<p>^ When is off peak? 2 AM? :)</p>
<p>FWIW, my experience when I lived in HP two years ago was that weekends from 9 AM all the way until 11 PM or so were the worst. But that’s why I was surprised at the inbound traffic that Friday afternoon, and no accident or construction issues either.</p>
<p>2am lol…yeah, that sounds good, haven’t done that. Weeknights (not Friday) after 7pm. Early morning he would be asleep anyway, but before 6am
maybe. Weekends it would depend on what is going on in the city, one
fun thing after another. Friday afternoons there is early rush hour out of city and in, as you found. Summer months there is Sunday night rush hour back from Wisconsin. Maybe from Indiana, too, but I’m way up here under the
traffic helicopter.</p>
<p>Sunday night rush from Indiana? No, through Indiana from Michigan!</p>
<p>lol, nmassdad, exactly.</p>
<p>I have a question. How is the food? Can a student eat a variety of decent food without spending too much or constantly driving to a place outside of the college area?</p>
<p>I ate at a student cafeteria in a dorm when I visited with my son for the admitted students program. I was NOT impressed. I would say it was mediocre at best. Just one man’s opinion.</p>
<p>bartlett is bomb food</p>
<p>Yeah, people say that Pierce/BJ are, even though subpar, excellent for university cafeteria food. From what I’ve seen, this is absolute crap – Pierce/BJ are absolutely horrible and shouldn’t even exist. And the $10 meals are laughable.</p>
<p>I’ve found BJ to be okay-- the quality has gone down considerably from last year, so more often than not I’m putting together my own meals from the salad and sandwich bar, both of which tend to be well-stocked and varied, and good fruit/veggie quality. I’m far from starving. You can always get omelettes, quesadillas, veggie burgers, hamburgers, etc. if nothing appeals to you. </p>
<p>If you want to purchase your own food, both Hyde Park Produce and Treasure Island are walkable, affordable, solid food destinations, particularly HPP, which seems to have good quality, good prices, and when you go you’ll see everyone and their mother there. I’m a big fan of TI’s samples and olive oil.</p>
<p>Something must be right with the food, my son never asks for </p>
<p>any from home.</p>
<p>Can anyone give me a run-down of what O-Week is like? For instance, the specific activities they participated in while they went through orientation, and what the general feel of the week is like?</p>
<p>I read your other thread and I understand you’re a transfer student, but I think O-Week runs about the same.</p>
<p>Some people love O-Week; others hate it. It can be stressful, fun, busy, and boring, all at the same time. When you sign in on the first day, you’ll get an O-Book, which has all of the activities that are going on for the week. There are a LOT of activities. Only a few are required. The required ones include:</p>
<p>– A battery of placement tests.
– Gym test
– Swim test
– Two/Three advisor meetings (one an info session and the other a course registration session)
– Three seminars: one about safety, one about drinking/date rape, one about diversity.</p>
<p>It sounds like a lot, but spread over a week, it’s very little. (Each event lasts about an hour).</p>
<p>O-Week is a great time to start exploring the city and to start meeting new people in the house and outside of it. There are a lot of parties and a lot of “O-Mances” (a surprising number of them last for months, a few have lasted for years, my friend’s parents met during O-Week). It’s very hands-off and self-directed.</p>
<p>‘O-mances’ – hah! DH and I are a roMUNce… NMUN 1982.</p>
<p>Oh wow.</p>
<p>I’m a happy product of a residential college cross-breeding.</p>
<p>unalove - should students buy and bring printers with them? I know there sre printers in the dorms but they are not free right? What’s your advice?</p>
<p>I have one, but you don’t really need one.</p>
<p>The MacLab in the basement of the Reg will print anything for free as long as it’s user-created (as in an essay you wrote). The Reg, other libraries, and dorms have pay-per-sheet printing for PDFs. I don’t print out everything I read online for class, and when I do I usually double-side the document and print out 2 or 4 pages per side. My printing budget per quarter is somewhere between 20 and 30 dollars.</p>
<p>thanks unalove</p>
<p>If you were driving a motor coach to visit campus, where do you
suggest parking it?</p>
<p>^ Along the midway and then hike. Watch the signs, though.</p>
<p>Another possibility would be north of 51st, especially along Greenwood and Ellis.</p>
<p>Thanks, nmdad, I was asking for orangepop.</p>