Emory Class Of 2015 Time Lapse Video

Freshman orientation means many things: awkward first-time meetings, getting used to sleeping in an extra-long twin-sized bed, realizing that textbooks will cost you more than your beater car back at home.

Emory University at least planned a pretty cool activity for its freshmen: they spelled out their graduation year -- that would be 2015 -- on the school quad. It was captured in a cool time-lapse video above.

What's your favorite freshman orientation memory? Or if you haven't gone through it, what are you excited/nervous about? Share your thoughts below!

Comments

[Samuel Chance]

07:32 PM on 09/19/2011

Emory sucks, Vanderbilt does it better.

[wishuponastar2007]

03:29 PM on 08/22/2011

Hobart & William Smith Colleges has done this activity--physically making the numbers of the incoming freshman class's graduting year--for decades. We call it the "illumination ceremony" and it is traditionally done outside at night with all of the first-years holding candles, and a picture is taken from one of the high building windows. For my orientation, the classes of 2011, it was a very windy night, and the candle wax was blowing and dripping everywhere--and it was amazing what a difficult time we had making two straight lines for '11. So, being the twenty-first-century scholars that we were, we finally decided we'd had enough, extinguished the candles, and pulled out our cell phones. That was the first year that we had a DIGITAL illumination ceremony, and the photo came out great--everyone was illuminated in a blue-ish glow, 630 of us grinning proudly that we'd solved the problem of decades!

[FearlessFraz]

01:21 PM on 08/22/2011

Go Gene!!!