Your First Year
Whether you’ve landed here before school begins or during your first year, we have designed this webpage to be a resource for great opportunities for you to explore in your first year of study. Better understand yourself, connect with your peers, try out new ideas and define your goals by connecting to the opportunities listed below.

What you can do right now
Before classes begin, be sure to register for Fall Orientation in late July and take a look at the Online Orientation content that is released weekly into September. Second, check out the calendar below for informative Summer Series events that will help to prepare for school in the fall and connect with other new students.

What brought you here?
Looking to the future is important, but it’s the reflection on who you are and where you come from that will help you to integrate those lessons. Help us help you to take a step back and consider what this experience is all about.

How will you chart your path?
Learning to organize your time, energy and efforts is an important skill-set that you’ll develop during your first-year experience. They say that Rome wasn’t built in a day, and it most certainly wasn’t done by one person alone – get help from others with time management, study skills and more.

What will you create?
University is about the exchange and the development of those ideas, and whether you’re prototyping a theory, a design or an equation, the first version isn’t likely to be the best one. Practice and prototyping are key – get started today!

Who will you meet at university?
Whether online or in-person, collaboration is at the heart of your university experience. Whether it’s a passion project, a school assignment or just hanging out and meeting new people, here are a few entry points into the campus community.