<p>I remember the course planning workshop and the big packet…everyone seemed so overwhelmed by it. Silly me, I knew the current COD (figuratively) cover-to-cover by the time orientation had started. Two weeks after I received my acceptance I had signed the lease on my apartment and not too much longer I made the move to C’ville. 
I, too, felt that the first day was pretty redundant – some of the people I met in my group decided to leave and we walked Downtown.</p>
<p>Although…my days at UVA certainly seem so much better now that I have repressed the long nights of reading and the all-nighters in the basement of Clemons (and pushing two chairs together to make a mock bed). It was worth it though. I transferred from a PA state school and it was basically high school +…the same memorization and regurgitation ad nauseum.</p>
<p>I really hope I can make things work so that I can return as a Grad student next year!</p>