Orientation day 1

I’ve arrived. Today was the first day of orientation. I met my section of about 50 people, listened to a lot of entertaining speeches, and sat through three hours of FAQ.

My section is an interesting mix of students. I think there are more students with undergraduate degrees from BYU than U Minnesota in my section.

Apparently U Minnesota recruits in Utah. Hm. I think we had a few Creighton university grads as well.

My orientation leaders are fun, but there was so much FAQ-time that the questions began to focus on things that we don’t need to worry about, like OCI, 3rd year, etc.

And yes, we did have that girl, the embarrassing gunner.

All of the sections were together in a huge room for the main speeches. The keynote speaker gave a great speech and fielded questions. Most of the questions were relevant and graciously answered.

Then book girl raised her hand.
“Um, yeah, I read this book by so and so, and while you had valid points the book focused on this and that, the book’s author focused on this and disagreed with you…”
She went on for a few minutes about this book.
Book girl: “So did you read the book? And what is your opinion?”
The keynote speaker looked at her, like wtf, and told her that he hadn’t read the book, and didn’t really care for the author.

Yikes.

People talked about “book girl” for the rest of the day. I’m glad I didn’t see her face. I don’t want to have that horrible impression of her.

I was also almost peer pressured into getting chicken at the BBQ, but that is another story.

Tonight: DNC and political debate with the housemates. Orientation day II is tomorrow. Vöt!