<p>My parents dropped me off for preorientation, and I didn’t see them again before Parents Weekend (despite the fact that my birthday was in the middle of orientation :P). We put all my stuff in my permanent room, put the stuff I needed for Inward Bound in my temporary room, ran to Target for laundry detergent and other necessities, and then went to the send off at 3:00. Immediately after, my parents and sister went home (it may have been my sister’s first day of high school the next day, and my parents had to go to work). Orientation is perfectly manageable without parents, and yours wouldn’t be the only parentless student there. </p>
<p>If I recall correctly, the college provided a bus to the mall on the gap day between preorientation and orientation. During orientation I spent most of my time with people I met in preorientation, but as time went by I made friends in my house and now of my two closest friends, one lives in my house and the other is from preorientation, and I have two different groups of good friends stemming from each one.</p>