On September 17, 2009 I attended the freshmen reception on the 5th floor in hopes of getting something out of it such as learning the graduation requirements as well as what classes to choose for next semester. I had expected the workshop to draw in a decent sized crowd-not too small and not too big, maybe around several hundred students max. But once the day of the reception actually arrived, I along with my friends whom I went with were blown away by the amount of students that had actually shown up. It was as if the entire freshmen class showed up for it! Upon arrival with my friends, we waited on line for what felt like an eternity. After waiting for a while (around 10-15 minutes) the line actually started to move and we were ushered in as a group, which I didn’t like since I felt like we were being rushed in like cattle. After going inside the office, I along with many other freshmen had to wait yet another 15-20 minutes in order to get inside this small conference room before we were to meet with an academic counselor and of course get our planners signed. When me and some of my fellow classmates were almost in the room and was really close to meeting with a counselor, one of the female advisors had come in and announced that almost all of the freshmen class had shown up for the reception, thinking that the workshop was mandatory. As a result of that they weren’t well prepared for it and so she told us to just get our planners signed and leave. In my mind, I was thinking what the hell?! I wasted more than half an hour waiting here for nothing other than to have a workshop completed. Although I liked the fact that I fulfilled one of my workshops requirements, I was utterly disappointed by this workshop because I actually wanted to get something out of the workshop and I had waited over half an hour for nothing! So, I was pretty let down by this. I understood why such a situation occurred but I felt that they should have better prepared for it because after all, they sent out invitations to every freshman as well as put up fliers everywhere so they should have expected at least a pretty decent sized crowd coming in. There were some people that got to meet with advisors though but they probably got there really early. Overall, I was disappointed by this workshop because I didn’t get anything out of it but maybe it would have been better if I got there earlier.