Hello Everyone out there in the real world. It feels a bit surreal to be living at college right now, knowing that classes will start tomorrow and knowing that I will probably never see the light of day due to all the studying. It feels like I am in a completely different world, ruled by orientation schedules and ice breaker games. If I never have to play a name game again it will be too soon! But any ways, I will give you the lowdown on how this weekend went and what I am anticipating college life to be like.
On Thursday, August 23rd, I moved into my dorm. What a crazy, crazy day that was. There was just swarms of people around and people trying to get their stuff unpacked and semi settled before they herded us off to do some more orientation fun! So, that seemed a little daunting with all of those people and all of that chaos, but it worked and I survived. The worst part of the day was that it was just extremely hot and humid and was not so great for having to lug things up and down three stories, since I am on the third floor. We had a couple of seminars and met with orientation groups which we stayed with for the rest of the weekend. After the convocation, which is a welcoming ceremony for the class of 2011, we had to say goodbye to our parents. This was the part of the day that I was absolutely dreading, not knowing how I would react or how they would react. But it went pretty smoothly and I did better than I thought. It was actually kind of a relief to get the goodbyes over with and to know that now I was on my own and had to just do this myself. I had lost my orientation group, so I didn't know who to sit with, so I just sat down randomly with a couple of girls and one of the girls ended up being from Buffalo. She lives in Tonawanda as well, right down the street from my cousin Nicolle, with whom she went to school and was good friends with. She is also in my major, so I thought that it was just really cool that it worked out that way! So that was pretty much that day of orientation, but don't be fooled, there is sooooo much more.
On Friday we had some presentations about academic advisement, the first year center and other helpful things for freshman to know. We also had small group discussions about a book that we had to read over the summer. Our group actually had a sub faculty member that was leading the discussion, so she wasn't reallly as prepared, but it was the perfect discussion. She really took the time and just talked with us about our educational careers and how its ok to be selfish sometimes to get done what you need to. She just had such a refreshing look on academics that it was just what I needed to affirm my faith in why I chose Naz and how much I should enjoy it here. We also got to meet our academic advisor, mine was Dr. Greene, who was completely cool. She advises all of the incoming freshman who are majoring in Communications and Rhetoric, so I got to meet all the freshman who are in my program as well. She was also very refreshing in her views and very casual in the atmosphere in which we were. It was nice to know that she was there pulling for me and that she would help when I needed her. There was casino night on friday, which we went to for like 15 minutes to see what it was all about, but since none of us girls knew how to play any of the games, we left and went back to one of their dorm rooms for a bit.
On Saturday, we had a presentation on how work study is run and how to find a job, which I will be trying to do. I have work study in my financial aid package, so I am eligible to earn up to a certain amount of money this year through a job. So I should work 10 hours a week in order to get all of that money and not earn it too quickly or too slowly, because once you have earned your alloted amount, then thats it you can't earn any more. So I will be looking for a job at the job fair today and they have to hire you by friday so that you know if you have a job or not. So I would greatly appreciate it if all of you would keep me in your prayers to be able to get a job and love the job that I get. Yesterday we also did community service for about 2 1/2 hours. My group got to scoop ice cream for senior citizens at a senior home. It was really fun, and I enjoyed seeing the seniors and their families enjoying their time together. Last night was possibly the most fun I have had this whole weekend and perhaps in a while all due to a man named Dave Binder. This man is a musician who loves to write his own songs and make little paradies of other songs. He's kind of like Weird Al, but much more creative and much more humorous. He comes every year to the Naz orientation and its kind of like a right of passage. He looks like your typical dad figure and that is probably what makes him even funnier that he is doing all this crazy stuff. The first song that he did for us was called the freshman rap, which actually was a rap that he made up and it was just absolutely hysterical. If any one wants to see a taste of what he does, just go to you tube and search Dave Binder,Head shoulders knees, toes.
Today we have a seminar about campus securiy and the student activities. We also have the job fair, which I am very nervous about and am hoping that I am able to get a good job and get hired quickly. That is pretty much it for today, they seemed to have run out of activities for us to do this weekend, but that is fine since we need some down time. It will be nice to have to some time to get ready for classes tomorrow and be able to go to bed at a decent time.
I promise that I will post some pictures on my next post and I will introduce you all to my roommate.
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