Miami Hamilton Student Activities: Spring Orientation 2012!

This post is long overdue, but I think I owe you some pictures and evaluation of Spring Orientation, which was waaaaay back at the beginning of January on the 6th day of 2012. Spring Orientation is always crazy, because our time frame for planning is much smaller than over the summer. Here's how it goes down:

Mid October: I set the date for Orientation (this is easy, as it's always the same day for Spring Orientation every year - the Friday before Spring semester classes begin).
November: I hire three student coordinators to work as interns for the whole year (and summer) on Orientation.
December12: The student coordinators and I hire 18-20 Orientation Leaders (OLs) for Spring Orientation
December 13-16: Frantically prepare for our first training for OLs. There's no time!
December 19: We hold our first training for OLs
December 23 - January 1: Holiday Break!
January 2: Come back to work, frantically prepare for second OL Training
January 3: Five hour OL training
January 4 - 5: Do everything else for Orientation (i.e. stuff folders, create nametags, create and update all session sheets & binders, etc. etc. etc.)
January 6: Orientation!

It all moves very quickly and there is little to no room for breathing. But this year we pulled it off without a hitch - Orientation was definitely a success, with about 140 students attending out of 150 students registered (which is a really good ratio, and better than normal!).

Here are some highlights from the day, which was structured very much like our Summer 2011 Orientation: