On the 31st of July, 2008, I visited University of Hawaii @ Manoa, Campus Center. Expecting lots to learn, I woke up early in the morning and arrived at the Campus by 7:30 Am. When I got there, there seem to be a tent where all new students were to check in and receive our name tags as with who we have as our NSO leader. My leader was Chun. Right before our Orientation, I met my friends from middle school and high school, but only with a short greeting, we were separated into smaller groups that we were assigned to.
The Orientation first started with very simple things. Introduction. We all introduced ourselves among the group and slowly felt more comfortable with each other. Right next to our group, was one of my best friend, Adrian's group with Kellie who i knew from elementary and Courtney from middle school. I was often distracted by their jokes and teasings, but was able to concentrate through our sessions.
We then were divided into Majors. According to our choice of major we were divided into sometimes bigger, but mostly into smaller groups. Then as a group, we visited our perspective professors and received a lecture of some kind and also a go-over of fall '08 semester schedules. Then we returned to the campus center for lunch.
We were provided with small breakfast and a buffet lunch which was pretty satisfying. This was 5 hours after our orientation has started. Here and there I was able to spot people who were going for their seconds and thirds. The food, in fact, wasn't too bad, but I would say it felt as if something was missing. Maybe it's because the orientation costed students 80 dollars each. To us, it was a great deal of money, and for the same reason, the orientation itself could not satisfy us fully.
After our lunch, before we could digest our food, we headed for a short campus tour. Here and there we met up with other groups and as our group was directed same way as my friend Adrian, he pulled of jokes and I often got pointed out by the group leader, Chun.
Then campus tour ended and there were resource fair. Nothing really seem to catch my interest, thus rather i spent this time to make my University of Hawaii, student ID. Then, everything was over. after 11 hours of Orientation, I was able to return home around 6pm. The long journey costed me a long nap, but i surely learned something out of the orientation. I can't really say this NSO was 100% the right decision, but personally, i thought it was worth awhile.
The Orientation first started with very simple things. Introduction. We all introduced ourselves among the group and slowly felt more comfortable with each other. Right next to our group, was one of my best friend, Adrian's group with Kellie who i knew from elementary and Courtney from middle school. I was often distracted by their jokes and teasings, but was able to concentrate through our sessions.
We then were divided into Majors. According to our choice of major we were divided into sometimes bigger, but mostly into smaller groups. Then as a group, we visited our perspective professors and received a lecture of some kind and also a go-over of fall '08 semester schedules. Then we returned to the campus center for lunch.
We were provided with small breakfast and a buffet lunch which was pretty satisfying. This was 5 hours after our orientation has started. Here and there I was able to spot people who were going for their seconds and thirds. The food, in fact, wasn't too bad, but I would say it felt as if something was missing. Maybe it's because the orientation costed students 80 dollars each. To us, it was a great deal of money, and for the same reason, the orientation itself could not satisfy us fully.
After our lunch, before we could digest our food, we headed for a short campus tour. Here and there we met up with other groups and as our group was directed same way as my friend Adrian, he pulled of jokes and I often got pointed out by the group leader, Chun.
Then campus tour ended and there were resource fair. Nothing really seem to catch my interest, thus rather i spent this time to make my University of Hawaii, student ID. Then, everything was over. after 11 hours of Orientation, I was able to return home around 6pm. The long journey costed me a long nap, but i surely learned something out of the orientation. I can't really say this NSO was 100% the right decision, but personally, i thought it was worth awhile.
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