Jennifer Vitti

I am off to work in half an hour, but I thought I would post on how my orientation went!

…it was kind of lame! I was so excited for it so I’m sure I built it up too high in my head, but even if I hadn’t I think it still would’ve been kind of on the lame side. First I picked up my books, which are huge! HUGE! But that part kind of was very exciting. I looked at some of the ones that aren’t in shrinkwrap, but most likely I will not being able to resist looking at the other ones, which means unwrapping them. I don’t plan on selling them back anyway so theoretically it shouldn’t matter. Then I stood in line for a really long time to get my parking pass only to realize that all the people in line were waiting for their photo id, which I already had. Whoops! I saw some people I recognized from the ice cream social back in April, and they recognized me, which was nice. Then we handed in our CORI forms and picked up some info. The info wasn’t really anything terribly exciting: Nursing Program Addenda to the college handbook, and then brochures for things around campus. We sat in the foyer with all the other programs (therefore this portion was not program specific) and listened to all the different services on campus give a 2 minute introduction: campus po, library services, registar, etc etc. That took about 45 minutes and then we had a short break where I went back to the bookstore because one of my two backordered items had come in. Of course the one back ordered item that I really NEED is the one that is still back ordered for another week, which means I will have to take an extra trip to Regis before September 8th…oh well.

Then we finally went to a separate room to talk about our specific program. I people watched for a while as everyone came in–some familiar faces, some not. All very interesting and quite a diverse group which is great! Then we were given a very vague talk about our program. I was hoping maybe to meet some instructors, find out more about what we would be doing, how the program would go, what our first day would be like… not so much. We did find out where the clinical placements would be though (not specifically where I will be, but where I could be placed first semester). I would not mind being at most of them! There was a couple I wasn’t too familiar with and they were kinda far away, but none were more than an hour, so they’d be manageable. And that was it… again I think I built it too much up in my head, but I was just expecting more. It doesn’t really change my excitement for September though, so that’s good!

~love always~

Jen

p.s. NEW COUNTDOWN: 20 days until school starts!!! <—you love it!