Every school has it every year right before school starts. You start your college career with two events: move-in and new student orientation. Move in can be one of the most heretic parts of the first weeks of college. It is probably the last time you will see your parents for a while as well if they help you move in. New student orientation is the boot camp to prepare you for college and just how college is different from high school.
Move in goes rather fast however, unpacking is always the thing that takes the longest. All the things brought from home to help with college life. While unpacking, it's a good time to meet your roommates who are the one you will be spending the next year living with, and you might just become the best of friends. You might as well learn to get along with them. You keep your door open to invite the rest of your floor to come by and say hi. Take a break and walk around your floor and see all the other people around.
New student orientation is a different boat. It is a mess of the next couple days with a jam packed schedule of new and exciting things. It is exhausting and stressful mess of things however, that doesn't mean that isn't fun time at that. You will meet a lot of people over during the first week of college and don't worry about remember everything. You can always ask for help, or people's first names. Trust me, you will learn a lot of people's names and will forget at least some of them.
NSO gives you a lot of good and helpful tips about the college you are attending. Don't hesitate to take other people's advice. NSO is only a segue into the first couple days of class. NSO is a fun time with all new things to learn. There's the catchy phrases that everyone gives out and make you memorize. They are a chant to help guide you through NSO and of course the rest of college.
Competition is the name of the game sometimes in NSO, and it's for the better. It builds bonds with people pretty fast. It allows you to make friends fast. So just keep going and you'll make it through the first week. It will be worth it when you start classes with new knowledge and new friends and a new home.
