<p>My parents came, but I live locally so they didn’t say in university housing, though my mom often heard other parents raving about how nice the suits were. I didn’t go to the Wednesday program for the above reason, though I talked to a lot of people who did. They said that there was far, far less painful stuff to go through, and you get the BUWA out of the way. Some people said they liked Wednesday, while others thought it was stupid (particularly “learning about the city” by finding your way around using a portable GPS that often lost signal and led you around randomly due to tall buildings).</p>
<p>My mother said that the parents had longer lectures (the student lectures arn’t that long, but there are a lot of them), but overall she seemed to enjoy orientation a lot more than I did. She liked getting to meet the professors, and all the talks about parenting a college kid calmed her down a lot.</p>