Not really. Ha. Fooled ya!
The night before I was panicking about add/drop and how stressful it was going to be. It felt like registration period all over again! My roommate told me there was a demo on the site to show me how it worked but that only made me panic more because it made it seem longer and complicated than it actually was. I asked my roommate if it would be okay if I woke her up in case I was having trouble registering. I wasn't being serious and definitely was not actually planning on waking her up but to my surprised, she said it'd be fine! This was especially surprising because she always says she likes to sleep. Now, I love to sleep too. Shirley and Sarah know after living with me. That's why I was so surprised -- I'm not the happiest camper when someone wakes me up. Add/drop went fine though and all according to plan. I only have class Mondays to Wednesday and no work since I'm abroad. Pretty much, I have a perfect schedule! The only thing that didn't go according to plan was that I was expecting to fall back asleep after I finished but I didn't.
For lunch I met up with Lin who, as most of you know, was an exchange student from HKBU studying abroad at Babson last semester. (I don't actually know who "you" people reading this blog are though) Anyways, doesn't matter. We had Japanese food near campus and I got a Round 2 Campus Tour. This time, it was A LOT more useful and I now know where my class is! And where Old Campus is! Good things to know. Afterwards, we went back to AAB and Lin had to register for classes. This time slot to add/drop was HELL compared to mine. I don't think this is what people meant when they said "Down with the system" The servers crashed and no one could do anything. Meanwhile, she had a 3 hour class coming up. Here's a picture of a frustrated Lin. She looks too happy.
At night we had a joint hall orientation. Everyone wore their hall shirts and we sat in sections in the auditorium by our hall. We had giant masses of orange, yellow, red, and blue in the audience. I feel kind of tricked because they said it was a hall dinner and instead we waited to listen to rules and people talk, skits, and a surprisingly funny video. Before we went to the auditorium, we also had to learn our hall cheer. We later had to do this cheer at least three times during the orientation. To put this into perspective, there are two buildings. They both have 18 floors for residents. Each of the floors has...I'm not sure how rooms and each room is a double. Now put that together and divide by four and you still get a massive number of residents screaming at the same time. It was actually quite frightening. Afterwards, my floor went out for dinner and I had to go through the whole "I'm not a local but I know some Cantonese bit again." It was late and I was really tired so sorry if I seemed a bit unsociable! Meep.
For lunch I met up with Lin who, as most of you know, was an exchange student from HKBU studying abroad at Babson last semester. (I don't actually know who "you" people reading this blog are though) Anyways, doesn't matter. We had Japanese food near campus and I got a Round 2 Campus Tour. This time, it was A LOT more useful and I now know where my class is! And where Old Campus is! Good things to know. Afterwards, we went back to AAB and Lin had to register for classes. This time slot to add/drop was HELL compared to mine. I don't think this is what people meant when they said "Down with the system" The servers crashed and no one could do anything. Meanwhile, she had a 3 hour class coming up. Here's a picture of a frustrated Lin. She looks too happy.
At night we had a joint hall orientation. Everyone wore their hall shirts and we sat in sections in the auditorium by our hall. We had giant masses of orange, yellow, red, and blue in the audience. I feel kind of tricked because they said it was a hall dinner and instead we waited to listen to rules and people talk, skits, and a surprisingly funny video. Before we went to the auditorium, we also had to learn our hall cheer. We later had to do this cheer at least three times during the orientation. To put this into perspective, there are two buildings. They both have 18 floors for residents. Each of the floors has...I'm not sure how rooms and each room is a double. Now put that together and divide by four and you still get a massive number of residents screaming at the same time. It was actually quite frightening. Afterwards, my floor went out for dinner and I had to go through the whole "I'm not a local but I know some Cantonese bit again." It was late and I was really tired so sorry if I seemed a bit unsociable! Meep.