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Orientation Schedule: Fall 2009

This is a tentative schedule. You will receive an updated schedule upon arrival on campus. All events, times and locations are subject to change. Please check back often for updates.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Check-In. Moody Student Center.


9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Move-In: Time to Unpack. Residence Halls.

11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Vendors’ Fair. Rathskellar (RAT) lower level, Moody Student Center.


11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch. Main Dining Room, Moody Student Center.

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. 

Commuter Student Check-In.  Moody Student Center.

2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Legacy Student Reception.  Beale Garden.


2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Commuter Student Reception. Intercultural Center, lower level Moody Student Center

3:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.  ABC’s of Financial Aid and Paying for Your Hollins Education.  duPont Chapel.


4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Student Success Leader (SSL)/Orientation Team Leader (O-Team) Match-Up.  First-year Seminar Classrooms.

5:00 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. Looking Ahead: The Road to Commencement. Front Quad (rain location: duPont Chapel).


5:45 p.m. - 6:45 p.m. Picnic. Front Quad (rain location:  Main Dining Room, Moody Student Center).

7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Welcome Reception.  President’s House.


9:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. Residence Hall Meetings (for residential students only).  

Friday, August 28, 2009

8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Breakfast. Main Dining Room, Moody Student Center.
8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Meet Your Advisor. First-year Seminar Classrooms.

9:15 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Three Concurrent Sessions.


- Academic Fair. Ballator Gallery and Camp Younts, upper level Moody Student Center.


- Diversity Monologue Troupe.  Babcock Auditorium, Dana Science Building.


- Honor Code.  Botetourt Reading Room.

11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Navigating Your Academic Path. First-year Seminar Classrooms.


12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch. Main Dining Room, Moody Student Center.


12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Bookshop Reception.  Bookshop, lower level Moody Student Center.


1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Building Class Schedules. First-year Seminar Classrooms.


2:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Individual Meetings with Advisors. First-year Seminar Classrooms.


5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Dinner. Main Dining Room, Moody Student Center.


6:30 p.m. Free Time!

8:00 p.m. Social event: TBD.

Saturday, August 29, 2009

8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Breakfast.  Main Dining Room, Moody Student Center.
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Celebrate Your Spirituality (optional). Gordh Room, duPont Center. 

10:30 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

New Student Photo.  The Rock.


11:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

Family Farewell.


11:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Mock Senate.  Babcock Auditorium, Dana Science Building.


12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch.  Main Dining Room, Moody Student Center.

1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Concert Choir Auditions. Choral Rehearsal Room, 2nd floor Presser Hall.


1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Free Time!

3:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Food and Fun.  Back Quad

Sunday, August 30, 2009

7:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. Adventure Day. Buses depart from in front of the Moody Student Center.


Monday, August 31, 2009

8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Breakfast. Main Dining Room, Moody Student Center.
9:00 a.m - 12:00 p.m. Individual Meetings with Advisors. Advisors’ Offices.


12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Registration.

12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch. Main Dining Room, Moody Student Center.

1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Class Meeting. DuPont Chapel.

2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Discussion of Summer Reading. First-year Seminar Classrooms.

4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Free Time!

5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Dinner. Main Dining Room, Moody Student Center.


7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Living Proof. Speaker; Sarah Panzau. Babcock Auditorium, Dana Science Building.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Breakfast. Main Dining Room, Moody Student Center.
8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Day of Service. Buses depart from the Forest of Arden, Gym.
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lunch. Main Dining Room, Moody Student Center.

1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. 

Hollins Student Employment Program Orientation. Babcock, Dana Science Building.

3:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.

Calling All Athletes.  Tayloe Gymnasium.           

4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Opening Convocation. duPont Chapel.
5:30 p.m. First Step. Front Quad.
6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Dinner. Main Dining Room, Moody Student Center.
6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Community Standards for Residential Students. Babcock, Dana Science Building.
8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Ice Cream Social. Rathskellar (RAT), lower level Moody Student Center.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009
CLASSES BEGIN!
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Residence Hall Meetings. Locations varied, based on your floor.

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