Coming to a campus with a population of 18,000 students can be scary for most new students.
Coming to a dining hall filled with people clueless as to what they're doing can be annoying for old-timers.
Professors and students can easily lose patience when they are surrounded by incoming freshmen going through orientation. However, instead of grumbling about the problem, students should spend their time trying to help out people going through this huge transition.
The purpose of orientation is to help incoming freshmen prepare for college and all it entails: dorm life, scheduling, parking rules, etc. All college students have gone through this. Whether they are now well on in their college career or only out of their first year, Ball State students were once the bumbling newbie trying to figure out North Quad.
Students should feel compassion, then, when they go to eat lunch at the Atrium. Despite the chaos that orientation has turned the Atrium into from noon to 1 p.m., the incoming freshmen are about to become a part of Ball State life.
Instead of being arrogant, go up to the orientation students and offer to help them out or even just say hello.
Show them that Ball State is not just a university that has recently gone through some tough times but one where they can feel at home. --2)'V~+â-äo_editorial_7.8DNEditorial--2SORT"+â-ä2AUDT
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