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<p>Huh? (It is dated 2012, and won’t be updated until spring '13 grades are in…)</p>
<p>Since today is D-Day, I’m hoping the parents of 17’s start posting questions and then get us oldies excited about the good times with dorm questions, trips, etc.</p>
<p>Bluebayou, reddoor (whom you quoted) was right. my link was to an older (but, far as i can tell, identical) version of the college provisions. i just grabbed the first one that popped up when i searched the site and didn’t even look at the date. reddoor provided the 2012 one.</p>
<p>Yes, Magnum, I agree! Even though I didn’t post very often, I learned a lot from this thread for my '14. She just picked her room for next year and it’ll be so nice for her to have the same room for all three quarters! Not that storing her belongings was difficult (she used the Hanover True Value storage), but we’ll save some money and inconvenience. I’ve just been looking at pictures from First Year Family weekend in 2011! Time marches on.</p>
<p>Bluebayou, the definitions of the honor groups are the same but if you look carefully the cutoffs have changed quite a bit.</p>
<p>firstonetogo, your post made me laugh! I figured out today that by the time my 14 graduates, we will have moved her 18 - 20 times (2x per residence, of course). Junior year alone she has lived in NYC and 2 different dorm rooms! Next year she happily has an off-campus apartment for all three terms…we’re so happy (and tired!) 
We’ve gotten very good at it, though!</p>
<p>We’re going to graduation next month and I just received confirmation that we have been assigned to Bilger Hall! We are giddy with excitement over the fact that we are staying on campus. Now to convince my son to stake out some seats early for us.</p>
<p>Magnum PI, I would suggest to ask your son to hire someone to do it for him. My son had the best intentions and was so busy the night before that he did not follow through. It worked out fine. We sat in the bleachers in the back and could see everything.</p>
<p>You need to find 15s who are sticking around waiting for the summer term to start. Or, high school kids, but I have no idea how you track those down.</p>
<p>From my experience, I has enough family bonding time so it was a welcomes break to walk to the green @ 6am just to have some peace m quiet. We r on daylight savings so the sun will be up. Bring paper towels cos the seats r wet from the morning dew. Some people brought tape even though they frowned upon it. It was a really nice crowd of people out at 6 am ( use the facilities at the Hanover in). You could probably get some one to watch your seats as u make a coffee run to Lou’s. Looking from the back toward the stage grad students come down on the right if get an aisle seat on the right aisle you may get to see your daughter.</p>
<p>Oh yes, now the have jumbo trons (spell check on my phone)</p>
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<p>What route do the graduating undergrad 13’s take?</p>
<p>The undergrads come on the left (i remember this because I had an aisle seat on the right aisle and saw all the grad students march past me) while the undergrads came in on the left aisle and walked into the rows toward the right. Again, now there is a jumbotron so the view is probably going to be much better (I did have a good view of her walking across the stage to get her degree).</p>
<p>Undergrads are lined up and called alphabetically to walk across the stage.</p>
<p>I don’t remember the grad students walking across the stage (perhaps because there may be a separate ceremony)</p>
<p>You guys are awesome. Mahalo for the tips. I can’t wait. I will definitely get up early, who could sleep in a such a special day? Thinking of Lou’s already. Some or our friends think we are nuts to stay in the dorms for graduation, but we’ve stayed in enough hotels around Hanover that the dorms will be a welcome adventure. Too bad we won’t be able to play frisbee on the Green! We will take a side trip to Quebec before we pack D up for the move back to the islands. Looks like we will be donating a lot of winter clothes to all her friends.</p>
<p>Congrats Magnum! And you are very brave to stay in the dorms. While I could do it, I don’t think my parents or inlaws would, so I have some very outrageous hotel rates for next year (rooms already reserved). One of the only negatives of Hanover is the limited hotels on campus, hence, supply and demand at its best. If you get any further tips, please post for us for next year. Enjoy your trip!</p>
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<p>We stayed in the dorms, it was great. Parking is hard to get and is at a premium in Hanover during grad weekend. We were able to park, and not have to worry again about moving the car until time to leave (that alone made it worth staying in the dorms). My sister had her car and drove, so I was the good sibling and circled with her to find parking (PITA).</p>
<p>They set you up in he dorms that have the bathrooms in your room, so you are not necessarily living like a college student. They try to place you in the new buildings which are good as far as dorms go. </p>
<p>Graduation weekend is busy between receptions and all of the other stuff going on. It is good to know that you can walk back to your room whenever you have had enough.</p>
<p>Courer, Don’t forget the folding chairs for when you go to the BEMA on class day (tell your wife, no cute shoes walking to the BEMA.</p>
<p>sybbie719 I agree with all your good advice. However, it is possible that the dorm room for graduation will be like what many of us remember as a dorm experience. We stayed in dorm rooms for two graduations. The first year we stayed in Wheeler where the restrooms were by floor so that meant middle of the night bathroom trips and showering required walking down a flight of stairs to the communal bathroom since our floor only had a men’s bathroom on it. It was also incredibly noisy the night before graduation throughout most of the night-- shouting, drums, loud music. In fact, I was surprised that the campus was so clean the next morning. It must have been a busy night for the maintenance staff. The second year we stayed in Fahey. The bathrooms were unisex on each floor but were not part of our room. This location was much quieter. We plan to stay in the dorms again in '17 because the convenience is wonderful. However, we will remember to bring robes and earplugs!</p>
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<p>Hi all, I’m new to this thread – my son is a D '17, excited for next year. He’s starting to look at trip choices, as well as the rooming questionnaire. For trips, how does one know whether “extreme” hiking is too extreme? (He’s a runner, very fit, but not a climber or hiker per se.) And do folks recommend coming home before the start of school or having their trip end just as school begins?</p>
<p>And I am wondering about hotels for the freshman weekend in May 2014, word is hotels book up overnight, friends have recommended Sixth Street hotel. </p>
<p>He is also looking at classes and wonders how to figure out if classes are going to be too challenging – i.e. in what way is the number ID assigned to a class indicative of its difficulty.</p>
<p>Welcome Octomom, had to do a double take on your name. You can have your son call DOC and ask about where the hike goes, I believe it is along the App Trail and goes up to some mountain tops. He should be fine if he is a runner. Ask Dumbo or Longhornmomof4 about Sixth St. Hotel, its the newest and nicest one in Hanover, although the Hanover Inn has been renovated. I have no idea on the difficulty of classes, my son says all the kids are extremely bright. Congrats!</p>