Orientation Blog

Is there an Allegheny specific list of stuff to bring? I'm finding that when you Google "what to bring to college" about 128 million people have about 128 million sites about what to bring. Although I appreciate the thorough approach the internet is taking to solve this little dilemma of mine, I think filtering through a million sites is impractical, borderline impossible!

Terrific question Corey. Here's what's recommended by past students:
Alarm clock
Cell phone charger
iPod charger
Comforter
Small amount of dishes (like 2 bowls, a few forks, spoons, etc.)
Flashlight
Laundry supplies (the washers and dryers are free but they don't give you detergent!)
School stuff (notebooks, pens, pencils, calculator, paper clips, stapler, scissors, folders/binder)
Backpack
Area rug
Pillow
Extra long twin sheets
Shower caddy
Shower stuff (shampoo, body wash, shaving stuff)
Shower shoes
Bath towel, hand towel, washcloth
Lamp
Thumbtacks
Scotch tape
Wastebasket
Storage bins for under the bed (like the rubbermaid ones) for your out of season clothes
One nice outfit (dress pants, shirt and tie)

Don't overpack clothes! You're going to end up wearing the same two pairs of jeans every day anyway and you'll get a bunch of free tshirts. Stick to this rule: if you haven't worn it in the past 6 months, you probably won't suddenly start wearing it in college!

How long should parents stay in town? or should they leave after the first day of orientation?

We have a parent program on Saturday night and most parents usually like to go to Matriculation to meet with your advisor at the time we have scheduled for them. It eases their minds a bit to know that you are officially a student at Allegheny and there will be professionals helping you get your classes!

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In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

Walking is man's best medicine.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

Memory feeds imagination.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

Is there life before death?

The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.

The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

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An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.