<p>I have just come back from my summer orientation and I know that for prospective students as well as students about to depart on their orientation there are are hundreds of questions out there. I am here to try to answer the questions to the best of my abilities based on what I experienced whilst at orientation.</p>
<p>Do you also eat puppies?</p>
<p>whiteoverblue = aggy ■■■■■.</p>
<p>Are the tests that are being administered “credit by exam”? I was under the impression that they were “placement tests” as in to see which Math course, for instance, you were ready to take in college. </p>
<p>I was told that there really isn’t much of a schedule of the orientation that I need so I can prepare, that you basically just show up on the time it said on the letter you received after signing up and you’re given everything there.</p>
<p>this isent about orientation, but im really confused!! can people who are liberal arts honors live in the honor dorms, or is that only for people in plan 2 honors?</p>
<p>as long as you are in ANY honors program, you can live in the honors dorms. so in short, yes, people who are in the honors program for liberal arts can live in the honors dorms.</p>
<p>Post 7 in this thread has a link to an orientation schedule if that helps</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-texas-austin/644753-what-all-do-you-do-ut-orientation.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-texas-austin/644753-what-all-do-you-do-ut-orientation.html</a></p>
<p>M-5, they are credit by exam, assuming of course that you do well on the exam itself. I took the spanish placement test and ended up testing out of 15 hours of spanish credit.</p>
<p>cocoaluna, yes you can live on the honors quad if you are in LAH</p>
<p>and whiteoverblue, no i don’t eat puppies ;)</p>
<p>Ha, my grandfather worked on an Indian reservation in Montana around 1920. He had gotten his bachelor’s degree at A&M. One time an Indian family invited him to dinner and brought out a big pot of stew. As he reached for the pot, the mother said, “Dig deep - that’s where the big pieces of puppy are.” No joke! So at least one Aggie has eaten puppy! His wife, son, daughter-in-law, and two granddaughters all went to UT - no one else followed in his footsteps to A&M.</p>
<p>During the Orientation, does everyone shower in the community showers? For people who have already been to orientation, was it difficult to shower considering that everyone pretty much showered at the same time, or was that not the case?</p>
<p>for guy’s, it’s very easy to shower. guys shower quickly and there is hardly anyone in the bathrooms no matter when you go shower. the shower rooms are extremely small though and the water tends to unexpectedly heat up and scorch you. girls tend to shower a lot longer, so there might be a line for the showers, but it shouldn’t be too bad.</p>
<p>henryj223 is exactly right with the showers. Although some guys on the 9th floor get really lucky and have a personal bathroom, most of the guys rooming in Jester East have to shower in the community showers, and although I never saw another person showering, it is true that the water heats up and burns you and then cools down and freezes you.</p>
<p>Talking about small private dressing rooms with small private showers in a community shower room. (These are not what are called a “community showers”!)</p>
<p>Would Someone Please Explain what a Community Bath vs. Private or Connecting Bath IS?</p>
<p>Community baths are bathrooms that are shared by a wing of dorm rooms on one floor. The community bathroom in Jester East had 5 shower stalls, each with a shower curtain for privacy, and a hook outside the stall to hang towel/clothes. The community bathroom also had 4 toilets and 2 sinks. Each room has it’s own sink, so you don’t really use the ones in the community bathroom.</p>
<p>A private bath, is, well, a private bath. It’s just for your dorm room.</p>
<p>A connecting bath is a bathroom shared by two adjacent dorm rooms.</p>
<p>okay i’m a girl and when i showered in the community bath this past week it wasnt as bad as i thought it was going to be. it wasnt that gross or anything. although i did burn the ****tt out of myself when i turned the hott water too much…but everyone i talked to did that haha</p>
<p>JuanEatsPandas, did you take your laptop? If so, did you have a connection in Jester, or did you have to go to the library?</p>
<p>givings, I did bring my laptop to orientation, that being said, a computer is not entirely necessary to bring along, but it can provide a useful tool for trying to plan out your schedule on the night of the third day before you register for classes in the morning.</p>
<p>Interesting story, yes there is connection in Jester free of charge, but nobody warned me that there was a limited time of internet usage, and it wasn’t until my roommate was kicked offline that we figured that one out. Just a heads up!</p>
<p>how long was the time limit? do you know if it is like that for all the dorms?</p>
<p>Thanks for the heads up…were you able to figure out how long your connection lasted? Are we talking 15 minutes or 2 hours?</p>