Orientation Week

With the second semester approaching fast, and it is almost time for Orientation Week.

Well, Orientation Week or O Week is time of year for noobs to be introduced to where they will be spending their days 'studying' for the next 2-3 years. (Or so they hope, provided that they pass from semster to semester). So, the noobs will take the time explore their new habitat,to find out useful information like where their classses are going to be held, student services, the library,where to buy text books etc. All the really important stuff. YEAH RIGHT... Well sure they need to know where all the stuff is but its O Week. This isnt the time to find all that out. Thats what the first official week is for.

O Week is the time to really find yourself and get settled in.Socially I should say. For the noobs its the time to find the really import things when it comes to student life. Like making new friends or drinking buddies, to find the quad for hackie sessions, the university drinking hole for drinking sessions obviously and to mingle with other like minded individuals, the student health services to pick up free condoms, and the closest Domino's or Subway when you got the munchies. You know. The REALLY import stuff.

O Week is basically introducing yourself to the University, be it through drinking copious amounts of alcohol, streaking through the quad, playind air guitar at the Ves, or even Trolley racing down Wakefield Street. Whatever your flavour, O Week has got it sorted.

For all the 1st years, this may be a whole new experience to them. For most, they would've just finished high school. It may be the first time they have ever moved out of home or to a new city on their own, or perhaps the first time away from 'Mum and Dad'. Whatever it is, if they choose to make the most of it, O week will be an experience that they will never forget.

And for the veterans, those who have made it through their first or even second year, O Week is just another excuse to get down and have some fun....