orientation schedules
September 4-8th, 2009
Get ready to find yourself at Mac!
New Student Orientation is Sept 4-8. This on-campus program is designed to acquaint you with the culture, services and resources as you transition into the campus community.
Here’s a more detailed look at how orientation will unfold. In order to receive your final schedule, be sure you check in with us on Friday, September 4th. Check in will be located in the tents on the lawn in front of Markim Hall.
Friday, September 4th
8:00am – 5:00pm
Move In/Orientation Registration Student services and local resources available in the Campus Center:
• Card Services
• Student Employment
• Information Technology Services
• Student Accounts
• Banks
• Metro Transit
• Grand Avenue Business Association
10:00am –4:00pm
Bike Sale (Used bikes sold by the Sibley Bike Depot)
10:30 – 11:30am
Reception for Mac Alumni and their sons/daughters in the entering class.
3:00pm
Transfer Orientation Group meets
4:30pm – 6:00pm
Picnic Dinner for new students and their families
6:15pm
Scottish Clans (Orientation Groups) meet.
6:30pm
New Student Convocation
7:30pm
Scottish Clans meet
Parent Social
8:30pm
1st Community Meetings in the residence halls
10:00pm
New Student Social
Saturday, September 5
8:00am
Placement Exams
8:45am
Scottish Clans meet
9:00– 9:40 am
Students: Welcome 2 Life @ Mac
Parents: Welcome/Meet the Hall Directors
9:45am– 11:00am
Parents: Getting Connected to Mac
10:00am-11:30pm
Transfer Students: Transfer Orientation Group meeting
FY Students: First Year Course Meeting
11:00am – 11:40am
Parents: Absolute Reality (about alcohol and social choices)
11:30am – 12:30pm
Transfer Students: Meet the Academic Dean & Registrar
11:50am – 12:30pm
Parents: Meet your son’s or daughter’s FY Course professor
1:00pm – 1:45pm
Café Mac employee training
1:00pm-3:30pm
Students: Academic Advising Appts
1:30pm – 2:15pm
Parents: Conversations w/Current Students
2:30pm – 3:15pm
Parents’ options: Transitions session
Campus Tours
Tours of Markim Hall or the Leonard Center
3:30pm – 4:15pm
Parents’ options: Academic Experience
Campus Tours
Tours of Markim Hall or the Leonard Center
4:15pm – 5pm
Parents’ Resource Fair
3:30 – 5:00pm
Students: Faces of Macalester
5:00 – 5:30 pm
Reception for Lives of Commitment Program participants
5:30-6:30pm
Center for Religious and Spiritual Life reception
6:30pm – 10:00pm
Students: Scottish Clans meet , Process Faces
6:30pm- 8:00pm
Parents: President’s Reception
10:00pm
Student Social (Casino Night)
Sunday, September 6
9:30am
Ecumenical Worship Service
By 11:00am, parents and families depart.
10am – 6pm
Academic Advising Appts
10:30am – 11:30am
Student Employment mandatory meeting
11:30 – 1:00pm
Transfer students’ Lunch with the Deans & Directors
1:00pm
Soccer MacStravaganza
6:30
Shuttles to the Minnesota State Fair
9:30 – 11pm
Mac night at Target
10pm – 12am
Transfer students’ Bowling outing
Monday, September 7
9:00am
Scottish Clans meet
9:30am – 11:00
Campus Scavenger Hunt
11:00am – Noon
Various Workshops / Info sessions
1:00pm – 3:15pm
Community Connections session
3:30pm– 4:30pm
Various Workshops / Info sessions
5:00pm – 10:00pm
Transfer Students: Dinner at Stella’s Fish Cafe
7:00pm
2nd Community Meetings in the Residence Halls
9:30pm – 11:00pm
New Student Talent Show
11:00pm – 1:00am
Coffee House
Tuesday, September 8
8:00am – Noon
Into the Streets - OR - Assessment (based on your First Year Course
1:30pm – 5:00pm
Into the Streets - OR - Assessment (based on your First Year Course
7:00pm
Queers and Allies reception
8:00pm: First Hall Council meeting
9:30pm
Welcome Week kickoff event