Hi I’m a sophomore at Bing majoring in electrical engineering in the Watson school. I’m in the scholars program, society of women engineers, CSTEP, and student support services. I live in a double in Newing. (I feel like I just wrote out half my resume…yikes) Shoot me some questions and I’ll try to answer to the best of my ability.
@nycpigeons You can choose your roommate on the housing portal. Its the same form that you fill out a personality roommate survey, decide if you want break housing or chem-free housing and rank the residence halls that in the order that you want to live in. You can request a roommate there but to be sure that you’re placed together make sure that you both request each other and have the same ranking for communities (decide if you guys want chem-free or break housing and have that decision be the same). It might help to also answer the survey with the same answers but I don’t think that’s required.
@bracchium Watson freshmen pretty much get their schedule made for them. They’re already placed into all their required classes and have the option of adding a gen ed or two if they can fit it in their schedule. Not a bad thing, it makes scheduling at orientation very easy. There aren’t ready any Watson specific events before classes. But when you have to sign up for an orientation date, there are professional school orientations that are only for Watson, Decker and SOM students so you could meet other freshman there and hope that they’re in your assigned 103 class. You could also make a facebook group titled something like “Binghamton University Watson Class of 2022” and compare schedules to find people in your 103 class.
Just a general tip, try to go to an earlier orientation rather than a later one. The later you go, the more freshman have already registered for classes and the less open classes there are.