<p>yankees, coste and rrah have already done a great job at answering the latest questions. I’ll add my answers, which are slightly different.</p>
<p>As far as registering for classes, to make the best use of your time at orientation, you may want to do some research ahead of time. Most importantly, get familiar with IU general education requirements and requirements for your school/major. Then look at the course descriptions for the classes that meet the gen ed and major requirements, along with pre-requisites for those classes. Once you have a bunch of classes that seem interesting, you can use the course search tool to find what sections are available for the course. Here you will find the dates/times, location and instructor (sometimes instructor is not listed). Now you can really go crazy and look up the instructors on ratemyprofessor.com, look up grade distributions for the courses, look at a campus map to see where the buildings are located, etc. There are so many things to consider, so it all depends on what is important to you. You should make note of the exact class sections you are interested in, so you don’t have to start from scratch when registering at orientation. If you have a later orientation date, you can double-check the availability of those classes just before you leave for orientation. One additional thing to consider, that didn’t come up until orientation, is the timing of final exams. Your advisor will probably advise you not to register for two classes that have final exams at the same time. Unfortunately, my daughter’s schedule results in two final exams that are 15 minutes apart. She really doesn’t want to change her schedule so she is hoping one of those classes will have a flexible final exam option.</p>
<p>Here are some helpful links:
Class Search and Course Browser: [Schedule</a> of Classes - Fall 2013 : Office of the Registrar: Indiana University Bloomington](<a href=“http://registrar.indiana.edu/time_sensitive/scheofclass4138.shtml]Schedule”>http://registrar.indiana.edu/time_sensitive/scheofclass4138.shtml)
Grade Distribution Database: [Grade</a> Distribution Database: Office of the Registrar: Indiana University Bloomington](<a href=“http://gradedistribution.registrar.indiana.edu/]Grade”>http://gradedistribution.registrar.indiana.edu/)
Professor Reviews (use at your own risk): [Rate</a> My Professors ? Find and rate your professor, campus and more ? RateMyProfessors.com](<a href=“http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/]Rate”>http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/)
Final Exam schedules: [Final</a> Examination Schedule: Enrollment Bulletin: Indiana University Bloomington](<a href=“http://enrollmentbulletin.indiana.edu/pages/finexsche.php?Term=1]Final”>http://enrollmentbulletin.indiana.edu/pages/finexsche.php?Term=1)
Campus Map: [Campus</a> Maps ? IU ? Bloomington](<a href=“Indiana University Bloomington”>Indiana University Bloomington)</p>
<p>If you are in Hutton Honors, you will still just have one advising session, and it will be in the Hutton Honors college building (at least that’s where my daughter’s was). My daughter is a Kelley direct admit and her advisor was from the Business Honors program, so he was very familiar with Kelley requirements. His regular office is not in the HH college building, and she’s not sure he will be her advisor in the fall.</p>
<p>For orientation housing, they provide bed linens and pillow, towels and a bar of soap. For our orientation all students were housed in the Union Street apartments. I’m not sure if that’s the location for all orientation sessions, but I can’t imagine they would spread the students out over multiple dorm locations. You can either check in your bag at Wright when you arrive for orientation and pick it up there after dinner before heading over to your housing, or keep it in your car until after dinner when you head over to your housing (assuming you drive). My daughter kept her bag in the car just because we didn’t know there would be an option to check in the bag in the morning.</p>