Orientation

* This is a tentative orientation schedule based on August 2012's International Orientation Schedule. In summer 2013 an updated schedule will be posted with more detail. Programming will be similar, but dates, times, and locations may change *

Tentative Undergraduate International Orientation Schedule 2013

• Wednesday, August 21 - Move into your residence hall (pick up your key at International House)
• Thursday, August 22 - See schedule below
• Friday, August 23 - See schedule below
• Saturday, August 24 - See schedule below

Sponsored by: International Student Council and Office of International Students and Scholars at Worcester Polytechnic Institute

*Internatioal Parents Question and Answer Session: Thursday,  Aug 22, 2013 Time and Location to be annouced.

Thursday	August 22, 2013
9:00 a.m.	Continental Breakfast and Welcome WPI Admissions Staff
10:00 a.m.	Welcome and Overview of Orientation Tom Hartvig Thomsen, Director, Office of International Students and Scholars, Colleen Callahan-Panday, Assistant Director and
10:30 a.m.	Welcome to Academic Advising
11:00 a.m.	Campus Tours In small groups you will tour the campus with an ISC student and get your WPI ID card
12:00 Noon Morgan Hall	Lunch and Brief introduction to the WPI Dining Services
1:30 p.m.	Cultural Adjustment Discussion, with Student Development and Counseling Center Staff Keeping Yourself Safe, with Campus Police
2:15 p.m.	Cultural Adjustment Discussion, with Student Development and Counseling Center Staff Keeping Yourself Safe, with Campus Police
3:15 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. Buses leave from Trowbridge Rd	Shopping Trip, Super Wal-Mart
5:30 p.m. Morgan Commons	Dinner
7:30 p.m.	ISC Social Gathering Social Gathering with International Student Council
Friday	August 23, 2013
8:00 a.m. Morgan Commons	Breakfast
9:00 a.m.	Humanities and Arts Requirement at WPI
9:45 a.m.	Academic Honesty Government Regulations, with Tom Thomsen and Colleen Callahan-Panday
10:45a.m.	Academic Honesty Government Regulations with Tom Thomsen and Colleen Callahan-Panday
12:00 p.m. Morgan Commons	Lunch
1:15 p.m.	Student Services Fair:
2:15 p.m.	Introduction to the Career Development Center
2:45 p.m.	WPI Dining Services
3:30 p.m.	SEVIS Registration and return of passports,
4:00 p.m.	Free Time
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Goat's Head Restaurant	Dinner Check your meal ticket for arrival time
7:30 p.m. Buses leave from Trowbridge Rd	Bowling Party, Please bring socks!
Saturday	August 24, 2013
8:30 a.m. Morgan Commons	Breakfast
9:30 a.m.	WPI Degree Requirements Tom Hartvig Thomsen, Director, Office of International Students and Scholars
10:00 a.m.	How to Get Credit for High-level Secondary School Work ISC Peer Mentors
10:30 a.m. various locations	Small Group Meetings with Peer Mentors "Everything you really need to get started"
12:00 p.m. Morgan Commons	Lunch
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. buses leave from Trowbridge Rd	Tour of Worcester and Outing at Lake Park Busses return to campus at staggered times
5:30 p.m. Higgins House	Concluding Dinner with ISC Officers and Peer Mentors