So I went to the UT Transfer Orientation last weekend, and that was a hellava good time, lemme tell ya. It was hot and the lines were long and their campus has STAIRS, which, needless to say, does not mix with the first two ingredients well.
There were hundreds and hundreds of people there. I showed up at 9:30am and stood in one line for an hour, then I walked to another building and stood in a different line for an hour and a half (at the end of which I had my picture taken for my ID—I look super happy). After the lines, I walked back across campus to a third building where they sorted us into two very large auditoriums: Liberal Arts, Nursing, Business, etc into one room and Fine Arts and everything else into the other. After a long talking to about how wonderful it will be to go to UT—which, btw, I AM looking forward to, however, every single one of us in that room had already attended another college and could not bring themselves to be too enthusiastic when shouting TEXAS FIGHT over and over. Save that for the freshman, who are still excited about college—and after that room, we were sorted down even further into schools. The School of Liberal Arts went to another building—after a very round-and-about trip across campus, btw—where they talked to us again in another auditorium. After that, they divided us by majors: I was included in the “Small Departments”. And after that, they split us into two groups and we went into separate classrooms.
And out of all the hundreds and hundreds of people there that day, I was the only Arabic Major, which I found extremely interesting and couldn’t help feeling a little prideful about.
I’m all registered for classes now. I’ll have class everyday of the week, but that kind of comes with the major—intro level language classes are usually everyday of the week, from what I could tell. At least I’ll only have one class on Thursday’s and Friday’s, so that’ll be nice.
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