I was visting a school I'm looking at for next year today, where it was also freshman move in day. My dad and I were super confused when we drove up and there were all these chairs in front of the chapel. After seeing some people dressed up, we figured it was the wedding. Nope. That would have been too easy. It definitely made for an interesting visit experience, seeing everyone have no idea what was going on. That's life though. Some of the appearal was pretty amusing. Like shirts that are just grey with the school name. Why would someone buy that? I think I'm gonna hate orientation, but at least then it's over with. Hopefully I have a bit better time overall than you seem to have had.
You will. It's just easy to become illusioned by the almost-cult-like behavior. People love this school. They'd die for it. I've been given shit for just opening my mouth and saying I dislike it. "Why don't you just go somewhere else if you don't like it here?" without realizing that their wealthy asses could go wherever they wanted if they wanted to. I didn't just fly out to California like you, assholes. They'll be smiling and hanging out on the same field where an 18-year-old male gets beat by "7-9" people the night before. Talk about how safe the place is when the university itself declines to be a part of a nation-wide-sexual assault survey. And I'll leave the other stuff out. Basically what it comes down to is mindfulness. Acting like they're the shit when they're just as bad as everyone else. You can like it here. I like videogames, I like chocolate cake. But unlike most of the kids at my school, I can understand their flaws, too. Videogames can waste time. Chocolate cake can be unhealthy. And my university is just as primed for sexual assault, violence, and stereotypical bull as anywhere else. So this, if you want a condensed video (and this isn't my university...but I'm not about to give you mine, lol):