It’s been a while since I posted, but I have now officially wrapped up my first month at Cedarville University. I had a great time during Getting Started Weekend and Welcome Week, and I want to provide some details about what that process looked like.
Getting Started Weekend
Getting Started Weekend started on a Friday with move in day. I arrived at 9am and then spent about 2 hours moving into my dorm room until I had to move onto the next thing, which was a student employment meeting. After that, I had orientation for my job and then lunch with my family and another orientation session for the school. I also had the honors program orientation where we got to hear from the main honors professor. Essentially, I spent most of Friday doing orientations for different things and obtaining a lot of information. We also had sting group meetings which is where I was randomly assigned to a group of new students, and we played some field games together.
On Saturday, my family came back to campus, and we attended a couple more sessions before going out to lunch together. After that, they left, and I settled into my room. Later that evening, all the new students took a picture together. Then we walked around the lake while parents, siblings, and teachers cheered us on before we had another orientation session with donuts afterward.
Sunday had the least number of things going on, but it was the day when parents officially left. We had a church service in the chapel that morning for freshmen and their families and then we were on our own. That evening, we also got to go to a worship night which was nice to kick off the start of our 1000 days on campus.
Welcome Week
During welcome week, we had another set of events, including the first day of school. We met with our faculty and academic advisors on Monday and got to make any necessary changes to our schedule.
Cedarville also does a Fall Bible Conference for the first few days of being at school. This year, they had Pastor Jimmy Scroggins. He talked about twice a day for four days in the morning and evening.
We also had other worship nights, womanhood/manhood events, and dorm/hall meetings leading up to the first day of school. There was also a library block party to give us more information about the services the library provides. And then, classes started on Wednesday.
Most classes were simply another sort of orientation session on the first day. They were like Meet the Teacher classes, and we mostly just walked through the syllabus and expectations of the classes. We had our first real class sessions on Friday, or else the following week on Monday.
On Wednesday, we also took first day of school pictures by the lake. Over the next couple of days, there were games on the patio, and, more importantly, an involvement fair. The involvement fair was a great opportunity to talk to churches in the area as well as the different orgs on campus, 3 of which I ended up joining.
The first week or so on campus was a bit overwhelming, but it was still very fun. I was able to meet a lot of new people, many of whom have become some of my closest friends on campus. Classes started slow, which was nice, but they have certainly picked up now. In future weeks, I hope to post more college life!
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