

what is a freshman?

whats a sophomore? and all that other jazz.

I move in to OSU on the 17th. Once I'm moved in and I've got all the shit done that I have to I'm going down to the new rec center for a few hours...that thing is awesome. I'm not really nervous or sad or anything about leaving; in fact, I'm looking forward to it.

Of course, the school thinks its a good idea for us to do some kind of dumbass community service project when we first get there...I'd really prefer it if they just gave me time to look around the campus and just hang out for a few days before classes start.

Bring power strips. And tuna. Lots of tuna.

You know I sound pretty stupid in saying this but:

what is a freshman?

whats a sophomore? and all that other jazz.

Freshman: 1st year student
Sophomore: 2nd year student
Junior: 3rd year student
Senior: 4th year student

After that, I think it just stops because most people that attend for five or more years are getting advanced degrees. Most people just stop at 4 with their bachelor's degree.

Bring power strips. And tuna. Lots of tuna.

I was thinking of just pretending like I was working and then sneaking off once I had a chance.

Freshman: 1st year student
Sophomore: 2nd year student
Junior: 3rd year student
Senior: 4th year student

After that, I think it just stops because most people that attend for five or more years are getting advanced degrees. Most people just stop at 4 with their bachelor's degree.

Ah i see.

I was thinking of just pretending like I was working and then sneaking off once I had a chance.

Yes. Sneaking off is good. Go check out where your classes are. The worst thing to do is to wait until classes start to discover exactly where your classes are.

Yes. Sneaking off is good. Go check out where your classes are. The worst thing to do is to wait until classes start to discover exactly where your classes are.

That would've been easier if they gave us the room numbers and halls on our schedules...instead, they gave us codes for the buildings that have to be put in online in order to find out where your classes are.

Plus, I'm in Columbus...there has to be something else going on that's a hell of a lot more interesting than volunteer work.

That would've been easier if they gave us the room numbers and halls on our schedules...instead, they gave us codes for the buildings that have to be put in online in order to find out where your classes are.

Plus, I'm in Columbus...there has to be something else going on that's a hell of a lot more interesting than volunteer work.

Dude, thats weak. I guess that's what you get for going to that shitty school :D

But watch out... the police will be out in force the first week Freshmen are on campus.

Now, my question to NSG. Many of us are presently attending College/University, or have graduated.What was move in day like your freshman year? How scared/nervous were you? How about your parents? What were your thoughts?

I had no help from my parents when I started uni. I found a place on my own, I moved on my own and I enrolled on my own because I didn't have any contact with them at the time. I remember being a bit nervous the night before the first day, but all in all, it wasn't all that special to me, as I had been living on my own since I was 16 and was pretty used to these sorts of things by then.

Well

I transfered from a Community College to a University so i didn't experience the whole "move in day" thing. Although last firday, the 18th, was "Freshman Move-In Day" here at the Univesity of North Dakota. Lots of frantic parents comming in and out of the bookstore where i work looking for their kids books.

I also noticed when i was walking back to my wife's mom's office at the university that a lot of the students didn't know wher ehteir correct dorm building was. So i stopped to help a couple along the way. I've never seen so many people nervious at one point in time in the entirety of my life (except maybe HS Graduation)...

I was never on any official welcome team, but my unofficial role on campus was to traumatize the parents.

I helped organize the 100-moon march. Picture 47(I couldn't get a hundred to participate) crazy kids bent over with their pants pulled down gathered around the main entance to campus on Freshman Orienation Day. Unfortunately, campus police dispersed us after only a couple hours. :(

I move in to U of Washington in approximately one month. Wewt for me.

It was all right. I went to a middle-sized school (since have transferred), about 8,000 undergraduates, and I wasn't in the huge 1,000+ student freshman dorm, so move-in day was smooth. The other freshmen seemed more excited than confused, just like I felt.

Move in day was great because it meant I was out of the house.

I was never on any official welcome team, but my unofficial role on campus was to traumatize the parents.

I helped organize the 100-moon march. Picture 47(I couldn't get a hundred to participate) crazy kids bent over with their pants pulled down gathered around the main entance to campus on Freshman Orienation Day. Unfortunately, campus police dispersed us after only a couple hours. :(

You mind if I use that Idea?

Now, my question to NSG. Many of us are presently attending College/University, or have graduated.What was move in day like your freshman year? How scared/nervous were you? How about your parents? What were your thoughts?

I didn't have a normal "move in day" as such since I was 22 when I started university. I'd moved away from home when I was 17 (joined the Army) so it was just another move to me. I had an apartment about 10 miles away from the university, so I didn't even do any of the welcome weekend stuff. When I transferred to CMU I went to the welcome weekend festivities in the student apartment part of town, and I was carded by the police about 15 times in 4 hours.

Also, my parents knew I was going to school, they just didn't know what university. They thought it was NMU because I told them I was going "up north", but it was LSSU.

You mind if I use that Idea?

Feel free. :)

I guess it was emotional saying bye to the folks (who I do have a great friendship with), but once we actually got around to just doing things in the evening, everything was exciting and new, so there wasn't really time to be thinking about what we were leaving behind.

Keep 'em occupied, I say!

I move in to U of Washington in approximately one month. Wewt for me.

Well... The good news is that you probably will be able to find something to do (If nothing else, you need to visit the Space Needle, the EMP, and the Science Museum downtown).

The bad news is that the campus is far too large to make finding classes easy (God knows it's hard enough to find rehearsal rooms on campus when they move the Youth Symphony rehearsals on campus).

That and by all accounts the dorms suck. ;)

Just about all doms suck. The dorm I live in is niigh 50 years old, and has 2 power outlets per room. A fire waiting to happen, sayeth my roommate.

Well... The good news is that you probably will be able to find something to do (If nothing else, you need to visit the Space Needle, the EMP, and the Science Museum downtown).

The bad news is that the campus is far too large to make finding classes easy (God knows it's hard enough to find rehearsal rooms on campus when they move the Youth Symphony rehearsals on campus).

That and by all accounts the dorms suck. ;)
Been up the Space Needle, but I doubt I'll have time to do anything besides study ... I'm taking 20 credits this fall. My schedule is almost completely full.

And yes, the campus is damned enormous. :(

I'm taking 20 credits this fall

Wow. Good luck with that. At the two universities I've been to, they charge high fees for every credit after 17 or for a sixth class, so no one does that.

Well, I've graduated but I'm not going university, that's for sure. I just finished 13 years of school, why would I want to go through 4 more right away? At my own cost as well? Nah, I think for the next ten years or so I'll be on vacation, like every 19 year old should be. I'm not going to wait till I'm 43 and have paid off $75,000 of student loans to have some midlife crisis. I'd rather wait a few years, make some money write a book or five then spend all my money on an education that I'm not quite sure I'll want once I'm done.

My dad just calls it getting some real life experience.;)

Wow. Good luck with that. At the two universities I've been to, they charge high fees for every credit after 17 or for a sixth class, so no one does that.

Damn. Thats alot. A massive amount. You're going to have many a late night.

Been up the Space Needle, but I doubt I'll have time to do anything besides study ... I'm taking 20 credits this fall. My schedule is almost completely full.

And yes, the campus is damned enormous. :(

Beautiful campus too. Great school...

But yeah. Finding things is a bit of a challenge.

That's why it's my last choice school.

Damn. Thats alot. A massive amount. You're going to have many a late night.
I know. I'll probably end up dropping one of my science classes.

I know. I'll probably end up dropping one of my science classes.

Please. For the sake of your sanity. 16 is a good course load. Hell, one of my Friends took 18 credits last semester, and he nearly lost it.

His mind, I mean.

I am a Senior at Northwood University in Midland, MI. I have yet to move out. My mommy is rather overprotective and a control freak and wouldn't let me move into the dorms because I would get pregnant.

I hope to move into the house I bought last fall, this fall but I can't make promises. Mommy may tear part of the roof off again. I am rather nervous about moving out but it probably won't be that big of a deal since I finally won't have to deal with my family on a daily basis.

And I am also planning on taking a job in a different state, so that I will be forced to move out.

Freshman: 1st year student
Sophomore: 2nd year student
Junior: 3rd year student
Senior: 4th year student


Unless you're a transfer student at my university, in which case class standing has nothing to do with time, but rather is based on units completed (it has nothing to do with time for students directly from high school, either; units completed and time passed just happen to correlate into a 4-year process for them). For example, I spent four years at a community college and transfered into the university as a "junior" (since the university I attend will only transfer so many units, pretty much all transfers enter as juniors). Having achieved 135+ units, my standing has officially switched to "senior."

As for housing, I've never had to experience the joy of communal caging as the university is a mere 20 minutes away (most of that spent at traffic lights) from home via the county bus line. :D

Unless you're a transfer student at my university, in which case class standing has nothing to do with time, but rather is based on units completed (it has nothing to do with time for students directly from high school, either; units completed and time passed just happen to correlate into a 4-year process for them). For example, I spent four years at a community college and transfered into the university as a "junior" (since the university I attend will only transfer so many units, pretty much all transfers enter as juniors). Having achieved 135+ units, my standing has officially switched to "senior."


I think that's how it works at nearly every US university. I only took 12 hours each semester my first year since I'd been out of school for four years. I was still a freshman at the beginning of my first year, but I took 16 hours both semesters of my sophomore year, so I'm "caught up" to the year scale now. Since I took classes all summer I think I'll actually be a senior at the beginning of spring semester. I'll have to check.

Please. For the sake of your sanity. 16 is a good course load. Hell, one of my Friends took 18 credits last semester, and he nearly lost it.

His mind, I mean.
UW lets you change your schedule online. I'm taking Calculus, Physics, and Chemistry for sure ... that's 15 credits. There's also an honors science class that I'm signed up for, but I may exchange it for something lighter, or drop it altogether.

UW lets you change your schedule online. I'm taking Calculus, Physics, and Chemistry for sure ... that's 15 credits. There's also an honors science class that I'm signed up for, but I may exchange it for something lighter, or drop it altogether.

3 courses = 15 credits? Usually they're three or four hours each at most, at least where I've gone.

3 courses = 15 credits? Usually they're three or four hours each at most, at least where I've gone.
Each course is 5-8 hours total per week. They're split up over the week, usually in increments of an hour or more.

i just moved back in my dorm today. *curses* my freshman experience was embarassing because my parents refused to stop hugging me in the hallway. other than that, it was ok.

anyway, im a senior now, so i can make fun of the newbies that still have 4 years of school to go...mwahahahahha...

I just moved in on Thursday. My parents wouldn't stop taking pictures.

I just moved in on Thursday. My parents wouldn't stop taking pictures.

Don't blame them. This is a bigger day for them then it is for you.