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| Freshman orientation at the Tate Student Center |
Each year, thousands of new
faces — ranging from excited to terrified — appear on campus, gearing up for
the fall semester when they will officially be Georgia Bulldawgs. They are
incoming freshman, transfer students and graduate students, and they all have
the chance to hit the ground running with an orientation just for them.
Orientation acts as a guide
for new students to do everything they may need to accomplish before moving to
Athens this fall. This includes registering for classes, taking placement exams,
touring the dorms and getting an overview of all of the programs and offerings
on campus at the Resource Fair.
The Georgia Museum of Art
has participated at the Resource Fair for the past four years, and it has been a
great opportunity to show attendees that no matter what their interests may be,
the university has a place for them.
Michael Lachowski, one of
the museum’s representatives at each orientation, said, “Participating in the Resource
Fair is a big commitment for us — it’s a lot of days and a lot of hours for
staff to be standing around, hoping for an opportunity to interest new students
or their parents in what we have to offer at the museum.”
This is certainly true;
there are 17 freshman and five transfer orientation sessions throughout this
summer. Although the effort is not minimal for this commitment, Lachowski is
optimistic about the results.
He continued, “[We] think
it’s worth the effort. We want the museum to have a place at the fair the same
as it should be in the students’ experience at Georgia. And maybe some of them
will just remember they saw our banner that said ‘Georgia Museum of Art.’”
With a campus as large as
the University of Georgia, it is easy to fear you will be lost in the mix. But
orientation and the Resource Fair allow students to see that there are faces
behind all of these units and organizations, and they are all ready to make
your college experience the best it can be.
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