Title: Freshmen Reception 2009
Category of Workshop: Academic Enrichment
Date/Time: September 17, 2009 / 12:30-2:00PM
The workshop I attended yesterday aimed at welcoming students while offering answers to whatever questions we had from the the first few weeks of our experience of college. An adviser introduced to us some of things we need to know such as selecting our minor, the courses we needed to pursue our majors and how we could contact an adviser if we needed help. Basically, it was a refresher overview that was similar to the presentation at Freshmen Orientation.
I selected this workshop because I was hoping the advisers would be able to offer advice in what major would fit closely to my interests. Because I have something in mind, I wanted to pursue it, but maybe their would be something that corresponds closer to what I want. I figured that I should know as much as possible earlier so that I wouldn’t have to search for answers in a mess later on.
Well, the workshop was not what I expected, due to the amount of people planning to go the reception. Well, I understood how a lot of people misunderstood that this was a “mandatory for all freshmen” workshop, when it really wasn’t. After splitting us into different groups, Mrs. Brown reviewed to us about the topics I mentioned earlier. I had not gotten a a folder with the minor paper and other information, so the reception made me realize I was missing something. The workshop was very brief since the event took a turn for a different direction. I couldn’t say I learned a whole lot from this experience, but it was a refresher of sorts.