<p>The most helpful “advisors” will be the people around during O-Week and the professors. Some of the full-time advisors are excellent and others are in quick rotation, but there are a lot of people around to help out with advice, in the form of professors, directors of undergraduate studies, resident heads, house O-Aides, etc.</p>
<p>There has been a general trend towards encouraging hum and sosc in the first year and getting core complete in the first two years, but that plan doesn’t work for everybody, and that’s perfectly okay.</p>
<p>There are a lot of big choices that most incoming first-years have to make: honors calc or not? which hum sequence? which electives? do I want to start pre-med? what about econ? what about Kirkegaard? There is no right answer to these questions… some of my friends will say honors calc is the best thing that ever happened to them, others will say it’s a class from hell.</p>
<p>If you or your child takes initiative to ask around for advice and hop into a section realizing that it might not be the right one, I think he or she will do just fine.</p>