Welcome to Orientation at The University of Maryland!
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Welcome to Welcome to OrientationOrientation
at at The University The University of Maryland!of Maryland!
Parents! What are you doing tomorrow?!
Terrapin Trips
Optional Day two trips to exciting locales.Ask an orientation advisor or the Parent
Program Coordinator for the sign up sheet if you’re interested in attending!*
Optional Information Sessions
9:30 – 10:00 – Parents of Minority Students10:30 – 11:00 – Parents Sending Their First
Child to College
*Additional fee for this trip
TRIVIA QUESTION:Some students have stayed overnight in
this building, but no student has ever been
assigned to live there.
TRIVIA QUESTION ANSWER:
Cole Field HouseMany of our students, Many of our students,
before our online before our online distribution system was distribution system was
introduced, would camp out introduced, would camp out in Cole Field House for in Cole Field House for
Maryland Basketball Maryland Basketball Tickets.Tickets.
Parents! What are you doing tomorrow?!
Terrapin Trips
Optional Day two trips to exciting locales.Ask an orientation advisor or the Parent
Program Coordinator for the sign up sheet if you’re interested in attending!*
Optional Information Sessions
9:30 – 10:00 – Parents of Minority Students10:30 – 11:00 – Parents Sending Their First
Child to College
*Additional fee for this trip
@TerpOrientation@UMDTransfers (transfer students)
UMD Orientation
Follow UMD Orientation to stay
up to date with information on
today’s orientation and UMD!
There are 7 on campus libraries and one in Shady
Grove. McKeldin Library has 1 million volumes and was once the backup to the Library of
Congress.
If you have any questions throughout the day, please feel free to consult our Orientation staff. We are happy to
help you!
It is a tradition that undergraduates swim in the Omicron Delta Kappa fountain at least once before they graduate. If
you’re inducted into ODK, you will have your name
engraved around the fountain.
Restrooms are located Restrooms are located out the back of the out the back of the
lecture hall. lecture hall.
Parents! What are you doing tomorrow?!
Terrapin Trips
Optional Day two trips to exciting locales.Ask an orientation advisor or the Parent
Program Coordinator for the sign up sheet if you’re interested in attending!*
Optional Information Sessions
9:30 – 10:00 – Parents of Minority Students10:30 – 11:00 – Parents Sending Their First
Child to College
*Additional fee for this trip
FAST FACT:This year, Kiplinger’s
review ranked us number 5 for “best
deal” at an undergrad (meaning that with the
quality of our academics, paired with
our price, we’re a great deal!)
TRIVIA QUESTIONANSWER:
All the residence
halls at the University of
Maryland are named after Counties and County seats in the State of Maryland.
The University
College of Agriculture and Natural Resources College of Arts and Humanities College of Behavior and Social Sciences College of Computer, Mathematical, and
Natural Sciences College of Education Division of Letters and Sciences James Clark School of Engineering Phillip Merrill College of Journalism Robert H. Smith School of Business School of Architecture, Planning and
Preservation School of Public Health
If you have any questions throughout the day, please feel free to consult our Orientation staff.
We are happy to help you!
FAST FACT: Maryland is one of the
“greenest” Universities in the Nation. In 2010,
Maryland opened two LEED Gold Certified
buildings.
@TerpOrientation@UMDTransfers (transfer students)
UMD Orientation
Follow UMD Orientation to stay
up to date with information on
today’s orientation and UMD!
Maryland Victory Song
Maryland we're all behind youWave high your Black and GoldFor there is nothing half so
gloriousAs to see our team victorious
We've got the team boysWe've got the steam boys
So keep on fighting don't give in
M-A-R-Y-L-A-N-D, Maryland we'll win!
TRIVIA:“Testudo,” the name of
our mascot, is actually a taxonomic classification of
turtles. Students rub Testudo’s nose for
good luck!
TRIVIA QUESTION:
The opening shot of what1980’s teen movie classic was shot on Fraternity
Row at the University of Maryland?
FAST FACT:The campus is set up in three rings:1)academic buildings;2)residence halls and dining;3)and parking,
outer buildings,Comcast Center