A “Fresh” Perspective: Orientation

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Walking through those doors makes you feel like a different person. You feel older, more mature. It makes you feel like the stupid pranks you pulled last year won’t fly. It puts you up on cloud nine for those 10 milliseconds as you realize you crossed over the barrier from middle school to high school.

Then you get slapped back into reality. You go in and listen to the Principal, Vice Principal, and the resource officer talk on different safety issues and rules around the high school. If you make it past this part of the orientation without falling asleep, you’ve done a great job.

The next part is a little more fun. You wander the hallways until you are hopelessly lost and the helper search and rescue team has to come find you. They help you find your classes and open your locker, then they turn you loose. You can get lost over and over again trying to re-walk your schedule or you can just go get lunch.

After you eat lunch you go and get your laptop. This laptop has only three things wrong with it. The first is the obvious lack of a CD drive. The second is the lack of a mouse ball, they give you a mouse pad, but some people like mouse balls better. Last, but not least, there are only two USB ports. Ignoring these three things you have a great tablet computer.

Now that you’ve been hopelessly lost, eaten school lunch, and picked up your laptop, it’s time to go and get lost one last time. You have to complete a scavenger hunt of common places visited on school grounds. The office, the gyms, etc. There is a list of 6 or 7 places you have to find and then you can go to the auditorium for closing. Closing is like the beginning, if you don’t fall asleep you’re doing pretty well.