Week 3 - Orientation

So, today's post is going to be in 2 parts. The first is about orientation.

Let me start off by saying that last time I totally forgot to mention that my roommate finally got here in the last post. Her name is Elizabeth, and she's from Cornell. She's awesome. We totally bonded b/c she's a redhead, and I'm blonde, and people on the trains/in the malls/on campus shamelessly stare and point at us because we're obviously foreign. Good times.

Orientation was pretty boring. They just went over all of the university's policies and whatnot. In the business school part of orientation, we had to go around the room and introduce the person next to us. We had to do this for 164 people. It took forever. I couldn't even pronounce the name of the school of the girl that sat next to me. Disaster.

The only interesting part of the entire thing was when the "head warden" from housing gave us his rules, so I wrote them down so I could post them.

King Chow's 10 Commandments (I kid you not, his english name is King Chow):

1. You shall not kill.
2. You shall not steal.
3. You shall not smoke (after he said that one, he reminded us that this one wasn't in the Bible).
4. You shall not dope nor get doped.
5. You shall not cook (We don't have cooking facilities).
6. Game in the hall, there is no hope. (I don't even know...)
7. You shall not drink alcohol (but then he told us that they don't actually check).
8. Disruptive behavior will not be tolerated at all (I wish someone would tell that to the people on my hall that scream and blare canto pop all night).
9. You shall not damage the fixture and furniture in the hall.
10. Any report of offenses will be counted to your own loss (which apparently means they'll call our parents & home universities).

And the golden rule: "You shall not dishonor your parents or your home institution."

So, that's all I've got for orientation. A recap of my first week of classes will be posted shortly.