orientation schedule

Orientation Fall 09

Saturday, August 22

9:00 am

New resident students: Move into housing.
Parents: See Financial Aid, Bursars office.

12:30 pm

All new students and parents (resident and
commuter): Welcome to Montserrat—lunch on the Beverly Common (in front of the Hardie Building).

 

1:30 pm

Parents’ Orientation begins.
New residential students meet with Mark Bester, Director of Housing. Commuter students meet on the Beverly Common.

2:30 - 5:30 pm

Workshop: Anna Hepler: Collaborative Printmaking.
Game: Capture the Flag.
Game: Bocce.
Game: Scavenger Hunt.
Game: Assorted other curiosities.

5:30 pm

Downtime

8 pm New residential students: housing meetings, in your house.

 

11 pm

Late night breakfast, City Side restaurant, one
block from the Hardie Building. (Be sure to bring money [$10.00])

     

 
Sunday, August 23 9 am

Rise and Shine. ALL students— light breakfast
on the Common.

  10 am The Amazing Rotating Workshops:
Life in college.

 

12 :30 pm

Lunch on the Common.

  1:30 pm The Mystery of the Time Capsule.
  4:00 pm The Giant Cardboard Tower Race.
  5:30 pm Ice Cream Dinner at the Beach.
     

 

Monday, August 24

9:00 am

ALL students — Registration and photo I.D.s. (Hardie Building)
Computer accounts, email and Moodle.
Journals.
Studio work and ethics.
Writing Center and Library.
Art History Boot Camp.

 

12:30 - 1:30 pm

Lunch on the Common.

 

1:30 pm

All new students travel to the PEM (Peabody Essex Museum) in Salem via train from Beverly.

  6:00 pm Time Capsules.
     

     
Tuesday, August 25 10 am

ALL Students: Thing!

  11:30 am - 1 pm The Info Rodeo and lunch on the Common.
  1 pm Trip to Cambridge via train and T (the local name for the subway. Bring money for transportation and extra for food and whatever—approximately $15.00 for transportation, and more for whatever you want to eat or buy).
 
Please visit the Montserrat College of Art Blog for additional student life information.
 
CONTACT    

Brian Bicknell
Dean of Student Services
978.921.4242 x 1130

bbicknell@montserrat.edu

 

Len Thomas-Vickory
Assistant Dean of Student Services

978-921-4242 X 1201
lthomas-vickory@montserrat.edu