A few questions before NSO

sarucane
Mon, 30 May 2011 20:50:35 +0000

Can’t help you with the sports: i’ve never touched them.
There are not many activities officially happening for students who don’t drink. There are board games from the Christian Fellowship (or whatever they’ll call themselves next year) on friday nights, but usually if you don’t want to drink you’ll do homework or hang out with your friends. There’s always the Harris movie too: sometimes they get good ones.
If you’re majoring in sciences, classes WILL be hard, but they may not be hard the first semester: it depends on how much you covered in high school. be prepared for long labs though.
The average load per week varies: most people I know had roughly 30 hours a week this year, unless we had papers or projects, but you may not be as crazy devoted as we are.
You will be able to buy a lot of school supplies here, but I’d recommend a 3-hole punch, a spiral and binder per class, and most of all remember a STAPLER: it’ll save your life.
Clothing wise, it’s pretty universally jeans, shorts, and t-shirts here. Bring whatever you feel like wearing: you won’t be judged unless you smell.
There’ll be an activities fair right before classes start: make sure you go and get on any e-mail list you’re remotely interested in: you can always ask to be removed later.