<p>Ok, I am going to counter what blurinka said about preorientation. Just because you do them doesnt mean that you can only be friends with those people. Why shoudl you limit yourself to just people in your dorm? You can do both for goodness sake. Preorientation allows you to meet people who are also freshman in smaller groups and you know people before anyone else. Who cares where they llive? The campus is not that big that you can’t walk the 3 minutes if you need to. Preorientation is something I did/worked on all four years here and I think its amazing. If you choose not to do it because of just where people live, I don’t believe thats an informed decision. You should make it based on something else.</p>