According to the supervisors, this session is like a dress rehearsal because there are fewer people in this session and most students have already started. Because of that, most wings did not live in Jester East. Although I was slightly bummed that I did not get to do parking or get my own wing, I had a great time nonetheless.

The fun began on Wednesday when a coworker got locked inside his restroom. Although it seems ridiculous that this would happen, it is entirely possible because he lives in a room with connecting bath, and the locks are outside the bathroom. With both sides locked, he was stuck for one hour. The emergency maintenance workers came and revealed to the group that the door to his room was unlocked, so any of us could have gone in and rescued him… oops! In any case, here is a picture of him as he was rescued:

As an orientation advisor, I get to help students choose their first classes. Everybody I pre-advised trusted my advice, and I gave them a few “tricks of the trade” to take home with them. The only special case I came across was a summer first-year student who is taking some classes in the summer and received credit for most of the first-year courses. I had no choice but to put him in a class recommended for a second-year student with the blessing of a general engineering class associated with it. I hope he does well; and if he doesn’t, he can hunt me down and shake his fist at me as I pass by him.

On the night before registration, we had fun with “Ducks on a Bus,” a comedy show, and “Club Jester,” an unofficial party the orientation advisors put on as an alternative to drinking parties (we do our best to keep these first-year students out of trouble ;)). Although our first shows are serious in nature, that committee reserves the right to make fun of them. For example, the show has a monologue for a World of Warcraft player based on a Social Justice monologue:

Here. Me. Game.

On Friday, we celebrated the departure of Boys’ State. Although they had nothing to do with the orientation program, they resided in Jester West and presented an annoyance to the staff, especially since they were looking at our women staff and students in disrespectful ways. That is really not surprising because they are not allowed to even talk to women! Tomorrow will bring another 1,200 students as well as parking duties. Please wish us all the best of luck.