My experience at orientation was terribly frightening. I spent the day accompanied by my two friends Sage and Rebecca, and accompanied their orientation for the college of natural sciences, after all chemical engineering is just a bastard child of math and chemistry (their two majors) anyways. we started by attending all of the presentations on camus life and diversity before roaming about the campus. The fact I was not with my group did not impact the tour, as mostly the same areas were presented to the groups, the true trouble began after lunch. I had escorted the both of them to whitemore in order to get their id's made without having to wait in line, but then I had to escort them to their scheduling appointments. The building for the natural science scheduling was at a much closer location than that of the engineering students. I had also never been to the engineering lab and so I got lost in the nearby buildings as it was difficult to identify which buildings were which. When I did arrive, I was late for the presentation on engineering. I was, however, on time for the scheduling appointment. Because I wasnt present, my worksheet had gotten lost in a "no show" pile, which caused me to wait longer than other students. When I was finally ready to talk about my future classes, we had realized that I was missing two vital prerequisites, mathematic modelling and thermodynamics 2. I was unable to take any class other than those and physical chemistry, but then I would be unable to take any classes in the spring because of the classes I would miss this fall. Falling back on my strong academic record, I was able to reach out to the teachers of the courses and get the prerequisites waived, so that I could fully and properly attend next semester.
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