<p>Something important for 1st years to remember: There will be a lot of movement in enrollment during the first week or two. Your OLs told you this. You won’t believe them (or us) until you experience it I suppose, but just calm down. It’s really early in the ball game. And unless you’re really far down on a waitlist for a larger class, or are waitlisted for a small class (like a discussion section or seminar), you don’t need to continually bug professors. This is your first year of college. They’ve been around the block more than enough times. :)</p>
<p>Also, for planning time to get to/from classes. </p>
<p>Walking at a normal pace,</p>
<p>Gilmer/Chem to Clarke: 6-7 min.
Gilmer/Chem to Cabell: 8-9 min.
Clarke to Wilson: 4-5 min.</p>
<p>Interesting - Monroe housed McIntire until they moved back to the Lawn, and I was under the impression it was being converted to administration offices and then Garrett Hall would be a classroom building (or just stay offices too).</p>
<p>With the start coming soon, I have a vague feeling about missing some deadline between now and August 22. We’ve paid the bill and there are the immunization records due August 31. Are there some other critical milestone dates / forms / whatever to do or at this point do we just show up on move-in day?</p>
<p>Depends what kind and how much you want to pay. If your parents take you to target they have .50 notebooks there or did last time I went around move-in. Same with walmart. There is a CVS if you’re willing to take a bus ride or a trolley ride (Barracks or downtown) which don’t have horrible prices… You could also go to the Bookstore, which is convenient, but the prices reflect that convenience (but hey you’re supporting our local economy and it won’t bankrupt you). You could consider buying them before you come too. There is also a Kinko’s at Barracks should you ever need that.</p>
<p>I got a fridge and a microwave from craigs list… for $60. Total. Both were gently used, and work great - I totally recommend looking for used items before buying new.</p>
<p>There is now also a CVS at the corner, they’re pretty cheap there. You can also get lots of stuff inexpensively from Amazon, just make your total purchase more than $25 and get free shipping. </p>
<p>Walmart and Target will always be the cheapest, but they’re both quite a long way up 29.</p>
<p>what schools supplies are recommended for classes (i.e. binders? spiral notebooks? folders?) i am not sure if i will be recieving handouts or if im better off with a regular notebook or what</p>
<p>whatever your thing of comfort is. I’ve always enjoyed using spiral notebooks (all through high school) and have stuck with that. I also color code everything by subject, very useful when right before class you need to just grab and go… But then I started having 2 math or 2 education classes and I mixed things up more than once last year, sigh… Most professors give some kind of hand outs the first day, and then maybe none the rest of the semester or a few every day. I always have a folder to go with each notebook just in case something is given to me one day, or to store returned homework. Once I started mixing up things I started getting the big multi-subject spiral notebooks. When I had 2 classes, it was good because for 5 sections 2 were for notes and 2 were for homework and the last section was overflow from all the others.</p>
<p>But use what you’ve been using or what you’d like to use, there’s no mandatory organizational system. You could use the same notebook for all of your classes (but then studying for tests is harder unless you go and pull out all of your notes and put them in order in a binder).</p>
<p>It depends on the course/major. I started at UVA writing my notes and then switched to typing because I found it to be much quicker to type and then read later on. It’d probably be important to keep a notebook handy though if you need to jot down a graph or diagram though.</p>
<p>I type, and it’s really nice to have everything together. Although you should definitely have a notebook for diagrams, graphs, etc. </p>
<p>If you tend to get distracted easily, you might want to use a notebook since there’s plenty of temptation to drift away from notes, and go onto facebook.</p>
<p>I write everything I care about - as a math major you really can’t type notes. And I’m distracted if I bring my computer. For large lectures I didn’t care about like Psych I would bring my computer and follow along with the powerpoint aka play Freecell. For my ed classes the professors put up the powerpoints and that is enough for me to get an A (ed school isn’t very hard) with minimal other notes. Most classes distribute summary powerpoints (everything you see is not what they distribute) so some things are important to write down - like an astronomy class I had where the professor would give sample questions and answers. Many people print out the powerpoints and take notes on the side to avoid computer distractions and make sure they get all of the slide notes. Some classes don’t allow computers for notes - depends on the professor. I know some computer science professors ban laptops and an art history professor banned laptops that a friend told me. Also foreign language classes I can’t imagine having a computer there for. Or an English class where you’re writing margin notes (harder to do on the computer) and circling things, etc. As far as studying, as long as you only use one notebook per subject you can study things as easily handwritten as typed assuming your handwriting is legible. And do you type or write faster? These are all things to consider as you make your choice. Try typing vs writing and see what you like better! HTH</p>