| Orientation Trips
I disagree with tennisdude. Perhaps some people have negative experiences on their orientation trips, but I had a wonderful experience, and I have never heard otherwise from anyone. I met some of my closest friends on my o-week backpacking trip, some of whom I'm still close with almost 3 years later. It was wonderful to start out my freshman year with great friends with whom I had already had fun and memorable experiences. I did not experience any of the "outweirding" or "outsmarting" that tennisdude describes on my trip. But even if I had, I think you are just as likely to experience that on campus during or after o-week. Trying to avoid it is not worth missing an amazing trip on which you could meet some potentially wonderful friends with whom to enjoy the beginning of your Reed experience. |