New students arrived today in overstuffed cars accompanied by parents, siblings and extreme jitters. Arriving at a new school involves so much uncertainty: Will I like my roommate? The room? And what's all this about camping in the woods?! Any fears are proved justified when you open the doors to the library and are pounced upon by well-intentioned day student tour guides.
You get a room key, a laundry bag, a bank account, sign a document promising to behave when on a computer, and then have your picture taken, so that everyone at the school can look at your face and know who you are. It is, as Sam demonstrates below, a time to make new friends:
Up until this moment, the only real relationship you've had with Proctor was with that one admission officer who interviewed you, so it's reassuring to see Chris Bartlett again....
What about the traditional lap-sit on registration Day? It's the same every year. Here's a link to last year's Chuck's Corner entitled Hello, Goodbye.
