I was not impressed with my college orientation.

HelloImChelsea
Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:50:26 +0000

My mom and I attended my college orientation yesterday. I’m going to a small state university in my hometown. I live in Missouri. I know that I will transfer to the University of Missouri - Columbia after my freshman year. The local college gave me more money than Mizzou did.

The entire orientation was geared for students who will be living on campus. I will be a commuter student, so the information was not pertinent to me.

All degree-seeking freshmen are required to take this 3 credit hour class called “University Experience”. I don’t plan on seeking a degree from the college. My adviser told me what a big waste of time that it was and that since I will transfer to Mizzou, I didn’t need to take it.

However, my schedule was sent to this person whose purpose was to check to make sure that I was in the University Experience class. My original class schedule was: college algebra, programming I, international relations, biology, and advanced college composition. I was going to take government, but all the classes were full. I dropped programming I and added the UE class.

What annoys me the most is the person who put me in the UE class said that Mizzou has an orientation class, so I would have to take it no matter what. I called Mizzou and they don’t have an orientation class.

I have already read the book required for the UE class and I learned all of the information my freshman year of high school.

Since I’m only taking 13 credit hours this semester that I think are useful, I might not be able to graduate in four years. I’m already planning to take 6 hours next summer. I hope to major in finance and minor in computer science. I need my summers for internships, don’t I?

What should I do? I don’t know if I should talk to my adviser again…