Swoop~!!(My Freshman Orientation!)!!~ (Part 1)

hmm lemme see.. this is gonna be a long one XD

la nmn maxado nangyari this week.. basically, i was just anticipating my orientation which was to be at the end of the week (Friday, which right now, is yesssterday XD..) .. i pretty much just stayed home, went to UNF nung Wednesday for my 2nd and last immunization shot, and went to SJT's (St. John's Towncenter - it's an outdoor mall near Tita Jinky's) with Tito Joel nung Tuesday.. (yay! i got 2 new shirts from Banana Republic XD.. thanks Tito joel and Tita Jinky ^^ ..)

highlight of the week: SWOOPAPALOOZA - MY FRESHMAN ORIENTATION AT UNF ^^

it's called Swoopapalooza because ung parang animal thingy ng UNF is an OSPREY which is a bird.. XD .. bale, students of UNF are called OSPREYS and what do OSPREYS do? they SWOOP XD (mimicking the flap of their wings XD ..)

kinda ironic kc despite the name osPREY,ospreys are actually predator-type birds XD

nyweiz.. XD

it was Tito Joel who went with me to Orientation.. iba kc d2, parents are encouraged to come to orientation.. though students can go to orientation on their own, we both agreed that i should have a parent their with me.. kaso ang nangyari din naman, nung umaga p lng after the 1st session, naghiwalay na kmi ni Tito Joel and then sinundo n lng nya aq at the end of the day XD .. but anyways, lemme get into the details =D

we left early in the morning around 7:20 or 7:30, got a quick bite to eat then went to the orientation.. wen we got their, we walkd from the parking lot to the Andrew Robinson Theatre, building 14A, where i got my id for orientation, etc.. pasok kmi ng theatre tpos ito na ung 1st session.. basically it was all just basic talk, a couple of professors spoke to the freshmen, gave info about the need-to-know-about's like ung One Stop Student Service Center, ung Academic Center for Excellence (ACE), ung MyWings account of each student (which is ung online student account) etc.. tapos, the SWOOP SQUAD (sound funny? XD..) introduced themselves.. they are juniors and seniors (although sophomore ung leader nung group where i was in) who were gonna assist in the orientation and lead the groups to the later sessions..

bale after the 1st session, naghiwalay na lahat ng mga freshman into groups.. there were about 80-100 students and there were about 5 or 6 groups.. each group was named after a movie XD aq, i was is the SHREK group (hi shek! XD..) tpos ung other grps was spiderman, TMNT, 300, etc.. hehe ^^ .. tpos each group was split into a sub-group A and a sub-group B .. i was in the A grp so kami ung pina-register for classes 1st

time-out saglit! XD

d2 kc u can fix your own schedule and you register for your own classes.. d2, ung tinatawag natin dyan sa pinas as "COURSES", here, is called "MAJORS" .. d2, ang courses are individual classes like english, math, etc.. d2, a full time student must be enrolled to at least 12 credit hours.. each COURSE is either 3 or 4 credit hours.. d2, like some schools satin dyan sa Pinas, it's 2 semesters per year (the FALL sem and the SPRING sem)

basically, these are the differences as far as i know =D

ok game time ulit XD now read carefully if you wanna know how the system of stuff is here.. i commend you in advance if you do so and read evverything that's about to follow.. XD

so we were brought into this classroom type setting, in one of the buildings, where there were computers for you to register.. in the room waiting for us was 1 faculty person and 1 academic advisor.. they were there to help us out register for classes, which take note, IS DONE ONLINE! (xenxa na i forgot their names kc medyo complicated ung mga last names nila XD =D..)

so step one was to choose my COURSES.. for my 1st and 2nd year, i have to finish my GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS which are ung mga basic stuff not so directly associated to your major that everybody takes for their freshman and sophomore years..

included in these GEN ED REQ are:

1. 9 CH (Credit Hours) for English,
2. 6 CH for Math,
3. 9 CH for the Humanities,
4. 6 CH for Social Studies, and another
5. 6 CH for the Natural Sciences..

for me to be a FULL TIME student, i need at least 12 credit hours for this 1st semester which is equivalent to 4 classes.. so, i have to choose 1 class each for 4 of the 5 subjects above..

DAPAT may isa from english, DAPAT may is from math, and then course 4 and 5 can be from any of the remaining 3 (humanities, social studies, natural sciences)

• for my ENGLISH - i chose ENC 1101: College Writing .. this is my course for english.. i didn't really have any choice actually.. this is the most basic english class and it's 3 credit hours.. unfortunately kc, walang inooffer (that i should have known of if ever) na duel enrollments (DE), international baccalaureates (IB), or advance placement (AP) classes sa OB.. these are classes that you can take that would be recognized by your college as a valid credit.. so if we had this choice in HS, we could have taken advance courses pagdating ng college.. and so, since i don't have this, i just got the most basic course ENC 1101 .. it's only for english that courses are taken in order as you finish each course
• for MATH - i chose STA 2014: Elementary Statistics for Health and Social Science.. it's worth 3 credit hours.. this i chose being that im going on the track of becoming something in the medical field, kaya this math course is right for me.. ung isang course, Intermediate Algebra, i would have to take it sa FCCJ pa! the school on the other side of town! so since i don't wanna do this dahil mahihirapan aq, i askd the academic advisor for another option.. she askd what more or less my major is or what my field of interest is for my major.. so when i said, medicine / health, she referred me to this class which is pretty appropriate.. there was another class that was also very appropriate for me which was ung Precalculus na course but ung prerequisite for this class was ung Intermediate Algebra course sa FCCJ.. what i can do is check out next semester if there will be any available intermediate algebra courses ON-campus sa UNF, AND THEN i can do ung Precal.. unfortunately ung Intermedita Algebra course is not included in the list of courses of GEN ED REQ.. meaning, i would just be taking this as an EXTRA course JUST SO THAT i can fo the PRECAL course.. this would be a total of 9 credit hours now samantalang ung required lng nmn is 6.. kaya ang mangyayari, dahil i dont wanna go over the GEN ED REQ dahil ang MAHAL ng tuition ku for this 1st year dahil ndi pa aq florida resident, (im paying 500 dollars per credit hour! instead of 111 dollars if i was already considered a FL resident) ill ask if i can just take another course that does not have a prerequisite and weigh it to see if it's appropriateness is enough to over-weigh the very appropriate PRECAL course.. did i confuse ya? not over yet baby XD
• for my 3rd COURSE (which can either be a humanity, SS, or NS) - i got BSC 1010C: General Biolgy I for my Natural Sci class.. nothing really complicated hear.. next sem i will be doing chem naman.. dis bio course is 4 credit hours instead of the regular 3 because aside from the lecture their is also a LAB class which counts as another credit thus making it 4 credits.
• for my 4th COURSE - i got PSY 2012: Intorduction to Psychology.. this is a 3 credit hour course.. believe me, this was the most appropriate choice for me since the other choices was sociology, criminology, history, and law-related courses.. for my fourth courses i was also looking at the Humanities courses which are divided into 3 divisions.. ung sa 3rd division, puro mga fine arts type courses ung nandito including ROCK APPRECIATION! YEAH!!! wicked \m/ XD .. unfortunately, because the orientation batch i went to was like the 3rd batch already to be registered, nafill up na ung slots for this course =( .. so what i can do is check if it's available NEXT sem tpos take it then.. :> *smug* hehehe XD

in total, 3+3+4+3.. that's 13 credit hours.. so, im a registered full time student! yay XD .. sobra p nga ng kaunti kc 12 lng ang kelangan to be full time as ive said b4 =D

so after registering, we just filled up a survey and it was on to the next session ^^

for my sked, and later parts of my orientation after registration, ill tell ya about it in another post para ndi maxado mahaba tong post na 2.. XD

thanks for reading! =)