<p>This may seem like a dumb question but here it goes…</p>
<p>I’m looking through the orientation guide (I’m a transfer student) and I keep seeing: Required - RA Meeting (North Campus Residents Only)</p>
<p>Does this mean these RA Meeting is only for North Campus Residents? If I’m placed in West Campus, and hoping for one of the Houses, do they have any required meetings during orientation week?</p>
<p>Also, is my bf allowed to come with me to things like transfer night? We live together and he’s the only family I have, so this weekend will be our last together before Xmas break. Would it be weird/inappropriate if he came with me?</p>
<p>i assume the reason they put north campus only is because they know about the other campuses and they only want north campus people. so if you are on west, im assuming its not for you. and about your bf, for these informal stuff, my opinion on it is bring whoever you want as long as they dont cause trouble… these meetings dont really matter</p>
<p>I would imagine that the meeting with the RA would be required as well for people who are living somewhere else on-campus. This meeting would usually be on the first night and used to go through the list of don’ts and do’s with some icebreaker game in the beginning.</p>
<p>@fri3nds04: that’s what i was thinking. there are 2 meetings listed. im just not sure why they put: RA Meeting - See Your RA for location (North Campus Residents Only). </p>
<p>It seems that’s just for North Campus residents but I also think that the other housing systems would have RA or House meetings too, right?</p>
<p>i’m guessing RA meetings would happen AFTER freshman orientation for those living OUTSIDE north campus because of the fact that not everyone moves back the first day…</p>
<p>i remember living in program housing we had our program meetings AFTER freshman orientation</p>
<p>you don’t have RAs on west campus, you have a thing called GRFs which stands for Graduate Resident Fellows. you will have a meeting with them after orientation, once the rest of the sophomores, juniors, and seniors have arrived on campus.</p>
<p>Don’t go to North Campus meetings-- they aren’t for transfers. A week or so after O-week, you’ll have a meeting in whatever WC house you are in with the rest of your floor. </p>
<p>As far as bringing your BF, definitely spend as much time with him as you can, since you won’t be seeing him for awhile. Honestly, you can probably go to the first meeting and that’s it; the rest of the stuff is basically pointless.</p>
Not entirely true, as there are transfers on north. My first year, there were about 100-200 transfers in the townhouses. On north, the RAs seem to fill the roles that the GRFs play on west, so those RA meetings do apply to transfers.</p>
<p>Yeah, West Campus has no RAs. We have SAs (Student Assistants) who work in west campus house activities like events/house dinner/etc., but they don’t have to be on call or control students or anything, they just get cheaper housing/dining. GRFs are the ones who are on call and things like that, and I can only speak for Becker, but they do barely anything on their floor (unless a particular suite is extremely noisy, but Becker is kind of like a hotel hallway, it’s always dead quiet even near suites, so GRFs paid little attention.)</p>
<p>You can def. bring your boyfriend along - I know some people who did that for transfer week in January, and some even had their sister or (at the more formal, staff-run events) their parents.</p>