New Student Orientation

So today was the third day of new student orientation (NSO.) I... am... sooooo... exhausted! School hasn't even officially started and I'm dead on my feet! Wednesday was my first Freshman Academy meeting. Freshman Academy is a VERY nice little program specializing in poor little, daunted, out-of-water freshies. It's divided into communities, and you pick the community that most sounds like something you would be interested in (ie. I picked Varieties of Human Expressions because I love the arts and all sorts of means by which people express themselves.) Then you apply, and once you're accepted, you pick what they call an "envelope" of classes, which is a group of 3-4 classes you take as a bundle. Depending on the envelope you choose, you'll be put into those exact classes with the other members of your community, so there will be about 15-20 people you know from your Freshman Academy community in 3 or 4 of your classes. So, basically, Freshman Academy is a means of easing freshman into the enormous setting of college by placing them in classes with people they've met; an instant group of friends. Thursday was a whole lot of hooplah. Informational meetings and tours and speeches and dinners... that dinner was good though :) All in all very tiring. By this time, my hip was killing me. (I have a hip issue from a about a year ago from just sitting funny.) Karen and I decided that since she didn't have work until ten and we both wanted to sleep in that I wouldn't bother going to the meetings until about ten since those were the only really important ones. So today I got there just before ten and went to sign up for Choral auditions, which turned out to be pretty much pointless since I can't fit it into my schedule anyway. They have bad info on the web. I went to a couple presentations for the different colleges, namely the college of fine arts and the college of humanities. I got a free t-shirt, met a couple new friends, earned myself a good amount of sleeping in time tomorrow, and a huge headache from the amount of information they tried to cram into my wee noggin (oh, and the aforementioned pain in legs and especially hip.) Not to mention they drained my pocket book from books, UTAPass, and tuition... But other than that I had a good time :D And the fun continues tomorrow (though luckily tomorrow it only goes from 4-11 or something like that.)