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Incoming Student Calendar 2008

All dates are tentative at this point.

Friday, June 6, 2008

• First Mailing to Incoming Students
• Incoming Student Online Registration Available

The First-Year Office finalizes its list of incoming students in mid-May. As soon as they provide us with the final list, we mail out information to all incoming students. Here you’ll tell us what kind of trip you’d like, what dates you can come, and general information about yourself and your experience in the out-of-doors. Registration is online.

Some families prefer to make travel and schedule arrangements as early as possible. Please be aware that if you commit yourself to a specific timeframe before our mailings you may not be able to get the trip you really want. Not all trip types are offered in every section.

Sunday, June 22, 2008

• Incoming Student Registrations Due

If you’ve missed the deadline, don’t despair! We still want you to come, so register online anyway. Your first choice of trips may be filled, but we’ll do our best to get you a great trip.

Sunday, July 13, 2008

• Second Mailing to Incoming Students
• Incoming Student Trip Assignments Available Online

We mail out trip assignments (dates and trip type) and detailed information on what to bring, when to check-in, etc.

September 1 to September 16, 2008

• DOC First-Year Trips!

Sections

First-Year Trips is divided into 10 sections, with staggered overlapping dates (section A starts on Tuesday, section B starts on Wednesday, etc.).

Each section is five days long:

• Day 1: Incoming students arrive in Hanover and check-in in the afternoon. After check-in, everyone plays games to get to know each other, then each trip heads off to dinner separately to get to know each other. Trips spend the night in Hanover.
• Day 2: Trips head off on busses to their drop-off points and head off on their trips. Some trips stay in cabins, others camp out.
• Day 3: Trips spend a full day out in the wilderness and one more night out.
• Day 4: Trips head out to their pick-up point and get bussed to the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge, Dartmouth’s home in the mountains. The whole section has dinner here, and spends the night.
• Day 5: Trips get bussed back to Hanover. Sections A, B, C, and D head back home for about week until orientation — other sections can move into their dorms after their trip.

Dates

Here are the dates of the 10 sections this year:

[1] Sections primarily for incoming students living in the northeast U.S. — most participants will return home after their trip, then return to campus for orientation.

[2] Sections for non-local incoming students — participants can leave their belongings in their dorm rooms and move in when their trip returns.

Another way to look at it:

Notes

Monday, September 1, is Labor Day, a national holiday in the U.S. — please plan extra time for travelling during Labor Day weekend: Friday, August 29 to Monday, September 1.

Ramadan begins on Tuesday, September 2.

Dorms open to all First-Year students on Tuesday, September 16 (though sections E through J can move in when their trips get back to Hanover).

The College’s Orientation for new students begins on Wednesday, September 17.

Fall term classes start on Wednesday, September 24.