I originally thought that I'd write this week about the pre-orientation trip I went on last weekend, where I kayak'd and snorkeled around Catalina Island with fellow first years, a second year, and two guides. However... the powers that be at the CVS around the corner from my apartment have decided it takes anywhere from one to two weeks to process my disposable camera film.
Fortunately, August 22, 2012, will forever be known as "The Day Sections Were Assigned and Everyone Found Out Their Class Schedule!!!!!"
First, we received our last Orientation e-mail from Student Affairs (you get 12 e-mails over the course of 12 weeks with information covering various tasks to do before school starts.) Today's e-mail included the handy schedule above.
Since I requested Marketing in the first quarter, I had an idea of what my Mon/Wed schedule would look like... but two hours later, what happened to pop into my inbox? An e-mail providing the news that "You have been assigned to Section C!"
(Here are a variety of cool looking C's from a Google Images search for the letter C.)
With this handy piece of information in hand, I immediately posted on the class Facebook group page, and then sat back and watched over the next few hours while news poured in from everyone on what section they are in. And yes, everyone thinks their section is the best (no trash talking of other sections has started yet though.)
(Wasn't sure on the protocol of posting people's Facebook comments, so I tried my hand at Paint to redact names.)
I was also extremely happy to see my schedule, as a 945 am start means that I can use the morning to workout before class. Going to be very useful once marathon/triathlon training kicks into gear.
For those of you who haven't browsed the Anderson curriculum yet, I highly recommend it. There is a useful interactive picture on the page for you to see what your schedule might look like depending on what track you want to pursue.
Now that everyone knows their section, it also allows people to add a "first time I'm meeting a classmate" question to their bag of tricks (name, where are you from, where have you worked, what do you want to do at Anderson).
We've been having an event at least once a week since the first week of August, and the crowds have been growing (~50 people came out last Monday night). In fact, something's going on right now! I'll post more about what is going on these next couple of weeks prior to Orientation soon, and blog about my pre-o trip once the pictures arrive!
Until then, from Section C, I'm "SecC and I know it!" (I have to attribute that to classmate Srikanth, perfect slogan for our section)
