New Student Orientation introduces new students to the Wesleyan community and assists with the transition to university life. New Student Orientation for the Class of 2013 as well as new transfer, exchange, and visiting students will take place September 1-7. As you get ready to arrive at Wesleyan, look through the New Student Orientation website to find more information about Orientation week activities. The Orientation office is staffed with five Orientation Interns who are happy to answer questions. They can be reached at 860.685.6667 or at orientation@wesleyan.edu.
Month: May 2009
Taking Care of Yourself
Check out the latest and greatest online health promotion tools available from Health Services and WesWELL, the Office of Health Education. The Self Care Guide allows you to make informed choices about your health care, including information on how to prevent and treat various health concerns. Created by the American Institute for Preventative Medicine, it’s chock full of good information on being healthier. e-CHUG (Electronic Check-Up to Go) is a brief assessment tool that provides feedback on alcohol consumption and drinking patterns. Learn how to make small changes that can make a big difference!
Check out these tools today or any day…both are always linked from the Health Services and WesWELL websites. (Note: While you are required to enter your Wes email username and password to access both these sites, it’s anonymous browsing Your username is in no way connected to the information you enter into or gather from either site.)
Housing Preference and Placement Information
Student housing at Wesleyan is designed so that first-year students live together in residence halls near the center of campus. As they move through their years at Wesleyan, students have an opportunity to choose an increasingly more independent living option from residence hall doubles to singles to program houses, and eventually apartments or senior houses. All of these options are within a 5-10 minute walk from the center of campus. Residential facilities vary by size, room type, and ratio of first-year to upper-class students. Smoking is not permitted in any of the student residences at Wesleyan.
If you haven’t already done so, be sure to login to the Residential Life online housing preference form so that you can indicate your level interest in the various housing options that Wesleyan offers to first-year students. In addition to indicating your preference for living in a single, double, or triple room, the form seeks your input regarding a variety of community-based living opportunities. Your housing preferences must be entered into the system by 11:59 p.m. on June 7, 2009. Until the deadline you may login to the system as often as you like and make as many changes as you need to make. No changes may be made after the deadline, however, so that the Office of Residence Life can begin the process of making actual housing placements.
On July 22, you will be able to find out about your housing placement and roommate assignment by logging in to your e-portfolio. In the meantime, you are encouraged to check out the suggested packing list of things that you may want to consider bringing to Wes. It is also important that you consult Physical Plant’s housing guidelines and fines that have been developed to maintain the safety and integrity of Wesleyan residential facilities. Any questions you may have should be directed to the Office of Residential Life at reslife@wesleyan.edu or 860.685.3550.
Peer Advisor Blog
The Peer Advisor blog is a student-authored publication that provides news and information about academic and co-curricular life at Wesleyan. A service of the Student Academic Resources Network, the blog is a place where new students can get answers to questions before arriving on campus. Current posts cover topics such as What’s an FYI? and What are Essential Capabilities. Future posts will discuss topics such as how to unpack the Summer Registration Form, how to read a WesMaps course catalog page, how to work with your Faculty Advisor, and life beyond the classroom.
The Peer Advisor blog is maintained by peer advisors (upperclass students with expertise in navigating the “Wesleyan system”) and is available at http://peeradvisor.blogs.wesleyan.edu/. Anyone can browse the blog, but only authenticated members of the Wesleyan community may post comments. If you will be posting comments (which requires login using your Wesleyan username and password) please be aware that there is bug in the blog software that may cause an error the first time you try to login. If this happens, just click on your browser’s Back button to login again and you should be OK.
June Mailing from the Office of New Student Orientation
Any day now you should be receiving a mailing from the Office of New Student Orientation with important information to help you prepare for your arrival to Wesleyan on September 1 for New Student Orientation. In addition to the Faculty and Student Advising Handbook, which provides an overview of Wesleyan’s philosophy of liberal education as well as information concerning academic regulations and procedures, the packet contains information about the summer registration process, placement testing, and how to register with Disabilities Services if you have a physical or learning disability. Many of the items in the June mailing require a response from you, so be sure to review its contents thoroughly and be mindful of deadlines.
This year’s New Student Orientation program will provide you with multiple opportunities to interact with faculty, staff and other students and learn about Wesleyan and its many resources. If you have any questions, you should contact the student interns in the Office of New Student Orientation at orientation@wesleyan.edu.