CI orients freshmen to life at college
Jeff Marootian was an incoming GW freshman two years ago, but he remembers driving to orientation like it was yesterday.
"I was literally shaking," he said. "I had no idea what to expect or who I'd meet. I was terrified."
Today Marootian, a junior majoring in human services, is student director of Colonial Inauguration, GW's lively orientation program which combines peer socialization, academic advising and an overall introduction to the University and its resources.
Four groups of students and parents attend CI during June, and another group will be oriented before classes start in August. Each of the 2,200 students who comprise GW's largest freshman class ever participate in a session, and parents and siblings are also offered complete programs at each CI.
