Q2. In what College are you enrolled? - Orientation and First-Year ...

Q2. In what College are you enrolled 

Count 

Percent 

151 9.01% Carlson School of Management 

180 10.75% College of Biological Sciences 

67 4.00% College of Design 

133 7.94% College of Education and Human Development 

97 5.79% College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences 

708 42.27% College of Liberal Arts (CLA) 

339 20.24% College of Science and Engineering 

1675 Respondents 

Q3. Experience CLAPlease indicate your level of agreement with the following statements: - I was able to connect with other CLA students during the Experience CLA scavenger hunt. 

Count 

Percent 

107 15.88% Strongly agree 

251 37.24% Agree 

171 25.37% Neutral 

100 14.84% Disagree 

45 6.68% Strongly disagree 


Q4. Experience CLAPlease indicate your level of agreement with the following statements: - The Experience CLA scavenger hunt was a valuable part of my College Day experience. 

Count 

Percent 


85 12.61% Agree 

188 27.89% Neutral 



674 Respondents

Q5. Experience CLAPlease indicate your level of agreement with the following statements: - The technology for Experience CLA was accessible and easy to use. 

Count 

Percent 


288 42.73% Agree 

210 31.16% Neutral 




Q6. Closing CeremonyDid you attend the Closing Ceremonies on Northrop Plaza 

Count 

Percent 

286 42.43% Yes 

388 57.57% No 


Q7. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following statements: - The Closing Ceremonies allowed me an opportunity to connect with other CLA students. 

Count 

Percent 


103 36.27% Agree 

96 33.80% Neutral 




Q8. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following statements: - By participating in the Closing Ceremonies, I was able to enjoy the performances of my fellow CLA students. 

Count 

Percent 


125 44.01% Agree 

75 26.41% Neutral 



284 Respondents

Q9. Are you enrolled in the University Honors Program (UHP) 

Count 

Percent 

241 14.81% Yes 

1386 85.19% No 


Q10. The Honors Welcome Breakfast on Thursday was an opportunity to . . . (Check all that apply) 

Count Respondent % Response % 

162 67.50% 36.32% Increase my sense of connection to the University Honors Program 

186 77.50% 41.70% Interact with my fellow honors students 

67 27.92% 15.02% Interact with UHP staff, advisers, and faculty 

12 5.00% 2.69% Other (please specify) 

Count 

Percent 

1 8.33% Did not attend due to marching band 

1 8.33% Eat breakfast 

1 8.33% get free food! 

1 8.33% I don't think I interacted with the staff, but it was nice to see who they are 

1 8.33% It was pointless 

1 8.33% Learn more about the program 

1 8.33% Listen to people talk 

1 8.33% Neutral. I didn't feel well that day, so didn't really get much out of it. Sorry! 

1 8.33% not very helpful 

1 8.33% Understand just how large of a group i was in 

1 8.33% Understand the importance of being selected into the elite program 

1 8.33% wake up too early. 

19 7.92% 4.26% Did not attend 


446 Responses 

Q11. After attending the Honors Welcome Breakfast, I am more likely to . . . (Check all that apply) 


63 28.51% 14.19% Get involved in the University Honors Student Association 

151 68.33% 34.01% Attend UHP-sponsored events and activities 

131 59.28% 29.50% Investigate national and international scholarship opportunities

78 35.29% 17.57% Feel comfortable talking with professors 


Count 

Percent 

1 100.00% Contact Honors faculty 

20 9.05% 4.50% None of the above 


444 Responses 

Q12. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following statement:The food at the Honors Welcome Breakfast was good. 

Count 

Percent 


77 34.84% Agree 

58 26.24% Neutral 




Q13. Do you have any additional comments on the Honors Welcome Breakfast 

Count 

Percent 

92 41.63% Yes (please explain) 

Count 

Percent 

1 1.09% All of the speakers were clear and succinct, which was great. 

1 1.09% All the food was good, but the selection was minimal. 

1 1.09% At one of the honors events someone should explain the requirements and actual meaning of being in the honors program, because none of 

the advisors or leaders have done so. Peer mentors are the only ones who have somewhat explained what you need to do to be in UHP 

1 1.09% Considering we had to wake up early and walk a while to get there, I was rather disappointed. The food could have been better and there were 

not enough tables for everyone. However, the speakers were good because they got to their point without taking forever. 

1 1.09% delicious 

1 1.09% Don't have it so far away from Middlebrook 

1 1.09% Dont tell us it is a brunch when it is only a continental breakfast. I had not eaten yet and could not eat until 2 because of convocation. 

1 1.09% Getting up that early for the breakfast and walking across the campus, I was under the impression the food would be hot foods like bacon, 

eggs, ect. It was a cold day and I have to say I was not too impressed with getting up that early to just go eat with my welcome week group like 

we could have done at the dining halls. 

1 1.09% Having already attended several UHP functions, to me, the Honors Welcome Breakfast didn't seem significantly different than the rest. Sitting 

in the back corner of a room filled with 500+ people, I can't say that I necessarily was able to "interact" with any faculty/staff. 

However seeing all the incoming honors students together in one place was impressive and definitely gave me a sense of community. About 

the food: many people at my table were lamenting the fact that there was no protein at that table. Although the bagels were excellent, I was 

quite hungry by the end of convocation.

1 1.09% I enjoyed the band. 

1 1.09% I enjoyed the speakers 

1 1.09% I feel very fortunate to be apart of the Honors Program and I feel like the breakfast was a great way to meet students that were similar to me. 

1 1.09% I felt that the breakfast would have been improved if food hadnt been running short towards the end and if there had been other lines so that it 

would have moved quicker. 

1 1.09% I had a great time and met a lot of other honors students I hang out with now. 

1 1.09% I really enjoyed how short and sweet the speeches were. It made it much easier to listen and take all of the information away from the speaker. 

1 1.09% I really liked the live music 

1 1.09% I think we needed more space for accompanying everyone person. At times, the room was very clogged up and the line was very obnoxious 

and unorganized. A bigger space would solve this problem. 

1 1.09% I thought that the speakers did a very nice job. 

1 1.09% I was dissapointed that he honors welcome breakfast was at a time that did not allow spat camp participants to attend. Because Marching band 

is a high level, music oriented group, there is a large percentage of freshman that are in honors also in marching band. It would have been nice 

to have the opportunity to attend the breakfast. 

1 1.09% I would have appreciated it not being as early in the morning, as it makes it difficult for commuters to get to school at 8:00 and still stay for the 

evening activities. 

1 1.09% I would have been more inclined to eat a better breakfast in my residence hall and skip the Honors Breakfast, had I known that I'd be crossing 

the capus by foot to be greeted by a Continental. But other than the slightly diappointing breakfast, meeting various people who are connected 

to UHP was good. 

1 1.09% I would have preferred a hot breakfast. All that was really offered was fruit, yogurt, and fruit bread. Some eggs, sausage, and/or bacon would 

have been nice, especially considering how cold and rainy it was outside. 

1 1.09% I would have preferred something else beside fruit, vegetables, and bagels. 

1 1.09% In the future, I would recommend a larger plate size, because the cake-plate size meant that my yogurt and bagel had be stacked on top of 

each other, which meant that everything was far more likely to tip over, spill, and make a mess. Apart from that, the food was excellent quality. 

1 1.09% It seemed poorly organized. There was no opportunity really to mingle. They ran out of bagels. Not worth the early get up time. 

1 1.09% It was a little bit harder to connect with the other Honors students if you do not live in Middlebrook. It would have been nice to have a few table 

introductions to help this. However, it was great to have a professor sit with us. It definitely made me feel more comfortable talking with 

professors in the future. 

1 1.09% It was a little too early, and the food wasn't that great. However, I enjoyed the speakers. 

1 1.09% It was a really neat experience to be welcomed by UHP at the TCF Bank Stadium. The ceremony was very well done. 

1 1.09% IT was a very long line and there were not enough tables. 

1 1.09% It was extremely crowded and seemed somewhat disorganized. I wasn't able to really meet any new students or staff. 

1 1.09% It was insanely busy. The food was awesome, but I would have appreciated the chance to get through the line faster and interact more with the 

honors students. 

1 1.09% It was obnoxious that they ran out of tables, chairs, cream cheese, etc. Plan better. 

1 1.09% It was painful getting up that early after the Target run. Would have been better to plan that differently. 

1 1.09% It was so cool that the breakfast took place in the stadium! :) 

1 1.09% It was very crowded and difficult for all students to find seating. 

1 1.09% It was very disorganized.

1 1.09% It was very early in the morning. Most people I saw looked too tired to interact with other students. 

1 1.09% It was very far away from Middlebrook, early in the morning. 

1 1.09% It was very lengthy and there was not a great food selection. I didn't feel like I connected with the faculty or many other students. 

1 1.09% It was way too early in the morning, especially after the late night Target run when most students didn't go to bed until 2. It would make more 

sense to have the breakfast as a luncheon or later in the morning or to have it on a less busy day. 

1 1.09% It was well planned, but the breakfast consisted of a strange array of deviled eggs, bagels and veggie pizza. It was yummy, but that same 

morning, non-honors students dined on french toast and eggs in the res halls! 

1 1.09% It would have been more helpful if it was more cohesively set up. The breakfast lines long and people did not get to network as much. Also 

more interaction with professors would have been more helpful 

1 1.09% It would have been nice if everyone could have sat at tables, but I know it was a large group 

1 1.09% It would have nice if there was greater opportunity for the honors students to mingle and speak with the faculty and staff involved with the 

program. Most students were too shy to introduce themselves to the staff. 

1 1.09% lines were too long and there were no bagels left when i got up to the food line. I got to the breakdast at 8:15. But the speakers were very good 

1 1.09% Lines were too long. 

1 1.09% Make sure honors students are in a welcome week group with other honors students. 

1 1.09% More breakfast foods as a Welcome Breakfast would not go amiss. 

1 1.09% Overall, the breakfast was a good experience, but there were far too many people for the limited space. Also, having only two lines of food 

caused the backup to go all the way around the DQ Club room. 

1 1.09% Personally, I loved eating in the DQ Club although it was a long trip from Middlebrook at 7:30 in the morning, especially after the Target run. 

Also, the band was great. 

1 1.09% Please provide an adequate amount of food for the number of students you anticipate to be in attendance. 

1 1.09% Possibly eggs on the menu 

1 1.09% Provide better food. 

1 1.09% Ran out of food, very disappointing. 

1 1.09% Since most honors students live on the West Bank, the venue for the breakfast should be located closer to Middlebrook Hall or better 

transportation should be provided. 

1 1.09% The breakfast was a fairly negative experience for me. I had difficulties enjoying it after getting up early, walking for twenty minutes to the 

stadium, waiting in line for 45 minutes and discovering that half of the food selections were already gone. Please consider the time, venue and 

attendance at these kinds of events. 

1 1.09% The food at the breakfast was actually quite decent, but it ran out before any of my group got to it. I feel like there should be an appropriate 

amount for next time so that we don't feel like we have to 'beat the crowd' to get food. 

1 1.09% The food lines were okay, but I think it might work better if the groups coming in were staggered. There was also a shortage of cream cheese 

and choices of bagel flavors. The orange juice hit the spot though! 

1 1.09% The food might have been good, but they ran out of most of it by the time I got there 

1 1.09% The food provided was fairly good, but not enough of it was ordered. I was towards the end of the line, and all that I was able to get was half of 

a bagel (with no cream cheese), a little fruit, and coffee. 

1 1.09% The food ran out pretty early and there wasn't enough for everyone. The lines were also really long, and there wasn't enough tables for 

everyone to sit at. It made me feel left out that I had to eat breakfast at a chair in the audience instead of a table, especially since we had to 

come as a group and we weren't in control of how early we could get there. 

1 1.09% The food ran out very quickly.

1 1.09% The food was decent, but there was not enough of it, and it was not very satisfying. 

1 1.09% The food was good enough, but very limited. Nearly half of the students found themselves with little to no food after waiting in line for a very 

long time. 

1 1.09% The food was good, but not overly filling. Many honors students walked there from Middlebrook Hall, and I can say that everyone I spoke to 

was very hungry and somewhat unsatisfied with the portion sizes. Also, I would have like more opportunity to interact with the faculty. For me, it 

was a day primarily to talk to students and listen to faculty. 

1 1.09% The Honors Breakfast the morning after the Target Run was exhausting. I was too tired to enjoy the meal and connect with others. 

1 1.09% The Honors Welcome Breakfast was one of my favorite parts of the week because I got to meet several new people who I quickly became 

friends with. Being in the Honors Program gave us all an immediate bond and I felt less alone at the University because of it. I wish we could 

have done more Honors sponsored events during Welcome Week so that I could have met even more people.l 

1 1.09% The jazz combo was fun to listen to. 

1 1.09% The jazz quartet that played as we entered the room was excellent - they should definitely be used in the future. I think, though, that a more 

formal breakfast would have been more effective. By the time I got through the line, a number of things had run out, including tables. Amidst 

the chaos of Welcome Week, a breakfast where everyone got to sit at a table and be served a simple breakfast would have been great. 

1 1.09% The line to get the food was really long, so I ended up skipping the bagels and just having fruit for breakfast. 

1 1.09% The lines were extremely long and the space seemed very crowded 

1 1.09% the lines were really long to get the food and it felt really crowded. the statistics that they shared about the incoming freshman in the honors 

program was interesting 

1 1.09% The lines were terribly long and the actual program only took about 10minutes 

1 1.09% There was a lot of time spent at the beginning eating. I would have preferred the speakers to go first so those of us who had other 

arrangements could have left instead of eating there (I missed walking to Mariucci with my fellow CBS-ers, which I was really looking forward 

to). 

1 1.09% There was a shortage of food, and because the breakfast was so large, there was no personal connection feeling with others. 

1 1.09% There was a shortage of food. There were no bagels or yougurt when I arrived, only fruit and vegetables. I think the food was poorly planned. 

1 1.09% There was a shortage of plastic spoons. I wish that I had had more time to visit with some of the honors staff. 

1 1.09% There was a very long food line in addition to a shortage of food. 

1 1.09% There was less food there than at a normal residence hall breakfast. I would have liked to have cereal, pancakes, or some other breakfast 

staple as another option. 

1 1.09% There wasn't enough seating. I didn't like having to walk all the way from Middlebrook. 

1 1.09% There were not enough bagels. There was not much to eat. The orange juice was good. 

1 1.09% they ran out of bagels, so lots of people only had fruit for breakfast. 

1 1.09% They ran out of cream cheese. I do not remember any of the speakers. It was boring. 

1 1.09% They ran out of food and tables before I got there, and the environment was not very easy to manuver. It was hard to meet people (I didn't meet 

anyone) because everyone was stationary; not a very good mingling environment. 

1 1.09% Too early in the morning! 

1 1.09% Vegetables are not a breakfast food. There was not a big enough variety, as the fruit tray was not always stocked, and I do not eat bagels. 

1 1.09% Veggie pizza is not a breakfast food. There were so many people, I couldn't really hear or see the speaker because I had to sit on the floor way 

off to the side. Even then, I've heard all the speakers before at other UHP events, and they said the same things as at those events. I was 

expecting a little more from the breakfast in general. 

1 1.09% Was quite crowded and it seemed like no one thought about logistics of the event

1 1.09% We would rather have a full out breakfast than "fancy" things like deviled eggs. Fruit would be nice too. 

1 1.09% While it was nice to see what the honors class looked like and to put names to the faces of honors staff, the breakfast did not accomplish much 

for me. It taught me nothing new, or very little. It made me feel special because of the nice music and food, but I would rather have had more 

involvement with the students for all the trouble it took to have the event. 

1 1.09% You ran out of Bagels and yogurt! 

1 1.09% You should have more of a selection of food. Carrots and bagels wasn't my favorite breakfast. I understand how many of us there were, but 

maybe you could even take orders in honor's student's welcome week selection they complete during the summer. 

129 58.37% No 


Q14. Which of the following honors-sponsored activities are you interested in this year (Check all that apply) 


146 60.83% 13.22% Info sessions on getting involved in research 

177 73.75% 16.03% Info sessions on studying abroad 

138 57.50% 12.50% Info sessions on national and international scholarships 

140 58.33% 12.68% Tutoring sessions and study groups 

123 51.25% 11.14% Lectures/conversations with faculty 

144 60.00% 13.04% Community service projects 

157 65.42% 14.22% Social events 

75 31.25% 6.79% University Honors Student Association mentor program 



1104 Responses 

Q15. Where did you check in for Welcome Week 

Count 

Percent 

1341 82.57% Coffman Union 

131 8.07% Bailey Hall 

144 8.87% Multicultural Kick-Off 

8 0.49% I did not check in. 

1624 Respondents

Q16. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following statement:The Welcome Week check-in process was smooth and efficient. 

Count 

Percent 


742 46.14% Agree 

94 5.85% Neutral 




Q17. Where did you move into 

Count 

Percent 

146 9.03% Bailey 

108 6.68% Centennial 

80 4.95% Comstock 

271 16.77% Frontier 

248 15.35% Middlebrook 

159 9.84% Pioneer 

135 8.35% Sanford 

181 11.20% Territorial 

31 1.92% University Village 

2 0.12% Wilkins 

27 1.67% Yudof 

228 14.11% I am not living in on-campus housing (University owned). 


Q18. How would you rate your move-in experience 

Count 

Percent 

429 31.00% Excellent 

608 43.93% Above average 

324 23.41% Average 

19 1.37% Below average 

4 0.29% Poor 


Q19. Please provide any additional comments on your answer above:

Count 

Percent 

654 100.00% 

Count 

Percent 

1 0.15% Other than the backed up elevators, everything went smoothly 

1 0.15% There was plenty of help and information available. 

1 0.15% A gentleman helped me with my carts going up the elevator, he was part of the U move in team. Also when my parents couldnt figure out how 

to use the elevator (didnt know what floor) he helped them. 

1 0.15% A lot more smoothly than I thought! 

1 0.15% A/C Unit was broken upon move in. 

1 0.15% all my roommates were there at the same time with their families, so it was crowded 

1 0.15% All of the welcome week volunteers were very willing help and very hard workers. 

1 0.15% All the students were very helpful in getting my bags out of my car and into my room in a timely fashion. Although, it was a bit pushy at times 

when I wanted to personally take some things up. It was hard to watch all my stuff. 

1 0.15% All went smooth 

1 0.15% Although it was in an easy to find location, it would have been nice to have signs pointing to where you pick up the roller cart things (blue) for 

territorial hall. It wasn't a big deal, but the signs pointing to check in helped relieve tension from the chaotic atmosphere, even though it was 

also in an easy to find location. Everyone was more than happy to assist me though 

1 0.15% As could be expected, there just wasn't enough space for a rush of people. 

1 0.15% Basement of Pioneer should have signs as it is very difficult to find. 

1 0.15% Because we had much more time to move in, it did not feel rushed, and I had time to get situated into both the apartment and area. 

1 0.15% Bedloft did not loft our bed, so we have to wait until today (labor day) to finally get our room situated. Besides that, moving in was an easy 

process. 

1 0.15% Being able to move in on Monday much appreciated on Tuesday and Wednesday when I saw how crazy it was for everyone else moving it. 

1 0.15% Bigger signs showing which hallway had which rooms could have helped more, but other than that the move in was good. 

1 0.15% By moving in early with the kick off I was able to avoid a rush and was able to unload with enough time and get everything to my room without 

waiting in line for very long. 

1 0.15% Carrying out tv, footlocker, refrigerator, microwave, out stairs kinda sucked but not too bad 

1 0.15% Carts and the personal made the transition and experience a smooth and easy one 

1 0.15% Carts are little hard to push. 

1 0.15% Carts didn't work too well, but the volunteers that were helping out really did a lot of work. 

1 0.15% Carts were available. Staff were helpful. 

1 0.15% Centennial is beast mode 

1 0.15% Centennial went above and beyong allowing me to move i early due to a funeral. 

1 0.15% compared to st. cloud where my brother moved in two years ago my parents thought that this move in experience was very smooth and 

stressless 

1 0.15% Compares to move in experiences of my brothers at UW-Milwaukee and UW-Eau Claire 

1 0.15% could have used more carts

1 0.15% crowded 

1 0.15% didn't have much time to unpack due to mko... 

1 0.15% Didn't have to wait for the elevator because I took the stairs. 

1 0.15% didnt take that long 

1 0.15% Difficult moving things to the fourth floor 

1 0.15% early move-in for apartments was very helpful 

1 0.15% East to find my room but ended up unloading on the opposite side of the building and there werent any carts availible 

1 0.15% Easy to move-in, not too crowded. 

1 0.15% easy, not to crowded 

1 0.15% Elevator lines were long, but I expected that. 

1 0.15% Elevator use was backed up horribly and the whole building was very crowded 

1 0.15% elevator was broken and but overall very smooth and not hardly any traffic on the floors moving in 

1 0.15% Elevator was broken on westside and I live on the fifth floor so was hard to get everything moved in. 

1 0.15% Elevator was not working for a period of time, but the welcome week leaders helped everyone carry their items up the stairs. 

1 0.15% elevators a little cramed 

1 0.15% elevators dont stay open 

1 0.15% Elevators got super backed up with people waiting to get on with their luggage! This unavoidable congestion in the halls, but most people were 

really understanding and cooperative with it. 

1 0.15% Even for a 4th floor room, it was a very simple process getting everything I brought up to the room and settled in. The staff at the desk in the 

lobby were very kind when I asked them questions. 

1 0.15% Everyone was excited to be part of the U and it made things go over well. 

1 0.15% Everyone was helpful, and the move-in process went smoothly 

1 0.15% Everyone was super helpful! 

1 0.15% Everyone was very helpful and informative. 

1 0.15% Everyone was very helpful! 

1 0.15% Everyone was very helpful. Two students helped me carry in my futon. 

1 0.15% Everyone was very nice and helpful, and having all of the doors open was a great way to get everyone into the building without all the craziness 

that upperclassmen faced upon moving in. 

1 0.15% Everything ran pretty smooth, and all the leaders where every helpful. 

1 0.15% Everything was great except neither mine nor my roommate's beds were lofted as they should have been and who ever delivered the futon 

didn't set that up either. 

1 0.15% Everything was quickly moved up to my room so my parents could go park our car. 

1 0.15% Everything was quite fluid. I was pleasantly surprised. 

1 0.15% everything was smooth except that I had trouble opening my mail box at first 

1 0.15% Everything was smooth, not too many people there. Front desk was very helpful and knowledgeable.

1 0.15% Everything was smooth. No difficulties. The mail carts helped a lot. 

1 0.15% Everything was swell except the lines for the elevator were extremely long 

1 0.15% Everything was very busy, but I was on the first floor and just had to take my stuff into my room and that was it 

1 0.15% Everything went quickly and i had no problems getting up the stairs to my room. 

1 0.15% Everything went smoothly and I was moved in in just a matter of minutes. 

1 0.15% Everything went smoothly. 

1 0.15% Everything went smoothly. I was able to move in fast, however, we were so busy for welcome week it took me a few days to finally get fully 

moved in. However, I would note that my twin moved in to Sanford a day earlier than I and at Sanford their process seemed much more 

organized than at Pioneer. At pioneer I felt there weren't as many people helping you move in, I felt a bit more lost, where as at Sanford they 

made if very welcoming and straightforward and there were many people offering to help you move your stuff. 

1 0.15% Everything went super smooth and quickly. 

1 0.15% Everything went very smoothly, but we didn't have anyone offer to help carry things in or to find my room. I was expecting more assistance, as 

were my parents. Things went smoothly only because my whole family was here to help move things. 

1 0.15% Everything went well, except it was difficult fitting into the elevator with the cart - especially when trying to get back down to the lobby. 

1 0.15% fast and easy 

1 0.15% First and only time ill be moving into a dorm, but i dont know if it could get much smoother. 

1 0.15% FIrst time didn't really know what to expect. 

1 0.15% For multicultural kickoff they made us move in in an hour and a half and there was barely time to finish unpacking everything, let alone say a 

decent goodbye. And they didn't make it clear that there would be multiple groups leaving that day so I had to sprint to catch up with, what I 

thought was the group, but there were more than one. 

1 0.15% For such a large university, the process went remarkably quickly! 

1 0.15% Friendly student-staff made me feel comfortable moving in 

1 0.15% Getting carts into the elevator is a hassle, because of the gap. 

1 0.15% Getting stuff out of truck was quick and easy. There was some confusion at the front desk because I checked but then had to go back down to 

get my bag of stuff, etc. 

1 0.15% good 

1 0.15% good a lot of help 

1 0.15% Good help from welcome week staff. 

1 0.15% good people 

1 0.15% great help from the staff 

1 0.15% Great! :) 

1 0.15% Have check in for move in, and check in for welcome week be the same spot! makes no sense for there to be two... 

1 0.15% Hectic when your roommate and yourself move in almost at the same time (half hour apart). There's way too many people in your dorm at 

once. 

1 0.15% helped to have emergency exist open. I came early than my assigned time, 3:30 rather than $, wich turned out to be better because then it was 

easier to me to move and settle my stuff in before my roommate arrived at 5. It would have been crammed and hectic to have moved in the 

same time as my roommate. 

1 0.15% helpers were great!

1 0.15% Helpers were very benificial 

1 0.15% Helpful workers to help carry stuff 

1 0.15% Hot and halls were kinda congested 

1 0.15% Hour wait for elevator. 

1 0.15% I actually went up to my room with all of my room stuff before I even got my key. I know this is partially my fault, but I feel like the directions I 

was given could have been clearer. 

1 0.15% I am in expanded housing so things were very cramped will all three of us moving in at once. 

1 0.15% I am in marching band so it was different than everyone elses. 

1 0.15% I am located on the first floor, and it took less than twenty minutes to get everything into my room. Easiest move-in ever! 

1 0.15% I applied for early move-in and was granted it. 

1 0.15% I applied with a friend as a preferred roomate, and we were given 2 other people as roomates. You should have let us fill out a roomate form so 

we got one that we had more in common with. 

1 0.15% I asked for help and it took awhile to get extra people to help me. 

1 0.15% I attended Spat Camp and moved in earlier than most of the residents. This made my move-in quick and hassle-free. 

1 0.15% I believe giving more space between the move in times for roommates would be great. I ended up moving in a day before my roommate, so it 

went really smooth. I was able to get my stuff out of the way so she could use the floor space of my side of the dorm when she was unpacking. 

I can't imagine the chaos that would have occurred if we were doing that together! 

1 0.15% I did early move in on august 29th. 

1 0.15% I did not have any help moving in at around 9:30am and neither did any of the other people that moved in at 9 or around 9am. 

1 0.15% I did not like the late move in times! But the help carrying stuff was a big help! 

1 0.15% I didn't know exactly where the check-in was and where to check-out a cart for carrying my things. Even though it was hard at first to get help 

with my belongings, some very nice people helped out and made it much easier. 

1 0.15% I didn't know I had to check in first. From the mailings and instructions I was under the assumption that I were supposed to unload and park the 

car right away, but the people outside told me to check in first. It should be more clear that you need to check in to get your keys too. 

1 0.15% I do not know what average is, but I feel pretty good. I also moved in with the marching band before too many other people showed up to make 

it tough. 

1 0.15% I ended up going up to my room with all of my things before even getting my key. I realize this is mostly my fault, but the directions I was given 

at check-in could have been clearer. 

1 0.15% I ended up taking my things to the room before getting my room key. It was mostly my fault, but I feel that the directions on what we should 

have done could have been clearer. 

1 0.15% I feel real comfortable about my answers 

1 0.15% I felt immediately at home-everybody was amazingly friendly and helpful with questions. 

1 0.15% I felt so rushed to get everything to my room and return the hauling cart and then unpack as much as I could before Welcome Week events 

began that I felt like I had no time to interact with my neighbors until a few days in. 

1 0.15% I found my room and got all my stuff into it very easily. 

1 0.15% I get a approval to move in at 28th Aug, which is helpful for International students. 

1 0.15% I got the oppurtunity to move in early because we arrived early - thus beating the massive rush and getting settled in early. 

1 0.15% i had few items to bring in so that made it really fast.

1 0.15% I had fun, move in was good but time consuming. 

1 0.15% I had lots of help with moving in, especially since I came with my grandparents who are elderly and disabled. They were very nice and friendly 

and they helped me move all my things in quickly. The set up for sign in was very easy to follow and they also helped clarify what I needed to 

do for check in. 

1 0.15% I had no idea on what to expect for a triple in Centennial, the virtual tour takes you through every room type except a triple. 

1 0.15% I had one of the earliest move in times so I was able to avoid much of the crowds and the wait. That being said, my experience would have 

been rated lower if I had to stand in the extremely long elevator lines. 

1 0.15% I had to wait for over an hour for a cart to transport my belongings to my dorm. Looking back, it would have been faster to have taken several 

trips with what I am able to carry. Also, my room number was switched and I received no notification. I then had to spend about 20 minutes 

longer to find my new room. I live on floor 0 and I had to ask 6 move in people before one knew how to get there. 

1 0.15% I had very good help and everything was labeled well. 

1 0.15% I have a single, so there wasn't too much room for me AND may parents. 

1 0.15% I have met a lot of really good people in Territorial and I cant wait for my college experience. 

1 0.15% I have no prior experiences moving for comparison. 

1 0.15% I liek mudkips 

1 0.15% I like that it was time lapsed so there wasn't a big rush. 

1 0.15% I liked having all the workers to assist in watching belongings and carrying them to my dorm. 

1 0.15% I liked the unloading process with the carts, made it quick and efficient. 

1 0.15% I love my roomies and my view, and my hall; plus my CA is great and informative! 

1 0.15% I loved having a free night with no plans so that I had time to settle into my new room. 

1 0.15% I loved the opportunity to move in early! 

1 0.15% I met a lot of people and the Welcome Week Staff was very helpful and friendly in helping me carry carts and boxes to move in. 

1 0.15% I moved in about an hour before my assigned time, and there was no one else moving in then, which made it an incredibly easy experience. 

1 0.15% I moved in around 8:00 pm and was able to take as much time as I wanted to do everything which was really nice 

1 0.15% I moved in back in the beginning of August for football. And it was an easy experience then. 

1 0.15% I moved in before the day of the MCAE kick-off so for me it's was not hectic at all and there wasn't a ridiculous number of people moving in at 

the same time I was. It was fairly simple. 

1 0.15% I moved in before the rush, but later in the day the line got incredibly long to move in. 

1 0.15% I moved in earlier at 28th August, so I think this isn't really relevant. 

1 0.15% I moved in earlier than most of the other students, so my move in was relaxing. 

1 0.15% I moved in early and did not encounter any significant issues 

1 0.15% I moved in early and it was fantastic because I had the room and the time to move in efficiently and quickly. It was a highly enjoyable 

experience! 

1 0.15% I moved in early and it was not crowded! 

1 0.15% I moved in early and it went very easily though the room was still dirty from the 4H people who were staying there before. 

1 0.15% I moved in early for Spat Camp (Marching Band) 

1 0.15% I moved in early for the MKO kickoff, so I didn't have to worry about elevator lines and chaos and whatnot.

1 0.15% I moved in early in order to attend orientation, so it was easy and smooth. It was not crowded at all. 

1 0.15% I moved in early- it worked out great for my family! 

1 0.15% I moved in early so I was able to avoid the times with everyone coming. 

1 0.15% I moved in early with the Multicultural Kickoff so we only had time to get our things into the room and then we were out and about doing 

activities. I would've liked to have gotten unpacked and then jumped into the MKO events. 

1 0.15% I moved in early, so there was no congestion. 

1 0.15% I moved in early, so there were not many people around. 

1 0.15% I moved in in early July 

1 0.15% I moved in on Sept. 1st, so there wasn't any line for the elevators and I was able to move in much faster than I had anticipated. Also meeting 

both my CA's shortly after moving in really made me feel welcomed in Middlebrook. 

1 0.15% I moved in on Wednesday, so I didn't have a ton of time to set things up and meet people around me before WW activities started. 

1 0.15% I moved in quite early, so there weren't many other people around. 

1 0.15% I moved in with the marching band 

1 0.15% I moved in with the marching band, missed the mad-house. 

1 0.15% I only had about an hour to unpack before I had to go to MCAE. I would have liked more time to unpack and get settled in, whether this being 

that I could move in sooner or that MCAE would start later. 

1 0.15% I really like my dorm. 

1 0.15% I really liked the amount of eager Welcome Week leaders who were willing and ready to help! I went upstairs to find my room and by the time I 

got back to the car it was unloaded and everything was reloaded into a moving cart! It was like magic! 

1 0.15% I received help carrying my belongings up to my room which was really great. It was a lot let crazy than I expected it to be. 

1 0.15% I recieved lots of help fom the volunteers and all my questions were answered. 

1 0.15% I sent stuff into bedloft late, so I was supposed to get it on labor day but they messed up my order and now I'm basically screwed because my 

room isn't organized and school has already started. It would have been nice to get it done in time, I blame all of this on bedloft.com. 

1 0.15% I think for students to build friendships with each other, we need more down time to reach out to people on our own. The welcome week 

schedule was so busy and tiring that no one had much time to make that many lasting bonds or enjoy themselves. There were a lot of fun 

activities but the strict schedule was too much. I think getting to know campus is key during welcome week, but some of the activites should be 

cut so there is more time to settle in and make friends. 

1 0.15% I think I arrived at the perfect time, so there were not many others moving in at that time. 

1 0.15% I think move-in would have been excellent if we would have had more time to rearrange our rooms and get everything settled in rather than 

spending every day and night with Welcome Week activities. 

1 0.15% I think my move in was so smooth end efficient because I moved into an campus apartment before August 31st, when other freshman started 

moving in. I would not have liked to move in at the same time everyone else is moving in, it would have been too hectic as I saw at other 

residence halls. 

1 0.15% I think roommates should move in at different times because it was really crowded and hard to move my things in at the same time my 

roommate was trying to move her things in. 

1 0.15% I think the process is normal and a little exciting. 

1 0.15% I think there were some people there that were only try to get service points on their resume, since no one helped us move our stuff up to my 

dorm. 

1 0.15% I thought it was pretty much self explanatory... but my dad thought that it was awful... We arrived early, so there were no signs, so we got lost.

1 0.15% I thought move-in went smoothly, but I don't have anything to compare it to. I don't think that question is worded properly for representing the 

freshman move-in experience. I was very glad to have moved in on August 31-- that extra night and day to settle in really helped. 

1 0.15% I thought that it was well organized and very efficent. I had no problems except that I had to go find a welcome week volunteer as there was no 

one around where I pulled up to unpack. 

1 0.15% I thought the process was very smooth it was nice to have people outside directing you where to go. I never felt lost, and it was nice to have 

people to help carry your stuff to your rooms. The only thing I didn't like was that we started with our welcome week group that same day. It 

would have been nice to just get settled in and move everything in because I'm a very organized person. 

1 0.15% I thought the whole process worked very well. It wasn't crowded, so it was easy to get all of my belongings in my room. 

1 0.15% I transfered from Sanford to MB, but the U Card can not open the MB's door for 3 or more days! 

1 0.15% I was a little concerned about being told to check-in for Welcome Week before I even had my first boxes in, so it would be nice if there was at 

least a few hours to organize both things and thoughts. I loved being able to meet the floor CA's and have them answer questions while I 

moved in. I wasn't sure what I needed for the bathrooms, but my CA was totally cool with sharing. It helped to foster friendship and a 

community feeling right away. 

1 0.15% I was able to come early and avoid the long lines. 

1 0.15% I was able to move in around noon on the 31st. Very empty and easy. It would be much nicer though if the emergency doors were kept open 

later in the evening. 

1 0.15% I was amazed by the efficiency with which move-in was run. I felt as if the logistics were nearly perfect and I moved in much quicker than I had 

expected. 

1 0.15% I was expecting help from the move in helpers to unload our truck, they just stood off to the side and talked the entire time. Even when it was 

evident we didn't know what we were doing. 

1 0.15% I was expecting it to be crazy and take a really long time... all of the helpers really made the move-in smooth & efficient. 

1 0.15% I was given a single room, but it is a small single. 

1 0.15% I was in Expanded and was moved right before Welcome Week started. Since I was in marching band and was already here, this ended up 

being a hastle and I was lucky to be able to move in on the correct day. 

1 0.15% I was in expanded housing and had to move again within a week of my first move in, that was tough. 

1 0.15% I was kind of hard to move into pioneer when there where no elevators, so it was kind of a funny experience when my friend and I lifted my 

heavy cart full of my stuff up 3 flights of stairs. 

1 0.15% i was late so my move in was very rushed. just wanted to get my stuff in and get to the group meeting. 

1 0.15% I was never offered a cart and it was unclear where to check in. 

1 0.15% I was put into an extended living dorm room as the fifth person and my bed was in the lounge area, which was surprising, but I accomodated to 

it. 

1 0.15% i wasn't stressed 

1 0.15% I went early enough that there was no line for the elevator. 

1 0.15% I wish the staff members would've helped direct more. I was kind of lost. 

1 0.15% I would have liked to have my roommate and I move in on the same day. 

1 0.15% I would have preferred that the move-in times were changed so that my roommate did not arrive while I was still unpacking my things. It would 

have been easier for both of us if he had arrived after I was already done. 

1 0.15% If there had been more carts it would have gone quicker. Elevator maintenance the leading up to move in could be better. 

1 0.15% I'm a health advocate therefore I got to move in earlier so barely anyone was here when I moved in! 

1 0.15% I'm the CCC, I moved in the Tuesday before Welcome week even started thus I have no opinion on the move-in process as I literally had a

week for myself. 

1 0.15% International Buddy Program gave me a ride from Centennial to Middlebrook so that was nice of them 

1 0.15% it could have been better if we had known what was available in residence halls. (such as irons, vacuums...) 

1 0.15% It did not take as long as I thought it would. 

1 0.15% It is a very good experience to move by myself! 

1 0.15% it is very challenging to try to move into the room at the same time as your roomate. With all that stuff and people in one room you can't even 

move, 

1 0.15% It moved smoothly and there was not that much of a wait. Staggering the freshman move in times worked well. 

1 0.15% It only took 10 minutes to get all my stuff in the dorm. 

1 0.15% it only took about five minutes to get my things to my room; the rolling crates were very helpful! 

1 0.15% it really helped that people helped me moved in! i was so happy that i didn't have to keep taking trips up and down because of the amount of 

help 

1 0.15% It seemed to move really smoothly! 

1 0.15% It was a fun interactive time 

1 0.15% It was a little confusing as to which side to park on, north or south, especially when we unload, go check in, find out we are on the wrong side, 

and have to carry everything around. 

1 0.15% it was a little difficult seeing that i live on the 3rd floor of pioneer and they are no elevators. it's was difficult to carry my stuff but it was ok. 

1 0.15% It was a little hectic checking into housing 

1 0.15% It was a very easy process, welcome week leaders and volunteers were in abundance to help with anything. 

1 0.15% It was a very quick and smooth transition. The volunteers that helped me were very knowledgeable. 

1 0.15% It was a very smooth move in and everyone was really helpful. 

1 0.15% It was a very smooth operation. 

1 0.15% It was a very smooth transition, and I think that the scheduling worked out well so that there weren't too many people trying to move it at once. 

My CA greeted me as soon as I got to my floor :) and there were even people who volunteered to help carry my stuff up to my dorm. 

1 0.15% It was absolutely fun and welcoming! 

1 0.15% it was all new so I really didn't know what to expect. 

1 0.15% It was alright checking in, just not anything special 

1 0.15% It was an okay experience. I would like to take my own stuff out of the car by myself because there were some stuff that was not put into the 

cart. 

1 0.15% It was and still is a little frustrating that Bedloft can't get their act together and loft my roommate's bed. 

1 0.15% It was as easy as I thought it would be. 

1 0.15% It was crowded, but that's to be expected. 

1 0.15% It was difficult with my roomate moving in at the same time because there wasn't enough room for everyone and everything. 

1 0.15% It was easier and quicker than I thought. 

1 0.15% it was easy 

1 0.15% It was easy to move in and get all my things up the stairs but the bedding that I ordered from the U didn't fit.

1 0.15% it was efficient; the time that I moved in was not very busy. There were carts available and the elevators weren't busy. 

1 0.15% It was exactly what I expected and ran fairly smoothly. 

1 0.15% It was extremely hot, but not much you could do about that 

1 0.15% It was extremely hot. I didn't have help from staff which made it easier because it was barely anyone here. 

1 0.15% it was fine 

1 0.15% It was good and everyone was very helpful 

1 0.15% It was great and efficient 

1 0.15% It was great having the move-in helpers show you exactly where to go and stay with you to help you move your belongings. For what could 

have been an extremely overwhelming time, the helpers and leaders made it as calm and efficient as it possibly could have been. 

1 0.15% It was great that there were all the volunteers standing outside waiting to help the students. It was very helpful when I had to get my keys to my 

room and my dad had to park the car a volunteer was able to watch over my luggage! 

1 0.15% It was great that there were people to help unload and take your items to your dorm room, it helped in that we didn't have to worry about 

everything and how we were going to get everything to our room. 

1 0.15% It was great that there were so many upper classmen able to help with move-in! 

1 0.15% It was hard to get a parking spot and figure out where you needed to go. 

1 0.15% It was hard to make friends at first because I am rooming with a sophomore and they were not here when we moved in. I was all alone in my 

room for 4 nights. 

1 0.15% it was helpful having movers help carry 

1 0.15% it was hot and difficult and confusing, but I know that was probably the same for everybody. But Welcome Week Leaders should have known 

where my room was, I asked at least 6 and none could tell me how to get to S307 even though they were helping with Pioneer. 

1 0.15% It was hot and it was a pain that we didn't have an elevator in our building, but I got all my stuff into the building in a timely fashion. 

1 0.15% It was hot. 

1 0.15% It was kind of difficult to move in things up the stairs or wait for the elevator on the renovated side of sanford. 

1 0.15% it was nice and wasn't as hectic as i thought. 

1 0.15% It was nice having helpers in the parking lot waiting to move you in 

1 0.15% It was nice that I got to move in before everyone else and not on a specific day. 

1 0.15% it was nice that the fire exit doors were opened 

1 0.15% it was nice to be able to move in early because I am in marching band 

1 0.15% It was nice. There wasn't a lot of people during the 31st. 

1 0.15% It was not as stressful as I had anticipated. Everyone was very helpful. 

1 0.15% It was packed, but I got in. 

1 0.15% It was perfect and the CAs were very helpful! 

1 0.15% It was pretty easy. It would have been more helpful if more than just the front door was open. Open the side door to make the move easier. 

1 0.15% It was pretty much what I expected it would be in moving in 

1 0.15% it was quick and easy 

1 0.15% It was rather crowded, but that is to be expected because a lot of people were moving in.

1 0.15% It was rather humid the day I moved into pioneer hall, and since the hall does not have air conditioning or elevators, it was rather uncomfortable 

at first. Once I meet my roommates, though, I started to love the whole experience, and it turned out to be a neat, new experience. 

1 0.15% It was really amazing how fast and efficient everything about moving-in was and the fact that there was people to watch your stuff as everyone 

attempted to move in was really helpful. 

1 0.15% It was really easy. I would have liked a little more time to move in before I had to check in, however. I am from Chicago and it takes a long time 

to really get everything settled. Especially having to run to stores. 

1 0.15% It was really efficient that everyone got a cart to check out. I am living on the 9th floor of Sanford, so the cart helped make the move very 

smooth. Also staff and volunteers were very friendly and helpful. 

1 0.15% It was really hot out, and super stuffy when you got into the room. Other than the temperature it was pretty good, it's just a little difficult moving 

large objects up the stairs and through the halls of Pioneer. 

1 0.15% It was really hot the first night, but I adjusted well to it. 

1 0.15% It was really hot, and walking up three flights of stairs in the humid weather with lots of boxes wasn't a ton of fun. 

1 0.15% It was smooth 

1 0.15% it was smooth and easy. there was alot of people there to help! 

1 0.15% It was smooth and went by quickly, with no troubles. Better than what I expected. 

1 0.15% It was smooth getting everything into my room, the welcome leaders helped out a lot! 

1 0.15% It was smooth, people were waiting outside the dorm so I knew exactly where to go. As I was checking in, one of the volunteers went to get a 

blue cart for me and brought it to my family. Everyone was very helpful. 

1 0.15% It was smooth. 

1 0.15% It was so nice having so many people to help carry my things up the stairs. 

1 0.15% It was so nice to have other older students helping me move in and show me where my room was. It made things seem easier and more 

comfortable from the get go. 

1 0.15% It was stressful, but with this many students, it's bound to be. 

1 0.15% it was super hot and none of the welcome week leaders helped out at all 

1 0.15% it was super smooth and easy 

1 0.15% it was very busy...parking was tough but overall it was ok 

1 0.15% It was very crazy and busy, but many carts were available and staff was there to help. 

1 0.15% it was very crowded 

1 0.15% It was very crowded trying to move in. 

1 0.15% It was very crowded with all the carts and the heat made it tough. 

1 0.15% It was very easy and the help was great 

1 0.15% it was very easy and the helpers were a very, very big help 

1 0.15% It was very hectic. 

1 0.15% it was very helpful for the people to be in front of the hall to watch your belongings & explain where to go. 

1 0.15% It was very hot in the building. 

1 0.15% It was very hot that day, and I missed my family, but everything was very smooth and organized 

1 0.15% It was very nice to have the Welcome Week leaders waiting for us right outside the building to tell us what to do.

1 0.15% It was very organized 

1 0.15% It was very smooth 

1 0.15% It was very smooth and very helpful people! I liked all the help my family got and how fast we had the car unloaded so we could just go unpack! 

1 0.15% It went a lot faster than I thought it would have, which was nice because it kept the I'm-moving-into-college stress down. 

1 0.15% It went a lot smoother than I anticipated 

1 0.15% It went much more smoothly than I thought it would. Everything wwas well organized. 

1 0.15% It went much smoother than expected. Everyone was helpful and friendly at Frontier, so good job, good job! 

1 0.15% It went much smoother than I had originally anticipated. 

1 0.15% It went really smoothly. 

1 0.15% It went really smoothly. I moved in on Wednesday at noon, so I had plenty of time to get my room situated without feeling like I was rushed or 

that I had too much extra time. Also, the welcome week staff that assisted me were really nice and helpful. 

1 0.15% it went smoothly 

1 0.15% It went smoothly and welcome week leaders were helpful in guiding us to where to check in and where are room would be. 

1 0.15% It went smoothly, but my loft wasn't there so it kind of threw a wrench into things. 

1 0.15% it would be nice to have gotten to use two move in carts so that we did not have to make multiple trips 

1 0.15% It would be nice to have some of the welcome week ppl help carry things up to the room so that move in goes faster. 

1 0.15% It would have been easier if we had all moved in the day before welcome week so that we had ample time to move in and get settled. I, 

personally, moved in Wed morning and did not have enough time to unpack and get ready for the day. 

1 0.15% It would have been excellent if my mom hadn't parked in the wrong area. We had to walk a while to get to my side of the dorm. 

1 0.15% It would have been nice to have had more time to move in. 

1 0.15% It would have been nice to have known what was the easiest way to get to my dorm from the drop-off area (I ended up going a much longer 

route than I should have). I also experienced tech. difficulties with my laptop regarding the internet that took a while to solve (a tech expert 

helped in the end). In the end I felt that it took much longer for me to settle in than I expected it to. 

1 0.15% It would have been nice to know before I walked into my room that my roommate got moved. Also, there was some confusion as to how to get 

to the first floor using elevators, not just stairs. 

1 0.15% It would have been nicer to have more time during Welcome Week to get settled into our dorms. 

1 0.15% its ok 

1 0.15% its was fun, but hot and stressful. 

1 0.15% I've lived in the same house all my life so I have nothing to compare it to. 

1 0.15% I've never moved in anywhere before NO one really helped me... it was kind of what i made it 

1 0.15% Kate Garfield Was super helpful! 

1 0.15% kind of tired 

1 0.15% Leaders were very helpful and caring to every student 

1 0.15% Let us pick between a few move-in times that might work best for us. At least pick a day. 

1 0.15% Like a well oiled machine. The multiple tables kept students flowing through the process, and everyone was so willing to help. Fantastic. 

1 0.15% Lines were not very long. The move in was pretty smooth, but the carts are very wobbly. There were also too many people, and the elevators

were packed. 

1 0.15% Lines were very long on the first move-in day. 

1 0.15% lines weren't very long 

1 0.15% Loft was unassembled even though it had been ordered on a prior date before the deadline. 

1 0.15% Long line for the elevator! 

1 0.15% Long lines for the elevator, wasn't told exactly which table to go to first to get keys/etc 

1 0.15% Long waits for elevators. 

1 0.15% Lots of help unloading the car 

1 0.15% Lots of people to help out, went really smooth. 

1 0.15% Love my neighbors! 

1 0.15% Loved the volunteers helping to carry things in 

1 0.15% Marching band move-in day is the best! 

1 0.15% More carts would have facilitated move in. 

1 0.15% More signs would have been nice to lead me to my check-in spot for my key. It was hectic and I didn't know where to go for a while. 

1 0.15% More than one cart should be allowed. 

1 0.15% move in staff was very helpful 

1 0.15% Move in volunteers were very helpful, they carried all my stuff, including my fridge, up five flights of stairs when the elevator was broken. 

1 0.15% Move in was easy and everyone was very helpful. 

1 0.15% Move in was great. I moved in the 2nd day. 

1 0.15% Move in was just fine. Busy though. 

1 0.15% Move in was much easier than i expected! 

1 0.15% Move in was really easy and the welcome week and move in student volunteers were very helpful in assisting in this move. 

1 0.15% Move in was very quick and easy. 

1 0.15% move in was what i expected and there were helpful people there 

1 0.15% Moved in at noon, September 1 - not enough time to unpack and move in, however the carts made the move-in process more efficient. Easy 

check-in. 

1 0.15% Moved in during spat camp for marching band. 

1 0.15% Move-in staff were right there to direct you the entire time. There was never a question about what to do or where to go. But if there was, there 

were a lot of people you could ask. 

1 0.15% Move-in was smooth. Elevators became a little crowded, but I was able to carry my stuff so there was little hassle. 

1 0.15% Move-in was very efficient, especially once a cart was obtained. 

1 0.15% Move-in went very smoothly and efficiently. Instructions on parking, carts, etc. were clear. 

1 0.15% Moving in early for MKO was super awesome. The only thing I didn't like was not having my bedloft lofted right away; however it was my fault 

for not applying before August 13. 

1 0.15% Moving in Tuesday night made it so that my wait time was shorter and I got acquainted with my surroundings faster.

1 0.15% Moving in was fine, I had a lot of stuff so it took a while 

1 0.15% Moving into the dorm was much easier than I anticipated; however, my roomate and I both ordered bedlofts and received a bunk bed instead. 

Trying to resolve this problem was not fun especially because the people we talked with insisted that one of us ordered the bunk bed, despite 

the fact that we both had proof otherwise. 

1 0.15% My actual move-in experience was excellent, the transition process was very smooth, and I feel that I'm well-adjusted to my dorm. However, 

my welcome week experience was exhausting, and I feel that it may have actually done more harm than good, because its overscheduled 

nature hardly gave me time to settle in and adjust to college life, and I didn't feel that I learned much from the information sessions beyond 

basic common sense. One of the only real positive experiences for me was the opportunity to meet new people. Personally, I would have 

preferred that we had a couple scheduled activities each day, and a lot more down time to help us get accustomed to our new living 

enivronment in our own ways. 

1 0.15% My bed was supposed to be lofted, but when I arrived it wasn't and they had no confirmation that I had even paid for it. For the time being I paid 

again and I am hoping to be reimbursed when I get my August bank statement and can prove I paid previously. 

1 0.15% My dad and I had to move in without the rest of my family being able to help, but with all of the move-in peoples' help we had all of my stuff up 

to my room in less than ten minutes. It was amazing! 

1 0.15% My lofted bed wasn't set up correctly and the fridge/microwave we rented from bedloft.com was covered with food 

1 0.15% My move in was smooth, but people on the first day had long waits for the elevators. 

1 0.15% My move in was very quick and efficient. The lines were manageable and the process well organized. 

1 0.15% My move in was very simple; I was one of the only ones there at my given time and had the entire hallway to myself. The only problem that I 

encountered were the courtyard doors being locked, which the key didn't help with, a bit after my move-in. 

1 0.15% My move in went great. I hit it off great with my roommates and all the welcome week leaders were great in helping me more my stuff upstairs. 

1 0.15% My move-in expeirence went really well although I needed more time to get everything settled in. 

1 0.15% My only complaint about the entire move-in process is that the carts used were extremely difficult to maneuver. 

1 0.15% My recycling bins were taken from my room and were never found again. 

1 0.15% My room didn't have two desks or chairs so it was a hassle, but they were brought quickly. 

1 0.15% my roommate is awsome 

1 0.15% My roommate was amazing to live with and the help service brought everything from my car to my room in one trip!! 

1 0.15% My roommate was really nice and the move-in people were very friendly and helpful. 

1 0.15% My welcome week helper was great! 

4 0.61% N/A 

2 0.31% na 

1 0.15% No carts were available--otherwise was great! WWLs very very helpful. 

1 0.15% no comment 

1 0.15% No complaints, everything went very smooth 

1 0.15% No elevator in pioneer and i had to carry all of my boxes up alone. 

1 0.15% No elevators in the hall, and people from out of state should have later move in times 

1 0.15% no one could tell me where my room was 

1 0.15% No one was really clear on where to find carts to use. And once you did find where to get one, there were never enough of them available. 

1 0.15% No problems at all =)

7 1.07% none 

2 0.31% None 

1 0.15% none. 

1 0.15% nope it went well 

1 0.15% Not all of the doors were open so I had to take the long way to my room which was very difficult. 

1 0.15% Not enough carts during high traffic move in times. Staff was friends and helpful, however. 

1 0.15% Not enough time to unpack. 

1 0.15% not very busy or congested at all :) 

1 0.15% Nothing wrong with the University side of things; it was just hot and there were no elevators/ air conditioning. 

1 0.15% One of my roommates was here already and he helped me move in. The process went smoothly and quickly. 

1 0.15% One of the elevators broke and the other two were operating poorly. This made it VERY difficult to move the heavier objects. 

1 0.15% One of the elevators was out of order for Middlebrook, so the line to move-in was very long. 

1 0.15% Only because my request for early move-in was accepted. If I were moving in at my regular time, it would have been far more difficult. 

1 0.15% Only concern would be not enough parking spaces for the amount of people that wanted to move in. 

1 0.15% Only half my family was able to come and move me in, but with the help of the move-in crew we were able to get all of my stuff up to my room 

in a very short amount of time. 

1 0.15% Originally the beds in our room were bunked when they were supposed to be lofted, but the last night before classes some workers came to fix 

it at 11:30. Excellent! 

1 0.15% other than the fact that Pioneer doesn't have a elevator, my move-in was good. 

1 0.15% Overall handled very professionally. Everything was clearly marked. 

1 0.15% Parking and traffic was the only minor problem. 

1 0.15% Parking was extremely confusing for people who had to move in as an early-requested date. 

1 0.15% Parking was limited but overall, very smooth. 

1 0.15% People are easy-going. It seems they are willing to help me at any time. 

1 0.15% People could have been more helpful with directions or helping carry/watch belongings 

1 0.15% People were extremely helpful and it went quicker than I thought. 

1 0.15% People were very helpful and it was not too congested. 

1 0.15% People were very helpful in moving us, very good traffic flow 

1 0.15% people were very helpful. 

1 0.15% People were very helpful. 

1 0.15% Pioneer hall has no elevators which made the move in more difficult. 

1 0.15% Pioneer has no elevators so it was hard to carry everything up the stairs, also with no AC. 

1 0.15% Provide students with detailed descriptions of their rooms so they can prepare more efficiently 

1 0.15% quick, easy, well managed for the tight areas and time

1 0.15% Really smooth 

1 0.15% Roommates should move in at different times. 

1 0.15% set up very well. 

1 0.15% shawn helped out alot. 

1 0.15% Simple; efficient; and got all the basic information I needed. 

1 0.15% Since I'm from 12 hours away they let me check in 2 hours early so that my dad could drive home that night which was very nice of them to let 

us do. 

1 0.15% Slightly unorganized and chaotic. 

1 0.15% Small hallways made it hard to pass with carts 

1 0.15% smooth 

1 0.15% smooth not too crowded friendly staff 

1 0.15% Some carts were crappy and didn't move smoothly. Long lines at the elevator. 

1 0.15% some of the people were nice but i asked for help serval times, and it took awhile to get someone to help me. 

1 0.15% Some welcome week volunteers helped me climb four stories of steps just so I could get moved in faster. It was very helpful! 

1 0.15% Space it out so that everyone isn't moving into a place with only two working elevators at once 

1 0.15% staff was friendly and helpful 

1 0.15% Staff was friendly, and move-in was okay except that a few of my devices are having trouble connecting to the internet. 

1 0.15% Staff was very helpful. They moved our entire futon without our help. 

1 0.15% Staff were extremely helpful and friendly, even though they had to deal with a massively long line. 

1 0.15% Staff were pretty helpful and knowledgable 

1 0.15% staff were very helpful and well-organized. 

1 0.15% Student helpers were great. 

1 0.15% Super hot. Pioneer needs AC! A little chaotic with everyone moving in. But I think it went about as well as it could. 

1 0.15% swift and the people were helpful 

1 0.15% Swift process 

1 0.15% Thank goodness for carts! 

1 0.15% Thank you welcome week leaders. 

1 0.15% Thanks to the girls that helped me move in!!! 

1 0.15% The Carts and the people helping were wonderful. 

1 0.15% The carts and welcome week leaders were very helpful. It was great to have them when you first pulled up to guide you to your first step. 

1 0.15% The carts at bailey made it really smooth 

1 0.15% the carts were really handy but mine had messed up wheels and was very tipsy 

1 0.15% The carts were really helpful, and the welcome week move in crews were really nice. 

1 0.15% The CA's and front desk employee's made the move-in process simple and easy. They were very social and made it a lot more fun than what I

imagined. 

1 0.15% The check-in went very smoothly. There was a little confusion over parking and unloading, but it was resolved quickly on our own. 

1 0.15% The dorm room was filthy when I arrived. Ew. 

1 0.15% The elevator lines were long. 

1 0.15% The elevator on the Reno side of Sanford was very old and slow. 

1 0.15% the elevator on the reno side was inconvienent 

1 0.15% The elevator was far. 

1 0.15% The elevators are a bit small. 

1 0.15% The emergency exits were open for the move-in dates which was great as I live in the first floor North dorms far from the lobby entrance and 

stairs to go up and down. But when I had my parents bring in a bookcase to install the next week there was absolutely no help offered to help 

us transfer that to my room. If there were a possibility of maybe having some students volunteer to help late movers put heavy things into 

dorms after welcome week that would make the experience all the more social and exciting. 

1 0.15% The front desk people were very helpful and I didn't have to make too many trips. I wish we are allowed to check out more than one carts. 

1 0.15% The futon was extremely difficult to set up, instructions were far too vague. 

1 0.15% The girls who helped me move in were absolutely wonderful. They were all friendly and cheerful and made me feel less anxious about moving 

in. They were also very efficient at moving all of my stuff, and we managed to get it up in two trips. Those three girls who helped me definitely 

made a difference in my move-in experience, and I found it to be a very pleasant experience. 

1 0.15% The guys who helped me move stuff in were extremely helpful and friendly. 

1 0.15% The help from the student volunteers was very much appreciated and made move in quick and easy 

1 0.15% The help from the volunteers around made the move in much faster than expected and they were quite friendly. 

1 0.15% the help was AWESOME! 

1 0.15% The helper people really aided with moving in. 

1 0.15% the helpers were awesome 

1 0.15% The helpers were awesome! 

1 0.15% The helpers were very helpful! 

1 0.15% The helpers who assisted my family and I when we moved in were extremely helpful! 

1 0.15% The individuals helping to carry objects up stairs and into rooms were incredibly helpful. 

1 0.15% The initial layout of the room was very inconvenient. And the size of our room is somewhat inadequate for two people. 

1 0.15% The line to the elevator was long, but that can be expected with the number of people moving in. 

1 0.15% the line took forever to move and they did not even ask if i wanted a cart to help me move my items in. otherwise, it was not much crowded 

except for the temporary parking space outside near the sidewalk. 

1 0.15% The lines for the elevators were extremely long. 

1 0.15% The lines were really long. 

1 0.15% The move in carts were very helpful. The whole process was very very easy 

1 0.15% The move in helpers were very friendly and extremely helpful. 

1 0.15% The move in process was smooth and efficient. I had no problems moving things into my dorm and everyone was helpful and friendly.

1 0.15% The move in staff was extremely helpful. As soon as I stepped out of my car there were four people ready and happy to assist my parents and 

I. 

1 0.15% The move in times in our hall were spread out enough so that each roommate could get their stuff into the room without having to worry about 

too much traffic. 

1 0.15% The move in was very organized and there were a lot of people to direct me to my room 

1 0.15% The move in worked well, however the line at the front desk for the key was a bit long because of the process to get the key. Maybe that could 

be shortened, with everything explained on a note instead of being dictated directions and all of the information. 

1 0.15% The move-in helpers were not very helpful. A request as simple as "can you watch this while I check in" was responded to 

unenthusiastically with a "I'm kind of watching this car right now...." The process was not as smooth as it could have been either. 

1 0.15% The move-in process was very efficient with all of the helpers. 

1 0.15% The move-in process was very smooth. 

1 0.15% The move-in staff was very helpful and welcoming, especially one helper who went above and beyond to make me feel welcome. His name 

was Ben Fuller, I believe. 

1 0.15% The move-in was easy and the leaders were really helpful! 

1 0.15% the movers were very helpful 

1 0.15% The movers were very helpful! 

1 0.15% the number of volunteers helping to carry things in was extremely helpful 

1 0.15% The only problem was that my key did not work and it took a while to get a new one. besides that the process was excellent. 

1 0.15% The only reason I'd say average was because it was a little difficult without the elevators in pioneer, but other than that it was fine. 

1 0.15% The only reason the move-in was average was because of the weather. The staff was very helpful and eager to carry things up the stairs for 

me. 

1 0.15% The only thing that didn't go smooth with my move-in is the bedloft crew took a week to loft my rommate's bed, and therefore we had a bunch 

of stuff all over the place. Our room was really crowded until the bedloft crew came in. Moving my stuff in and organizing my own stuff went 

really well though. 

1 0.15% The parking was an issue for my dad to help me actually move in. 

1 0.15% The parking was confusing for move-in. 

1 0.15% The people assisting with the process were very helpful and many helped me carry my luggage up stairs. Great experience. 

1 0.15% The people helping me move in were very helpful. 

1 0.15% the people helping move in were so great, it cut about an hour off my move in time and had to carry about half my stuff to my room. 

1 0.15% The people helping us move in were very nice but I saw one of the girls open one of the boxed I brought because she didn't know it was mine 

and then I heard the guy helping me tell the girl that I was right behind them. I thought it was very rude and made me get a not so good first 

impression. 

1 0.15% the people that helped were awesome! 

1 0.15% The people who helped me move in were helpful, but it would have been nice if there had been more signs to direct me and my family to the 

parking garage near comstock because it was hard to find the garage with all the construction and traffic 

1 0.15% The people who were voluenteering were not as helpful as I would have liked. Most of them stood in a group and talked. When I asked them 

questions they made jokes out of their answer. 

1 0.15% The person who helped me at the car was SO nice. He even helped me bring my stuff upstairs. 

1 0.15% The process was fast and efficient. It seemed like the student helpers knew what they were doing and helped make the move in smooth.

1 0.15% the process was very quick and easy. I didnt have any problems moving into my dorm. 

1 0.15% The process was very straight forward, and having staff there to help unload things was very helpful. 

1 0.15% The reason that my move-in experience was not amazing was because my roommate didn't put in her bedloft order on time. So, we couldn't 

really accomplish much of anything until Labor Day. 

1 0.15% the room is just alright, and my roomate is fine 

1 0.15% The room was very warm when I moved in but fans were set up right away. 

1 0.15% The staff at the desk knew my room number but didn't tell me I was going in the wrong direction. 

1 0.15% The staff made the entire move-in process very smooth. 

1 0.15% The staff that checked me in was very helpful and willing to answer any questions I had. 

1 0.15% The staff was really helpful in pointing me in the right direction. 

1 0.15% The staff was very enthusiastic and made the moving-in process very efficient. 

1 0.15% The staff was very helpful and moved people along efficiently. 

1 0.15% The staff was very helpful and was eager to help all of the people that were moving in. 

1 0.15% The staff was very helpful. As I was getting my keys and whatnot, staff was helping my family unload the car. They then directed us exactly 

where we needed to go. 

1 0.15% The staff was very helpful. It was nice to move in ahead of time due to marching band. 

1 0.15% The staff were very helpful. 

1 0.15% The students there to help move in made it much easier. 

1 0.15% The three leaders that assisted me in moving were exceptional. 

1 0.15% The three Middlebrook elevators are insufficient during move-in to accommodate the hordes of new students who came in. 

1 0.15% The transition was smooth, but it would be better to tell students to move at or around their actual move in time, rather than say they can move 

in at or later. That way, the move in scheduling would be neater. 

1 0.15% The U of M Parking Staff were helpful on informing my family and I were to go. There were not too many people moving in in my roommate's 

and my hallway which was nice because there was not any traffic jams. 

1 0.15% The University did a good job of keeping the flow of incoming students to a manageable level. With many people moving in at one time, I 

thought the process went very smoothly. 

1 0.15% the unloading area was efficiant and the upperclassmen were helpful with unloading 

1 0.15% The volunteers did not seem all that willing to help my family and I. We were passed by three available guys and watched by other volunteers 

as we made our first trip to my room. The second trip we were assisted because my dad asked them to do so. 

1 0.15% the volunteers outside were EXTREMELY helpful. 

1 0.15% The volunteers were very helpful and efficient in making sure everyone's move was easy and quick. 

1 0.15% The volunteers were very helpful. The carts that were available were a great idea. 

1 0.15% The voluteers were very helpful and efficient with getting everything to your room in a short amount of time. 

1 0.15% The welcome people were so helpful, but I felt like I could of used more time. I was second day last move in time. 

1 0.15% The welcome week leaders and CA's at Sanford hall were more than helpful. They started helping my father and myself unpack and move in 

without me even asking, and they were super nice! 

1 0.15% The welcome week leaders helped me move all my stuff into my room and they were very courteous about it.

1 0.15% The welcome week leaders were all very friendly and helpful. 

1 0.15% the welcome week leaders were helpful 

1 0.15% The Welcome Week leaders were incredibly helpful while moving things into our dorms! 

1 0.15% The welcome week leaders were more than happy to help move my things in, especially since we don't have elevators. 

1 0.15% The Welcome Week leaders were very helpful! The only thing that wasn't perfect was that the line for the elevators was very long. I totally 

understand that it was a lot of people moving in at once though. 

1 0.15% The welcome week people were extremely helpful when I moved my stuff into my dorm. I didn't have to lift a finger. They took care of carting 

my belongings into my room. 

1 0.15% The Welcome Week staff was really nice and helpful during my move in. 

1 0.15% The welcome week staff was very helpful. I would have never found my room without them. Also, they greeted me as soon as I got out of my 

van; it made me about ten times less nervous. 

1 0.15% The welcome week student leaders were very helpful. 

1 0.15% The Welcome Week Volunteers were very helpful with moving into my room. 

1 0.15% The whole thing went much smoother than I was expecting it to. 

1 0.15% there are too many chairs in my room! 

1 0.15% There didnt seem to be as many people offering to help you move your stuff. 

1 0.15% There was a great shortage of move in carts to check out. 

1 0.15% There was a line for the elevators to get into the res hall, other than that everything was good 

1 0.15% There was a long line for elevators. 

1 0.15% There was a long line for the elevator which slowed down my move in to the room, but the check-in process was fast and efficient. 

1 0.15% There was a lot of help and the big moving carts worked great in the elevator! 

1 0.15% There was alot of elevator traffic, maybe give people a window of time to move in rather than after a certain hour. 

1 0.15% There was alot of moving cart traffic when I moved in. Maybe make everyone have a time-frame to move-in, a 1 hour time frame, so the 

elevators don't get so backed up. 

1 0.15% There was an extremely long line to get on the elevators, which made it difficult to move in because my room is on floor ten. 

1 0.15% There was not many people when I moved in, so the process went smooth and there are no lines in for the elevators. Staff are nice and 

informative. 

1 0.15% There was plenty of help, and wasn't too chaotic because of the different move in times. 

1 0.15% There was so much commotion and people everywhere. Plus we did not have any help. They should have a more organized way of going 

about who moves in when and where. 

1 0.15% There was some confusion involving my move in to middlebrook and move out of IRC housing at Centennial 

1 0.15% There was someone to help you everywhere you looked so I was never confused. 

1 0.15% There wasn't enough time for move in before the multicultural kick off 

1 0.15% There wasn't enough time to simply move in. The kickoff only allowed for a single hour, or perhaps even two hours before sending the students 

on some day-long trek, which tires them out even before Welcome Week began so they couldn't even move in properly before then. Those who 

only participated in Welcome Week were allowed the whole day to unpack and get accustomed to the surroundings and dorms, while those in 

the kickoff simply had to leave their stuff and hope to finish that night. I didn't move, I simply dropped off my stuff and unpacked later.

1 0.15% There wasn't much space for people to stop at the designated stations and to move through the hallway with their carts. 

1 0.15% There were a lot of helpful volunteers all over. 

1 0.15% there were a lot of people willing to guide u around and assist in your move 

1 0.15% There were a lot of WWL's helping me to move in. 

1 0.15% There were just so many people here at once that the waits for carts and elevators was somewhat ridiculous and it took forever to get moved 

in. 

1 0.15% There were long waits for the elevators but otherwise it was easy to move in. 

1 0.15% There were many volunteers available to help me move my things, which helped make my actual move in very easy! 

1 0.15% There were no staff members present to assist me. 

1 0.15% There were people everywhere to help me move my stuff. They were very helpful and made moving in incredibly easy. 

1 0.15% There were people there to help me, but the over process seemed unorganized and crazy. 

1 0.15% There were plenty of people ready to answer any questions I had, it made it easy and less stressful. 

1 0.15% There were so many welcome week leaders that were eager to help me; it made the process a cinch. 

1 0.15% there were some excellent volunteers who were definitely helpful. 

1 0.15% There weren't enough Welcome Week leaders helping carry thing inside the dorms. 

1 0.15% There weren't many students because I came in early and the move-in process was very easy as the blue carts were provided. 

1 0.15% They did a nice job giving everyone a specific time to move in so the lines weren't so atrocious. 

1 0.15% They needed a few more carts. 

1 0.15% They should get more carts for people to move their stuff in. 

1 0.15% They told me the nearest entrance to my room was three hallways down. But later I found out that if we parked on the next street, that I had a 

stairwell right next to my room. 

1 0.15% They were not ready for us (MCAE group). They did not have enough carts. They didn't tell us where to go to find our rooms. They weren't fast 

enough. They didnt give us enough time to move in either. No one was helpful. The doors were not proped open like they were for later move 

in times. It was one of the worst experiences in my life. 

1 0.15% They were unorganized when I got there and it was very unclear where to go 

1 0.15% they wouldn't let me take more than one cart while they let other people take more than one and I was the only one moving in, seriously nobody 

else was moving. 

1 0.15% Things went extremely smoothly and the Welcome Week people were extremely helpful. It was nice to be able to use two carts. 

1 0.15% things went well, the hallways are long and narrow, and the elevators are not very accessible but things ended up working out good. 

1 0.15% Things were VERY well organized. Parking and Unloading were very simple and efficient. It was a great experience overall. People were 

extremely helpful and understanding of the high stress levels that were all around. 

1 0.15% Those move in guys were awesome ! 

1 0.15% Too hard to carry things up to the 4th floor of pioneer. A facility staffer was polite enough to help me carry a cart with all my things up the stairs. 

1 0.15% Too hot, had to carry EVERYTHING up 4 flights of stairs 

1 0.15% too many people when trying to move through hallways to get stuff to room 

1 0.15% too much traffic

1 0.15% Two guys helped me carry in my futon. 

1 0.15% University staff weren't very helpful in the process. I didn't know where my room was or where to get a cart. They all just sort of sat behind the 

desk and mumbled the necessary information. Signs would have been nice. 

1 0.15% upperclassmen helping was super nice. 

1 0.15% Very easy and fast 

1 0.15% very easy to find and everyone was very helpful. 

1 0.15% Very good helpers and well thought out. A little cramped. 

1 0.15% Very helpful staff and students were always around. 

1 0.15% very helpful staff when i first arrived 

1 0.15% Very helpful upperclassmen, but dragging everything up to the 4th floor was a hassle. 

1 0.15% very helpful welcome week people 

1 0.15% very hot and difficult to transport everything up stairs, the volunteers were more than helpful with transporting stuff up to the fourth floor for me. 

1 0.15% Very long lines for the elevator. 

1 0.15% very organized 

1 0.15% Very organized all of the staff was very well informed 

1 0.15% very quick. helpers were great! 

1 0.15% very smooth 

1 0.15% Very smooth and well put together 

1 0.15% Very smooth, everyone was helpful. But when I checked in I wasn't directed to pick up any of the additional "U" guides or 

instructional packets that I saw so many other students with. 

1 0.15% Very smooth, no problem finding my room, lots of assistance available. 

1 0.15% Very smooth, volunteers were extremely helpful 

1 0.15% Very systematic 

1 0.15% very very smoothly. 

1 0.15% very well organized 

1 0.15% Very well organized! 

1 0.15% Very well reception by the move in staff 

1 0.15% Volunteers were always ready to help. That was nice 

1 0.15% Volunteers were very helpful about moving everyone in as efficiently as possible. 

1 0.15% Volunteers were very helpful and very welcoming 

1 0.15% Waited 30 minutes each time to get on elevator with my dorm supplies. It was what I expected. 

1 0.15% Was not crowded, short lines 

1 0.15% Wasn't anything exciting but well formatted 

1 0.15% WAsn't crowded at all and I was allowed to adjust my move-in time to a earlier time.


1 0.15% We arrived early and were able to unload in a timely and efficient manner. Although, when we arrived in the room, neither of the beds had been 

lofted as requested. 

1 0.15% We did not get much time to settle in because as soon as we did we had to be transported to the MKO activities. 

1 0.15% We got there around 12 and there was no one to help us move our stuff into our room. 

1 0.15% We had to wait over a half an hour to use the elevator, and we also had to wait for carts. But I could tell the welcome week staff were trying as 

hard as they could to help and make move-in easier. 

1 0.15% we have no elavators and it was so got, but it was nice that there were students helping us. 

1 0.15% We moved in at 5pm, which was too late. 

1 0.15% We saw that everyone else was getting help moving things in, but no one approached us to say they could help us. In return, that meant that 

my dad and I had to carry my belongings up four flights of stairs. It just would have been nice to have some help. 

1 0.15% We were told the wrong room number 3 times and each time we walked around for 25 minutes trying to find that room, which doesn't exist. 

Then we were told we had to haul everything up the four flights of stairs because there are no elevators. 

1 0.15% welcome people were very helpful when it came to moving into my dorm room. 

1 0.15% welcome week helper people were great in the movie, got everything in in one trip, elevator was fown tho so had to wait in line for a while... 

1 0.15% Welcome Week helpers and leaders did a great job. Moving in on August 31st was also a great benefit because we had a whole day to get 

settled in. 

1 0.15% welcome week helpers were great 

1 0.15% Welcome week leaders were there and ready to help me carry all my things and direct me to my room. They got lost a few times, but it was 

definitely nice to have the extra hands. Between all of us, we only had to make one trip each. 

1 0.15% Welcome Week workers were very friendly and helpful. 

1 0.15% Went much more smoothly and faster than I expected. 

1 0.15% went smooth 

1 0.15% Went very smoothly 

1 0.15% When I first arrived a friendly and helpful group of welcome week students was prepared to direct me to check in, get a cart, and even 

physically help move me in by carrying things to my dorm and leading the way. The entire process was fast and efficient, impressing my whole 

family. 

1 0.15% When I moved in there was tons of people willing to help direct me to where I needed to go. 

1 0.15% When I went to my assigned room, my parents and I couldn't get into the room because we couldn't open the door. We all tried many times and 

had to call a maintenance person up to help us open it. It finally opened and it turned out it had been damaged by some people who had stayed 

in the room just before. So that wasn't the best first experience to have upon moving in. However lots of people offered help and the move in 

assistants were really friendly and helpful in getting my things to the room. 

1 0.15% While in the process of moving in, none of the welcome week leaders approached us and asked if we needed help. Everyone else that I had 

talked to were helped right away. 

1 0.15% Wish I had had more time to get settled in before I had to go check in at Coffman. 

1 0.15% Wish there could've been better, easier parking. 

1 0.15% With the MCAE kickoff I didn't have time to arrange my things together. 

1 0.15% Would have been even better if the elevater had been working at the time. It all worked out in the end though.

Q20. Was the move-in process smooth and efficient 

Count 

Percent 

1267 91.55% Yes 

52 3.76% No 

65 4.70% No opinion 


Q21. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following statement:I felt as though I had ample time to move in and get settled. 

Count 

Percent 


594 42.92% Agree 

134 9.68% Neutral 




Q22. Were the staff members who assisted you with move-in friendly and helpful 

Count 

Percent 

1254 90.61% Yes 

29 2.10% No 



Q23. How satisfied are you with your housing assignment 

Count 

Percent 

787 57.07% Very satisfied 

427 30.96% Somewhat satisfied 

76 5.51% Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied 

68 4.93% Somewhat dissatisfied 

21 1.52% Very dissatisfied 


Q24. Please provide any additional comments on your answer above: 

Count 

Percent 

538 100.00%

Count 

Percent 

1 0.19% - 

1 0.19% . 

1 0.19% .. 

1 0.19% 1st dorm option. there is plenty of space in my suite. although I do with that the suites had sinks and 4 closets instead of 3. 

1 0.19% 3rd floor. Thanks! 

1 0.19% A "computing error" placed me with a sophomore who was dissatisfied with living with me and not the individual who he had 

specified. As a result, I was reassignedto a similar room late into the summer. Earlier communication between the frustrated student and I 

would have been ideal. 

1 0.19% a little noisy. not my first choice. 

1 0.19% After one person moved out, I was able to move into one of the two rooms in the suite, and I am liking it much better. My room mates are 

friendly and great people. 

1 0.19% All of my classes are located in the Minneapolis campus, so living in Bailey is inconvenient, but I love the St. Paul campus and community. 

1 0.19% All of my classes are on the East Bank and I was assigned to Bailey Hall on the St. Paul Campus. 

1 0.19% Although I chose live in Sanford, I didn't realize how far away it was from everything else on campus. It's ok though because I don't mind 

walking so much. 

1 0.19% Although I did not request Sanford, I am incredibly happy I live here. On the other hand, I was placed with an international roommate, 

something I believe should be addressed in the housing application. Fortunately, we get along very well. 

1 0.19% Although I wish that I wasn't so far away from the East Bank, I do like the St Paul campus. 

1 0.19% Although my particular roommate is rather quiet the people around me are all very nice. They are all in CSE like I am which will make it 

particularly easy to form study groups. 

1 0.19% Amenities in Pioneer are lacking 

1 0.19% asfkjkjoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo 

1 0.19% Asked for random roommate and got put with cheerleaders that I knew, Just a mix-up and lack of time/communication I think. 

1 0.19% at first i was skeptical about getting a single but now i am glad i got it. 

1 0.19% Bailey is a very friendly and quiet residence hall. The food is pretty good too. 

1 0.19% Bailey is far away from everything 

1 0.19% bailey wasnt my first choice of housing, but once i got settled i was excited about being on the st.paul campus 

1 0.19% bailey's is too far away from everything and no one is very out going. plus my roommate is a international student so there is definitely a 

cultural and communication barrier which really sucks. plus i here the super block is where the party is at. 

1 0.19% bathrooms are disgusting 

1 0.19% Being in a single wasn't even close to what i asked for... 

1 0.19% Being unclear about the expanded living thing kind of sucks... 

1 0.19% better room mate matching 

1 0.19% Both have same views on topics 

1 0.19% By being in on the CSE floor, I found it very easy to get to know people with similar courses and course loads, which helped a great deal in 

feeling comfortable.

1 0.19% Comstock is the best hall out of any that I have seen. 

1 0.19% Did you intentionally put us with roommates from our high school I know a few people who experienced that by chance. 

1 0.19% didn't get the dorm i wanted 

1 0.19% do i have to move out of expanded housing i love it! 

1 0.19% Do not know why I was not assigned an UHP housing. 

1 0.19% double room with two roommates 

1 0.19% East bank would be nicer so that it isn't so far to walk to get places, and i do not have much in common with people in my building. 

1 0.19% Even though it was not my first choice, I am very happy with my room assignment. 

1 0.19% Everyone is shy 

1 0.19% Everyone is so friendly. 

1 0.19% Everything is exactly what I wanted. 

1 0.19% Excellent roommate (I don't know if that was thanks to the matching software or just luck, but either way). The room was clean and came with a 

very useful, full-wall corkboard that I have been using a lot. I love the location too, because 6th floor is where it's at. 

1 0.19% expanded housing 

1 0.19% Expanded Housing in the residential hall I wanted however I might have to move and I don't have a closet. 

1 0.19% Expanded Housing. 

1 0.19% extended housing 

1 0.19% freshmen with a junior 

1 0.19% Frontier was my first choice of dorm and I love it here, both because of the amenities (carpeting, air conditioning) and because of the awesome 

people who live here. My roommate and I get along very well, and although I don't see us becoming best friends, we won't have any problems 

living with each other. 

1 0.19% Frontier was my first choice. 

1 0.19% Frontier was prepared very well for everyone. 

1 0.19% Get along very well and easy to compromise with 

1 0.19% Getting put in a single was my very last choice. 

1 0.19% girls and boys on the same floor 

1 0.19% good 

1 0.19% good food! 

1 0.19% good roomy:) 

1 0.19% Got everything that I wanted from my preferences 

1 0.19% Got stuck in a quad, the housing change request i put in was ignored 

1 0.19% great building and floor, im just far away at the very end of the hall 

1 0.19% Great roommate matching!!! 

1 0.19% Having three other roommates that you get along very well with was great. Sadly it's only temporary. 

1 0.19% Honors housing is amazing! It has been EXTREMELY fun without the obsessive talking about drinking and partying as I have heard in the

freshman block. 

1 0.19% i acutally love my expanded housing 

1 0.19% i already knew my roomate. 

1 0.19% I am at the end of the hallway on the first floor. It feels like no one is ever there and people have issues finding my room. I was assigned where 

I wanted to be but the location of my dorm was not the best. 

1 0.19% I am fine with my housing assignment. My roommate and I are not gettting along which makes the transition to campus life very difficult. 

1 0.19% I am glad I placed into Territorial Hall. 

1 0.19% I am glad that I am in the Biology Living Learning Community. 

1 0.19% I am glad that I am in the Students Crossing Borders Community, but Middlebrook Hall is a little far away from all of my classes, which are 

located on the East Bank. 

1 0.19% I am happy with my roomates but our bedrooms are way too small for a 4 person suite. Especially when the two person suite down the hall is 

much bigger. 

1 0.19% I am hosting expanded housing, a double room with three people. It is crowded with three desks and the extra dresser with three people's stuff 

too. 

1 0.19% I am in a single room which is fine but my single room is about forty square feet smaller than a regular single residence room because I am at 

the end of the hallway yet I am being charged the same price as a regular. I am going to talk to the housing department though because this is 

upsetting and not very just. 

1 0.19% I am in a suite, and it is a very good style of living! 

1 0.19% I am in a triple room with four people and it is very crowded in the room. 

1 0.19% i am in expanded housing 

1 0.19% I am in expanded housing and due to that I cannot study in my own dorm room, I constantly have to find other places to study. 

1 0.19% I am in the ASL house, but I didn't sign up for it and I don't know any sign language. otherwise I like comstock and its location 

1 0.19% I am in the hall I requested to be in, but my window looks straight out at a brick wall. 

1 0.19% I am not sure how we were paired together, since I go to sleep early and I am clean. Whereas my roomate is a bit messy and goes to bed late. 

1 0.19% I am now very satisfied, but this was only after a much needed transfer into Terretorial Hall. 

1 0.19% I am on first floor but I wanted to be on second floor. Its only a very small thing though, besides that, I am very pleased with my housing 

assignment. 

1 0.19% i am sharing a shower with more than 15 other residents, bathrooms could be more accessible, larger, ease-of-use features could be added 

1 0.19% I am very different from my roommate and her habbits. 

1 0.19% I am very pleased with my room and my roommate. 

2 0.37% I am very pleased with my room and roommate. 

1 0.19% I am very pleased with my room, roommate, hall, etc. 

1 0.19% I am very pleased with where i was put and my roommate is great! 

1 0.19% I am very satisfied with my new housing assignment, I was also satisfied with my previous assignment. 

1 0.19% I am where I requested to be. 

1 0.19% I applied for a single in Middlebrook and that is exactly what I got! 

1 0.19% I applied with a friend as a roomate, you put me in a 3 person room with a fourth person in it. That kinda sucks.

1 0.19% I asked for a request to live with someone I know, and they told me that i they had to take their students out of expanded housing before they 

could take people out of frontier, but were convienently able to move their residence to middlebrook. 

1 0.19% I barely have room for another person to be in my room and the railings are always sticky. 

1 0.19% I did not expect to be in a quad, but it's worked out very well 

1 0.19% I did not get the room type that I wanted. 

1 0.19% I did not have my loft in my room, though I ordered and paid for it. Also, my roommate and I don't really communicate well, she is not very 

fluent in English. 

1 0.19% I did not put Pioneer high up on my ranking. 

1 0.19% I did not think that I would be living on the St. Paul campus. 

1 0.19% I did not want a single and one was given to me. 

1 0.19% I did not want a single room, it was way down on my list 

1 0.19% I did the roommate search and was very happy with that, and I got my first choice dorm. 

1 0.19% I didn't get into a dorm or room that i particularly but Comstock really isn't that bad. Everything has it's own perks 

1 0.19% I didn't get into the dorm that I would have liked, but it ended up working out very well because of nice hall mates and neighbors. 

1 0.19% I didn't like being in a single the first night because I was just all alone, which is not what you want to be during the first week of being at college 

1 0.19% I didn't originally want to live in Bailey Hall, but I love it now. Its so peaceful and green and a great place to live. Everyone is so friendly! 

1 0.19% I didn't want to be in the biology living learning community 

1 0.19% I didn't want to be on St. Paul campus, but I was put here anyways. However, it is a pretty campus with nice rooms. 

1 0.19% I dislike being on the 10th floor. But not everyone can be on 1st, so I'll get used to it. 

1 0.19% i dislike middlebrook 

1 0.19% I do not like being housed in Bailey Hall because it is located on the St. Paul campus which is very inconvenient. 

1 0.19% I do not like the fire alarm five inches above the head of my bed, or the four showers to each floor and there is not nearly enough washers and 

dryers for the entire building. WW activities should put more emphasis on common procedures in the rooms; i.e. disposing of trash, working 

washers and dryers, etc.. 

1 0.19% i dont like to fill in any paper 

1 0.19% I don't think assignments were all that fair, some girls who are paying the same price have spacious rooms with window seats, and my room is 

tiny. I enjoy my room, but I really thing there should be a standard- or they should have to pay more and we should be able to CHOOSE to be 

in a bigger room. 

1 0.19% I don't want to live in Bailey Hall, it's neither one of my preferred choices. 

1 0.19% I dont want to live in the apartment for two semesters, because the payment is too high for me to afford. 

1 0.19% I ended up getting a double with ample amount of space so my roommate and I are comfortable. 

1 0.19% I ended up in a living learning community I did not apply for, but I plan on participating in the community anyway. 

1 0.19% I ended up in a living learning community I hadn't applied for, but I plan on participating anyway. 

1 0.19% I enjoy having a roomate, but at times I wish I could have been in a single, but everything else is great! 

1 0.19% I feel as though the freshman should be housed around other freshman in the non-freshman dorms, because I am only near a few freshman on 

my floor. 

1 0.19% I feel like I have nothing in common with my roommate. I also really dislike the fact that as a freshman, I was paired with a sophomore. It's

making my transition more difficult. 

1 0.19% I feel lucky that I ended up at UV. 

1 0.19% I feel that the resident halls on campus have too many singles. Many people, myself included, were assigned a single that we did not want. It is 

really hard to meet people when you are in a single. 

1 0.19% I got everything that I requested and my roommate assignment could not have been better! 

1 0.19% I got Frontier which is what i wanted! 

1 0.19% I got into the Hall that I wanted, but not the LLC; however, I really like the LLC I am in now! 

1 0.19% I got my application in early and requested to have any dorm in superblock or East bank. I didn't get it. Also, I feel like I don't "fit in" 

with my current dorm. 

1 0.19% I got my choice roommate, my choice residential hall, and my choice room type 

1 0.19% I got my first choice 

1 0.19% I got my first choice of dorms 

1 0.19% I got my first choice of hall. 

1 0.19% I got my first choice! 

2 0.37% I got my first choice. 

1 0.19% I got one of my last choices, but it ended up turning out. 

1 0.19% I got the room type and hall I requested. 

1 0.19% I got the roommate that I wanted, as well as a room that was above what I thought I would get. 

1 0.19% i got what i asked for 

1 0.19% I got what I asked for, but knowing what I know now I would have picked a different dorm to live in. 

1 0.19% I had a preferenced roommate and she had me as her preferenced roommate and we didn't get put together. I also asked for a non-smoker for 

a roommate and she smokes. 

1 0.19% I had a preferenced roommate down and she had me down and we didn't get to room together. The roommate I had now smokes, and I asked 

for a non-smoker. 

1 0.19% I had requested Middlebrook, and got put into University Village. The community isn't quite as open or tight-knit here 

1 0.19% I had wanted a roommate, but received a single room which I love. 

1 0.19% I hadn't decided on which university I'd attend until early March. I sent my money and request in as soon as I decided. I ended up in a triple 

room in Pioneer Hall, when I requested a double room and Pioneer was my 4th choice. I understand that others decided earlier than I did, but I 

wish I could have been better accommodated. 

1 0.19% I hadn't requested Baily, but it seems like a nice place to live anyhow 

1 0.19% I have a good hall and a good roommate. 

1 0.19% I have a great roommate! 

1 0.19% I have a large room and a great roommate, but I was a bit disappointed that there are so many upperclassmen in my dorm. They seem nice, 

but since they are not new they are not as out-going, because they already have their friend-groups established. I live in Comstock, and in my 

house there are only 19 freshman out of 52 residents. I would feel more comfortable if the freshmen in my building were all together. 

1 0.19% I have a single and an all male floor cut off from the rest of pioneer, it's hard to meet people. 

1 0.19% I have a wonderful roommate, and my room is very accessible. Comstock is in a fantastic location, and it has a great dining area. The room

itself is large as well. I have no complaints! 

1 0.19% I have a wonderful single room! 

1 0.19% I have expanded housing. 

1 0.19% I have got my first choice about my housing assignment 

1 0.19% I have no classes on the West bank but I can easily transport myself to them, it just makes planning more challenging. 

1 0.19% I have no previous experience so I do not know how satisfied to be. 

1 0.19% I have temporary housing and even though I love my room I am going to have to move. It will be hard to leave all the people I met on the floor. 

1 0.19% I have the best room in Sanford :] 

1 0.19% I have the CCC job, thus I'm incredibly satisfied. 

1 0.19% I have the largest quad in the hall. 

1 0.19% I have to bike across the bridge :( I understand that there is nothing that can be done though 

1 0.19% I have to take a 15 minute bus ride to go to the other campus. 

1 0.19% I highly recomment a suite style of rooming to everyone its very spacious and convinent having a sink in the room. 

1 0.19% i just didn't know much about each house until now but i think roommates should do a quiz to match up. 

1 0.19% I knew my roomate before we moved in together, so the roomate situation is fine. One problem is that Sanford is very far away from the heart 

of campus, but this will just take time to adjust to. 

1 0.19% I know people who asked for doubles and were assigned singles. I asked for a single in comstock or yudolf which are close to campus and I got 

a 4br 2 bath apt 10 minutes from campus, I guess I got my own room but the point was to be alone and close to campus. I appreciate the 

kitchen but I don't cook and I didnt need a living room 

1 0.19% I like being on the St. Paul Campus and my roommate is great! 

1 0.19% I like everything about the dorm; the location is just inconvenient. 

1 0.19% I like having a suite with a sink in the room. 

1 0.19% I like my room and my floor. 

1 0.19% i like my room! 

1 0.19% I like my roomate and my room, but there is only one exit, which I am very far from. 

1 0.19% I like my roomate, I get along with people on my floor, and I love Middlebrook. 

1 0.19% I like my roommate, semi-roommates, and the room. 

1 0.19% i like my suite 

1 0.19% I like that I have a single, I just wish I had a regular sized single instead of super small. 

1 0.19% I like that Middlebrook is quiet but it is not in a convenient location. 

1 0.19% i like the hall I'm in and the people and very friendly! the only down is that I have a long walk to my room but walking is good hopefully it will 

help keep me off the freshman fifteen. 

1 0.19% i like the room i got, my friend and i originally did not request an assignment near what we got but i am used to it and like it a lot now 

1 0.19% I like the sink. 

1 0.19% I like the suite but I have a constant vibration under my room and its the farthest from the front desk...

1 0.19% I like this dorm complex. 

1 0.19% I like where I live, it's one of my roommates I can't stand. 

1 0.19% I like where I'm living, I can't stand one of my roommates. 

1 0.19% I liked how housing looked into who you requested and tried to make sure that you were put with your requested roommate. 

1 0.19% I live near very nice people, and have made a lot of friends. 

1 0.19% I live on the west bank and most of CSE classes are on the east bank. that being said i like middlebrook more than the super block. so its 

neither satisfied nor dissatisfied. 

1 0.19% I lofted my bed, but the ceiling is so low that I am unable to sit up in bed. Also, the ceiling is textured so I always scrape my knuckles and head 

and it realllyyy hurts. 

1 0.19% I love Bailey Hall, but the commute to east bank every day is a little bit of a hassle. 

1 0.19% I love being in a quad! 

1 0.19% I love being on the 1st floor and not having to use the stairs or elevator 

1 0.19% I LOVE FRONTIER! 

1 0.19% I love having a sink in the room and the way my room is organized. 

1 0.19% I love it here. I was very worried about being in a single so far away from the super block, i visited over there and this is so much better. I would 

love to be a CA over here next year. 

1 0.19% I love it! 

1 0.19% I love living in Comstock. Its central location is wonderful and the people/staff are great! My roommate and I get along very well. I enjoy having 

a foreign roommate. It gives me a different perspective on situations. 

1 0.19% I love middle brook and everyone on my floor is great. However, me and my roomate are quite different. She smokes and I don't, I'm not really 

sure how we got paired up when I had said non smoking on my application. 

1 0.19% I love Middlebrook! 

1 0.19% I love Middlebrook! It's a really nice dorm, which was exceptionally obvious when talking to students from different dorms. I like that its honors 

housing and I'm with intellectuals. I also think that it's really clean and friendly, without being parties all over the place. 

1 0.19% I love Middlebrook. I am happy with my choice. 

1 0.19% i love middlebrook. i love being on the 12th floor. i love the arts housing. no complaints besides the elevator wait. 

1 0.19% I love my dorm, my room and my roommate. 

1 0.19% I love my expanded room and my roommates and I don't want to have to leave it. 

1 0.19% I love my room and I love my dorm, the roommate however... 

1 0.19% I love my room and my roommates in Pio! 

1 0.19% I love my room and roomate! 

1 0.19% I love my roomates and our room is awesome. No complaints! 

1 0.19% I love my roommate and my room! 

1 0.19% I love my roommate and pioneer is a very nice building to live in. 

1 0.19% I love my roommates but we are in extended housing so I don't know how long we will be staying here. 

1 0.19% I love Territorial Hall! I've met lots of great people and I really like that I live in a super block with all freshman who want to get to know 

eachother!

1 0.19% I love T-Hall! 

1 0.19% I love THALL!!! 

1 0.19% I love the big room in T-Hall! The extra room is more settling and grounding, providing an enhanced move-in experience. 

1 0.19% I love the feeling of West Bank and enjoy the accomodations of Middlebrook, but it is incredibly far away from many points of interest. 

1 0.19% I love the floor i'm on and all the people in my hall, but my roommate and i are complete opposites. I don't know how we got paired together but 

i'm not too thrilled. 

1 0.19% I love the location of my dorm on campus. 

1 0.19% I love the location of my room and I have two room mates that I get along with very well. However our space is very limited and rather cramped 

especially considering the amount of room that a student with only one room mate gets. Accommodations such as closet/ shelf space is poorly 

incorporated into the room. 

1 0.19% I love the room and everything offered in Yudof. 

1 0.19% I love the suite I'm in. 

1 0.19% I love where I'm living, but I don't like my roommate! 

1 0.19% I MISS MY OLD STUDY LOUNGE ROOM. 

1 0.19% I needed time to get used to it. 

1 0.19% I only say I'm somewhat dissatisfied because all my classes are in Minneapolis and I'm working at the TCF Stadium as well so getting there at 

6 am on game days is extremely difficult. I also don't like having to rely so heavily on the campus connector. It is really nice that we have it, I'd 

just rather not rely so heavily on a vehicle that can be so unpredictable. 

1 0.19% I originally applied for the Pioneer Hall, but this was a great alternative, probably even better than my first choice! 

1 0.19% I personally was hoping for a two person suite/room in frontier or a room with AC and easier hall access, but I still am satisfied that I'm in the 

superblock. 

1 0.19% I really am happy being in the N wing of Territorial. It seems newer and larger. 

1 0.19% I really enjoy being in a two person suite. 

1 0.19% i really enjoy my room 

1 0.19% I really like having a sink. 

1 0.19% I really like having a suite, and the room seems nice. 

1 0.19% I really like my room and my roommate. 

1 0.19% I really like my room, but it's one of those in Middlebrook that doesn't have to full corkboard walls. Those would definitely come in handy. 

1 0.19% I really like my room, but Sanford is so far away from everything. It's inconvenient. 

1 0.19% I really like my roommate- we both are here to study and take college seriously to get our degrees but also have fun. 

1 0.19% I really wanted a roommate! 

1 0.19% I received my first choice 

1 0.19% I received my first choice and am very satisfied with my accommodations, the amenities, and the building faculty. 

1 0.19% I received the hall I requested for. 

1 0.19% I received the housing assignment that I wanted 

1 0.19% I requested a change to be on east bank.

1 0.19% I requested a double and got a quad. 

1 0.19% i requested a hall transfer and received this, but did not receive a roommate as i had hoped. 

1 0.19% I requested a housing transfer, and not only was I transferred, but accommodations were made for me to be transferred to my first choice of 

residence hall. 

1 0.19% I requested a roommate in a double room and was not assigned with my requested roommate and was put into a four person suite 

1 0.19% I requested a single in September, I got a double. I requested a hall transfer three times. Nothing was done or said but "Opps 

sorry." >:-O 

1 0.19% I requested to be in Frontier and in a suite, but I got my preferred roommate, so it could have been worse. 

1 0.19% I think that I was well placed in terms of the options for other residence halls - I really like my living learning community. 

1 0.19% i think there should be a survey for roommates 

1 0.19% I thought I would have a sink from the description online as well as heat and air control. 

1 0.19% I turned in my housing application early in the year, and I ended up in a dorm that I really didn't apply for. 

1 0.19% i turned in my room assignments at a very early date, and did not get the dorm I wanted. 

1 0.19% I used the roommate search. I originally wanted to be in Frontier, but I like Territorial more now. 

1 0.19% I want a roommate but didn't get one assigned. 

1 0.19% i want a/c and carpet in my room 

1 0.19% I wanted a suite and got one. 

1 0.19% I wanted at least a sink in my room. 

1 0.19% I wanted Student Crossing Borders and Middlebrook but then I realized that all my classes were on the East Bank but then again, Middlebrook 

Hall and the International student program is going to be a great experience so I am very satisfied. 

1 0.19% I wanted to be in an all freshmen dorm for my first year, but my location is just a little too loud sometimes. I am sure it will get better once 

classes start. 

1 0.19% I wanted to get into the Design House in Bailey and I did 

1 0.19% I wanted to have a roommate because I am from out of state and didn't know anyone here before I came. But I like the people in my dorm, so it 

wasn't a total loss. 

1 0.19% I wanted to move into a hall that had AC. 

1 0.19% I was able to get my first choice on roommate. 

1 0.19% I was allowed my requested room mate and everyone on my floor is awesome! 

1 0.19% I was assigned to the hall and living-learning community I wanted. 

1 0.19% I was given a roommate from my high school, and I'm not the only one on my floor who ended up with that arrangement. Although I like my 

roommate, it would have been nice to meet someone new. 

1 0.19% I was given a single room when my priority was a double. However, I am loving the single room! Bailey hall wasn't high on my list of top favored 

halls either, but the commute isn't too bad and the residents are awesome! Thanks housing assigners! 

1 0.19% i was necessarily put in my top choice but so far i like what i got. 

1 0.19% I was not expecting a four person suite. 

1 0.19% I was not expecting a single room but now that I am settled in I enjoy having my personal space. However I do feel that single rooms are harder 

for some people to meet others.

1 0.19% I was originally assigned to Middlebrook, but I was very happy to find that I could transfer to Bailey. 

1 0.19% I was placed in the Hall in which I wanted to be in. 

1 0.19% I was pleasantly surprised to find that I had a suite. 

1 0.19% I was really hoping for the honors program, but this is a nice alternative. 

1 0.19% I was really hoping to be in super block. It is a more cohesive community and frankly, I feel slightly hindered in UV. 

1 0.19% I was scared at first because I was placed in extended housing but now I am excited and if given the chance I wouldn't move out. 

1 0.19% I was slightly bummed that I would have three room mates, and then in a short time she would be moved out, it seemed harsh. 

1 0.19% I was suprised to hear i was put in a quad in pioneer, my fourth choice but it ended up working out alright. 

1 0.19% I was unhappy when I first found out I was in expanded, however, now that it has been resolved I am very happy with my room and have ample 

living space. 

1 0.19% I wasn't even aware I had been placed in an expanded single until a week or so after I moved in 

1 0.19% I wasn't looking forward to living in dorms. But, I realize that I am a Freshmen and when I put in my housing preferences there were many more 

students that wanted a University apartment. 

1 0.19% I wasn't placed in my first chocie of housing, so right away i wasn't so happy because I knew that Pioneer didn't have an elevator or any air 

conditioning, but I have learned to really like it. It is much quieter than t-hall and other residence halls as well as I have found that I like taking 

the stairs intead. 

1 0.19% I wish I could loft the beds. 

1 0.19% I wish I had a bigger single, but it works for me so it is fine. 

1 0.19% I wish I had been more informed that most Fine Arts activities took place on West Bank 

1 0.19% I wish I was in the suite. 

1 0.19% I wish I was told/asked if it was okay that i was placed in Students Crossing Borders LLC. Not my ideal living situation. 

1 0.19% I wish there was a roomate questionaire that better matched us. 

1 0.19% I wish we would have gotten a suite. 

1 0.19% I wished I could have unlocked my door to the balcony at least for the first couple days, as it was very, very hot inside. 

1 0.19% I would be happier if I live on a floor with more international students. 

1 0.19% I would have enjoyed being placed in a double, however, I am at least happy that my single room is not very cramped and there are other 

rooms around me. 

1 0.19% I would have loved to be in a dorm room or single room apartment, I feel as though I was placed into a room with people nothing like me 

1 0.19% I would have prefered a double room or even a bigger suite room in frontier or territorial. 

1 0.19% I would have preferred a dorm my freshman year, just so I could get to know more people going through their first year. 

1 0.19% I would have preferred Frontier hall, but Territorial is okay too. Territoial was my second choice 

1 0.19% I would have preferred to be on the east bank. 

1 0.19% I would rather have a double or a single. 

1 0.19% I would rather not be in expanded housing, but i am not dissatisfied with it 

1 0.19% I'm in expanded housing and although I enjoy the room, the fact that I might have to move out is very inconvenient. 

1 0.19% I'm in expanded housing and the only downfall so far is that there are no closets in the room and there is also a table in the room that our CA

told us could not be removed, which is annoying. It's a little crowded. 

1 0.19% Im in expanded housing and we dont have clothing any hanging space. 

1 0.19% I'm in expanded housing so I will have to move out. 

1 0.19% I'm in expanded housing, and it's hard not knowing how long I will be living here. 

1 0.19% I'm in expanded housing, and while the housing is adequate, it would be nice to have a regular two-person dorm. 

1 0.19% I'm in expanded housing. 

1 0.19% I'm in the building and LLC that I wanted to be in. 

1 0.19% I'm living in a five star hotel! 

1 0.19% I'm living in the IT Living Learning community, a lot of great people there. 

1 0.19% I'm loving the Honors housing because I'm finally surrounded by other people who share my passion for learning. 

1 0.19% I'm much rather be in Minneapolis but I understand that that isn't necessarily possible for everyone. 

1 0.19% I'm not in honors so living in the honors housing is a little weird. 

1 0.19% I'm not sure about my roommate quite yet. 

1 0.19% I'm not sure if I requested a single dorm or not, but I saw the benefits as soon as I moved in. I've met a lot of great people in Comstock, and I 

like that it's a bit quieter than the Super Block. However, I would not have minded having a roommate, and a large part of Comstock seems to 

be single dorms. 

1 0.19% I'm ok with how it is. 

1 0.19% I'm planning to transfer to a different hall because all my classes are on east bank. 

1 0.19% I'm very excited to be living in Pioneer Hall! 

1 0.19% i'm very glad i'm in super block, being with all freshman in t-hall is great 

1 0.19% I'm very happy with my roommate assignment and that I am in a suite 

1 0.19% It gets really hot in Pioneer. The bathrooms are also pretty small. 

1 0.19% It is a calm, friendly environment. 

1 0.19% It is great to be in Frontier! I couldn't ask for anything better. 

1 0.19% It is kind of a let down to know that I am paying the same for a single room in Pioneer Hall while other people in different buildings on the super 

block are paying the same for a better room, but I honestly love Pioneer Hall now; it just took some getting use to. 

1 0.19% It is nice, but not very spacious, and the bathrooms get crowded 

1 0.19% It is not the Housing and Residential Life's fault, but my roommate is a little bit unbearable. 

1 0.19% It is the right amount of space for just one person. However, sometimes no air conditioning is hard. 

1 0.19% It is too hot in our room, even with our 4 fans. There are too many wasted square feet in our room to make it seem the same size as all the 

other dorms. The room is just too small all around. 

1 0.19% It really feels like college life. On second floor everyone has their doors open and talks to everyone. My corridor is a lot more quiet, but it is the 

perfect place to get all my studying done. 

1 0.19% It was a little dirty when I moved in. 

1 0.19% it was good 

1 0.19% It was my top choice.

1 0.19% It wasn't what I originally wanted, at all, but has turned out to be pretty awesome. 

1 0.19% It would be much easier for the Frontier North residents to get to their rooms if the end hallway and door to the outside had a card swipe. It is 

great that we can use it as an exit but it would be even better if it could be an entrance, too. 

1 0.19% It would be nice if there were more than just 2 ways to enter pioneer 

1 0.19% It would be nice to have been put in a room that had a private sink, like my friend down the hall - since we are living in single rooms. Sharing a 

sink is fine, but having my own would be even better - especially since I had medical documentation requesting a sink in my room. 

1 0.19% It would have been cool if we could have specifiied the amount of roommates we want in our suite 

1 0.19% It would have been nice to have a roommate but the bathrooms are very nice compared to the other houses and it is nice to have some peace 

and quiet once the day is over. 

1 0.19% It'd be nice to have more doors to enter and exit the building. 

1 0.19% It's a little harder to meet people in a single. I asked for a quad. 

1 0.19% Its a nice place, has a fridge, oven/stove, washer/dryer, I feel very lucky 

1 0.19% It's All Good! 

1 0.19% It's an excellent room and my res. hall is in an absolutely great location. 

1 0.19% It's definitely quiet for sleeping 

1 0.19% It's good. 

1 0.19% Its quite, but i can still be close to the party action at the same time. 

1 0.19% It's too early to know for sure 

1 0.19% like it because it is sucluded but very unsure about when classes start and taking the shuttle. 

1 0.19% Like the suites. 

1 0.19% Living in bailey hall makes it difficult to get to classes and hang out with friends. Its also hard to get back the later it gets at night. 

1 0.19% Living in University Village definitely has its pluses, but it is incredibly far away from the rest of the student life that it seems as though we're 

more secluded as freshman, living in the apartment buildings. 

1 0.19% Living on the St. Paul campus, I feel like I'm not always included in everything I could be on the East Bank Campus. 

1 0.19% Logistics is more difficult since most is on east bank, but it is very quiet housing and the people are friendly! 

1 0.19% Loud music next door. 

1 0.19% Love my room 

1 0.19% love my roommate! 

1 0.19% Me and my roommate get along very well. We have many things in common and have similar interests which helps us get along better. 

1 0.19% Me and my roommate just don't agree on everything, but that happens 

1 0.19% Middlebrook Honors Housing was my first choice. 

1 0.19% Middlebrook is a very nice building. Great food, nice rooms, good bathroom situation. I also have very friendly CAs. 

1 0.19% Middlebrook is awesome! 

1 0.19% Middlebrook is quality 

1 0.19% Middlebrook is the best!

1 0.19% Middlebrook is the closest dorm to my two classes on the west bank. 

1 0.19% Middlebrook provides the opportunity to have a close community on floors especially. With the common room areas it provides a meeting place 

for all floor occupants. I really like that my floor is already pretty close to one another. 

1 0.19% Most of my classes are on the East Bank so it is a bit of a pain to ride the bus everyday, since I live in Bailey. 

1 0.19% Moved out after 3 days 

1 0.19% My assigned roommate was a perfect match as we both have the same quiet introverted personality types. However I signed up to be in the 

healthy living learning community but have had little to none experience with anything that fits that description. e 

1 0.19% my classes are not over here! 

1 0.19% My dorm is a little bit expensive compared to what I had in mind and i don't have a meal since it's an apartment. The roommates are super nice 

though. 

1 0.19% My dorm is a little far away from campus, but the area is really nice, so I'm pretty happy with it. 

1 0.19% My expanded housing assignment is much nicer than I expected. 

1 0.19% My friend and I both requested each other, but someone messed up and put her down as being male... I hope that this sort of thing doesn't 

happen often. 

1 0.19% My only issue with Sanford/Wilkins is the distance of the nearest Campus Connector stop. 

1 0.19% My room is a very good size, and is a really nice place. 

1 0.19% My room is bigger than i expected, and since it's by the stairs a lot of people come down the hallway which is a great way to meet new people. 

Also, my roommate and I get along which is awesome! :) 

1 0.19% My room is clean and in very good repair. There is ample amounts of closet space and the room is fairly large compared to dorm rooms on 

other campuses. 

1 0.19% My room is nice and quiet 

1 0.19% My room is technically only for two people so I do not have a Ethernet hook up for my desk since our room is holding three people 

1 0.19% My room is very small, but I'm glad to have a single. 

1 0.19% My room location and the room itself is great, however, the room wasn't very clean when I moved in. My parents had to come the next week 

with heavy-duty cleaning supplies. There was a dried pool of laundry detergent in our closet and the furniture was covered in dirt. 

1 0.19% My room mate is the most wonderful match I could have ever asked for. She and I get along extremely well and I know that while it was mostly 

due to chance, whatever systematic matching that was used worked really well for us. THANKS! 

1 0.19% My room was bigger than i expected. Since it was an extended residency. My roomate also is friendly. 

1 0.19% My room was clean, aired, and in excellent move-in condition. I love the suites, and the closet space was better than I had anticipated. 

1 0.19% my room was smaller than I expected 

1 0.19% My roomate is amazingly similar to myself. Fantastic job! 

1 0.19% My roomie is weird, but you can't fix that so don't worry about it. 

1 0.19% My roommate and I are a great match and so far everything is great! I also feel like I have a very nice hall and an awesome CA. 

1 0.19% My roommate and I are like twins! And our room color coordinates perfectly! 

1 0.19% My roommate and I are two very different people and it' hard to see eye to eye on many things. 

1 0.19% My roommate and I are very different. I think we should have more questions on the roommate survey when applying for housing so we can be 

matched more compatibly.

1 0.19% my roommate and i do not get along 

1 0.19% My roommate and I don't have the same sleep schedule so that's kind of strange and I don't know why I'd be put in a room with someone who 

doesn't have my same sleep schedule because I thought that was one of the questions on the roommate survey thing when you applied for 

housing. 

1 0.19% My roommate and I don't quite click the way I had hoped. 

1 0.19% My roommate and I get along great, I like the hall I'm in and the location of it! Great food too! 

1 0.19% my roommate and i get along very well. 

1 0.19% My roommate and I get along very well. 

1 0.19% My roommate and I get along well, which in some ways I believe is more luck. Maybe more questions to match roommates up would be 

beneficial for other students. 

1 0.19% My roommate and myself are best friends and have great communication with one another as well as respect for one another's things. 

1 0.19% My roommate doesn't know anybody and isn't very social and it would have been helpful to have a roommate that was willing to make more 

connections. 

1 0.19% My roommate doesnt talk to me, and it doesnt seem like she likes being my roommate. It is hard rooming with a sophomore because they 

already have their friends. But other than that, I really enjoy being on the first floor. 

1 0.19% My roommate is great. All the appliances are in working order. 

1 0.19% My roommate is kind of awkward and doesn't match my personality at all; so the personality test I took was a joke. I love the location though, 

and I love the hall. 

1 0.19% My roommate is pretty cool. 

1 0.19% My roommate was someone I already knew and didn't ask to be roomed with. I don't have a problem with her personally, but I think the U could 

do a better job of making sure the roommates didn't go to the same high school if they want to have a randomly selected roommate. 

1 0.19% My roommates and floor are great! I also enjoy the Honors community at Middlebrook. 

1 0.19% My roommates and I have had some issues getting to know each other because of the welcome week activities separating us. 

1 0.19% My roommates are great. 

3 0.56% N/A 

1 0.19% na 

1 0.19% Neighbors are noisy 

1 0.19% Neutral. 

1 0.19% No A/C, no carpet 

1 0.19% No AC, low ceilings and I am top bunk and 6'5" 

1 0.19% no air conditioning 

1 0.19% No carpet terrible access to windows 

1 0.19% No one has informed us where everything is located, such as laundry rooms. The ethernet jack is on the opposite side of the desk lamp 

meaning the desk lamp on the wall is pointless. The phone jack is on the opposite side of the ethernet and cable jack. It was not set up 

effeciently. 

1 0.19% No one keeps doors open in Pioneer. 

3 0.56% none

4 0.74% None 

1 0.19% None of my roommates are like me at all. i dont drink, party, or smoke. I am an outcast in my room, and welcome week did not allow for friends 

to be made because all you would do is introduce yourself to someone, and then you would be going to another activity and never see that 

person again. 

1 0.19% none. 

1 0.19% not desired room type 

1 0.19% Not enough girls on IT floor :/ 

1 0.19% not much room for three people in expanded housing 

1 0.19% Not my first choice, but I'm pleased with Sanford. 

1 0.19% Not the one i chose but it's very nice here after i settled in 

1 0.19% Not very good placement of the electrical outlets; almost all my stuff is on an extension cord. 

1 0.19% On floor 4 in Pioneer - the room is awkwardly shaped. I would have preferred to be able to bunk my bed. 

1 0.19% On the questionaire for housing matches it asked questions about sleep and cleaning preferences. My roomate and I are exact opposites in 

those two categories, which is frustrating at times. 

1 0.19% only because I applied for housing in a different hall with only one other roommate, but am in a different hall with 3 other roommates. Also, it 

sucks that Pioneer doesn't have AC. 

1 0.19% Only came with one desk - living in expanded housing. Hardly any room. Doorway is very, very minimal. 

1 0.19% Only somewhat because I'm in St. Paul and have to take the connector to get to almost all of my classes. 

1 0.19% our door to our bedroom was broken and no air conditioning really sucks 

1 0.19% our door was broken, no air conditioning, one shower for our whole hallway and the housing assignment wasn't really our first choice...but we 

can make it work. 

1 0.19% Our double room is significantly smaller than most in our building :( 

1 0.19% Our first preference was Territorial and we tried to re-apply for it once we found out our assignment but were turned down. 

1 0.19% Our room is 7 inches bigger than a single room.... therefore, calling it a "double" and putting two people in it is rather rough. 

1 0.19% Perfect. 

1 0.19% Pio needs AC Dining Hall needs to be open on weekends 

1 0.19% Pioneer Hall desperately needs to be equipped with air conditioning 

1 0.19% Pioneer has no AC and a poor bathroom situation but I ended up with great roommates! 

1 0.19% Pioneer has no AC. I wanted a 2 person room and ended up with a 4 person suite, but it's fine. 

1 0.19% Pioneer is extremely hot and it would be a much better experience with air conditiong and the option to loft. We have a pre-bunked room and 

do not understand why, considering our neighbors are lofted. 

1 0.19% pioneer is not updated enough. 

1 0.19% Pioneer is set up very weird. I have to go up one floor to go down one floor to get out, when my room is right next to an exit. 

1 0.19% pioneer needs carpet 

1 0.19% Pioneer wasn't my first choice. But the room nice is quite nice. The no AC and no carpet make it hard though. 

1 0.19% Quiet space with good room. Nice carpeting and nice walls.

1 0.19% received my first choice 

1 0.19% relaxed area, but far from all of my classes. 

1 0.19% room a little small, and the men's bathroom is not very close to my dorm room. 

1 0.19% room is big, staff are nice, CA is awesome. 

1 0.19% room mates are interesting, not who I would've picked, and its a quad which I would rather not have had 

1 0.19% Room was very large! Plenty of space! 

1 0.19% roommate differences. 

1 0.19% Roommate search was VERY helpful. 

1 0.19% Roommates are the best, and there is enough space for all of us so that way we don't have to fight over space 

1 0.19% Sanford has great food, and nice facilities. 

1 0.19% Sanford is too far away....... 

1 0.19% Since I have not lived here that long I can not say if I truly like the assignment. 

1 0.19% Single rooms actually have a decent amount of space 

1 0.19% Small room compared to everyone else in the pre-vet area, but other than that it is good. 

1 0.19% smaller room than most 

1 0.19% so so 

1 0.19% Sorry I am not commenting. I had commented earlier and then my computer froze and lost everything I had done, which was just about 

everythng but two questions. 

1 0.19% St. Paul is beautiful and, although it's somewhat out of the way, it's less chaotic and busy. 

1 0.19% Suite 

1 0.19% sweet 

1 0.19% Territorial hall is really loud but so far its been awesome to meet people here cuz we all freshmen. 

1 0.19% territorial is very loud and intimidating. i like my actual room set up but the hallways are loud and congested until very late at night. 

1 0.19% Territorial was my first choice 

1 0.19% Territorial was my first choice hall, however now that I live here I realize that I will have to study outside of the dorms very often. The community 

sense is very strong. 

1 0.19% Territorial was my first choice of residence. 

1 0.19% T-hall is sweet. 

1 0.19% T-Hall rules! 

1 0.19% Thankfully as of now I get along very well with my 3 other roommates in extended housing. I wish this was permanent. 

1 0.19% The ceiling was too high for lofting my bed 

1 0.19% The closet in the 1st Floor is not as good as the 4th or above floor. It has no place to hang my big clothes. 

1 0.19% The corner room is amazing. At first I thought that a room on the fourth floor would be terrible but now I find it really nice. 

1 0.19% The door hits the bed every time you open it.

1 0.19% The extended-singles are too compact. 

1 0.19% The food is very good; the room is satisfactory; the available facilities, such as music room, laundry room, and game room, are above 

acceptable; the location suits my classes; Sanford has a good feeling to it. 

1 0.19% The lofted bed is fine but the cell is too low so sometimes I have difficulties in climbing on my bed. 

1 0.19% the main hall way in territorial is always really loud...too much traffic 

1 0.19% The only disadvantage is the bathrooms. There is only two showers, so some days there was lines to wait for a shower. 

1 0.19% The only negative is that my roommate's side of the room didn't have outlets, so we have to run extensions over to it. 

1 0.19% The only thing I don't like about my dorm is the kids who drink and play loud music every night. 

1 0.19% the only thing is that the room is quite smaller than Centennial... other than that it's good 

1 0.19% The only thing that I don't enjoy is walking to the fourth floor N hallway. It's so far away, but I love my room because it's bigger than most. 

1 0.19% The only thing wrong was I didn't get first choice room style but I am in my first choice hall. 

1 0.19% The other students of Pioneer are very friendly and have been great. Unfortunately Pioneer doesn't have carpeting or air conditioning but we're 

managing. The fourth floor is a pain and very confusing and time consuming. 

1 0.19% The residents are courteous and extremely friendly, my CA's (Kyle Olson and Sophie Wallerstedt) are beyond helpful and welcoming, and are 

always ready for anything we throw at them. 

1 0.19% The room and building as a whole are very adequate. 

1 0.19% The room has plenty of storage space and I'm am happy that I got into the Honor's housing. 

1 0.19% The room has so much more space than I expected! Also, my roommate and I ended up getting along really well, so it was a good match. 

1 0.19% The room is a little small for 2 people, especially now that somehow we got an extra desk moved into our room, which we did not request. 

1 0.19% The room is fairly good size 

1 0.19% The room is fine. 

1 0.19% The room wasn't as clean as I would have expected. We found an old sock behind one of the dressers and there was a poster under one of the 

beds. 

1 0.19% The rooms are a lot bigger than I thought, and my room is in the main hallway of my building so it's nice that I don't have to walk really far to get 

to my room. 

1 0.19% The triple room is smaller for three people than I thought it would be. But we’re making it work 

1 0.19% the view is great!!! and so are the CAs! 

1 0.19% There are a lot of spiders. 

1 0.19% There are clearly different cultures for each hall. I am in Frontier and before I moved here, I knew Territorial Hall was the "party" 

hall. It is very questionable in terms of how comfortable some of the residents of "T-Hall" feel. When I paid a visit, I felt 

uncomfortable in the atmosphere and I am well aware that drinking is a common event. I was aware of it while I visited T-Hall which is 

unacceptable. I also heard that the security guards check the halls, but only after all of the activity has ended for the night. I suggest higher 

supervision and security for Territorial. 

1 0.19% There are other rooms in my hall that are a bit bigger, but we got stuck with a room with a pipe in the corner, and corner walls sticking out 

which makes the bed not be able to push all the way to the wall. It was frustrating having a room with so much wasted space. 

1 0.19% there are single rooms large than mine, but thats the shape of the building. 

1 0.19% There are very few minorities in my dorm hall, so that has been a source of difficulty for me. 

1 0.19% there is a lot of room and i have a great roomate


1 0.19% There is no A/C. 

1 0.19% This apartment is amazing! 

1 0.19% This is unavoidable, but I don't like living in expanded housing. 

1 0.19% This is where I wanted to live. 

1 0.19% Traveling so far for all my classes on the East Bank is not ideal. 

1 0.19% Under the place where it says my hall on the Move-in guide, there is also a note that says, 'LLC: Honors' even though I am not in honors. That 

confused at least a lot of the Students Crossing Borders people that I met (and myself). Was that a glitch 

1 0.19% Unfortunately we were placed in a hall with very little traffic, so we do not get many visitors. 

1 0.19% UV is expensive, and was my last choice. But it is EXTREMELY NICE. And allows me to save money on my meal plan 

1 0.19% very nice room 

1 0.19% Very pleased with the room size, roommate, semi-private bathroom, and air-conditioning but I would have preferred being closer to East Bank 

and in the Superblock. 

1 0.19% Very small room (pretty much smallest double on campus), but the location is great. 

1 0.19% Very small room, not enough space for all of my belongings. 

1 0.19% We got along right away and are doing just fine. 

1 0.19% We had an expanded triple. It's fine, but a bit crowded. 

1 0.19% well, actually I don't live in the campus at all, but they require me have to answer this question. So I have just clicked at least one of the 

answers 

1 0.19% Well, I would have liked to be in a dorm more in the middle of things. But I like the fact that Bailey has all I need in one spot. 

1 0.19% While i was hoping for a double room in the freshman only dorms, i now find that having a single room in centennial hall is much more 

convenient. 

1 0.19% While I would have liked to be in an all-freshmen dorm area, I feel that being with upperclassmen will somewhat bring me back to earth, since 

they've all been through this process already and know how to manage themselves. I am hoping that being a freshman in Centennial will help 

me be more controlled with my afternoons on weekdays. 

1 0.19% Who ever did the room mate matching, did an awesome job. My room mate and I get along very well. 

1 0.19% Why Bailey Hall East Wing doesn't have air conditioing The cost of dorm in Bailey Hall north wing and east wing are the same. But we don't 

have wardrobe. We only have three drawers to put clothes. What's more, there isn't any resess in bathroom, we dont have any place to put our 

soap and shampoo. It is unfair!!! 

1 0.19% window view isnt that great 

1 0.19% Wish I got to meet him ahead of time, but now we're cool. 

1 0.19% wish the doors would stay open like in the tower 

1 0.19% Would have much proffered a single in the same hall, Middlebrook. 

1 0.19% Would have preferred a building with Air conditioning.

Q25. How would you rate the communication you received from housing prior to move-in 

Count 

Percent 



403 29.22% Average 


7 0.51% Poor 


Q26. Please provide any additional comments on your answer above: 

Count 

Percent 

273 100.00% 

Count 

Percent 

1 0.37% - 

2 0.73% . 

1 0.37% a bit to much comunication i had to weed through diffrent things to find the infomation i needed 

1 0.37% A few more e-mails with basic info would've been nice. It would've been nice to know the dimensions of my room. 

1 0.37% A lot of Mailings! 

1 0.37% A lot of the information sent out gave very little detail. It made it seem more of a waste of paper and electricity rather than helpful. 


1 0.37% Again, I have nothing to compare this to, so the question should be worded differently for a freshman survey. I was satisfied with the 

information provided via US mail and e-mail, and there were numbers to call if I had any questions. 

1 0.37% All details were provided clearly to our email. 

1 0.37% Almost too much info. 

1 0.37% Always sending me stuff. 

1 0.37% As easy and straight forward the moving process was, the instructions in the Online Move-in Guide were really vague as to what to do and 

what to expect. 

1 0.37% Coming to the University I didn't really have any idea what expanded housing would be like. 

1 0.37% Communication was thorough, but I often received the same email multiple times... 

1 0.37% Construction made it confusing about where you could go around the superblock. 

1 0.37% could have been a little better 

1 0.37% Didn't know what to expect. 

1 0.37% Didn't receive my housing assignment till less than 2 weeks before Welcome Week. 

1 0.37% Directions were pretty clear 

1 0.37% Emails upon emails ensured that I knew what was going on.

1 0.37% Emails were excellent. 

1 0.37% E-mails were very understandable. 

1 0.37% Erling, Adam, and etc are amazing people to work with when I worked in the HRL Tech Support. 

1 0.37% Even though the road construction didn't have any impact on my move in, I felt like I was actually cared about by receiving the information 

regarding that. Also, the move-in guides online were very informative as to what I should expect and bring. 

1 0.37% Everything was fine.. 

1 0.37% Everything was well put together. 

1 0.37% Everything was well-conveyed. 

1 0.37% Finding the information was difficult at times. 

1 0.37% fine 

1 0.37% Gave me all the information I needed, I think. 

1 0.37% Glad that I had a chance to view the actual room to know how much space was available for personal items 

1 0.37% Good communication, but (just like at orientation) almost too much paper work and fliers. 

1 0.37% good emails 

1 0.37% good info 

1 0.37% Good information and well thought out. 

1 0.37% Hardly any emails, got switched two days before move-in. 

1 0.37% Helpful with the specific time and dates and changes that occured 

1 0.37% Housing assignments were kind late in the summer, and sometimes confusing. The website was a little difficult to navigate as well. 

1 0.37% Housing assignments were made on time 

1 0.37% Housing communication was what would normally be expected for any college. 

1 0.37% Housing did a good job providing information via emails. 

1 0.37% Housing didn't tell me when my move in time was until it would have been too late to get a hotel room. As a out of state student, I would have 

liked to know more ahead of time so that I could have planned that out better. 

1 0.37% Housing office helped me out alot. They're quite to respond to email and they know what they're doing. 

1 0.37% I am very happy with my roommate, and the Pre Vet house 

1 0.37% I constantly received emails notifying me of my move in time and the directiond to the dorm. 

1 0.37% I didn't feel that prepared for the move-in. 

1 0.37% I didn't get a lot of specifics about where to go and what to do pertaining to the move in. 

1 0.37% I didn't get much info about Bailey. But it's ok. 

1 0.37% I didn't know anything about how the semi-private baths in Middlebrook work, ie whether or not we had to bring soap or clean it. 

1 0.37% i didn't know where my room was until i got my key 

1 0.37% I didn't really know much about my room beforehand. 

1 0.37% I didn't recieve very much communication at all except for my housing assignment and maybe one other email.

1 0.37% I don't believe I even got a letter about my housing assignment. It was all email. 

1 0.37% I don't really have an opinion here. 

1 0.37% I don't really understand the question. I hope there could have been more explanation about it. 

1 0.37% I feel like the important info was hidden by important info 

1 0.37% I felt a little lost before hand 

1 0.37% I felt as if I was only contacted once or twice. I suppose that was sufficient. But it may have been better to spam me almost with information 

through email. 

1 0.37% I felt as though I did not know what I was going to be doing until the morning of that day, which was a little overwhelming. 

1 0.37% I felt very informed about what I was supposed to do, where to check in, what time to do it at, what to bring, and so on. 

1 0.37% I found that the information was a bit scattered. Some of it I got from my email, some I got from a pamphlet, etc. 

1 0.37% I got all of the emails when they were due. The only thing is that I usually got them on the last possible day they were supposed to come by. 

1 0.37% I got ALOT of info, kind of felt like I was being overloaded.. 

1 0.37% I got an email telling me when my move-in date was and my roommate so I was able to contact her before I moved in to figure out what I 

needed to bring. 

1 0.37% I got moved in smoothly 

1 0.37% I got notifications for many things through email, mail, and pamphlets that was helpful, but I believe the info would be more helpful if the 

information wasn't so scattered. 

1 0.37% I got pretty good information. 

1 0.37% I got quite a few pamphlets, and information about what to do when I got there. 

1 0.37% I had a lot of lists telling me what was not allowed, and only one that had helpful things to bring. Also, the email I recieved just the day before I 

moved I did not see until after, because I was busy packing. If it had been sent a couple more days in advance I would have known exactly 

where to tell my parents to drive, but it turned out okay. 

1 0.37% I had all the information I needed. 

1 0.37% I had no description on how my room would look. 

1 0.37% I have no idea 

1 0.37% I have no memory of any communication. 

1 0.37% I knew everything I needed to before I got to my room! 

1 0.37% I knew everything I needed to know in order to move in beforehand. 

1 0.37% I knew everything I needed to know. 

1 0.37% I knew exactly were to go and never took a wrong turn did the wrong thing during my whole move in process. 

1 0.37% I knew exactly what I needed to know. 

1 0.37% I knew exactly what to do. 

1 0.37% I knew many of Yudof's restrictions and rules prior to my arrival. 

1 0.37% I knew what to expect and felt prepared. 

1 0.37% I knew when and where I needed to be in order to move-in properly. 

1 0.37% I knew where to go and what time to be here at.

1 0.37% I knew where to go and what to do. It was totally fine. 

1 0.37% I knew where to go and when to check in, so the communication seemed pretty good. 

1 0.37% I love it! 

1 0.37% I new where to go and it was very helpful for the first time I moved in! 

1 0.37% I only got one email explaining the process. 

1 0.37% I only put average because I didn't really look at the e-mails much from housing, as I was more concerned with welcome week and student 

organizations (and classes of course!) The process was very straightforward. 

1 0.37% I received adequate information on housing but not too much. 

1 0.37% I received all of my information on time and efficiently. 

1 0.37% I received all of the necessary materials. 

1 0.37% I received all the information about moving in efficiently and on time. 

1 0.37% I received all the information I needed promptly and efficiently. 

1 0.37% I received an almost excessive amount of communication 

1 0.37% i received good details about move in before the actual move in. 

1 0.37% I received some communication. 

1 0.37% I received some information through my U e mail but I was kind of disappointed that I didn't receive any information in the mail. 

1 0.37% I recieved good information on my expanded housing asignment, but when transferred at the last minute, I did not receive as much information 

as I would like. I understand why though. 

1 0.37% I recieved no information about expanded housing, which I am in, only regular housing. I knew nothing about my room until I got here. 

1 0.37% I somehow did not get the fact that the dining halls would not open until Wednesday evening. That would have been important to know. 

1 0.37% I think an additional email reminding us of our move in time would have been appreciated the day before we actually had to move it. I had to try 

to find the email with the time on it, as I neglected to print it off. 

1 0.37% I think more information about what was going to happen when you arrived at check -in could have been provided. 

1 0.37% I think that more detailed pictures of the room should be put on the website because I was clueless of what was actually needed in the room 

until I got there. 

1 0.37% I think we could have been provided with more about how the move in process would work exactly. 

1 0.37% I was able to get a feel for what move-in day was going to be like because of the housing information I received. 

1 0.37% I was always informed of what to do and where to go, I just wish the website had room dimensions on it so I wouldn't have to buy things blindly. 

1 0.37% I was confused about a few things. 

1 0.37% I was fully informed of what to do for the most part. 

1 0.37% I was given information on my housing assignments, but I just didn't know all about the details. I wasn't very sure as to what to do, but once I 

arrived, there were signs directing me, so it was okay. 

1 0.37% I was informed of the preceding housing debacle two-three weeks after I was notified of my assigned. 

1 0.37% I was notified by email that the fifth person in our expanded housing room would no longer be living in my dorm room, and when my other three 

original roommates and I showed up, there was a fifth roommate that no one had been told about. This was alright with us, but we were 

surprised. 

1 0.37% I was prepared with all the needed materials when i moved in

1 0.37% I was told everything I needed to know beforehand 

1 0.37% I was updated frequently with directions and other helpful information 

1 0.37% I was very aware of every upcoming move-in circumstance. 

1 0.37% I was very pleased to receive an email from Housing and Residential Life stating exactly how to arrive at my dorm. It was very well explained. 

Thank you. 

1 0.37% I wasn't directed to where the elevators were or where I was supposed to go but I found my way by following people. It was easy to figure out 

but at first, I was lost. 

1 0.37% I wasnt sure what the deal with the bathrooms was. There isnt much info online specific to Middlebrook. It would have been nice for them to 

show you where your bathroom was and let us know ahead of time what bathroom supplies we need to bring ourselves, for example hand 

soap. 

1 0.37% I wish I had gotten a little bit more information about the rooming situation with the living room. I had sent an e-mail asking about the furnishings 

for the living area, but did not receive sufficient information about what we had in the room. 

1 0.37% I wish i had taken a tour of residential houses before I signed up 

1 0.37% I wish room assignments could have been made earlier, but I understand the trouble with expected students deciding to go elsewhere last 

minute. 

1 0.37% I wish there were more descriptions of what was in the house before I moved in 

1 0.37% I wish we would have received more information regarding the rooms as far as measurements and space. 

1 0.37% i would have liked more specific information earlier 

1 0.37% I would leave voice mails and e-mails. I received no response. 

1 0.37% Information came a little later in the summer than i thought. 

1 0.37% Instructions were clear 

1 0.37% It helped my parents understand what was happening. 

1 0.37% It is really helpful 

1 0.37% It was all in a single e-mail, it would have been nice to recieve a reminder e-mail about a week before move in. 

1 0.37% It was all right. I knew where to go after I checked in so things were fine. 

1 0.37% It was all very informative and organized 

1 0.37% it was fine how much i got about move in 

1 0.37% It was good 

1 0.37% It was good just alot at different times. I wish it all came at once in one packet. 

1 0.37% it was really last minute 

1 0.37% It was very clear cut and organized. 

1 0.37% It would be great if someone could remind Middlebrook residents to bring hand towels for the bathrooms. I had only brought wash cloths with 

me. 

1 0.37% It would be nice to be given dimensions for your room so you can buy stuff that fits! 

1 0.37% It would have been helpful to also have received the names and email addresses of the people we share a bathroom with in Middlebrook. 

1 0.37% It would have been nice to be familiar with where my dorm was located and the means of getting there. 

1 0.37% just about the roomate and your room number thats all

1 0.37% just fine 

1 0.37% Just got on email. 

1 0.37% less mailings 

1 0.37% Many e-mails and pamphlets made the information easy to access 

1 0.37% Many emails. 

1 0.37% Materials sent prior to move-in explained the move-in process and "do's and don'ts" very clearly. 

1 0.37% Measurments would have been really helpful. and not having the hall close during hte month of august would be really helpful too 

1 0.37% more signs to the parking garage would have been helpful 

1 0.37% My CA (Jessie) found me right away as I was moving in, and made a very good impression on me as far as how well I can trust the staff here. 

The staff at the Community Council also did a good job of showing me around. 

1 0.37% My living learning community request didn't show up right away but everything else was great. 

1 0.37% My room was switched and i received no notification. 

1 0.37% n/a 

9 3.30% N/A 

2 0.73% na 

1 0.37% NA 

1 0.37% neither good or bad. 

1 0.37% no comment 

1 0.37% no conplaining 

1 0.37% no interaction with roomates. (international) 

1 0.37% no opinion 

6 2.20% none 

4 1.47% None 

2 0.73% none. 

1 0.37% not much information 

1 0.37% Only thing I received was my room info 

1 0.37% Pamphlets and move in guide were helpful 

1 0.37% Parking, however, was a bit confusing. Maybe more info about that in an email before move-in would have been helpful! 

1 0.37% received emails and paper copies of everything I needed for move in. 

1 0.37% Rules were clearly drawn out along with expectations of living in the dorm. 

1 0.37% sanford rocks 

1 0.37% Should have sent specific instructions about move in earlier, but otherwise sent out plenty of information 

1 0.37% smooth 

1 0.37% sometimes it seemed like a little too much info was provided

1 0.37% somewhat confusing on all the info. recieved 

1 0.37% Somewhat missing though I don't know what it was 

1 0.37% Staff are great and friendly. 

1 0.37% Takes too long 

1 0.37% That's helpful 

1 0.37% The booklet that was sent to my house with all the move in information was VERY helpful. It had a lot of good information in it. 

1 0.37% The directions to the hall were confusing and we got lost. 

1 0.37% The directions toTerritorial that I recieved in the email were very helpful. 

1 0.37% The email instructing where to go was very helpful! 

1 0.37% The email with the move in time and where to go with detailed instructions on how to get to the unload zones was very helpful. 

1 0.37% The emails about my housing assignment were often slightly confusing and delayed. I wish I knew where exactly I was supposed to go way in 

advance rather then a few days before. 

1 0.37% The e-mails about where to park and how to get to campus an alternate way because of the road work was helpful. 

1 0.37% the emails i received indicated which entrance to unload at and that there were going to be carts to move your belongings in 

1 0.37% The emails were helpful. 

1 0.37% The emails were really helpful. 

1 0.37% the emails were very speratic, i think one email should be sent with all of the information. move in time, room, directions etc. 

1 0.37% The housing notifications should be sent out earlier, to plan accordingly with roommates. 

1 0.37% The information I received was useful but I would have liked to figure out more about what was included in the dorms and I would have loved to 

see pictures of the dorms to see what exactly it looked like beforehand. The pictures and information on the website could have been more 

useful. 

1 0.37% The information kind of sucked. I just learned what was happening as I got here 

1 0.37% The information prior to move in was very helpful. 

1 0.37% The information provided was helpful and informative. 

1 0.37% The information sent in the mail reminded me of what I needed to bring, it helped a lot. 

1 0.37% The list of stuff to bring was helpful. 

1 0.37% The move in guide was very helpful. 

1 0.37% The move in guide we received in the mail helped me prepare for move in. 

1 0.37% The move-in guide had just enough information. 

1 0.37% The move-in guide was sent to my country after I have come to the states, so I couldn't review it and it has no use to me. 

1 0.37% The move-in guide was very helpful. 

1 0.37% The myU site as well as my U of M email has been a great way to receive up-to-date information about housing as well as residential life in 

general. 

1 0.37% The room number and complete description was provided which was great. 

1 0.37% The U met my move in date requirements well. It was a little difficult to change my move in appointment to an earlier time, but it worked out. - I 

moved to the U from Germany, so I needed extra time to move in my stuff, because my parents were leaving the next day and they were my

only help / transportation for move in. 

1 0.37% The U of M was pretty efficient with their communication. I knew everything about my rooming assignments and such. 

1 0.37% The University kept me up to date with move in tips and directions, so by the time move-in day came I was very comfortable and felt like I knew 

what I was doing. 

1 0.37% The University kept me well informed. 

1 0.37% the university was consistent with e-mails and letters, so when i moved in i knew what i heard to do and when. 

1 0.37% The University was good at keeping me informed. 

1 0.37% There was a decent amount of informative mailings that helped me prepare for move-in. 

1 0.37% there was A Lot of mail. Perhaps too much 

1 0.37% There was a lot. It would be nice to recieve more condensed information. I felt like I never got a clear schedule and just had to show up and go 

with what was happening. I got too many random things it was hard to keep track of. 

1 0.37% There was communication in many forms, mail and email, which was a nice reminder. 

1 0.37% There was far too much information, I didn't need it all. It wasn't very clear either 

1 0.37% There was more than an ample amount of information. There was almost too much. 

1 0.37% There was the perfect amount. Information was not piled on us but we knew if we had questions, who we could call. 

1 0.37% There wasn't enough communication prior to move-in. 

1 0.37% There were plent of emails preparing me for move in. 

1 0.37% There were plenty of directions and stuff like that, but it could have used some more info on the specifics of how the move in process would 

happen 

1 0.37% There were plenty of information about move-in I just had to dig to find it. 

1 0.37% There were so many helpful handouts mailed to us! But, there is such a thing as too many... 

1 0.37% There were sufficient fliers and such papers. 

1 0.37% There weren't any problems. 

1 0.37% they did not explain pioneer's strange layout. It would have been less of a maze if we had known which stairs lead up and which can get you 

outside, etc. 

1 0.37% they gave info in emails.. 

1 0.37% they informed me of everything 

1 0.37% They made sure I knew what was going on through both email and print. 

1 0.37% They notified me as soon as possible when there were roommate changes and i recieved my contract and housing information far enough in 

advance. 

1 0.37% They notified me of my housing early on. 

1 0.37% They provided a lot of information that was useful and helpful. 

1 0.37% They said that we would have less room and closet space, but we were actually provided with a lot of room. I wish they would have 

communicated how big the room was, so I could have better determined what I needed to bring. 

1 0.37% They sent a lot of good informative information but I think that too much information was given at times and sometimes the same information 

was given repeatedly. 

1 0.37% They sent emails with attachments with the information on housing in the attachment, but my computer refused to open those attachments for


some reason. It would have been nice if they had just put the information in the email instead of the attachment, especially since it was just a 

few things. I understand that it needs to be an attachment for large amounts of information, but it would have been much easier if the housing 

information hadn't been in an attachment. 

1 0.37% They sent me a move in packet so I know everything I need to know about housing and residential life. 

1 0.37% they should be sent out with a little more advance so people can plan with roommates to bring things. 

1 0.37% they were not very helpful in assisting transfer or giving information on the transfer process. 

1 0.37% They were very clear and provided me with everything I needed to know about move in. 

1 0.37% Things were clear and well noted. 

1 0.37% Too Much information 

1 0.37% Too much information about construction, not enough about actually moving in. 

1 0.37% Too much information was sent out that seemed unimportant, so it was hard to pick out the important info. 

1 0.37% Very good communication. 

1 0.37% very good, especially the emails. 

1 0.37% Very informational 

1 0.37% wasn't the best 

1 0.37% we definate didn't have enough time to get settled before welcome week events started 

1 0.37% we got alot 

1 0.37% We got lots of emails. 

1 0.37% We received information very late. 

1 0.37% We recieved numerous pamphlets about move-in so I was well prepared to come here. 

1 0.37% With being in marching band, it was slightly confusing how we would move from Frontier to our permanent dorm until we arrived on campus. 

More information beforehand to band members would have been good. 

Q27. In which of the following ways have you interacted with your Community Advisor (CA) (Check all that apply) 


1349 97.82% 31.56% I have met my CA. 

667 48.37% 15.60% I have asked my CA for advice or information. 

763 55.33% 17.85% I have stopped by the CA's room. 

1041 75.49% 24.35% The CA stopped by my room. 

443 32.12% 10.36% I have met with the CA and my roommate(s) to discuss the Roommate Agreement. 

12 0.87% 0.28% None of the above - I have not interacted with my CA. 


4275 Responses

Q28. Did you attend your residence hall meeting held on Sunday 

Count 

Percent 

1300 94.27% Yes 

79 5.73% No 


Q29. How far do you live from campus 

Count 

Percent 

41 18.06% Less than 1 mile 

29 12.78% Between 1 - 5 miles 

46 20.26% Between 5 - 10 miles 

111 48.90% More than 10 miles 


Q30. How will you commute to campus 

Count 

Percent 

110 48.46% Taking public transportation (bus, light rail) 

41 18.06% Driving by myself 

22 9.69% Carpooling with at least one other person 

26 11.45% Walking 

16 7.05% Riding my bike 

12 5.29% Other (please specify) 

Count 

Percent 

1 8.33% A mix of bus and driving 

1 8.33% Biking, walking, taking the bus 

1 8.33% car and bus 

1 8.33% Carpool and Bus 

1 8.33% Driving and Bus Combo 

1 8.33% driving, taking public transportation and carpooling 

1 8.33% Drop Off 

1 8.33% getting drop off 

1 8.33% Getting dropped off 

1 8.33% pogo stick 

1 8.33% public transportation and carpool


1 8.33% sister will drive me 

Q31. Are you satisfied with your off-campus housing arrangement 

Count 

Percent 

200 88.11% Yes 

27 11.89% No 


Q32. Would you live on campus if you could 

Count 

Percent 

129 56.83% Yes 

98 43.17% No 


Q33. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following:Commuter Connection Events . . . - Gave me the opportunity to interact with other commuters 

Count 

Percent 


101 44.49% Agree 

33 14.54% Neutral 




Q34. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following:Commuter Connection Events . . . - Were fun and relaxing 

Count 

Percent 


91 40.09% Agree 

71 31.28% Neutral 



227 Respondents

Q35. Do you plan to attend future Commuter Connection events 

Count 

Percent 

156 68.72% Yes 

71 31.28% No 

227 Respondents

Q36. What was your Welcome Week group number 

Count 

Percent 

10 0.77% 1 

7 0.54% 2 

9 0.69% 3 

7 0.54% 4 

12 0.92% 5 

7 0.54% 6 

8 0.61% 7 

9 0.69% 8 

8 0.61% 9 

8 0.61% 10 

7 0.54% 11 

6 0.46% 12 

9 0.69% 13 

10 0.77% 14 

9 0.69% 15 

7 0.54% 16 

7 0.54% 17 

8 0.61% 18 

2 0.15% 19 

7 0.54% 20 

3 0.23% 21 

5 0.38% 22 

9 0.69% 23 

4 0.31% 24 

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2 0.15% 26 

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6 0.46% 28 

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6 0.46% 30 

3 0.23% 31 

3 0.23% 32

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7 0.54% 34 

2 0.15% 35 

8 0.61% 36 

2 0.15% 37 

3 0.23% 38 

7 0.54% 39 

4 0.31% 40 

7 0.54% 41 

2 0.15% 42 

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5 0.38% 46 

7 0.54% 47 

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6 0.46% 49 

3 0.23% 50 

10 0.77% 51 

5 0.38% 52 

4 0.31% 53 

4 0.31% 54 

4 0.31% 55 

4 0.31% 56 

11 0.84% 57 

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0 0.00% 244 

0 0.00% 245 

6 0.46% 246 


Q37. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following statements: - My Welcome Week Leaders were knowledgeable about campus. 

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Percent 


533 33.44% Agree 





Q38. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following statements: - My Welcome Week Leaders were effective facilitators. 

Count 

Percent 


504 31.62% Agree 

142 8.91% Neutral 



1594 Respondents

Q39. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following statements: - My Welcome Week Leaders respected me as a new student. 

Count 

Percent 


387 24.28% Agree 





Q40. Please provide any additional comments about your Welcome Week Leader: 

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Percent 

688 100.00% 

Count 

Percent 

1 0.15% Got distracted easily, but were very helpful when needed. 

1 0.15% . 

1 0.15% \ 

1 0.15% A bit of lack of communication, but otherwise great leaders 

1 0.15% A lot of fun and very knowledgeable about all kinds of questions we had. 

1 0.15% Aaron was really great. Very friendly and helpful! I'm glad he was my welcome week leader! 

1 0.15% Aaron was so much fun! He really knew what was going on and answered all of our questions. Plus, I didn't feel judged when I asked 

questions, he was just there to help. Yabin was really sweet and she really wanted us to have a good time and to help us. 

1 0.15% Adam was a huge help to all of my group. He made it fun and exciting to learn and experience the University of Minnesota. He was a leader to 

us as well as a role model. He made welcome week an experience to remember! 

1 0.15% Adam was savvy about campus. The other leader, Chris, didn't seem so enthused. Both very helpful. 

1 0.15% Adriane and Aliison did a really great job teaching us new things about the U and making sure all of our questions were answered. 

1 0.15% Alex and Tiffany were enthusiastic throughout the week, and made the experience more enjoyable. 

1 0.15% Alex B. and Joy Z. were great welcome week leaders. I feel like i could go to them with any question and get help. 

1 0.15% Alex Kirsch is awesome 

1 0.15% Alex was an awesome leader. He didn't treat the group as little kids but as fellow students and responsible adults. Over all the experience was 

a better time only becuase he was our leader. He had great energy without being fake. 

1 0.15% allen scott (super scott) did a great job. 

1 0.15% Allie P was very nice 

1 0.15% Allie was an awesome leader she'd point out where we should while we were walking and was easy and fun to talk to. Crystal was rarely there 

though. She'd leave or just not show up sometimes. 

1 0.15% Although my welcome week leaders seemed at opposite sides of the spectrum, in terms of activities, I felt that they complemented each other 

quite well.

1 0.15% although they weren't very familiar with the st paul campus, they did their best to show us around, and they were very knowledgeable about the 

minneapolis campus and showed us some hole-in-the wall places to go 

1 0.15% Always had energy and were positive. 

1 0.15% AMAZING LEADERS!!!!!!! I will continue to be friends with them past welcome week! 

1 0.15% amazing tour guide 

1 0.15% Annie was a lot of fun! Maddy seemed really nervous, all the time. 

1 0.15% Annie was great :D 

1 0.15% At the kick off meeting my leaders didn't know much and I felt it was a huge waste of time 

1 0.15% awesome leaders! Very fun and relatable! 

1 0.15% awesome leaders. 

1 0.15% Awesome people, really easy to talk to, very helpfull. 

1 0.15% Awesome people. Happy to do WW. 

1 0.15% Band members are the best leaders; we already are a family. 

1 0.15% Be hard working!! 

1 0.15% Becky was really nice and made us feel like she really was happy to be our leader. She made welcome week even more fun, and by the end of 

the week, we all didn't want to leave! 

1 0.15% Ben and Rachel were cool! They must have been trained by none other than Colin Zautner. 

1 0.15% Best ever! 

1 0.15% Both fantastic guys, very helpful 

1 0.15% Both Katie Walker and Rachel Thrasher were excellent welcome week leaders; they helped the group interact and answered all of our 

questions. They were awesome! 

1 0.15% Both my welcome week leaders were friendly and approachable and they seemed to enjoy spending time with the group. 

1 0.15% Both my welcome week leaders, Sam and Lars, were fantastic. I was very grateful to have them and am now happy to call them friends. 

1 0.15% Both of mine were very engaging and friendly people who really facilitated a smooth transition to collegiate life. 

1 0.15% Both of my leaders were great; they provided me with all of the information i needed while not making me feel so much like a freshman on a 

tour. They were fun and easy to talk to, but professional and in control at the same time. 

1 0.15% Both of my leaders were more than willing to answer questions or find answers if they were unable to answer themselves. 

1 0.15% Both of my leaders, especially Candice, were really knowledgable, and seemed to really care about our group. 

1 0.15% Both of my welcome leaders were involved and friendly. My group felt as if we could really talk to them. They did a great job. 

1 0.15% Both of my welcome week leaders were extremely lively and interactive. I had a great experience because of all the effort they put in to make 

the week run smoothly. 

1 0.15% Both of my Welcome Week leaders were very nice and fun to be around. They answered all of our questions with honest opinions and were 

very helpful. 

1 0.15% Both of them did an awesome job. 

1 0.15% Both seemed disinterested in the group as a whole. They did not explain events well and I always left feeling confused and somewhat lost, on 

top of that they both seemed disorganized. My negative experience with the group leaders eventually lead me to leave my orginial group and 

instead join group 206, which was my roommates group. the Welcome Week leader for 206 was extremely inviting and very helpful, because of

this switch in groups I did end up enjoying me Welcome Week. 

1 0.15% both Taylor and Julie were very friendly and informative regarding campus life and activities 

1 0.15% Both very nice! Very knowledgeable as well as friendly and helpful! 

1 0.15% Both were fun and likable and very easy to get along with. 

1 0.15% Both were lax about activities, but effectively accomplished necessary goals throughout the week. 

1 0.15% Both were very friendly and could provide their own personal experiences from many of the places we visited. 

1 0.15% Both were very helpful and fun. 

1 0.15% Both were very knowledgable and had their own personalities. They both made sure our group knew about opportunities to get involved and 

encouraged us commuters to stay on campus and join in. 

1 0.15% Both Willie and Amara were very helpful during welcome week. They both had positive attitudes and engaged in all the events. They made me 

feel wecome and were always ready to answer any questions I had. 

1 0.15% Brittany did a great job. I'm glad she was there to help us adjust and make us feel welcomed. 

1 0.15% Brooke and Victoria were awesome!! 

1 0.15% Brooke and Victoria were awesome. 

1 0.15% Caitlin and Kirsten were awesome Welcome Week leaders. They were both very friendly and I felt like they kept it real with us---there wasn't 

any fake enthusiasm with them, and I never felt like they were patronizing me for being a freshman. If I saw either of them on campus 

throughout the year, I would absolutely feel like I could say hello to them. 

1 0.15% Chad Thompson was amazing. 

1 0.15% Chad was a good welcome week leader. I feel like I can go to him with questions or concerns even after welcome week is over, which is really 

nice because it seems a good percentage of upperclassmen don't like freshmen. It is comforting to have someone to turn to. 

1 0.15% Communication at the beginning about what times we were supposed to be places wasn't very good. But each day it was a little better. 

1 0.15% didn't get to know him too well but was pretty helpful on college day 

1 0.15% Didn't know the city very well- felt as though we ended up wasting quite a bit of time- the Welcome Week Leaders for Bailey residents should 

know the St. Paul campus. 

1 0.15% Eldred and Marisa (my leaders) were very fun and I enjoyed being in their group. 

1 0.15% Eldred was a great leader! 

1 0.15% Ellie and Annie were really cool people. Props for putting up with my moping. 

1 0.15% Eric was understanding about the circumstances surrounding commuter students. I appreciated that very much. 

1 0.15% Erin and Elizabeth were great. They always had something warm, kind, or funny to say. It was helpful to have upperclassmen like this leading 

the group of confused (and probably annoying!) freshman. 

1 0.15% Even though we only had one Welcome Week Leader, Megan, she was honest, knowledgeable, and just plain awesome. 

1 0.15% Eyes Sun and Ze Chen were exceptional leaders. They were friendly, knowledgeable, sociable, and helpful throughout the entire week. 

1 0.15% Filling out our schedules was confusing. An overhead projection would have been helpful. 

1 0.15% fine 

1 0.15% friendly 

1 0.15% Friendly and enthusiastic 

1 0.15% Fun and engaging, made the welcome week experience more tolerable/enjoyable.

1 0.15% Fun, engaging, didn't baby us yet didn't let anyone get away with much either. 

1 0.15% funny 

1 0.15% Gina and Sean were great! Knew how to make activities fun for all of the group. 

1 0.15% Gloria and Callie (from group 232) were the best welcome week leaders. They should seriously get some sort of award. 

1 0.15% great job 

1 0.15% Great leader!! 

1 0.15% Great people! 

1 0.15% Great people. Mike was super funny and outstanding young man. 

1 0.15% great welcome week leaders! 

1 0.15% Great!!! 

1 0.15% Group sixteen's Welcome Week Leader provided us (freshmen) with experiences of their previous years. This has reduced the stress involved 

with becoming a freshman at a university where it can be somewhat overwhelming at first. 

1 0.15% Haley Jones and Sam Glennen were fantastic. 

1 0.15% Hallie did an awesome job of everything. She was a great leader! 

1 0.15% Hallie was absolutely awesome! First of all, she had one of the biggest groups to lead... and no partner to help her. And. to make matters 

worse, a couple of the people in our group were unbearable and just all around rude but she dealt with it extremely well. Plus, she made us feel 

like WW didn't suck as much as everyone thought it would. 

1 0.15% Haney and Hannah were great leaders. They were respectful to us, were very honest about all situations, and wanted to get to know us as a 

person, and not as a number. 

1 0.15% Hannah Mohan was really friendly and made me feel very welcome here at the U. I hope that gets passed to her! 

1 0.15% Hao and Leah were awesome Welcome Week leaders! They really made my experience enjoyable. 

1 0.15% Hao and Leah were FANTASTIC. They were professional and informative, but not condescending; they were extremely personable and made 

everyone feel welcomed by the students at the U. My group bonded so well with each other and the Welcome Week Leaders. Very good 

experience. 

1 0.15% Having attended WW herself and been a WWL last year, my WWL knew exactly what it was like to be a freshman at a huge university. She 

was very willing to adjust to the group's needs and was never totalitarian about our group's meeting times or following the agenda perfectly, a 

fact everyone in my group greatly appreciated. 

1 0.15% He answered all of our questions and made sure that we were having fun while in welcome week 

2 0.29% he did his job very well 

1 0.15% he is alright 

1 0.15% He is funny and talkative. 

1 0.15% he loved ice-breakers a little too much...but it was still fun. 

1 0.15% He really did his best being the only leader that we had. He dealt with a lot of issues in a group that wasn't always reliable for him, and always 

with a positive attitude. 

1 0.15% He should have been more strict with the group and done more things as a group. I think we all would have had a better experience. 

1 0.15% He was a bro 

1 0.15% He was a friendly individual who really informed me about CBS.

1 0.15% He was a very good leader and treated us with great respect 

1 0.15% He was absolutely amazing. 

1 0.15% He was awesome and knew a lot about the school, however he did get us stuck in an elevator for 30 minutes by cramming it past capacity but 

its all good. 

1 0.15% He was awesome!!! :) 

1 0.15% He was awesome. 

1 0.15% he was awsome 

1 0.15% He was cool 

1 0.15% He was cool. 

1 0.15% he was incredible 

1 0.15% He was really nice and answered any questions we had. He was just nice to be around, easy-going. 

1 0.15% he was really really nice. fun and all around a good guy 

1 0.15% He was very easy to talk to and got along with everyone well. 

1 0.15% He was very engaging and made sure we knew what was happening at all times. 

1 0.15% He was very personable and made every effort to make us feel welcomed. He interacted with us and tried to get us involved in the welcome 

week activities. His leadership really helped to enhance the welcome week experience. I was very happy to have such an enthusiastic and 

knowledgeable leader. He had such a positive attitude about the events and reminded us of ways to stay involved after welcome week. 

1 0.15% He was very understanding and helpful and was able to talk to us as a student who had been in the same situation, not just as a position of 

authority as a welcome week leader. 

1 0.15% Heidi was a fun, engaging person who helped us adjust well to student life and helped facilitate comraderie and friendship among group 

members extremely effectively. 

1 0.15% Hope is the greatest 

1 0.15% Hope was great, she really made me feel like a friend. She seemed honest and real. 

1 0.15% Hope was the best! 

1 0.15% I couldn't understand anything my leader said she talked too fast. 

1 0.15% I do not remember what my group number was but I had Matt Philips and Joe Petrulo as leaders. 

1 0.15% I feel they should not have just been sophomores. They were not very experienced and were not able to answer my questions efficiently. They 

also had a hard time with organization and gaining control of the group. 

1 0.15% I felt like the whole experience of Welcome Week was a little unorganized. 

1 0.15% I felt that some things were unorganized. I was very bored with some of the things that we did. But our WWL's were very energetic and cool. 

1 0.15% I had a lot of fun with my group and the leaders made that happen. 

1 0.15% I had an amazing time with my welcome week leaders and my group. 

1 0.15% I had Missy Reilly and Nate Anderson as my Welcome Week Leaders and they were phenomenal. They knew all the ins and outs of campus 

and worked very well with not only our group but each other as well. They were great! 

1 0.15% i had no idea what was going on for about 75 percent of the week 

1 0.15% I had really great Welcome Week Leaders. As a person who has done similar volunteer work at the high school level I understand the struggles 

they may have encountered with trying to get everyone to be excited and participate.

1 0.15% I had trouble communicating with our Welcome Week Leader. The times when we would meet were not definite or I would be unsure about 

them. It would be helpful if we met at the same places and if we had reminders of what time our group was going to meet. The book had times 

in them, but because of the rotations our group was on a different schedule. 

1 0.15% I had two and they were both awesome! 

1 0.15% I had two girls sam and Katie, and they were very nice. Didn't treat us like kids. actually talked to us, and gave us good information. 

1 0.15% I had two Welcome Week Leaders, and they were both amazing. They answered all of our questions and made Welcome Week fun and 

enjoyable! 

1 0.15% I had two welcome week leaders. one of them hung out with us during free time and made us feel like real peers (on the same level). but our 

other leader, and most of the other leaders, left to hang out with their friends during our free time. many leaders played the "get to know 

you" games with eachother during free-time, and I did not feel welcomed to join in. Their behavior was somewhat cult-ish and made me 

feel like I did not fully belong on campus, and that they did not care. I realize that leaders cannot be forced to hang out with their group during 

free-time. but it would make a big difference if they made more of an effort to include freshman in their activities. 

1 0.15% I have a feeling that at least one of them was only trying to earn service points on their resume. 

1 0.15% I know that sometimes it can be tiring to walk all day and they can get tired too but they need to be very energetic so that everyone in the group 

can be more energetic. It was funny how they were walking so slow at some point that most students where in front of them. 

1 0.15% I liked that they gave us options. On Friday, U of M Day, they gave us the option to stay with them, and they would show us around, or we 

could walk around on our own and find our classes. 

1 0.15% I love my WW Leaders. They were funny, friendly, and ... so great. 

1 0.15% I love you Krystel 

1 0.15% I loved both of them, they were extremely fun and nice. It was awesome having them play games, and start sound wars with other groups 

because then we got to meet other students from other groups as well as bond with our own group. 

1 0.15% I loved having Larry Martini as my leader, because he made my experience very fun and was a really great guy to spend time with. We all 

enjoyed getting to know him and enjoyed spending time with him and listening to him. He did an EXCELLENT job! He is hilarious. 

1 0.15% I loved loved loved Tien and Michelle, they did an excellent job moving us around, keeping us amped up and making things fun and exciting. 

Tien even went out of her way to get me rice when my phone fell in water. They were great leaders and will go far in life. 

1 0.15% I loved my leaders and so did our whole group. We got along so well that we jokingly called our group a family, and our leaders were 

"mom" and "dad". They treated us like friends and fellow students, they never talked down to us, and they were very 

knowledgeable about the campus. 

1 0.15% I loved my Leaders, they were great to talk to and were really fun! 

1 0.15% I loved my welcome week leaders they were awesome!! they were so helpful and now I feel very confidant in knowing where I am on campus. I 

liked that they were very chill and they didn't throw too much information at us all at once. I would have to say they were probably the best 

leaders ever. 

1 0.15% I loved my welcome week leaders! 

1 0.15% I loved my welcome week leaders! They were super cool. 

1 0.15% I missed most Welcome Week events due to involvement in the marching band. Based on prior interaction with Welcome Week staff, had I 

attended more events I would probably "Strongly agree" with all of these statements. 

1 0.15% I never got to see the Commuter Connection room and sometimes it seemed disorganized. They did take time to get to know everyone in the 

group and answered all of the questions that we had. 

1 0.15% I only had half a day of Welcome Week because of spat camp for marching band. 

1 0.15% I only met my Welcome Week Leader once. After the first day, I didn't see him. 

1 0.15% I only saw them for a short time (I was only there Thursday because I was with the band all the other times) so I don't know.

1 0.15% I really connected with one of my Welcome Week Leaders, Myisha and she really made an effort to make us feel welcomed and keep us 

informed on what our next activites were and where we would meet. 

1 0.15% I really enjoyed my leaders. 

1 0.15% I really liked Allison. 

1 0.15% I sometimes felt like my Welcome Week Leader didn't care about the planned activities very much. They had a "lets get this over 

with" attitude which was sometimes discouraging. 

1 0.15% i think it was more planned for students who are living on campus, thus all the late times for activities. but people who dont live on campus 

would have to leave early if they are busing so they would miss out on some activities. i think they should plan it equally based on commuters 

and on campus students. 

1 0.15% I thought both of them did a pretty good job 

1 0.15% I thought my Welcome Week leaders were extremely easy to talk to, and they made my Welcome Week experience a lot more fun! 

1 0.15% I thought that Paul did a very good job considering he was the only leader. 

1 0.15% I thought that they were awesome!!! They did a great job with keeping the group together even when trekking all over the campus, and they 

were both helpful and kind. They made the week fun. 

1 0.15% I thought they were both very fun and knowledgeable about campus. They worked hard to make sure we were having a good experience. 

1 0.15% I was in marching band spat camp so I didn't really have a welcome week leader. 

1 0.15% I was so fortunate to have Missy Reilly and Nate Anderson as my Welcome Week Leaders. They definitely made the whole experience 

entertaining, information, and memorable. For a student who was nervous about the college experience, they both certainly gave me the 

gopher pride and college optimism I needed to kick off my freshman year! 

1 0.15% I was very comfortable with them and would have easily been able to ask questions. 

1 0.15% I was very happy with my Welcome Week Leaders. They were kind and knowledgeable and helped me feel at home at the U. 

1 0.15% I was very happy with one of my Welcome Week leaders, Sarah Lindlom was an excellent leader. 

1 0.15% I wish there had been another welcome week leader 

1 0.15% I'm not sure what our # was, but the leaders were Josh Noga and Steph. 

1 0.15% Incredibly friendly, outgoing, and knowledgeable. 

1 0.15% It sometimes got a little confusing as to when we were leaving. The kick-off meeting was confusing. And no one really wrote times down 

because we didn't know what page we were on. 

1 0.15% It was clear that the leaders were not enthusiastic about welcome week. 

1 0.15% It was not always clear where to meet-for example at the gopher spirit our whole group was together, yet our welcome week leader was not 

present. 

1 0.15% Jaclyn and I am not sure what the guys name was, but they were both very nice and friendly on showing us around campus. They weren't 

boring at all and made the week very fun! 

1 0.15% Jason and Natalie were friendly, excited to be with us, and really knew the answers to all of our important questions. 

1 0.15% Jedi John was awesome 

1 0.15% Joe and David were awesome. 

1 0.15% Joe was an awesome Welcome Week leader. Because of him the experience was very enjoyable. 

1 0.15% Joey and Taylor were awesome! They both remembered everyone's names and Joey was unbelievably knowledgeable about the U and 

Minneapolis.

1 0.15% Joey was extremely informative on the campus tour and all other activities. He knew lots of insider information about each of the buildings that 

related to my college and the buildings I would have classes in. Taylor went out of her way to show me a building I would have class in that was 

farther than the tour went. It was really nice. 

1 0.15% John Carlson is a great welcome week leader. 

1 0.15% Jon Fraatz was Awesome!! 

1 0.15% Jordon was really cool 

1 0.15% Josh was a nice and friendly guy 

1 0.15% joy and alex, your awesome 

1 0.15% Julie and Taylor were very informative and very funny 

1 0.15% Just plain awesome 

1 0.15% Kallie wasnt great. Gloria made it fun and Kallie made it feel structured and more of a chore than anything 

1 0.15% Karl and Rachel were very fun and informative. 

1 0.15% Karl was cool. So was Rachel. 

1 0.15% Katie and Emily were really nice and able to relate to us right away. 

1 0.15% Katie and Sam were the best welcome week leaders I could have asked for. They answered every question to their best ability and if they didn't 

know the answer they found some one who did. 

1 0.15% Katie and Wendy were exceptional Welcome Week Leaders! 

1 0.15% Katie Derbyshire was an amazing Welcome Week leader. She truely cared that we all got to know the campus and got to know each other as 

well. She knew what she was doing and, in my opinion, had a well thought-out plan everyday. Everything ran smoothly and I feel that I enjoyed 

Welcome Week so much more having her as a leader. I think that the rest of team awesomesauce can attest to that =) 

1 0.15% Katie Dirbyshire was great 

1 0.15% Katie Kranz is awesome. 

1 0.15% Katie let us explore and be more independent, allowing us to get to know campus better and answering any questions we had. 

1 0.15% Katie Walker and Rachel Thrasher were the best Welcome Week Leaders. They were so ready to help us and they answered all of our 

questions whenever we had them. 

1 0.15% katie was a very good welcome week leader 

1 0.15% KATIE WAS AWESOME! love her! 

1 0.15% Katie was really nice and taught us a lot about the campus and classes. 

1 0.15% Katie was so nice! She was very helpful and cool 

1 0.15% Katy Derbyshire was a great welcome week leader. She knew a lot about the campus and college life in general. 

1 0.15% Keenan needs to relax. 

1 0.15% Kelsi and Sam were the best leaders ever! Kelsi answered every question I had, and she helped me understand where all my classes are. 

1 0.15% kicking kendall and classy carly were awesome ww leaders...cannot think of any other person who could have made this first week better...they 

did an excellent job 

1 0.15% Kim Reed was my leader and she was great because she did not make us play games. 

1 0.15% Kim was great. She really treated us as equals not like we were freshman. 

1 0.15% Kim was very helpful, knowledgeable, and made our group feel very welcome on campus.

1 0.15% Kipp had good ice breaker games and went well with the flow 

1 0.15% Kipp was really nice, friendly, funny, and laid back. I enjoyed having him as my welcome week leader. 

1 0.15% Krystal Voss was an amazing WWL. 

1 0.15% krystel calubayan was awesome :) 

1 0.15% Krystel is perfect. 

1 0.15% Krystel was a lot of fun, and it was clear she was knowledgable about the UMN campus. I am glad she was my leader. 

1 0.15% Krystel was an amazing welcome week leader. She was really nice and knew a lot about the u of m. She made Welcome Week really fun and 

is an awesome person. 

1 0.15% lack of communication -other members of the group and myself talked about how we were confused about our meeting spot. the time of our 

first meeting was not discussed at all. some members of the group showed up an hour and a half early and waited, some had to join other 

groups who were more clear about directions, and some stopped coming to events all together. Danielle was rude - she seemed very crabby 

and annoyed, and when I told her I walked to the west bank with another group she didn't believe me and asked for names and physical 

descriptions of the leaders. I felt stressed because of the confusion of the first day and I lost all of the excitement I had for welcome week. I 

know many members of my group felt the same way and would back up my story if you asked, although less than half of our group was left by 

the end of the week. 

1 0.15% Larry did a great job of keeping everything fun. 

1 0.15% Lars and Sam were great welcome week leaders and were extremely helpful in showing us around campus 

1 0.15% Lars and Sam were wonderful. They made the week really fun and welcoming. 

1 0.15% Lars was awesome 

1 0.15% lauren and emily were awesome 

1 0.15% Lauren and Holly were great leader--never raised their voices or said anything negative. I felt they were extremely friendly. They lacked some 

information but then again, they're not experts of the whole campus and the questions that comes along with it. 

1 0.15% Lauren was great; Emily, not so much. 

1 0.15% Leah was awesome! 

1 0.15% Leah was great, didn't always know where to go but was honest about it. 

1 0.15% Liesl and Sara were easily the best leaders, group #65 baby 

1 0.15% Liked one leader the other was alright. 

1 0.15% Lindsey and Megan were awesome!! They made me feel very welcome here at the U!! 

1 0.15% Lindsey Carlin did such a great job. I wasn't worried about appearing dumb; she welcomed all of my questions and was very approachable. 

1 0.15% loved her! 

1 0.15% Loved scott and argahvans energy! they were totally awesome and kept us energized! 

1 0.15% Loved them! Erin and Elisabeth were really friendly, knowledgable and down to earth! 

1 0.15% Luke and Cade were awesome. 

1 0.15% Luke Porter was an excellent welcome week leader! He was respectful, funny, and very knowledgable. 

1 0.15% Mae was incredibly fun and energetic. And even when we were frustrated, she still made sure to keep our spirits up. 

1 0.15% Mari was a good leader, but Jon was not. 

1 0.15% Meg and Eric were funny and relatable. They understood our concerns and dealt with them as best as they could. They treated us like adults,

which I appreciated. 

1 0.15% Megan Ohly was a really great leader. She was fun and enthusiastic, as well as understanding. She tried really hard to find out about what we 

were interested in learning about the University prior to classes. 

1 0.15% Megan was awesome and did a tremendous job. She was very knowledgeable and incredibly compassionate and caring. Willing to help with 

anything! 

1 0.15% Megan was great! 

1 0.15% Michelle was amazing. She answered every question I had and if she didn't know the answer she found someone who did. She made the 

whole experience fun and really was a great source of information. 

1 0.15% Mike Nagal was the best welcome leader! 

1 0.15% Mike was a great Welcome Week Leader. I would absolutely say he did a great job. 

1 0.15% Mike was a really great welcome week leader. He seemed to give an honest view of what college was going to be like and made welcome 

week fun for our group. 

1 0.15% Mike was awesome!! He was funny, fun, and included everyone in the group! 

1 0.15% Mike was awesome. 

1 0.15% Mike's the best! 

1 0.15% Mindy and Mihir were great welcome week leaders. 

1 0.15% Miranda is a very good welcome leader. She is funny and awesome. 

1 0.15% Miranda was an amazing leader, she really made sure each person's questions were answered and she formed the welcome week to fit our 

needs. I felt a strong connection with her because she was so outgoing, honest, and trust worthy. I learned so much more about the school and 

connected with the school so much more with the help of my leader. She really gave a student's point of view as well as a commuters. 

1 0.15% Missy and Nate were wonderful! 

1 0.15% Missy Reilly and Nate Anderson from group 169 were the most helpful leaders I could have asked for. They really made us feel welcome to the 

U. They were so nice to the entire group and the made all the activities fun. They are both great leaders and I am so thankful to have has them 

as leaders. 

1 0.15% mitch is awesome 

1 0.15% Mladen was great, he was very down to earth. He was flexible but still made us do the things we had to. 

1 0.15% Molly was super awesome 

1 0.15% Morgan and Lauren were amazing welcome week leaders and made me feel very welcome to the University. 

1 0.15% Morgan and Lauren were great! 

1 0.15% My one welcome week leader was a little innapropriate at times talking about her personal life and how she had partied the day before. 

1 0.15% My group leaders were Jumpin' Jon and Awesome Ashish 

1 0.15% My group leaders were very welcoming and knowledgeable. I had a lot of fun with my group. 

1 0.15% My group only had one leader while others all seemed to have 2. I think 2 would have been nicer, but our welcome week leader was great. 

1 0.15% My group only had one Welcome Week Leader, and while she was great, it would have been nice to have two to keep track of our group a little 

more. 

1 0.15% My group was a lot of fun and we became good friends. 

1 0.15% My leader Beth did a great job keeping all 26 of us together and staying on task and on time. She was friendly, funny, and of course helpful.

1 0.15% My leader was Beth Brinkman (I hope she gets credit for doing such a great job)-and I couldn't have asked for a better welcome week leader. 

Beth was easy-going, fun, and she seemed to be able to answer any question anyone in our group had. She really made the week a 

memorable time for me, and she helped make the U feel like my home :) 

1 0.15% My Leader was extremely helpful and well-prepared. Even though I only had one, she still took time to get to know us and to tailor Welcome 

Week to our interests and needs. She was extremely relatable and treated us as equals. 

1 0.15% my leader was really friendly and knowledgeable about campus. 

1 0.15% My leader was very helpful and didn't act like he was superior to us, he interacted with us and made welcome week pretty fun. 

1 0.15% My leader was very nice, especially Alberta. They introduced the campus to me in patience since I'm an international student. 

1 0.15% my leader will be late sometimes. 

1 0.15% My leaders (Ashish and Jon) were excellent! I would definitely recommend them for other leadership positions. 

1 0.15% My leaders (Matt and Annie) were unbelievable. Many of my friends did not have fun leaders and did not enjoy welcome week, but because of 

Matt and Annie my group had an amazing time. All 20-some of us became very close. 

1 0.15% My Leaders Erika and Jen were awesome!! 

1 0.15% My leaders seemed a bit confused at our first group meeting, but improved dramatically thereafter. 

1 0.15% My leaders were a lot of fun and left us with some good tips and tricks to get through the year. 

1 0.15% My leaders were akways prompt and there at the meals in case a group member didn't have anyone to eat with. 

1 0.15% My leaders were AWESOME 

1 0.15% my leaders were awesome! 

1 0.15% my leaders were great 

2 0.29% My leaders were great! 

1 0.15% My leaders were really fun and gotme excited about college! 

1 0.15% My leaders were very understanding and loved answering questions. They clearly enjoyed leading a bunch of freshman around! 

1 0.15% my welcome week is the best expreience part of my freshmen year 

1 0.15% My welcome week leader didn't really know a lot about what to do but that wasn't her fault, she wasn't trained well enough 

1 0.15% My Welcome Week Leader gave us good advice and was sure to answer all of our questions. 

1 0.15% My welcome week leader Scuba Steve was always nice, giving, and willing to help us with anything. He was very clear in his instructions, and 

what I liked most, laid back. 

1 0.15% My welcome week leader was amazing--he was fun, nice and knowledgeable. I really enjoyed having him as my leader :) 

1 0.15% My Welcome Week Leader was awesome! He was a ton of fun and was very relatable. 

1 0.15% My Welcome Week Leader was awesome! She was really relaxed, but still told us the important information we needed to know. 

1 0.15% My Welcome Week leader was awesome:) 

1 0.15% My welcome week leader was really cool. She answered all my questions and made welcome week fun! 

1 0.15% My Welcome Week Leader was really nice, informative, and helpful :] 

1 0.15% My welcome week leader was really understanding and knowledgeable about the University of Minnesota. The only thing that seemed 

inappropriate to me was that fact that she talked to us about alcohol as if we were already of age, even though we clearly aren't because we 

are all freshman. 

1 0.15% My Welcome Week leader was so cool!!!

1 0.15% My Welcome Week Leader was so helpful and knowledgeable. 

1 0.15% My welcome week leader was very sarcastic and seemed irritated to be a welcome week leader. We would purposefully skip out on events just 

because she claimed they were not useful. I found it difficult to feel welcomed as her demeanor seemed to effect the whole group as a whole 

and none of us besides my roommate and I connected at all. She would cuss often and seemed lazy or un-motivated most of the time. There 

were times when if she cared about a topic like the trip to Uptown she would be much more enthusiastic and a joy to be around. It was just 

during the events directed much more towards us, the freshmen, that she seemed bored and grumpy. I would hope that future freshmen have 

leaders who are at least willing to try and connect with their freshmen group and withold any sarcasm from leaking into every situation. 

1 0.15% My welcome week leader wasn't that engaging I would personally say. Unornganized but I would say but overall he answered any questions 

we had. 

1 0.15% My Welcome Week Leader, Leah Van Beusekom, was awesome. She was fun, spirited, knowledgeable, and had a sense of humor. 

1 0.15% My Welcome Week leaders (Rachel and Katie) were EXCELLENT!!! 

1 0.15% My Welcome Week Leaders are awsome! 

1 0.15% My welcome week leaders couldnt have been better, I even will be playing sports with one of them in the near future. They were extremely 

helpful and nice. 

1 0.15% My welcome week leaders did a fantastic job helping to make that first week transition a simple and fun one. I had a great time, and am so 

happy I was apart of their group. 

1 0.15% My welcome week leaders did an exceptional job! They listened to the needs of the group and did not make me feel inferior as a freshman. 

They were a major component of my liking welcome week, 

1 0.15% My welcome week leaders did not seem to care whatsoever. 

1 0.15% My welcome week leaders didn't seem to get along very well. Perhaps you should find a better method for pairing them. 

1 0.15% My welcome week leaders Erin and John did a fantastic job of getting to know me as well as every other student in our group. By the end, we 

were practically a family. 

1 0.15% My welcome week leaders let us have control sometimes, so we could see what we wanted to see. They were really nice and helpful. They 

were the best leaders I could have asked for! 

1 0.15% My welcome week leaders made me feel very relaxed about Welcome Week, and were very helpful. 

1 0.15% My Welcome Week leaders mere awesome, i loved how they took time to get to know us and they gave us tons of very useful information. 

1 0.15% My Welcome Week leaders regularly skipped activities and did not clearly communicate what time the events would be or when we would be 

meeting. 

1 0.15% My Welcome Week Leaders were a lot of fun; they did a fantastic job of breaking the ice and getting everyone motivated to meet people and 

learn. 

1 0.15% My Welcome Week Leaders were amazing and very helpful. They answered my questions to the best of their ability and if they didn't know the 

answers they found them our for us! :) 

1 0.15% My Welcome Week Leaders were amazing! 

1 0.15% My welcome week leaders were awesome and could answer all the questions we had. 

1 0.15% My welcome week leaders were awesome and fun! 

1 0.15% my welcome week leaders were awesome! compared to what i heard from friends in other groups, my leaders did all the activities with us and 

were engaged with the group at all times 

1 0.15% My Welcome Week Leaders were awesome! They were not super peppy like some of the orientation people were, but I actually liked it. They 

went above and beyond to help me out whenever I had questions, they even took me to the Harvard Market store! 

1 0.15% My Welcome Week Leaders were awesome!!! 

1 0.15% My Welcome Week leaders were awesome, helpful and very understanding. They inspired me to become a welcome week leader next year.

1 0.15% My Welcome Week leaders were both efficient in delivering valuable information to the group and knowledgeable enough to strike an excellent 

balance between serious and fun. I feel as though I know much more about the campus because of them. They made Welcome Week very 

enjoyable. 

1 0.15% My welcome week leaders were extremely fun and helpful. They gave great advice and shared stories with us about their experiences, to help 

us out. 

1 0.15% My welcome week leaders were fantastic and really helped me feel like I could get connected on campus. It was fantastic to have leaders that 

had tried many things on campus and could give pointers as what to do and not to do to be a successful college student as well as have safe 

fun. 

1 0.15% My Welcome Week Leaders were fantastic. They were there to help the group in any way possible. They got the group members to be involved 

in Welcome Week and made it a very positive experience. 

1 0.15% My welcome week leaders were fun and they understood what we were going through. 

1 0.15% My welcome week leaders were great! They made sure the group always knew what was going on and they understood us. 

1 0.15% My welcome week leaders were nice and helpful. 

1 0.15% My Welcome Week Leaders were not necessarily on the same page when it came to the activities we did. One of them was always late or kind 

of lost, but the other was prepared. 

1 0.15% My Welcome Week leaders were Ryan and Gretchen, and they were absolutely phenomenal. They definitely made the WW experience 

awesome, and something that I absolutely loved. They facilitated group bonding in our group by having us sing, both on stage and in 

competitions against other groups, and by the end of the week everybody in our group got along very well and we were all friends. They really 

helped to increase my feeling of connection with people in the University because they helped us to become friends with each other. We 

always stayed together as a group, even when told we could disperse. Ryan and Gretchen were hilarious and always had us laughing, and I 

looked forward to seeing them. I couldn't have asked for better WW leaders, and I will miss them now that WW is done. 

1 0.15% My welcome week leaders were so nice and were more than happy to answer any questions that I had. 

1 0.15% My Welcome Week Leaders were the coolest, most understanding, best leaders ever. They inspired me to become a Welcome Week leader 

next year. 

1 0.15% My Welcome Week Leaders were very fun to be around and helped me feel more relaxed to be starting at the U of M. 

1 0.15% My Welcome Week Leaders were very helpful and new where to show us around! 

1 0.15% My welcome week leaders were very helpful for realistic situations that i may have in college 

1 0.15% My welcome week leaders were very nice and helpful and they made welcome week enjoyable. 

1 0.15% My welcome week leaders were very nice however I don't feel as though they got our group very interested or excited in the campus. 

1 0.15% My Welcome Week Leaders were very personable, always willing to give advice, and helped me personally get to know the campus better. 

1 0.15% My welcome week leaders, though I liked them a lot, were kind of boring. They didn't seem very enthusiastic about Welcome Week which 

translated to the people in our group. 

1 0.15% my welcome week was fun and unforgetable 

1 0.15% My WWL Paul was AWESOME!! His partner did not show up so he managed us all on his own. He was very informative and patient with all of 

us. 

1 0.15% My WWL, Leah Van Beusekom, was fun, spirited, and knowledgeable. 

1 0.15% My WWL, Leah Van Buesekom, was fun, spirited, and knowledgeable. 

1 0.15% My WWLs have good senses of humor. They are nice! 

1 0.15% My WWL's were both very different people, so it was very cool to watch them interact with each other and how they resolved their differences. 

They were both very friendly; they were not able to answer every question that was asked but they were knowledgeable about the campus: 

what to do, where to eat, etc. It was very frustrating not having their cell phone numbers during the week because if someone in the group was

1 0.15% N.A. 

1 0.15% n/a 

2 0.29% N/A 

1 0.15% na 

lost or late, the WWL's couldn't call them or vice versa. 

1 0.15% Natasha Bursch was very knowledgeable and informative for Wlcome Week. She was very enthusiastic and welcoming. 

1 0.15% Next year, Welcome Week Leaders SINCERELY need more medical situation training. As a student with an invisible disability (panic disorder), 

I had an attack, and my leaders had no idea what to do. It was very uncomfortable, and I do not want anyone else to experience the sense of 

embarrassment and helplessness I think we all felt. 

1 0.15% nice! 

1 0.15% Nick and Liza Rocked! 

1 0.15% Nick Keller is the man. best welcome week leader out of them all! 

1 0.15% Nick Keller was an amazing welcome week leader. He was helpful, smart, and made it fun. 

1 0.15% Nick Keller's the man 

1 0.15% Nick was fun. 

1 0.15% none 

1 0.15% None 

1 0.15% none. 

1 0.15% Not knowledgeable at all. Every time someone asked a question, they didn't know the answer. They never respected our meeting spots and 

times; every time it was a different place. 

1 0.15% Not very friendly. 

1 0.15% Occasionally disorganized. Good people, though. 

1 0.15% Offered the required information for around-campus-knowledge and activities, and offered a lot of fun in the process. 

1 0.15% One of my welcome week leaders was effective and respectful; Hailey, however Will was not. He never helped when needed and was 

disrespectful to most of our group. 

1 0.15% One of my welcome week leaders was very competent and effective. The other was not. 

1 0.15% One of the welcome week leaders worked very hard to inform us. Another of the leaders didn't know what was going on and was very 

unprofessional through out the entire experience. 

1 0.15% One of them was sick. We only had one. :( 

1 0.15% One seemed more excited than the other 

1 0.15% One was hard to understand and confused me sometimes but the other cleared everything up and they were trying to make things as fun as 

possible. 

1 0.15% One was particularly more involved than the other. 

1 0.15% One was super intense and more in your face the other was a lot more relaxed and was easier to talk to. 

1 0.15% only saw my welcome week leaders for a 5 minute walk from TCF Bank Stadium to the mall area. 

1 0.15% Our leaders were great, they made sure to keep it fun and positive.

1 0.15% Our leaders were very friendly and willing to answer our questions. They gave great advice and helped give us an idea of what our first year 

would be like. 

1 0.15% Our two leaders- Chris and Luke- did an absolutely fantastic job. Although I was not interested in every seminar or every tour of the campus, 

these two made Welcome Week fun. They had a lot of energy and enthusiasm and knew what they were doing. 

1 0.15% Our Welcome Week leader didn't seem to know what was going on or care if we knew. 

1 0.15% Our Welcome Week Leaders answered all of the questions I had and told us a lot of information about the places we toured. 

1 0.15% Our Welcome Week leaders were awesome! They definitely made the experience worthwhile and made it an easy transition to campus! 

1 0.15% Our Welcome Week Leaders were awesome! They were super friendly and knew answers to almost all the questions we all had. 

1 0.15% Overall did a good job of telling us where to be and when. Definitely approachable. 

1 0.15% Overall my welcome week leader was entertaining buti felt like i was more comfortable with one because he had more trust and was more easy 

going when we did something wrong. He actually told us what to do and not to do instead of just pointing out that he was going to report it. 

1 0.15% Paul was a great Welcome Week Leader. He tried his very best to keep track of us (because his Welcome Week Leader partner never showed 

up). He tried his best to engage with everyone and was frankly, a superb WW leader! 

1 0.15% Paul was an awesome leader! He truly did a great job and cared for each member. He'd always make sure that we were all there and showed 

concern when someone was missing. 

1 0.15% Peter was really easy-going and full of energy. 

1 0.15% Phil and Amy were both great. They had a lot of spirit and listend to what we wanted and what we needed to know and helped us as much as 

they could. 

1 0.15% pretty cool guys. 

1 0.15% Pretty good. Need to be better at clarifying details about meeting times etc. 

1 0.15% Rachel and Colleen were great at keeping things real and having a positive attitude about our activities. They seemed to not care at all about 

what we didn't know about and were supportive when we figured things out. Thanks Rachel and Colleen! 

1 0.15% Rachel and Gina were awesome! 

1 0.15% Rashni and Ben were wonderful leaders. I really enjoyed their company, and they really made us feel like part of the student body at the 

University with their relaxed but knowledgeable approach. 

1 0.15% Really nice and had a lot of helpful information 

1 0.15% Sam and Haley were very friendly people. 

1 0.15% Sam and Katie were great! They were extremely knowledgable but didn't treat us like tourists. 

1 0.15% Sam Moore was a great Welcome Week Leader. He truly made me and my friends feel welcome on campus. 

1 0.15% Sam was the best! 

1 0.15% Sami did a wonderful job under the conditions that were given to her. Although the group may not have been compliant, she dealt with us in a 

respectful way and was a great person. 

1 0.15% Saul and Kim were awesome! Very informative. 

1 0.15% Scott and Arghavan were both amazing leaders. They made the experience fun. 

1 0.15% Scuba Steve was awesome!!! 

1 0.15% She always has a positive attitude. 

1 0.15% She didn't always know where we were supposed to go.

1 0.15% She gave us good advice and was honest with us about everything. 

1 0.15% She had to work alone, so I really respected that she wasn't discouraged or bitter about being alone. 

1 0.15% She helped to answer a broad range of questions relating to class, campus, and bussing. 

1 0.15% She is always in a good mood 

1 0.15% She made us feel really comfortable. 

1 0.15% She was a little quiet sometimes, but she was very nice and fun! 

1 0.15% She was alone, and I knew more of the kids in my group than her, and not very many showed up to anything because they didnt feel connected 

or any need to, & she left 6/8 of us when going to downtown, so we didnt get to go... she decided to get on a bus, and tell us to wait...didnt 

work so well. 

1 0.15% She was awesome! 

1 0.15% She was awesome! really nice and really helpful, she made welcome week fun! 

1 0.15% She was extremely friendly and knowledgeable about campus life and the surrounding community. She went out of her way to offer advice 

about many ways to suceed in college. 

1 0.15% She was extremely nice and very helpful! 

1 0.15% She was great. 

1 0.15% She was lots of fun! 

1 0.15% She was really cool and gave me a lot of good advice. 

1 0.15% She was really nice 

1 0.15% She was really nice and personable. 

1 0.15% She was really nice and really cared about answering any questions that we had! 

1 0.15% She was super nice and had to be one of the best leaders to get. 

1 0.15% She was super nice. 

1 0.15% She was the best 

1 0.15% She was the best! She was very nice and helpful 

1 0.15% She was very easy to talk to and gave good advice. Very friendly. 

1 0.15% She was very friendly and kind 

1 0.15% She was very helpful and knowledgeable 

1 0.15% She was very helpful and real. She didn't treat us like children, but as equals. 

1 0.15% She was very nice and included everyone. By the end of the week it felt likt a little family. 

1 0.15% She was very nice, but sometimes a little out of it. 

1 0.15% She was very nice, friendly, funny and easy to talk to. 

1 0.15% She was warm and friendly and really wanted us to get the most out of the welcome week experience 

1 0.15% She's really friendly, but I could see her holding an iron fist if anything bad were to happen in the dorms... 

1 0.15% Should be more engaging 

1 0.15% Spence-dog was great! :) His insider tips were helpful and made us all fell really welcome.

1 0.15% Spencer was a very knowledgable welcome week leader. He provided good information and knew his way around each campus. It was very 

nice to have his help throughout the week. 

1 0.15% Stephen and Chelsea were the Bonnie and Clyde of Welcome Week leading. 

1 0.15% Steve and Lindsay were great welcome week leaders that provided us with great information. 

1 0.15% students from china that had broken english, but they cared to give us a good welcome week experience! 

1 0.15% Susie and Allison were awesome!!! 

1 0.15% Sweet and eager to get to know us. 

1 0.15% Taylor Fischer and Patrick O'brien were outstanding welcome week leaders. They were fun, knowledgeable, and easy to talk to. I am very 

impressed with the job they did as leaders. 

1 0.15% Tess and Garrett were awesome :] 

1 0.15% The best of all Welcome Week leaders. 

1 0.15% The both spoke english well, but one struggled with communicating it. 

1 0.15% The communication was poor - I found myself constantly wondering where and when we were meeting. 

1 0.15% The guy was really nice and fun. The girl, Katie, was completely opposite. She seemed cranky and unmotivated the entire time, which made 

the experience a big drag. Brought the group's "fun" level down for me. 

1 0.15% the leaders , elizabeth and eric, were really awesome. 

1 0.15% The leaders admitted they did not know much about the activities and were, in their opinons, poorly trained. 

1 0.15% The leaders didn't really tell us what was going on. 

1 0.15% The leaders were friendly. 

1 0.15% The one, Ryan, was very nice and helpful, but the other - Gretchen, I think - ignored us for the most part and often separated from the group. 

They both seemed rather bored with the whole thing, so we didn't get much information the first day and therefore didn't know what we were 

doing for the next week. 

1 0.15% The only thing about my Welcome Week Leader that I thought was inappropriate was the fact that she openly discussed alcohol with us, even 

though we are all underage. 

1 0.15% the welcome week leader seemed relatable to and i liked them because they were funny and kept the group entertained though they did not 

know the campus that well. i thought they were effective role models for how a college student should behave and would not change anything 

about them. 

1 0.15% The Welcome Week Leaders always had a welcoming smile every morning. 

1 0.15% The welcome week leaders had some knowledge, but at times were lost themselves. 

1 0.15% The welcome week leaders I had were wonderful. They were able to make the week fun, but still provide us with the necessary information we 

needed. 

1 0.15% The Welcome Week leaders of group 11 made the Welcome Week experience better. They would engage us in fun ice-breakers, and they 

were very informative. They were fun. 

1 0.15% The welcome week leaders should be more prepared, and there should not be miscommunications about scheduled times. They should be 

trained well, similarly to the Kick-Off Leaders--really making you feel at home at the U, especially since that's what part of the goal was for 

Welcome Week. Make the Welcome Week groups feel more like family/community. We also got way too much info. at the kick-off meeting--we 

could not really understand what it all was, and it wasn't explained that well. 

1 0.15% The welcome week leaders we great. 

1 0.15% the were amazing and cut all the unnessasary things.

1 0.15% The were both really funny and helpful 

1 0.15% The whole process with the Welcome Week Directors was quite disjointed and confusing 

1 0.15% There were a few times where we could not find her when we were supposed to meet, though the rest of our group was together 

1 0.15% They also spent time getting to know us, they were excellent. 

1 0.15% They answered all questions asked and made the transition easier. 

1 0.15% they are fine 

1 0.15% They are nice and talked to me about my upcoming freshman year, but they couldn't really make the whole group to participate alot. 

1 0.15% they are really nice and friendly and humor. they are good leaders. 

1 0.15% They are really nice people, so I couldn't stop asking them questions as I was confused. 

1 0.15% They are such great people and I had an incredible time! 

1 0.15% they are very nice,frindly and humor. they are good leaders. 

1 0.15% They both didn't seem to know where they were going at least on the St. Paul campus where I live and take classes. 

1 0.15% They both gave me more than enough information, but didn't overwhelm us. They tried to provide variety and considered if we needed breaks. 

1 0.15% They both had information about different things on campus which was really helpful. I liked that they were in different clubs and helpful in 

helping me decide which clubs would be a good fit. 

1 0.15% They both knew what they were talking about and gave honest answers to questions that were asked. 

1 0.15% They care about where their students are, and they check on us all the time to see if everyone is there. However, I would like to play some 

games with them too, but never got the chance to because seems like they don't like playing games. 

2 0.29% They did a great job! 

1 0.15% They did not provide me with the phone numbers so I had to act alone when I. Lost them 

1 0.15% They did well explaining everything we didn't understand or needed more info on. 

1 0.15% They didn't communicate plans for each day/meeting places/transportation for each day. 

1 0.15% They didn't lead us that much. We skipped out on the whole day of touring the different campuses, so I had to join another group to see the St. 

Paul campus. 

1 0.15% They ditched me at the rec center 

1 0.15% They had the right amount of respect for us as student and authority. 

1 0.15% they kind of forgot names alot 

1 0.15% They knew a lot about real life college experiences they had. they were fun and exciting and they were both extremely entertaining. 

1 0.15% they knew a lot of information and were more than happy to help and provide answers 

1 0.15% They made our group feel very welcome to the U and made us all like a family. 

1 0.15% They made the experience fun. I wanted to attend all activities. 

1 0.15% They made the experience very relaxing. 

1 0.15% They made us feel at home and helped us feel very welcome 

1 0.15% they told lies to attempt to coerce me into attending welcome week events. 

1 0.15% They were a little confused at first, but quickly got the hang of things!

1 0.15% They were a lot of fun and I felt like I received a lot of useful information on tours. Also, they were completely unbiased. 

1 0.15% They were a lot of fun and were very knowledgeable about anything about campus. 

1 0.15% They were always encouraging us to do things and explore. They were also honest with us about aspects of the U, no glitz and glamour. 

1 0.15% They were always energetic which in turn made welcome week much more enjoyable. 

1 0.15% they were amazing 

1 0.15% They were amazing and very energetic about Welcome Week. They made me keep going even when it got long and arduous. 

1 0.15% They were amazing leaders and were very helpful. Thanks so much!! 

1 0.15% They were AMAZING!! I loved them both! 

1 0.15% They were amazing. John and Erin really made our group feel like a family and I feel like I will be friends with them and my group members for 

the rest of my time here. 

1 0.15% They were average, I didn't feel that they offered me anything that I couldn't have eventually figured out on my own. 

1 0.15% They were awesome 

1 0.15% They were awesome leaders! Amanda was especially helpful because she gave us advice on how to use the transit system and what stops are 

safest. They were also great with balancing structured "get-to-know-you" games and letting us socialize and meet each other on our 

own. Fantastic job. 

2 0.29% They were awesome! 

1 0.15% They were AWESOME! 

1 0.15% They were awesome! Thanks Sam and Christina :D 

1 0.15% They were awesome! They answered all of our questions, and were very helpful. 

1 0.15% They were awesome! They understood what it was like to be a student and to not want to do the activities, but they made it fun for us. Megan 

and Stacia rock! 

1 0.15% They were awesome, respecting us as new students and also led us with great energy that was contagious. 

1 0.15% They were beyond amazing! Very friendly and answered all of my questions to the best of their ability. And if they didn't know the answer, they 

found it out. 

1 0.15% They were both awesome and fun to be with, but their communication was sub-par. Another person from group 73 and I got seperated from 

them in Downtown and then when we tried to meet up with them at the closing meeting they weren't at the meeting spot so we never had a 

closing meeting. Also, we didn't know where or what time to meet them for the Community Exploration day so we almost didn't make it to go 

downtown 

1 0.15% They were both extremely friendly and always made me feel at ease. 

1 0.15% They were both fun and approachable. 

1 0.15% They were both fun and enthusiastic! I liked them a lot! 

1 0.15% They were both fun and made me excited to go to the U of M! :) 

1 0.15% They were both great and made it easy to adapt to campus. They were knowledgable about any question we had as a group for them to 

answer. They were funny and made welcome week an experience to remember! :) 

1 0.15% They were both knowledgeable and personable. I enjoyed my time with both Natalie and Jason. 

1 0.15% They were both marvelously friendly. 

1 0.15% They were both nice and provided us with good information. They also tried to make the experience as painless as possible.

1 0.15% They were both really fun to have as leaders. 

1 0.15% They were both very awesome. 

1 0.15% They were both very good at treating us like equals. They started conversations with us on a friend-to-friend basis, not as an older student 

teaching a younger one. 

1 0.15% They were both, Amanda and Kirsten, very friendly and knowledgeable about things on and off campus. 

1 0.15% they were cheerful adn upbeat and made the students feel comfortable 

1 0.15% They were cool but its hard for anybody to know everything about campus. 

1 0.15% They were cool people. 

1 0.15% They were cool, smart, and well organized 

1 0.15% They were down to earth, which I really appreciated. 

1 0.15% They were engaging, and really made the whole Welcome Week experience better. 

1 0.15% They were entertaining and gave us quirky facts about the university. 

1 0.15% They were excited to be there everyday and got the whole group to have fun. 

1 0.15% They were extremely helpful and very cool people! I learned a lot about the U of M 

1 0.15% They were fabulous. 

1 0.15% They were fine. 

1 0.15% They we're friendly. 

1 0.15% They were fun 

1 0.15% They were fun and energetic. I could tell that they were excited to meet us and get to know us. 

1 0.15% they were fun and glad to get to know us. 

1 0.15% They were fun and knowledgeable, and always had our best interest in mind. 

1 0.15% They were fun and very interactive and it was a pleasure getting to know them. 

1 0.15% They were fun encouraging and honest with us. 

1 0.15% They were fun leaders and made our group feel comfortable and more welcome to campus. I felt very fortunate to have a great welcome week 

group. 

1 0.15% They were fun to be around. 

1 0.15% They were fun to listen to. 

1 0.15% They were funny and fun to talk to. My leaders provided me with good answers to my questions. 

1 0.15% They were good leaders. 

1 0.15% They were great :) 

1 0.15% They were great and gave us real information. The best welcome week leaders i am sure 

1 0.15% They were great leaders who helped us feel at home at the U 

4 0.58% They were great! 

1 0.15% They were great! Logan was great!

1 0.15% They were great! They were totally open to helping us in anyway including after welcome week was over and put forth effort to get to know us. 

They created a relaxed and friendly environment that helped us have a good time. Karl was especially great. 

1 0.15% They were great. 

1 0.15% they were great. Dave is awesome. 

1 0.15% They were helpful and didn't make us feel overwhelmed about starting at a new school. 

1 0.15% They were helpful and mature but relatable. 

1 0.15% They were helpful and truthful about the campus. It really helps students understand the campus a lot better if the welcome week leaders are 

more honest. Even though there might be some negative aspects of the UMN campus (such as drinking and such), it is helpful for new 

students to knew how to avoid those locations and truly know the truth about their campus. 

1 0.15% They were honest and fun. 

1 0.15% They were informative and gave me more information that was from a student's perspective. 

1 0.15% they were informative and nice 

1 0.15% They were informative. Made me feel welcome and answered any questions I had. 

1 0.15% They were knowledgeable and flexible- they really listened to what we as students wanted to learn. 

1 0.15% they were nice 

1 0.15% they were nice and energetic the entire time. 

1 0.15% they were nice but kinda had favorites 

1 0.15% they were not willing to reach out to people who didn't know anyone in our group. 

1 0.15% They were often disorganized and we could not find them on many occasions. 

1 0.15% they were pretty nice and fun. 

1 0.15% They were pretty relaxed about everything, which eased my nervousness. 

1 0.15% They were quite at first but provided lots of information for us after they became used to being in front of the group. They even went an extra 

mile and took all who wished to go out to dinner one evening after the activities had ended to show us a good chinese restaurant. 

1 0.15% They were real and helpful 

1 0.15% They were really energetic about doing things which was nice to see compared to other group leaders that just seemed to be going through the 

motions. 

1 0.15% They were really friendly!! 

1 0.15% They were really fun and nice! 

1 0.15% They were really fun people and easy to get along with 

1 0.15% They were really fun to be around and understanding because they are the U students too. 

1 0.15% they were really knowledgeable and helpful, they had a few issues with where some students were but they pulled everything together very well 

and were very kind 

1 0.15% they were really nice and fun 

1 0.15% They were really nice and fun. They made the less than interesting parts of Welcome Week fun. 

1 0.15% They were really nice! 

1 0.15% They were really nice, and could answer a lot of questions about life on campus.

1 0.15% They were so great and easy to talk to and ask questions! 

1 0.15% They were so much fun! 

1 0.15% They were super excited to be there with us, which made us feel excited to be there too. They were also knowledgeable about the college of 

design and gave us insight into the college. 

1 0.15% They were super friendly and people I really thought I could talk to. I could tell that they wanted to help us get settled. 

1 0.15% They were the best leaders out of all the groups! 

1 0.15% They were the BEST!!! and fun! 

1 0.15% THEY WERE THE BOMB! Super organized compared to some other groups, and they let us know what was going on as much as they knew. 

Go Eric and Alison! 

1 0.15% they were the greatest people ever and i really enjoyed talking with them and becoming friends. 

1 0.15% They were the highlight of the week, simply astounding. 

1 0.15% They were unable to give us times for all of the events which ended in confusion. I even missed the group one day because of this. 

1 0.15% They were very calm and helpful. It felt more like upperclassmen showing me around campus then a forced activity. 

1 0.15% They were very easy to talk to and had no problems communicating to the group. 

1 0.15% they were very easygoing and definitely treated us as equals 

1 0.15% They were very effective leaders and worked well together. They followed their instructions while bringing their own spin to activities so as to 

prevent us from becoming bored. 

1 0.15% They were very energetic and gave me a positive outlook of the campus and the week. 

1 0.15% They were very enjoyable at what they were doing. 

1 0.15% They were very friendly and easy to talk to. 

1 0.15% They were very friendly and fun to be around! 

1 0.15% They were very friendly and seemed to have a genuine care about our success at the U. I'm very thankful to have had Doug and Jenna as my 

leaders. 

1 0.15% They were very friendly and wanted to get to know me. 

1 0.15% They were very fun and funny. Stephen, in particular, made an effort to make Welcome Week as enjoyable as possible for us. 

1 0.15% They were very fun and knew a lot about campus. 

1 0.15% They were very fun and related to us very well. 

1 0.15% They were very fun and very knowledgeable and knew the answers to most, if not all, of my questions! 

1 0.15% they were very helpful and friendly 

1 0.15% They were very helpful and great people! They treated us more like friends than freshmen and made everything fun! 

1 0.15% They were very helpful and nice, fun to be around. 

1 0.15% They were very helpful, but sometimes they got confused with where we were suppose to go and what to do. 

1 0.15% They were very helpful, but they did not do a lot to keep our attention, and frequently let us wander to do our own thing. 

1 0.15% They were very nice and did a good job even though Welcome Week was boring and long 

1 0.15% They were very nice and didn't treat us like "the freshmen" by treating us like adults instead of kids.

1 0.15% They were very nice and helpful. 

1 0.15% They were very nice and they answered all of my questions to the best of their ability and if they did not know the answer they would find out for 

me. 

1 0.15% They were very nice, but as neither of them had classes on St. Paul campus, they didn't know much useful information about it. 

1 0.15% they were very nice. 

1 0.15% They were very open and easy to talk to. 

1 0.15% They were very outgoing and energetic. They made my Welcome Week experience very enjoyable. 

1 0.15% They were very relaxed, which made asking questions and interacting with them very easy. They understood that we may not want to take part 

in every activity and gave us good reasons to participate. 

1 0.15% They were welcoming. 

1 0.15% They weren't very enthusiastic and that made getting through the loads of information hard 

1 0.15% they werent very entusiastic. 

1 0.15% They're nice and enthusiastic 

1 0.15% Tien and Michelle rock!! 

1 0.15% Tiffany and Alex were very well organized, friendly, and knew what they were doing. 

1 0.15% Times and meeting spots were sometimes confusing, and caused people to get lost. 

1 0.15% Tom and Chen were super awesome, give em a raise. 

1 0.15% Tom and Holly were great! 

1 0.15% Tom was very personable and easy to get along with, made it fun 

1 0.15% Took her job seriously and was very helpful. 

1 0.15% Tori Cowger was THE BEST!!! Our whole group loved her and she was so good at her job!!! LOVE YOU, TORI!!! 

1 0.15% Tori was the best. 

1 0.15% Treated me like their equal and were very patient with my questions which they answered very effectively. 

1 0.15% Tyler did a fantastic job. He was able to make welcome week alot of fun and I enjoyed all the time I had with my group. I don't think I could 

have gotten a better leader. 

1 0.15% understanding leader 

1 0.15% very calm 

2 0.29% Very friendly 

1 0.15% Very friendly and easy to talk to about concerns and questions about the upcoming year. 

1 0.15% Very friendly and knowledgable 

1 0.15% Very friendly and made the entire week very enjoyable. She also shared some great tips and hints about campus. 

1 0.15% very fun! 

1 0.15% Very fun, very welcoming. Easy to talk to. 

1 0.15% very good! 

1 0.15% Very helpful and friendly!

1 0.15% Very helpful and informative! 

1 0.15% very helpful and patient 

1 0.15% Very helpful and realistic 

1 0.15% very informative. 

1 0.15% Very nice 

1 0.15% Very nice and helpful. 

1 0.15% Very nice and interactive. Loved the activities and going to uptown. 

1 0.15% very nice and knowledeable 

1 0.15% Very nice and pretty helpful. 

1 0.15% very nice and relatable 

1 0.15% Very positive attitude; made us feel welcomed and relaxed 

1 0.15% very very good 

1 0.15% Was very kind and new her way around. Was helpful with all questions. 

1 0.15% We had two leaders and they were so awesome! They didn't treat us like little kids. We were treated as equals and they acted as if we were all 

friends. That made it a lot more welcoming and comfortable. 

1 0.15% WE LOVED HAO AND LEAH 

1 0.15% We went little wrong way in downtown, but they realized about 10 seconds later, so it wasn't big deal. :) 

1 0.15% Welcome week leaders were fun, talkative, relaxed and helpful. They were very open to suggestions from the students about what we would be 

doing during the day, which helped welcome week feel a little more like entering college than a summer camp. 

1 0.15% Whittney was awesome and she knew what we would enjoy and what we really didn't care about. 

1 0.15% Willie and Amara were both awesome!! They actually cared about us as new students and made us feel welcome! 

1 0.15% Willie and Nikki were IDEAL wwls. Lots of energy, fun, and they gave us a lot of helpful tips along the way. 

1 0.15% Winter rocked. Highly recommended for next year! 

1 0.15% WWL gave many helpful tips. 

1 0.15% Yefei is an absolutely amazing person. I couldn't have had a better Welcome Week Leader. 

1 0.15% Yefei Jin is the bomb! He was totally helpful with any questions that we had, but not pushy. Whenever we had something come up (parents, 

illness, scholarship or job interviews) he was totally chill with us. 

1 0.15% Yefei Jin was an AMAZING welcome week leader! He connected with us so well, and made me feel 100% more comfortable with the campus. 

He had great personal insight on college and went out of his way to make us feel connected (we still eat meals with our group :D). 

1 0.15% Yefei Jin was an excellent Welcome Week leader. He was both efficient and flexible, and was happy to answer any questions we had about 

college life. He should definitely be used in the future. 

1 0.15% Yefei was an awesome leader 

1 0.15% Yefei was an excellent guide and very friendly to everyone! 

1 0.15% Yefei was the best leader! He was really helpful and treated everybody in our group with respect. He was our only leader but he managed to 

keep everything in order by himself. 

1 0.15% Yefei was the welcome week leader anyone would hope for. I was expecting the groups to be the same-old, often boring, get to know each 

other groups, but Yefei managed to make the experience memorable and quite fun.


1 0.15% Zach was particularly unorganized. Sarah was good. 

Q41. Which of the following did you attend (Check all that apply) 


1508 94.60% 53.72% Kick-Off small group meeting 

1242 77.92% 44.25% Closure small group meetings 

57 3.58% 2.03% Neither of these meetings 



Q42. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following:The Kick-Off small group meeting . . . - Helped me understand expectations about Welcome Week participation 

Count 

Percent 


718 48.09% Agree 

153 10.25% Neutral 



1 0.07% Not applicable 


Q43. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following:The Kick-Off small group meeting . . . - Introduced me to the Student Conduct Code 

Count 

Percent 


731 48.96% Agree 

125 8.37% Neutral 




1493 Respondents

Q44. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following:The Kick-Off small group meeting . . . - Introduced me to the Community Adviser 

Count 

Percent 


497 33.29% Agree 

302 20.23% Neutral 





Q45. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following:The Kick-Off small group meeting . . . - Helped me understand the expectations of living in a residence hall 

Count 

Percent 


656 43.94% Agree 

202 13.53% Neutral 





Q46. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following:The Kick-Off small group meeting . . . - Gave me the opportunity to interact with others 

Count 

Percent 


642 43.00% Agree 

147 9.85% Neutral 




1493 Respondents

Q47. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following:The Kick-Off small group meeting . . . - Provided me the opportunity to interact with someone different from me 

Count 

Percent 


669 44.81% Agree 

166 11.12% Neutral 





Q48. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following:The Kick-Off small group meeting . . . - Made me feel connected to my group 

Count 

Percent 


564 37.78% Agree 

313 20.96% Neutral 





Q49. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following:Navigating the program in my small group . . . - Gave me the opportunity to interact with others 

Count 

Percent 


614 40.37% Agree 




1521 Respondents

Q50. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following:Navigating the program in my small group . . . - Provided me the opportunity to interact with someone different from me 

Count 

Percent 


656 43.13% Agree 

142 9.34% Neutral 




Q51. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following:Navigating the program in my small group . . . - Made me feel connected to my group 

Count 

Percent 


566 37.21% Agree 

240 15.78% Neutral 




Q52. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following:Navigating the program in my small group . . . - Assured me that I could turn to my leader with questions or concerns 

Count 

Percent 


551 36.23% Agree 

140 9.20% Neutral 




Q53. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following:Navigating the program in my small group . . . - Helped me acknowledge my individual responsibility to the campus community 

Count 

Percent 


713 46.88% Agree 

227 14.92% Neutral 



1521 Respondents

Q54. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following:Navigating the program in my small group . . . - Made me understand the ownership and responsibility I have for my college experience 

Count 

Percent 


722 47.47% Agree 

156 10.26% Neutral 




Q55. Please provide any additional comments on small group meetings: 

Count 

Percent 

251 100.00% 

Count 

Percent 

1 0.40% - 

1 0.40% - it helped me meet with other commuters 

2 0.80% . 

1 0.40% Again, felt as though there was a significant amount of time wasted. We all attended Orientation, we shouldn't have to go over the same exact 

things and places again. 

1 0.40% All of the icebreakers seemed forced and, in my opinion, were a waste of time. 

1 0.40% Amazing 

1 0.40% as a professional, there are better ice breakers out there than kung fu. :) 

1 0.40% At the end it was sad to leave the group because we had all grown close to each other. 

1 0.40% awesome way to meet people and get to learn new people 

1 0.40% being in the group was a fun experience! 

1 0.40% Boring boring boring. People were falling asleep, the information was not engaging in the least bit, our leaders were BORING. The meeting 

seemed pointless, the leaders would talk amongst themselves to try to plan, the "name game" was the worst part, and the meeting 

was TOO long. 

1 0.40% borng 

1 0.40% Both of my group leaders were international students. neither of them spoke english particularly well, and so they could not understand many of 

my questions. They were both excited and wanted to be helpful, and not being able to answer questions did not pose that much of a problem 

for me. but I think that if you have two group leaders, at least one should be able to speak english well. 

1 0.40% Conversations easily arose in these settings. We got along pretty well. 

1 0.40% did not like 

1 0.40% Didn't really go with them anywhere, therefore lack a perspective in which to form an opinion on the subject. 

1 0.40% Don't put commuters that live close to campus in the commuter group. It doesn't give us a chance to meet people that live on campus which 

would be way better!!!!!!!! 

1 0.40% effective

1 0.40% Everyone in the group was always caught up to speed on what the next steps were; nobody was left out or left wondering what was going to 

happen next. 

1 0.40% Everyone was easy to talk to, but I did not feel connected to my group. It was only commuters but many of them were traveling 30-40 minutes 

each day. I life closer to the people on campus than these commuters— and since the commuters will be on campus only for class it seemed a 

little mean to make friends with someone that I would probably never see in a personal setting again. I wish I would have been mixed in with 

residence hall people as well. Just because I don't live on campus, doesn't mean I don't want to have friends that do. 

1 0.40% Everyone was very open and friendly because we were all so excited to be a part of the University. 

1 0.40% Everything went great! 

1 0.40% getting to know the people in my small group was the best part. i am good friends with a several of them, and it was nice that they weren't all 

people from my floor, since i would have met them anyway 

1 0.40% going through information for the whole week at the kick-off meeting was a bad idea because we were all really tired; listening to dates, times, 

and places didn't help. 

1 0.40% good 

1 0.40% Good intro into what was going to happen. 

1 0.40% good times 

1 0.40% great 

1 0.40% great group! and phenomanal leaders!! 

1 0.40% Having a small group was great!!! Now I have a small family within my dorm!!! 

1 0.40% Helped me meet people! 

1 0.40% Helpful, but it felt like commuters were isolated. 

1 0.40% hope have more people come 

1 0.40% I already know my own personal expectations of my time spent here at the U of M and I feel that it was beneficial to people who were more 

uncertain than I was, but not to someone who already has their mind made up and their expectations and goals set high. 

1 0.40% I appreciated the fact that with the small groups, we always had a guaranteed group of people that we could go through school with. It really 

helped me, as a commuter, to meet new people. 

1 0.40% I didn't think the meetings were very informational. My group leaders didn't make the agenda very clear. I was never quite sure where I was 

supposed to go and when I was supposed to go there in the mornings. 

1 0.40% I enjoyed getting to know the people in my group, but it would have been nice to have a bit more free time with our groups, so we could get to 

know each other even better. 

1 0.40% I enjoyed getting used to campus in a small group setting because it made it easier to ask questions and actually get an answer. It's also nice 

to be able to recognize faces immediately upon starting classes. 

1 0.40% I enjoyed meeting new people, but the week itself was a bit long. 

1 0.40% I enjoyed the small group meetings. It gave me the opportunity to get to know a few incoming freshmen well, instead of just being overwelmed 

by all of the new students. 

1 0.40% I enjoyed the smaller group activities because it gave you a chance to be isolated with a group of people long enough to actually get to know 

and for relationships with them. 

1 0.40% I enjoyed them because I met great people, but I felt like the odd one out because I was the only CSE student in a group of mostly CFANS and 

CLA. I could not really relate to them as much. 

1 0.40% I felt like I had to follow the leaders EVERYWHERE, but sometimes I wanted to find my way to the activities by myself and meet other friends 

besides just the kids in my small WW group.

1 0.40% I gained friendships I never thought I would, not just with the people in my small group but with the campus as well. 

1 0.40% I hated that throughout WW I felt as if too much of my time was monopolized. I barely had time to get settled or meet new people because we 

were so busy all day. I would like to see more free time. And NO MORE GAMES!!!! I hate ice breaker games, we are not elementary school 

children. 

1 0.40% I learned nothing, everything they taught besides locations was common sense material. It got very boring fast and was hard to pay attention. It 

was nice to interact with the people in my group, but I would have rather done it on my own terms, like maybe instead of welcome week make it 

welcome day and give me the rest of the time off to make friends. 

1 0.40% I liked being a part of a small group--it made it easier to meet people. 

1 0.40% i liked being small groups because i was able to make strong relationships with students in my dorm, it also helped the campus seem smaller 

1 0.40% I liked having small groups so we could get to know people in our hall and build relationships. 

1 0.40% I liked that almost all of the meetings we had were based in one central location (coffman) that was directly connected to the commuter 

experience (since I plan on sleeping on one of those comfy couches when I have bigger breaks between classes). 

1 0.40% I liked that we all got to talk to each other and that I got to meet other people in the group. It made me feel less nervous about college. 

1 0.40% I liked the down time we had, when we played ice breakers. Also, coming up with a group name and doing things as a whole helped improve 

the overall atmosphere of the small group meetings. 

1 0.40% I loved hanging out with my group because i made some really goode friends. 

1 0.40% I loved my group!!! 

1 0.40% I loved my group, they were all so fun! These meetings were a really important part of my meeting new people and making friends. 

1 0.40% I loved my small group and I feel that I made some friends that will last for a long time. 

1 0.40% I loved my welcome week leader, but I just didn't connect with anyone in my group. 

1 0.40% I met and became friends with many amazing people 

1 0.40% I met some friends in my small group, which made me feel less alone. 

1 0.40% I met some pretty great people from different colleges! Granted, most of them were from CBS, CSE, or CFANS, so maybe more variety would 

have been nice. 

1 0.40% I really connected with my group, and that was great. However, because we were all commuters, I now feel really disconnected with others I 

meet who live on campus. I think that the commuters shouldn't be so segregated from students who live on campus. I live less than a mile 

away from campus, so I interact with on-campus students a lot, and I wish that I had had the opportunity to get to know some on-campus 

students during Welcome Week. 

1 0.40% I really didnt go to anything except the first meeting because it just made me angry and bored. However if the intention was to do that then you 

guys exceeded expectations with flying colors. 

1 0.40% I really enjoyed having our small group throughout welcome week. It made the experience a lot less intimidating. 

1 0.40% I really enjoyed spending time with my welcome week group. 

1 0.40% I really got to know some people who live close to me. 

1 0.40% I really liked the small group - we all got along really well, and it was nice to have those people to turn to for the next few days. Also, I liked how 

our group was made up of people who all live close to each other. 

1 0.40% I really liked the small group meetings. I feel like I already have a group of friends now. We would go to each other's rooms and hang out even 

when we didn't have something planned. So I feel like I already have a support gorup. 

1 0.40% I really really enjoyed meeting the people in my welcome week! I feel much more comfortable knowing these people really well and can't wait to 

hang out with them! 

1 0.40% I think the best part about the small groups was that it was mostly made of people from my floor (or close to it) and my roommate. Going back

after the day's activities were over and being able to stay in contact with the same people and know them better as friends was extremely 

enjoyable. My resident hall's floor has entirely opened up to each other and is extremely receptive of everyone. Also, playing the initial 

"name game" of choosing an adjective with the same letter that your first name starts with was a great beginning; my group 

remembered those and continued to remember people's names and call them by their adjective for the whole week. 

1 0.40% I think they were a good idea since i connected with some of the students but at the same time they held you back from meeting more than 10 

people, in that small of group youre not always going to find someone to connect to. 

1 0.40% I thought everything went well in my small group meetings. 

1 0.40% I thought it was very helpful to have a small group that met up at different points of the day as well as attended different activities together. I felt 

like I got to know a few of the people in my grade well before the rush of school starts. I am grateful for that opportunity. 

1 0.40% I thought the meetings we had to go to would be more fun. 

1 0.40% I thought they went very well. 

1 0.40% i wanted to meet other people outside of my group 

1 0.40% I was able to meet many other freshmen that lived in my dorm and gave me familiar faces to see in the future. 

1 0.40% I was not able to connect with any of the people in my small group because many did not seem open to meeting other people. I have found the 

transition to college life very difficult because of this. 

1 0.40% I wasn't aware of WHERE nor WHEN all but the first meeting were going to be held. 

1 0.40% I wish there would have been more time to interact with people in my group. The meetings were very informative about my expectations during 

Welcome Week and throughout my time as a student at the U of M. 

1 0.40% I would have rather been with people from my own college instead of a mixed group. I didn't meet anyone I'll ever see again. 

1 0.40% I wouldn't pair people with their roommates. Even though initially having someone there you already know is comforting, spending all week with 

your roommate gets a little tiring. You already sleep in the same room and eat together to avoid awkward situations, but then spending all day 

together on top of it is a little much. 

1 0.40% I'm the only international student in the group, so all people were very kind to treat me. When we were playing games to know each other, 

many people around me helped me a lot since I didn't familiar with those games. 

1 0.40% In the future I wouldn't make everything mandatory. At times welcome week began to drag on and move very slowly. Especially the tour of the 

campus. Our group went from building to building and had 30 minutes to explore it. For me it ended up sitting in the buillding for 25 minutes. 

1 0.40% It felt a little rushed so I don't feel like we really got time to enjoy it to the fullest. 

1 0.40% It got better later on 

1 0.40% it is now the closest group of new friends that I have 

1 0.40% it made it easy to know people and move around during welcome week and not get lost. 

1 0.40% It seemed like at the first meeting, there was far more information being presented than time to get to know the people in the group. 

1 0.40% it took too long 

1 0.40% It was a good way to get to know other people in my group and was an effiective start to the week. 

1 0.40% it was a little unorganized it didnt seem like any of the groups or group leaders knew exactly what to do 

1 0.40% It was a lot of information but helped me know what to do or expect. 

1 0.40% It was all smooth and easy 

1 0.40% It was annoying how not everyone would show up to them 

1 0.40% it was awesome

1 0.40% it was better to interact with people 

1 0.40% It was cool to see how we bonded, especially towards the end of the week. We had a couple of guys in our group who knew how to juggle and 

it was fun to watch them and they taught some of the others how to as well. The WWL's did a great job encouraging us to be open about what 

we thought about something and any questions that we might have. 

1 0.40% It was easier to connect with a smaller group and it was easier to connect with everyone. 

2 0.80% it was fine 

1 0.40% it was fine and comfortable 

1 0.40% It was fun and great. I learn many things. 

1 0.40% It was fun! 

1 0.40% It was Fun. 

1 0.40% It was good being in small groups because there were more chances to interact with someone than when you're in a big group. 

1 0.40% It was kinda difficult to meet other people with interpreter. I don't really blame other students because it's not everyday that students see 

interpreters. It will take them a while to get used to interpreters. 

1 0.40% It was nice seeing familiar faces every day. 

1 0.40% It was nice to be with the same people because it made being new on campus less awkward. 

1 0.40% It was nice to travel in a small group for events because I could easily pick them out in a crowd. But I was always unclear about what time we 

were supposed to meet in the mornings. 

1 0.40% It was pretty fun 

1 0.40% It was really brief but good. 

1 0.40% It was really fun, our group got along great and bounded well! 

1 0.40% It was short and we ended up waiting for 15 minutes pointlessly just talking. 

1 0.40% It was such a helpful thing for me! 

1 0.40% It was very comfortable because there was no hesitation when someone had a question and everyone was interested in learning about each 

other. 

1 0.40% It would have been a little better if we could have interacted with other welcome week groups more. 

1 0.40% it would have been cool to meet people from all across campus, not just my dorm, OR to have limited the groups to a single floor. 

1 0.40% It would have been fantastic if commuters were not so separated from residents. I kept on having to leave my new residential friends, and I 

forgot to get quite a few of their numbers. 

1 0.40% it's really helpful for the student to know more about the u and future 

1 0.40% Kick-Off meeting was too overwhelming. Some things needed to be explained better, such as the day with interest sessions. Many people got 

confused when the schedule was all different like that, and when they get confused, many times teens begin getting cranky and short-tempered 

about the whole program. All of a sudden, we are not enjoying ourselves. 

1 0.40% Kung fu = blargh. 

1 0.40% Living in an apartment so close to campus I had problems relating to the commuters in my group 

1 0.40% Made it easy to get to know a couple of people. It's nice that you stick with them for most of the week. 

1 0.40% Many people did not attend the group meetings and activities, so it was hard to feel a sense of group when only 10 or less people showed up 

after College Day.

1 0.40% My group didn't really want to bond much. 

1 0.40% My group wasn't very diverse, but then again this school isn't very diverse. I felt out of place. 

1 0.40% my group wasn't very talkative 

1 0.40% My leaders did not seem to have any genuine interest in the group, and made me feel almost awkward about being excited about school and 

all the welcome week activities 

1 0.40% My leaders were awful and made my Welcome Week experience awful 

1 0.40% My small group meetings were so fun and helped me discovered more about campus. 

1 0.40% My small group meetings were very helpful to what I need this week! 

2 0.80% n/a 

9 3.59% N/A 

1 0.40% na 

1 0.40% NA 

4 1.59% none 

2 0.80% None 

1 0.40% none. 

1 0.40% None. 

1 0.40% Other than the fact that a lot of people did not show to a lot of them, I wish the times we were meeting would have been more clear. 

1 0.40% Our classroom for the kick-off was tiny! It would have been nicer to have a bigger space so we could interact more easily because that first 

meeting really was important to introducing ourselves to others in the group. 

1 0.40% Our group didn't connect very well so it was kind of awkward and they took a long time to relay not a lot of information because of the kids in 

my group and the fact that my leaders weren't assertive enough to tell them not to talk. 

1 0.40% Our group had a great group connection from the beginning and I think I speak for us all when I say that our group made us more comfortable 

and knowledgeable on campus and more ope and friendly toward others. 

1 0.40% Our leaders were very flexible and helpful. 

1 0.40% Our name game was a great way to get to know names! Many people are still referred to by their adjectives (i.e. "Jazzy" 

Justin" 

1 0.40% Our small group became very good friends by the end of the week. Great connections were made that make the freshmen experience less 

daunting. 

1 0.40% Our small group meetings were fun and informational. 

1 0.40% Our small group meetings were so fun. We played games and talked and got to know each other very well! 

1 0.40% our small group was awesome. 

1 0.40% Our small groups were a lot of fun! 

1 0.40% Our welcome leaders Matt and Annie were amazing and helped us to all get to know each other and the campus really well. 

1 0.40% Overall the small group meetings went well. 

1 0.40% People are nice to each other! I'd like to make friends with all of them. My WWLs have a show for us. Interesting! 

1 0.40% People in our group would show up whenever they wanted, often making us late for activites. Also, the combination of people in our group 

wasn't exactly ideal because it turned into a bunch of cliques and we weren't close as an overall group.

1 0.40% People in the small groups already were friends with each other. the friends i had made were in a different group, and so i, as well as many 

people with the same problem as me, were alone each day 

1 0.40% People were all nice and open to new ideas 

1 0.40% Played games to have fun while at the same time connecting as a group. 

1 0.40% Small group meeting were informative and helpful. 

1 0.40% Small group meetings helped us view the campus without an overwhelming number of people. 

1 0.40% Small group meetings were fun and they were good for meeting new people. 

1 0.40% Small group meetings were helpful, and a great place to meet new people. 

1 0.40% Small groups allowed me to meet new people, but after 2 days I knew them and wanted to meet more people. 

1 0.40% Some people didn't want to talk. The leaders made the effort to talk to everyone. Some of the students just wanted to get out of there. 

1 0.40% Some seemed rather pointless and unnecessary. 

1 0.40% so-so 

1 0.40% The closure one was better than the opener because we were not given all the necessary information at the beginning. 

1 0.40% The discussions were not that involving or informative, at least with information that I already knew. Most of the interactivity I had with my group 

was with my bunk buddy and dorm neighbor; I was able to make friends with another group's members though. 

1 0.40% The extreme time commitment is futile. 

1 0.40% The group meetings were efficient and well-structured. 

1 0.40% the handbook was the most confusing layout ever. 

1 0.40% The ice breaker games were helpful in the way I learned everyone's names. 

1 0.40% The information was too vague. 

1 0.40% The kickoff meeting wasn't very great. The high school activities part of it was not very well laid out at all and din't really seem to connect to 

anything. 

1 0.40% The leaders seemed just as confused by the schedule as we were, and our group had a hard time understanding what we were doing next. 

1 0.40% The leaders were sometimes a little confused on when and where we were meeting. 

1 0.40% The leaders were very knowledgable 

1 0.40% The meetings could have been shorter but the leaders made them fun. 

1 0.40% The members were almost from the same floor so that helped me to get to know people from my floor and also to make friends with people 

whom I will be seeing for the rest of the school year. 

1 0.40% the small group activities were a great away to get to know other people in the dorm 

1 0.40% The small group meeting were really helpful to get to know people from your dorm. 

1 0.40% The small group meetings was a good way to get to know other members of the group. 

1 0.40% the small group meetings was great 

1 0.40% The small group meetings were beneficial because I was able to interact and get to know people for more than the usual 5 minutes that I 

usually have with someone out on the streets. I could get to know them a bit more and I found that it was a nice experience. 

1 0.40% The small group meetings were fantastic because they gave me an easier venue for learning about my peers and beginning to form friendships 

on campus.

1 0.40% The small group meetings were really boring, but they were helpful. 

1 0.40% The small group organization was effective because we had the freedom to interact with anyone outside the group at any time, but we still had 

the group to fall back on and who we felt more connected to. 

1 0.40% The small group was excellent in the standpoint that I was able to meet some great people. I believe it is an effective, nice way to start college. 

1 0.40% the small groups helped me make some of my best friends here 

1 0.40% the welcome week handbook was helpful, but it was just a little bit of information overload. 

1 0.40% The Welcome week leader really ruined the whole experience. 

1 0.40% the welcome week leaders were not knowledgable about the events going on 

1 0.40% The were great for making new friends. 

1 0.40% There is still cultural barrier between group members. 

1 0.40% There needs to be more communication. It was not very clear throughout the week where we needed to meet and when. I feel that while my 

leaders could have made it more clear or made us write it down, there should also be more information provided in our Handbook for where to 

go or what to do if we get lost from our group. 

1 0.40% There should have been more small group meetings, or, at least, the small groups should not have been split up during events. 

1 0.40% They also gave information about what we would be doing and what we could do if we wanted to do. 

1 0.40% They did a good job 

1 0.40% They improved after the first group meeting. During the first meeting, I didn't really learn a lot and the introduction games were lame. 

1 0.40% They went very well, the first one through my group way off though. They tried telling us the entire weeks plans and it confused everyone so we 

didn’t know where we were going the next day. they just needed to tell us day by day the plan. 

1 0.40% They went well when everyone cooperated. 

1 0.40% They were a good way to connect with students in my small group. 

1 0.40% They were a great ice-breaker. 

1 0.40% They were a little disjointed. 

1 0.40% They were a little long but they were ok. 

1 0.40% They were boring at times but the atmosphere was good! 

1 0.40% They were boring, but they did help me meet a few people. 

1 0.40% They were extremely fun and informative. Like I said in the previous box, my welcome week group really felt like a family and actually made me 

excited for college life. I feel as though I have made some of my closest friends. 

1 0.40% They were fine. 

1 0.40% They were full of information but I thought it lasted just a little too long. 

1 0.40% They were fun and informative. 

1 0.40% They were fun yet informative. 

1 0.40% They were fun! 

1 0.40% they were good. 

1 0.40% They were helpful and effective. 

1 0.40% They were helpful in order to get to know people


1 0.40% They were nice, but it wasn'y necessary to go everywhere with your group. 

1 0.40% They were quick but effective 

1 0.40% they were really helpful with having time to ask questions. 

1 0.40% They were the most informative and useful parts of the week 

1 0.40% They were very effective and made me more confident for my first day as a college student. 

1 0.40% They were very effective in explaining how our Welcome Week process would work. 

1 0.40% They were very fun. 

1 0.40% They were very informative. 

1 0.40% This is not summer camp. Relieve the icebreakers. 

1 0.40% this made me feel like i was in high school again i hated like everything about the whole week forcing me to be in a group with a bunch of kids i 

would never really want to talk to isn't very fun. 

1 0.40% Tien and Michelle were great leaders! 

1 0.40% Too much time spent with a small group of people. Didn't get to meet as many people. 

1 0.40% took too long 

1 0.40% very fun 

1 0.40% Very helpful toward my future 

1 0.40% Was not impressed over all 

1 0.40% We did not interact with other small groups very much. That might have been a helpful activity. 

1 0.40% We had some pretty interesting conversations and I never felt like the activities were a waste of my time. I really enjoyed getting to know all of 

my group members. 

1 0.40% We were respectful to one another and our differences. 

1 0.40% We were too confined to the small group. I thought there needed to be more large group activities. 

1 0.40% went well 

1 0.40% Yefei was extraodinarily gifted at keeping us well-informed, yet being very time-efficient in doing so. 

Q56. Did you utilize your Welcome Week Handbook 

Count 

Percent 

1491 94.49% Yes 

87 5.51% No 

1578 Respondents

Q57. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following:The Welcome Week Handbook . . . - Was very useful in helping me navigate the program 

Count 

Percent 


529 35.91% Agree 

108 7.33% Neutral 




Q58. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following:The Welcome Week Handbook . . . - Was user-friendly 

Count 

Percent 


585 39.71% Agree 

147 9.98% Neutral 




Q59. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following:The Welcome Week Handbook . . . - Will be a great resource for me after Welcome Week is over 

Count 

Percent 


308 20.91% Agree 

518 35.17% Neutral 




Q60. Which sections of the handbook did you utilize (Check all that apply) 


1401 95.11% 26.52% Daily schedules and reminders 

1138 77.26% 21.54% Schedule at a glance on back of handbook 

1030 69.93% 19.50% Meals logistics (times/locations) 

941 63.88% 17.82% Campus maps 

380 25.80% 7.19% Community Exploration maps 

382 25.93% 7.23% Resources


Count 

Percent 

1 10.00% Campus Connector Schedule 

1 10.00% Campus Connector Times 

1 10.00% GMS 

1 10.00% It made a pretty good notebook for lectures and my Target list. 

1 10.00% None 

1 10.00% The details about what was going to happen at different events 

1 10.00% The tips at the bottom of each page were helpful. 

1 10.00% To take notes and look back on them 

1 10.00% When I got lost 



Q61. Do you have any suggestions for improving the Welcome Week handbook 

Count 

Percent 

302 20.50% Yes (please explain) 

Count 

Percent 

1 0.33% It was a bit thick. 

1 0.33% a little more user-friendly with the schedule, perhaps have schedule already designated for specific group... 

1 0.33% A personalized group handbook would make it much easier. It was difficult to figure out times and what not 

1 0.33% a time to meet rather than arrival time, there were about 5 of us in my group that missed an activity in the morning because we thought we 

were suppose to meet at 930 but that was actually the time we were suppose to arrive. maybe the numbers of our welcome week leaders in 

case we get lost or something 

1 0.33% ACCURATE TIMES CONSISTENT TO REAL EVENT TIMES AND LOCATIONS! 

1 0.33% Actually fill in information for each person rather than handing him or her a blank handbook. My WW leaders were ineffective in conveying 

information in regards to meeting places and so forth, which led to mass confusion later in the week. 

1 0.33% Be even more specific about where to be and when, at all times. 

1 0.33% be more specific!!! 

1 0.33% better food. 

1 0.33% bigger less confusing maps. 

1 0.33% can be smaller and easier to be carried around 

1 0.33% College day was so damn boring 

1 0.33% Color code pages by days so it's easier to find activities by day. 

1 0.33% Color coding the day or at least alternating between maroon and white would make navigating the book easier.

1 0.33% Condense everything. There was so much wasted space that things got hard to find. Also, we shouldn't have to write in details about our week. 

Give us a printed schedule like our welcome week leaders had. 

1 0.33% Condense the material in it. We already have our planners that we got in our orientation and those have a lot of the same information in them. 

Plus, those planners are smaller and easier to pack away. The welcome week booklet should provide a good schedule and a list of events with 

details, it doesn't need resources and maps. Those are already in the planner. 

1 0.33% Could still be slightly more organized. 

1 0.33% do a full map of campus that shows where the shuttle goes. so i know when i can take it and what is near by. 

1 0.33% Do not make it so confusing. I didn't know where I was supposed to go half the time and when. There is too much other information that is not 

relevant to welcome week in there that makes it look hard to figure out. 

1 0.33% Don't add an addition CLA handbook for the CLA students. The information that we needed for our info-sessions should have been included in 

the Welcome Week Handbook already. It's a waste of paper. 

1 0.33% dont put advertisements in it 

1 0.33% Don't schedule conflicting events at the same time. 

1 0.33% Don't try to make it look all "cool". Keep it simple. Simplify the schedules. Even I had a hard time understanding it and every person 

I talked to was confused. Everyone around me was asking if anyone else understood where we were supposed to go and when. 

1 0.33% Downsize (some of the resources were useful but difficult to find therefore ineffective). 

1 0.33% draw out routes 

1 0.33% each day in one section including times of everything - not only arrival times, but meting times as well. 

1 0.33% easier shorter more clear schedule 

1 0.33% Eliminate all the extraneous sponsor adds. 

1 0.33% Everything needs to be in order according to days. There were sections that were hard to find because it was not where the date assigned was. 

1 0.33% Explain that the welcome week meal plan is different from our regular meal plan. Explain when it starts/ends. 

1 0.33% Explain what events are mandatory because by the end I was wore out and I would have liked to not be so busy all the time. 

1 0.33% Explaining what goes on the weeks after and the connections [intended] to be made to the semester may help give the sessions some more 

meaning. 

1 0.33% For my commuter group we needed to write in several extra times and locations for events. It would be nice if more specific times and locations 

were already pre-printed for specific groups. 

1 0.33% For the welcome week leaders make sure every person in the small has the correct meeting times and places when filling in the the handbook. 

I felt like that was not well communicated and I often found myself unsure of where i was supposed to go and when. 

1 0.33% Get rid of the confusing design or make the schedule more streamlined and to the point. It was hard to make my way through it while I was in a 

hurry looking for things. 

1 0.33% Give more specific details of welcome week 

1 0.33% Give more time for the new students to just explore and familiarize themselves with the campus on their own terms 

1 0.33% Group meeting times should be posted somewhere in the residence halls for each group. I forgot to bring my handbook to the kickoff meeting, 

so I didn't write down the meeting times. 

1 0.33% Have a set schedule for each group because many groups had no idea when we were suppose to meet with our Welcome Week groups. 

1 0.33% Have information in order (not turn to page 23 for more info-just have it there). Include which ones are required and which are not. Have 

student advice in it. Have a place to write where and when you will meet for each day. 

1 0.33% Have it more geared toward each group and narrow in on times.

1 0.33% Have the Target Run move organized and not just a mob of people rushing toward a bus. 

1 0.33% Have them prefilled in for each group. Little confusing. 

1 0.33% Having a more detailed schedule on a single page would be helpful 

1 0.33% I didn't know if arrival time meant the time I was supposed to be at my GMS or at the site. 

1 0.33% I felt that the "Student Development Outcomes" were unnecessary. 

1 0.33% I firmly believe that Welcome Week was beneficial; however, I know that I personally couldn't enjoy much of the activities and seminars 

because of how supremely tired I was. I believe the schedule is far too busy and there is not enough down-time to explore the campus, 

associate with your roommate, and everything else we should have done to prepare for class. 

1 0.33% I had to write all the times on the handbook, and it was much more convenient for me to look at the back of the book at the "Schedule at a 

glance" to quickly determine where I was supposed to be/going. I think that should be an administrative focus so that students can more 

easily determine the week's events. 

1 0.33% I like the WW a lot, it gave me lots of new experience and opportunity to meet new friends; but most of us were very tired with it. I think maybe 

students can get more time to relax during each activities in the future. 

1 0.33% I only used the handbook as a schedule. 

1 0.33% i only used the schedules and the map... 

1 0.33% I suggest that welcome week handbook has welcome week leaders' contacts so that someone got lost can contact to his or her leaders. 

1 0.33% I think I needed more down time to just socialize. Some people are great at just meeting a ton of people, but there are some people like me 

who need more time. Plus, I was always tired because there was too much to do. 

1 0.33% I think it will be better if the handbook is smaller. Such a big handbook drives me crazy especially in windy days. 

1 0.33% i think it wold be better if it is only 2-3 day. 

1 0.33% I think it would be better and more user-friendly if the guide book was straight-to-the-point. It seemed like there was a lot of unnecessary details 

that could've been left out. It just made it harder to find the information I was looking for. 

1 0.33% I think that everyone should get a completely personalized schedule with all the times filled in. 

1 0.33% I think that it should be organized A LOT better. It was not very user friendly because you had to search for information. Also, I think the daily 

schedules could have had more information-they just had some guidelines of what was going to happen that day and weren't specific 

enough-or it could have an empty page for every day so that you could write down the schedule that your group leaders gave you. 

1 0.33% i think that it should say which events were optional and which were not as well as describe more about each event and which we would be on 

our own like the community exploration where we went off by ourselves instead of our welcome week leader. 

1 0.33% I think that there was a lot of information crammed into too little space on the pages sometimes making it hard to read 

1 0.33% I thought it was hard to find the times for some events. I felt as though it never specified an exact time and/or the exact time was hard to find. 

1 0.33% I thought the layout was somewhat confusing at first. It took me about 2 days to get used to it. It was not straight forward enough even though 

the design was cool. 

1 0.33% I was unsure of the elective seminar-type activites on friday. The descriptions were good, but there were no times listed and I only had time to 

do one because of this confusion. 

1 0.33% I will probably use some of the resources in the Handbook after Welcome Week is over but less handouts would be nice. I would like to keep 

one resource than a bunch of handouts I might use in the future. A lot of handouts are useful because I have so many I can't find what I am 

looking for. 

1 0.33% I wish the handbook would have been a little more smooth in the way it was set up. Meaning, I felt like I had to flip many, many pages to find 

activities that were chronological that day. 

1 0.33% I would have been nice if the meeting times and locations were pre-printed in the handbook.

1 0.33% I would like more free time. I became sick because I was so exhausted from the Welcome Week and Multicultural Kick-Off activities. 

1 0.33% If an activity is optional, the handbook should state that it is optional. 

1 0.33% If there were a way to personalize the handbooks more to the group's activities that would be helpful. Sometimes it was hard to find the 

information I needed because I had to find it within other information that didn't apply to me (residence hall info, activities I wasn't scheduled 

for, etc.). 

1 0.33% If you want commuters to attend some of the night programs it would be better to have them a little closer to dinner. For example, on thursday 

night, supper was at 4:30, and then Jermaine Davis was speaking at 8:30. That is 4 hours that I have to wait to listen to a 1 hour message. 

1 0.33% include specific group times 

1 0.33% Instead of an arrival time to the locations we were going it should have been a departure time because many of us were late the second or third 

day because that wasnt communicated effectively and we had no idea what time we were suppose to leave at. 

1 0.33% Instead of having each day's schedule explained on different pages, have them all on one page, like what was given to the leaders (except 

without the leaders meetings of course). The schedule at a glance on the last page was not helpful because it was not specialized, but it had 

the right idea because it's easier to have the whole week's schedule all in one place. 

1 0.33% Integrate the mealtimes into the overall schedule 

1 0.33% It could be better organized, at times the times and locations were very confusing and would take a few looks to understand where to go. 

1 0.33% It could be more personalized for each group 

1 0.33% It is kind of overwhelming to look at: there is a lot of information in there. It could be put together slightly differently so that it could be easier to 

read. One thing would be the colors: it is more expensive to have different colors in there but it would make it easier to look at and read 

1 0.33% It might be impossible but group specific handbooks would be the best you could do. 

1 0.33% It needs to be more specific because my group didn't always know where we were supposed to be 

1 0.33% It seemed like not all events were listed in the daily schedule 

1 0.33% It seemed like too much information in certain areas so maybe make it a little more concise. 

1 0.33% It should be condensed. There were way too many pages. 

1 0.33% It was a bit confusing and at times unclear. 

1 0.33% It was a bit confusing looking at the schedules. It took my friends and I awhile to figure out what was going on and where to find some things. 

The daily schedules were particularly confusing 

1 0.33% It was a little confusing because I didn't know exactly when to meet and where all the time and I had to search for that information in my book. I 

think there needs to be a detailed, clear schedule for each day where we can fill in times. 

1 0.33% It was a little confusing. There was a lot of information that was all over the book. 

1 0.33% It was extremely organized yet for some reason hard to navigate. Maybe color coding would help. 

1 0.33% It was great. It was my ww leader. Maybe a bit more info on gms printed on the book 

1 0.33% it was just confusing that we had to fill in our own meeting times and places and rotations. If we missed one time/location/rotation we pretty 

much had no clue what was going on. 

1 0.33% it was poorly laid out and not very efficient 

1 0.33% It was pretty confusing. 

1 0.33% It was really nice going through and filling out the times our group had to be somewhere. It would be even more helpful if the guide had a slot 

next to that to fill in when our group was meeting to leave to that location. We ran behind one day because people were confused on when we 

met to leave vs. when we left vs. when we had to be there. 

1 0.33% It was vague. There should be more spaces for groups to fill in their specific times because I got confused with that a lot. scedule at a glance

was 

1 0.33% It was very busy, A lot to look at at once. 

1 0.33% It was very confusing to figure out where we were supposed to be and when we were supposed to be there. 

1 0.33% It would be great to put a page in where all of the information relevant to the specific WW group (meeting spots, dining times, community 

engagement location, small closure meeting details) could be recorded in one central location. 

1 0.33% It would be more helpful if there was one list of things happening in a day, with the opportunities maybe branched out in a flow chart or 

something With all the times and opportunities listed in between other important information, it was super easy to get confused at what I was 

looking at. 

1 0.33% It would be much more useful if it was smaller- I probably would have carried it around more as well as found a use for some of its contents 

post- Welcome Week. 

1 0.33% It would be nice if it could include the exact times and locations to meet for everything - instead of writing it all down at the kick-off meeting. 

1 0.33% It would be nice if it was much shorter, more brief and clear, and everything was in chronological order - some things weren't and it made it very 

confusing 

1 0.33% It would be nice if the time in between the activities weren't so spread out and it was not neccessary to use a whole week for the welcome 

week, I think it should of been done within 3 days. 

1 0.33% It would be nice if the times and meeting locations were pre-printed in the handbook. 

1 0.33% It would be nice if the Welcome Week handbook included more detailed or specific information that pertained to certain groups. It was 

confusing to ensure I had the right time, location, etc. for my small groups' event schedule. 

1 0.33% It would be nice to have a consolidated schedule with meeting times rather than having to flip to different pages for more details on times and 

locations. 

1 0.33% It would have been better to have the times and locations of meeting pre-printed in the handbook. 

1 0.33% It's a bit overwhelming at first glance. 

1 0.33% Its so cluttered and there's so much info that it gets confusing 

1 0.33% Just a little bit more details on certain events. Most of them just had a title and time. 

1 0.33% Just do not make it as long. Was helpful, but just too much to read. 

1 0.33% Keep the descriptions of the events in the same order as they appear in the daily schedule. I feel it is more user friendly that way. 

1 0.33% Keep the relevant information grouped closer together. It was a pain to have to flip back and forth in a group setting to make sure that we knew 

what was going on. 

1 0.33% less activities 

1 0.33% Less in it!! 

1 0.33% Less info, more spelled out...it was a little confusing... 

1 0.33% Less information we'll be receiving anyways 

1 0.33% less information. it was soo big and difficult to find what was actually mandatory. very had to know what we were supposed to go to and what 

we were supposed to choose between. also, whoever wrote the description for jermaine davis did a terrible job. they said that he is a 'real 

person' what a joke. the schedule on the back was done perfectly. there really should be an at a glance schedule for the eating situation for 

the whole week. maybe all of the food schedules for the entire week on the second to last page 

1 0.33% Less mandatory activities. A lot of them seemed to be a waste of time. I also didn't really have time to get settled in my room. 

1 0.33% less walking, add more free time and have team some time interact with different team too 

1 0.33% let it be more in order like time wise.

1 0.33% let us sleep! 

1 0.33% List more opportunities for activities around campus. 

1 0.33% Make everyone get to convocation and similar events at the same time so students don't spend an unnecessary hour in the stands at Mariucci 

1 0.33% Make it a little easier to understand. The Schedule at a glance was more easier to follow than the daily schedules. 

1 0.33% Make it a little more organized or detailed for the commuters 

1 0.33% Make it easier to understand when to go where. the times were confusing because everybody had different times, and that was not reflected in 

the welcome week book 

1 0.33% Make it group specific. We were not sure what to do when our group schedule split off from the Welcome Week book schedule. 

1 0.33% make it less busy...give more free time 

1 0.33% make it more concise, make required events clearly marked, less confusing 

1 0.33% Make it more descriptive. I feel that it was a little vague at times. 

1 0.33% Make it more simple and straightforward 

1 0.33% Make it more straight forward. it could be confusing as to which day i was looking at 

1 0.33% Make it more straightforward- occasionally the schedule was confusing 

1 0.33% Make it smaller and more compact 

1 0.33% make it smaller so its not as large as a book 

1 0.33% make it smaller! 

1 0.33% Make meeting times a little more obvious. They were easy to find, but not on the first night. 

1 0.33% Make meeting times for small groups clearer. Nobody in our group knew when and where to meet multiple times, also stress the importance of 

bringing the welcome week handbook with you to the welcome week kick off event becuase half of the people including myself did not have the 

handbook with us and so we didn't get an opportunity to write down the times that were given to us and could be filled in in the handbook. 

1 0.33% Make sure everyone fills it out in the small group kick off meeting and also show was it mandatory and optional. 

1 0.33% Make sure that the leaders know that they are supposed to go to all scheduled events. I would say that if people don't show up and aren't on 

time, leave without them so that things get done when they need to be done. 

1 0.33% Make sure the most important information is the most highlighted in some way. And that afte dark activities are somewhere easy to find. 

1 0.33% make sure the times are correct 

1 0.33% make the area where you write in your daily activities easier to follow. I got confused in that section (maybe also because no one told us to 

bring them to the first group meeting where we got a lot of the daily schedule info) 

1 0.33% Make the book simpler to read and understand where and when things are happening. 

1 0.33% make the daily list of events more chronological. 

1 0.33% make the handbook personalized to each student before hand 

1 0.33% Make the meeting places and times more clear because most of us had no idea where we had to go the first few days or what time we had to 

be there. 

1 0.33% Make the pages that pertain to the sections side by side rather then having to flip through pages. 

1 0.33% Make the schedule more concrete and clear. Put all of the information about the schedule and where we need to be in one place. 

1 0.33% Make the schedule, but the schedule at a glance especially, easier to understand and clearer in times and wording.

1 0.33% Make the schedules more easy to understand. 

1 0.33% Make the time schedule's less confusing, especially on the Rotation day, it was very confusing trying to figure out where we were supposed to 

go and when. 

1 0.33% Make the times of events more specific to the individual. There were sometimes 2-3 hour blocks of time for an activity, but I personally had a 

more specific time. 

1 0.33% Make the timing more clear or make two different books, one for residents and the other for commuters. 

1 0.33% making a main page for the schedule for the entire week with general times. Having a list like that would have been very nice instead of flipping 

back and forth 

1 0.33% Making it a bit smaller or compactable would have been benefitial. 

1 0.33% Making sure that at the kick-off meeting, all meeting times are specifically given so members of the group are not lost, late, or confused. 

1 0.33% Maybe a little smaller! It was overwhelming to get that huge handbook. 

1 0.33% maybe color code the pages for each day. it would make it easier to navigate 

1 0.33% maybe have a group meeting place pre assigned 

1 0.33% Maybe make it smaller if possible to make it more handy. 

1 0.33% Maybe make the individual days be marked in different colors so as to facilitate quick paging through the handbook. 

1 0.33% Maybe not put so much information in because it was a little overwhelming at times to try and find where you needed to be. And maybe have a 

schedule that is bullet points or something so it's not all over the page. It'd be helpful if it was in chronological order. 

1 0.33% Maybe put some of the extra, unnecessary activities in the back so we don't have to flip past it while looking for our schedules. 

1 0.33% Maybe squish the days together so Sunday is a free day so the week isn't so long. 

1 0.33% maybe try to compact it into a shorter week. 

1 0.33% meeting times should be written in 

1 0.33% More breaks during the day would be nice. 

1 0.33% More chronological order of the days 

1 0.33% more clear on differences between times 

1 0.33% More clear on times everything is supposed to happen. Especially Bailey kids, it would be nice to know when the buses are leaving during the 

day better. 

1 0.33% More clearly indicate times 

1 0.33% More detail about specific events that are optional to attend. 

1 0.33% more detailed schedules and in order, some of it was confusing 

1 0.33% More details 

1 0.33% more direct, more minimalistic 

1 0.33% More free time and less "camp-like". I felt like we were beingtreated like children and not like young adults who were at the start of 

their independence. 

1 0.33% more free time for the every day...not just on the last days. Or possibly have a busy day then a easy day and so on. For the people who moved 

in on September 1st, they didn't have enough time to set up before getting welcome week started. 

1 0.33% more free time to move in and do it on your own 

1 0.33% more free time wake up later

1 0.33% More free time, perhaps have more optionaly events. 

1 0.33% More individualized schedules for each group would be helpful. 

1 0.33% More specific on where and when certain events are. 

1 0.33% more specific times and places 

1 0.33% More specific times. I know it would be confusing, but if our leaders could more personalize the books it would be far less confusing. We had to 

ask our welcome week leaders for clarification all the time. 

1 0.33% more straighforward 

1 0.33% More time to explore with your schedules to become more familiar when you start classes. 

1 0.33% more time to look around campus 

1 0.33% more user friendly 

1 0.33% My only suggestion is to have the pages in order in correlation to the Welcome Week days. It was rather confusing when I flipped back and 

forth through the pages to learn about the day events. 

1 0.33% Mybe not write WELCOME WEEK across the front. We were freshmen and we really looked like freshmen when we were looking through our 

handbooks. And that factor will hinder me in using the handbook continuously through the year. 

1 0.33% needs to map out the day in chronological fashion better 

1 0.33% Not as many speakers 

1 0.33% Not so general 

1 0.33% Not so many lines. Just a straight forward schedule and whatnot would be nice. 

1 0.33% Not so many words all over the pages. Just clear simple directions would be better. 

1 0.33% On the weekends, the handbook assumed that Pioneer wouldn't be open for brunch. I'm not completely sure of how everything worked out, but 

I recall eating brunch a few minutes early on Saturday the 4th. When I finished eating and walked out of Centennial, I realized that I had 

avoided a very long line of people waiting to eat. Later, I arrived at the GMS 20 minutes early and waited for at least a half hour for someone 

else from the group to arrive. In the end it took a while and quite a bit of question-asking to finally rejoin my group. Whether this is a WW 

Handbook problem or one dealing with the Dining hall service times, I think it is definitely worth addressing. 

1 0.33% One thing that i would suggest would be to give us maybe an hour break in the middle of the day. 

1 0.33% organize it a little bit differently; it was difficult to find and understand certain things. 

1 0.33% Organize it better. I found it hard to find information about what was going on, because the information was all over the place in the handbook. 

1 0.33% Organize the detailed information chronologically and make one page look different from another to ease searching (i.e. have Saturday printed 

in a different color from Friday). 

1 0.33% Our schedule had many things about the school that I did not understand at once because I am a freshman. 

1 0.33% Perhaps make it more dense. I don't mind it, but I don't think that many people take the time to read all of it and it kills lots of trees. There 

should be a welcome week app; that would be super awesome! 

1 0.33% Personal schedule for groups. The daily schedules really only had start/end times... but there were many activities in between. For commuters, 

if you got lost or came later - it made it impossible to hook up with your group again. 

1 0.33% personalize it for each person/group with meeting areas and times 

1 0.33% Personalized meeting times and places 

1 0.33% Personalized ones. For example, meal times, meeting times. 

1 0.33% pesonalize it for each student instead of having us write stuff in

1 0.33% Please explain the difference between your event selection and the sessions you actually end up going to. Explain the logistics of that part of 

the morning, in other words. How do the interest sessions tie-in with your event selection, and when do you go those 

1 0.33% Please make the lectures more hands on. Two days of sitting is okay. The third starts to make everyone drowsy. The last few days are killers. 

Everyone's sleeping during the lecturers and no one is listening because the events last so long. The chairs are just perfect for taking 15-30 

min naps and after the naps, no one wants to do anything else. 

1 0.33% Please try to put all events in timely order. There are few sections that show events but little scattered. Also, on MOA section, I thought that we 

meet at 9:30 pm, but my CA told me that the bus depart 9 pm and when we arrived there, we left via bus at 9:15 pm, which is different from 

welcome week handbook. 

1 0.33% pre-printed with the custom group information and times 

1 0.33% Print in all the events we selected. 

1 0.33% Provide clearer specifics of WHEN things will be. For example, if something is listed as "9 AM to noon", but your group only goes for 

a session within that time frame, mention it. 

1 0.33% provide more exact time tables and information when possible, it would be hard to provide too much information (within reason) 

1 0.33% Providing exactly where to meet and at what time for each group 

1 0.33% Put events in chronological order 

1 0.33% Put every scheduled event in the handbook, because some of them were left out. 

1 0.33% Put everything in order and leave more places to write things down. 

1 0.33% Put just a map with bus routes and stops so that they are easier to see 

1 0.33% put the detailed plan for the days in order, one right after another. Not a basic plan, followed by semi detailed plans. 

1 0.33% Put the events in exact chronological order. I had to do some page turning just to find the event I was looking for. 

1 0.33% put the scheduling together better, it seemed very unorganized. 

1 0.33% Put things in chronological order 

1 0.33% reduce time waiting in line 

1 0.33% save paper! it was alot of information and intimidating to read because of the length. 

1 0.33% Say what stuff is required 

1 0.33% Scheduling: Provide group meeting times instead of arrival times. This would have saved us a lot of confusion 

1 0.33% seemed a bit sisorganized....maybe next year have a single page for the schedules and then list pages where we can find certain details 

1 0.33% Shorten it!! It would be more helpful if it was more brief. 

1 0.33% Shorten it. 

1 0.33% Shorter days, or not so many days. 

1 0.33% should be more customized. Trying to write down when our group ate, for example, was confusing. Trying to keep track of when we were 

supposed to be where on which day was a hassle. The hot-line helped. 

1 0.33% Simplify where one needs to be and when. The schedule on the back was good, but not times were different for each group and it wasn't 

always clear what time I needed to be at each location 

1 0.33% single page schedule for the entire week like the leaders had 

1 0.33% Slightly clearer times available for when groups are supposed to meet together each day. 

1 0.33% smaller to fit better into a purse or handbag

1 0.33% Smaller. Fewer explanations as they clog everything up; it's overwhelming to look at on a page. 

1 0.33% Some of the events ran too late and caused conflicts with my bus schedule. 

1 0.33% Some of the events were unorganized and there were times when I lost my group due to the big crowd. 

1 0.33% Some of the pages did not seem to be in chronological order, which could be helpful. 

1 0.33% Some of the schedules were confusing because not all of the posted times applied to all groups. 

1 0.33% Some things were out of order. 

1 0.33% Some times didn't correspond with other resources 

1 0.33% specify times in the kickoff meetings; the broad times caused me to be late or extremely early twice. 

1 0.33% Specifying whether UV is a commuter group for that particular day/meal. 

1 0.33% Spread things out. I needed a bathroom break :) 

1 0.33% state times for exact events for that specific group 

1 0.33% Stop having a resting time in between. Students want to get everything done and use time efficiently 

1 0.33% Subway themed design was overcooked. Simple design works much better at conveying information. 

1 0.33% The daily programs seemed quite crammed for time and it sometimes tressed me out a little bit 

1 0.33% The design in the handbook was sometimes hard to follow. 

1 0.33% the format was too confusing and hard to understand. time plans listed were either incorrect or too vague. (what is so helpful about the phrase 

"time varies") 

1 0.33% The guide was difficult to use at first. 

1 0.33% the handbook was big and bulky, the most useful things were the break downs like the back page and the first page of everyday telling us stuff, 

maybe making it smaller 

1 0.33% The Handbook was very confusing and I feel like some of that had to do with the design. I think that handbook should be more straightforward, 

information corresponding to an event should be directly below the event title. Often times the book would direct me to look five pages forward 

to get the information I needed. Some parts of the handbook, simply just were not very clear. Perhaps if info was color coded or something it 

would be easier for someone with my learning needs to navigate the book. 

1 0.33% the in between break should not be that long because for the students who live off combus it is hard to spent all that time with out doing 

anything just walking around and the soccenend thing is the weelcome week should not be untill late night because for some of us it is very 

scary to take bus home. 

1 0.33% The in depth daily schedule was hard to follow. A list with times and places you need to be would be easier to follow. 

1 0.33% The itinerary in the book proved to be unusable as it tended to be off by 30 minutes or more. 

1 0.33% The layout of the day's activities seemed out of order at times, so by putting them in chronological order throughout the entire handbook would 

make it easier to look through. 

1 0.33% The layout was somewhat in chronological order, but not really, so that confused me as to what order the events took place. 

1 0.33% The meeting times for the commuters were not the times that my leaders said we needed to meet at. 

1 0.33% The organization needs quite a bit of work. 

1 0.33% The Schedule at a Glance on the back was very useful and well laid-out. The organization of information inside was not well organized. 

1 0.33% The schedule for the campuss exploration day with different interest sessions was very confusing. I think it should have been a little different so 

that it was more understandable.

1 0.33% The set up was slightly confusing; consider making it easier to read. 

1 0.33% The times in the book were different than the times out leaders gave us... It would be helpful if it included meeting times 

1 0.33% The times listed in the book for events were not accurate with the actual times that things took place. 

1 0.33% The times stated in the book did not correlate with the meeting times. 

1 0.33% The times were very confusing and even the welcome week leader schedules did not correspond to the time on the handbook. 

1 0.33% The times were very confusing. They overlapped and were very vague. I wouldn't have known where to go if my WWLs didn't tell me. 

1 0.33% The timing was confusing and the way the book was set up wasn't really user friendly 

1 0.33% The U of M day rotations page was really confusing. We had to fill in times randomly and at the kickoff meeting I had no idea what was going 

on. Even on that day I just followed my welcome week leader around. I also thought it was weird that they made us sign up for six informational 

sessions, and then we only ended up with two. Why wouldn't we just pick two then Plus most people just picked one to go to that day 

anyways, so signing up was pointless. 

1 0.33% The Welcome Week handbook should include more details about certain events, especially the U of M day events. 

1 0.33% The welcome week handbooks did not list the specfic sessions and time we atteneded them each day so I was often confused on what we 

would be doing each day. It would be nice if they were more personalized to each group. 

1 0.33% There seemed to be a fair amount of excess information. I would condense the handbook for next year. 

1 0.33% There seemed to be a lot of just extra information that wasn't always helpful. The information also seemed to be a bit useless. Like an example, 

the "To the Class of 2014" page may have been tips from previous years, but it was information we have been force fed since we 

got mailings from the university back in May after being accepted, and we heard it at our orientation. The whole thing just seemed like a lot of 

information and it made searching for times or diagrams a bit harder. 

1 0.33% There seemed to be some repetition with the Orientation information/seminars and the Welcome Week's. I felt that throughout Welcome Week 

there was a lot of wasted time, and not enough down time to get adjusted. 

1 0.33% There was too much information in there which made it bulky and hard to find what you were looking for at times 

1 0.33% There were a lot of lists of the events, but many of them did not specify a time which became very confusing to many students including myself. 

1 0.33% There were times when the back page schedule did not agree with the schedule in the book 

1 0.33% To have it be more straight forward. There were too many sub categories with different charts that got confusing 

1 0.33% too big; intimidating. makes students feel like the week will never be over. 

1 0.33% Too much in one book. A lot of usless information 

1 0.33% Too much info at times. I just wanted to know where i needed to be 

1 0.33% Too much non-specific information. For example, a large block of time (3-6 PM) with a clarifying *times vary* next to it., Not necessary at all. 

1 0.33% Try not to make it quite as scattered. 

1 0.33% Try to personalize them to everyone's schedule or at least to the dorm/commuting schedule so they aren't so general. 

1 0.33% Use an overhead projector when we have to fill out our own schedules so it's not so confusing. 

1 0.33% VERY complicated to navigate. It would be easier to just print off individual agendas instead of making an all-encompassing booklet. 

1 0.33% Was very useful but was large... maybe compacted a little next year 

1 0.33% Welcome Week should be two or three days instead of a whole week. 

1 0.33% While most members in my group had made a custom schedule for their welcome week, our group schedule did not really follow what any of us 

had chosen. Also, since it was not required to sign up for the Target run or the Mall of America trip this sign up seemed very useless to me. I 

tried to go to the interest sessions i signed up for but they were full before I got there. I think that most people in my group ended up doing

completely different things than what they signed up for. 

1 0.33% Write only what is necessary so students won't have to carry around a big handbook. 

1 0.33% Yes, it is very beneficial! 

1 0.33% You need to have the scheduled time and events already in the handbook so students do not have to write down times and meeting places at 

the Kick-Off ceremony. That created a lot of confusion. 

1 0.33% You shouldn't have students sitting and listening to people talking for so long. We don't get much sleep and presentations are a great way to 

make people doze off. 

1171 79.50% No 


Q62. After attending Jermaine Davis' "Do It Now!" presentation, I . . . (Check all that apply) 


1089 69.85% 19.96% Felt motivated to be successful in college 

1059 67.93% 19.41% Understand the importance of setting goals 

927 59.46% 16.99% Felt empowered to make my college experience what I want it to be 

323 20.72% 5.92% Have identified my "TAGS" and thought about how to use them 

783 50.22% 14.35% Acknowledge my individual responsibility to the campus community 

1013 64.98% 18.56% Understand the ownership and responsibility I have for my college experience 


Count 

Percent 

1 0.75% 

1 0.75% Again, I felt it was beneficial for students who were not previously motivated or are less experienced in the ways of stressful and demanding 

situations. 

1 0.75% Began to understand a different method of success. 

1 0.75% cannot get the "Good Job" song out of my head. Argh! 

1 0.75% did not feel anything 

1 0.75% did not feel particularly different, one way or another. 

1 0.75% Did not help at all. I did not like his presentation. 

1 0.75% did not like it 

1 0.75% Did not really feel any of those emotions 

1 0.75% enjoyed it 

1 0.75% enjoyed listening 

1 0.75% Fell asleep 

1 0.75% felt all this before him and didnt like the presentation 

1 0.75% Felt connected with my classmates

1 0.75% felt entertained 

1 0.75% felt i had heard these things already throughout the day 

1 0.75% Felt inspired to do a GOOD JOB! 

1 0.75% felt like I had wasted my time and learned nothing new. He basically told us that goals and dreams are important and don't lose sight of them or 

you will not achieve them. Pretty basic information. 

1 0.75% felt like taking a shower 

1 0.75% Felt nervous after he mentioned failing multiple classes his first semester 

1 0.75% felt no different than before attending 

1 0.75% felt soooo inspired by him. I feel like I can do anything. 

1 0.75% Felt that it was just as useful as all motivational speakers. 

1 0.75% Felt that it was not successful in getting me inspired 

1 0.75% G double O D J O B !!! 

1 0.75% G double-O D J-O-B good job good job 

1 0.75% good job chant 

1 0.75% GOOD JOB GOOD JOB 

1 0.75% Good Job Good Job (clap) Good Job Good Job (clap) G double O D J O B Good Job Good Job 

2 1.50% Good Job! Good Job! 

1 0.75% GOOD JOB, GOOD JOB 

1 0.75% Good Job, Good Job Song 

1 0.75% Good job, good job. Good job, good job. Gee-double-oh-dee jay-oh-bee. Good job, good job. 

1 0.75% good job. good job. 

1 0.75% goodjob goodjob g double o d j o b good job goood job 

1 0.75% have had the "good job" song stuck in my head every single day. 

1 0.75% Have his lovely "Good Job" song stuck in my head. 

3 2.26% Have the "Good Job" song stuck in my head. 

1 0.75% he was a good speaker but his speech was very similar to the other talks we heard all day long 

1 0.75% He was AMAZING!! 

1 0.75% Headache 

1 0.75% He's kind of lame 

1 0.75% His messages were common sense-Did not benefit a ton from his presentation 

1 0.75% I already understood my responsibilities 

1 0.75% I am no more or less motivated. 

1 0.75% I did not feel he was an effective speaker 

1 0.75% I did not like it

1 0.75% I didnt like it. 

1 0.75% I didn't really like the presentation. I realize he talks to big companies, but for me it was much too childish and repetitive. I would have preferred 

someone who talked to us realistically about succeeding not made up chants about it. 

1 0.75% i didn't take away anything really. 

1 0.75% I don't think that it should have been Ucard swipe required 

1 0.75% I feel like he didnt really say anything all that meaningful... 

1 0.75% I felt like it was a waste of time. 

1 0.75% I had a hard time connecting with him. 

1 0.75% I know the 'Good Job' cheer. 

1 0.75% I new, acknowledged, understood etc. all of these things already. 

1 0.75% I realized who the people are that add or subtract to my life/goal in college. (ie. partiers=subtracters and studiers=adders) 

1 0.75% I was just bored 

1 0.75% I was not empowered or influenced by this in the least. 

1 0.75% interesting speaker but not particularly helpful 

1 0.75% it also made me realize more things about what i haven't realize. 

1 0.75% It taught me nothing new. 

1 0.75% It was fine but I don't feel like I learned anything 

1 0.75% It was one of the best events, but I cannot say that it was truly a motivational speech that was going to change the way I felt about college. 

1 0.75% It was sort of cutesy &silly, but it wasn't exactly motivating. 

1 0.75% I've heard all that before, not only in high school but also from this university 

1 0.75% knew all this stuff before 

1 0.75% knew the good job song. 

1 0.75% know how to do a GOOD JOB GOOD JOB! GOOD JOB GOOD JOB! G-DOUBLE O-D J-O-B! GOOD JOB GOOD JOB! 

1 0.75% know how to sing the "good job" song. 

1 0.75% Know that I have 168 hours in a week 

1 0.75% Know that the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing 

1 0.75% Know the "Good Job" song and use it often 

1 0.75% know the "Good Job" song! 

1 0.75% learned an AWESOME new song! 

1 0.75% Learned and love the "good job" song 

1 0.75% Learned how to pick who I hang out with much better 

1 0.75% Learned teh 'good job' song :D 

2 1.50% Learned the "Good Job" song 

1 0.75% learned the "good job" song.

1 0.75% learned the good job song 

1 0.75% learned the good job song. 

1 0.75% loved it! 

1 0.75% Made me feel a bit more comfortable. 

1 0.75% Motivational Speakers = Meh + generic feeling of having gained nothing 

1 0.75% Never want to hear that damn song again 

1 0.75% never want to hear the good job song ever again 

1 0.75% Neverquit 

1 0.75% No significant effect 

1 0.75% none 

1 0.75% None of the abive 

2 1.50% none of the above 

2 1.50% None of the above 

1 0.75% None of the answers express how I felt. 

1 0.75% None of these. 

1 0.75% not that motivating...but funny 

2 1.50% nothing 

1 0.75% Nothing 

1 0.75% Nothing. 

1 0.75% sing the good job song 

1 0.75% The main thing, is to keep the main thing, the main thing. 

1 0.75% the quote about not being a writer because he wasn't writing was really powerful for me as a hopeful author in the future 

1 0.75% The speech had absolutely no affect on me or how I will go about going through college. 

1 0.75% Think nothing I did not before 

1 0.75% thought it was a beneficial experience 

1 0.75% thought it was very enjoyable 

1 0.75% Too long of days! 

1 0.75% understand how to budget time. 

1 0.75% Understand the importance of the people who help you in life, and in congratulating them for what they do. 

1 0.75% used the "good job" song. 

1 0.75% Very disappointed in the quality of this presentation. 

1 0.75% Wanted class to start immediately 

1 0.75% Wanted to go to sleep

1 0.75% Was confused, is he pro individualism or social justice 

1 0.75% Was entertained 

1 0.75% Was entertaining 

1 0.75% was exempt from this 

1 0.75% Was not educational, just entertaining 

1 0.75% was useless 

1 0.75% wasn't worth it 

1 0.75% waste of time 

1 0.75% went up to talk to him 

1 0.75% wish I could have seen the Middle Tennessee State football game on the video board at TCF Bank Stadium 

1 0.75% wished I had not attended 

130 8.34% 2.38% Did not attend 



Q63. The Fun Zone gave me the opportunity to . . . (Check all that apply) 


600 38.49% 20.20% Interact with new people 

401 25.72% 13.50% Socialize with others who are different from me 

121 7.76% 4.07% Learn about Greek Life opportunities 

220 14.11% 7.40% Learn about Student Unions & Activities events and services 

192 12.32% 6.46% Learn about getting involved with Recreational Sports 

741 47.53% 24.94% Have fun and relax 


Count 

Percent 

1 1.06% 

1 1.06% dance 

2 2.13% Dance 

1 1.06% Dance! 

1 1.06% DANCE!! 

1 1.06% Didn't find benificial 

2 2.13% eat 

3 3.19% Eat 

1 1.06% Eat a sandwich

1 1.06% eat cotton candy! 

1 1.06% eat delicious food 

1 1.06% eat food 

1 1.06% Eat food 

1 1.06% eat for free 

2 2.13% eat free food 

2 2.13% Eat free food 

1 1.06% Eat free food :) 

1 1.06% Eat free food. 

1 1.06% Eat good food 

1 1.06% eat great food 

1 1.06% Eat jimmy johns 

1 1.06% eat popcorn 

1 1.06% enjoy free food. 

1 1.06% Food was good; I was hungry. 

2 2.13% free food 

1 1.06% free food! 

2 2.13% Free food! 

1 1.06% FREE FOOD! 

1 1.06% Free Food, although I would suggest creating lines for the free food to control the crowd. 

1 1.06% Get a bunch of free food to bring back to the dorm 

1 1.06% get food 

1 1.06% get free fod 

8 8.51% get free food 

1 1.06% Get free food 

1 1.06% Get free food! 

1 1.06% Get free food. 

1 1.06% get hgit by a flying sandwich from Jimmy Johns 

1 1.06% Get Jimmy Johns 

1 1.06% Get pelted by Jimmy John sandwiches 

1 1.06% Get technical help 

1 1.06% had free food. 

1 1.06% had fun dancing!

1 1.06% Hang out with friends 

1 1.06% I came, didn't see anything I wanted to do, and left. 

1 1.06% I did not attend because there were too many people 

1 1.06% I did not like it at all 

1 1.06% I did not like the fun zone 

1 1.06% I left early 

1 1.06% I went for a short amount of time because it was too crowded. 

1 1.06% it gave the chance to be myself in front of many others that i have yet to meet. 

1 1.06% it was dumb, why is it call "fun zone" are we in preschool 

1 1.06% It was not really fun, the lines for food were WAY to long and the laser tag shouldn't have been out in the open 

1 1.06% It was really hectic and almost hard to enjoy 

1 1.06% it was too crowded and loud, no one could socialize without screaming 

1 1.06% Learn how to Dance! 

1 1.06% Learn to salsa 

1 1.06% No chance to do anything, it was too crowded 

1 1.06% None of the above. Got free food and got out. Seemed very Jr. High. 

1 1.06% None of the above. Way too crowded to meet people 

1 1.06% Not exciting 

1 1.06% not really do much- it was too packed by the food 

1 1.06% Not very fun 

1 1.06% nothing it was stupid 

1 1.06% Other than the free food, it wasn't very exciting. 

1 1.06% personally didnt benefit 

1 1.06% Play a few games 

1 1.06% Plunder the free food. 

1 1.06% stand in a huge line and not be able to do anything 

1 1.06% Teach others rhythm and new dances. Fun. 

1 1.06% the fun zone was not fun 

1 1.06% to congested for fun 

1 1.06% Too crowded! 

1 1.06% Too crowded, long lines. 

1 1.06% Too late I couldn't attend 

1 1.06% too many people. there was no room to even move

1 1.06% Very crowded. 

1 1.06% Was a disappointment. The last houses to leave didn't get any food. 

1 1.06% was exempt from this 

1 1.06% Way too crowded 

602 38.61% 20.26% Did not attend 



Q64. How many interest sessions did you attend on the U of M Day held on Friday 

Count 

Percent 

144 9.24% None 

390 25.02% 1 interest session 

851 54.59% 2 interest sessions 

127 8.15% 3 interest sessions 

47 3.01% More than 3 interest sessions 


Q65. How helpful were each of the following U of M Day Open Houses - Appleby Hall Open House 

Count 

Percent 

127 8.22% Extremely helpful 

234 15.15% Very helpful 

322 20.84% Moderately helpful 

166 10.74% Slightly helpful 

80 5.18% Not at all helpful 

616 39.87% Did not attend 

1545 Respondents

Q66. How helpful were each of the following U of M Day Open Houses - Science Teaching and Student Services Building Open House 

Count 

Percent 








Q67. How helpful were each of the following U of M Day Open Houses - Rec Center Open House 

Count 

Percent 








Q68. How helpful were each of the following U of M Day Open Houses - Sustainability Action presented by the Institute on the Environment 

Count 

Percent 







1545 Respondents

Q69. How helpful were each of the following U of M Day sessions - "Do What Matters" 

Count 

Percent 








Q70. How helpful were each of the following U of M Day sessions - "Live Like a Student" 

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Percent 








Q71. How helpful were each of the following U of M Day sessions - Sessions that discussed specific resources (e.g., library, study abroad, UROP) 

Count 

Percent 







1401 Respondents

Q72. How helpful were each of the following U of M Day sessions - Sessions that addressed specific skills (e.g., time management, classroom etiquette) 

Count 

Percent 








Q73. How helpful were each of the following U of M Day sessions - Sessions that talked about the environment (e.g., sustainability) 

Count 

Percent 








Q74. How helpful were each of the following U of M Day sessions - Sessions that talked about ways to meet new people (e.g., Sustaining Relationships) 

Count 

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1401 Respondents

Q75. How helpful were each of the following U of M Day sessions - Sessions that addressed health and wellness topics (e.g., be-WSIE-er, Let's Talk about Sex, Safety) 

Count 

Percent 








Q76. The Friday sessions gave me the opportunity to . . . (Check all that apply) 


991 70.74% 17.84% Feel more confident in navigating the campus before classes began 

802 57.24% 14.44% Learn the Campus Connector system 

732 52.25% 13.18% Learn where specific resources are located 

546 38.97% 9.83% Acknowledge my individual responsibility to the campus community 

617 44.04% 11.11% Understand the ownership and responsibility I have for my college experience 

436 31.12% 7.85% Explore transitional issues that pertain to me 

640 45.68% 11.52% Discover ways in which I may be intentional in creating a successful college experience 

758 54.10% 13.65% Foster my school pride and respect 


Count 

Percent 

1 6.67% A waste of time 

1 6.67% Boring 

2 13.33% did nothing 

1 6.67% Figure out how to get moving on a research project 

1 6.67% General Knowledge 

1 6.67% i do not know the bus system very well 

1 6.67% I'm not sure about the question 

1 6.67% learn more aboud studying abroad 

1 6.67% learn more about studying abroad 


1 6.67% not much at all 

1 6.67% Waste of time, I already knew where everything is because of PSEO.




Q77. The "Do What Matters" presentation . . . (Check all that apply) 


683 61.98% 19.05% Introduced me to resources including Grad Planner and the Engage! search tool 

621 56.35% 17.32% Made me feel motivated to get involved outside of classes 

636 57.71% 17.74% Helped me understand the importance of planning my college experience 

608 55.17% 16.95% Made me feel motivated to be successful in college 

531 48.19% 14.81% Helped me understand the importance of setting goals 

462 41.92% 12.88% Helped me understand the ownership and responsibility I have for my college experience 


Count 

Percent 

1 2.22% Besides the "game" that we played, I felt that it was pointless for the most part. 


1 2.22% Did not do any of the above 

1 2.22% did not provide me with any new information. 

1 2.22% Don't give us website resources in slideshows! No one can remember them we get so much information that it all becomes useless. 

1 2.22% I didn't learn anything i didn't already know 

1 2.22% I didn't like it. 

1 2.22% i felt was pointless 

1 2.22% it was completely pointless. we already knew all that stuff from other sessions. 

1 2.22% It was information that I heard many times before. 

1 2.22% it was ok, nothing special or that should have been required 

1 2.22% jobs 

1 2.22% Made me fall asleep since I've hears ALL of that before 

1 2.22% made me fall asleep...sorry 

1 2.22% made me feel overwhelmed 

1 2.22% Made me Laugh. 

1 2.22% needs to be improved 

1 2.22% none 

2 4.44% None 

1 2.22% none of these



1 2.22% None of these really apply to me. I already know about Grad Planner, so that didn't really give me any new information...and other than that, I'm 

not really sure what the presenters were even talking about. It was pretty boring, No offense. 

1 2.22% none of these, it was purely repetition of things we have already heard before 

1 2.22% None of these. 

1 2.22% Nope 

1 2.22% not a whole lot 

1 2.22% not helpful really 



1 2.22% put me to sleep 

1 2.22% Put me to sleep... 

1 2.22% Redundant and too long 

1 2.22% the classroom size was too large 

1 2.22% this presentation was not interesting or effective. 

1 2.22% was a repitition of orientation and the cla open house 

1 2.22% Was a waste of time 

1 2.22% was boring 

1 2.22% was not helpful 

1 2.22% was not helpful. 

1 2.22% Was repetitive 

1 2.22% Wasn't very useful. 

Q78. The "Live Like a Student" presentation . . . (Check all that apply) 


714 64.32% 22.78% Made me think critically about what I should or should not spend money on as a college student 

688 61.98% 21.95% Made me more aware of the money decisions I make now and their impact on me long term 

676 60.90% 21.57% Provided advice about money in a positive way 

446 40.18% 14.23% Showed me how to obtain a campus job 

564 50.81% 18.00% Made me more knowledgeable about how to find ways to save money around campus 


Count 

Percent 

1 2.17% Depressed me. Make college more affordable!

1 2.17% did not attend 

1 2.17% Did not help me at all 

1 2.17% did nothing 

1 2.17% Did nothing 

1 2.17% Didn't enjoy 

1 2.17% didn't learn anything new 

1 2.17% didnt really help me 

1 2.17% Everything they went over seemed to be common sense, it wasn't very hard. However, I am a very financially concientious student, and some 

other students seemed not to be. Others seemed to benefit from this presentation greatly. 

1 2.17% felt like a waste of time 

1 2.17% i didn't learn anything i didn't already know 

1 2.17% I felt it was kind of dumb. The "game show" thing was stupid and it was all information that I already knew. 

1 2.17% I felt that it was pointless for the most part. 

1 2.17% It didn't tell me anything I didn't already know. 

1 2.17% It took a lot of time for the message "Be conservative with your money." 

1 2.17% it was bad 

1 2.17% It was not very useful to me 

1 2.17% It wasn't very informative in my oppinion. 

1 2.17% made no difference 

3 6.52% none 

1 2.17% Not helpful 

1 2.17% not helpful at all 


1 2.17% Presented Ridiculous ideas 

1 2.17% Showed me very little things that I didn't already know. 

1 2.17% Snore 

1 2.17% taught me nothing important. 

1 2.17% The host was bad 

1 2.17% The presenter was not engaging. 

1 2.17% This seemed to cover information anyone who can speak would already know 

1 2.17% uh 

1 2.17% was a waste of my time since I paid attention during orientation 

1 2.17% was both informative and fun 

1 2.17% was entertaining

1 2.17% was for people without common sense. 

1 2.17% was fun 

1 2.17% was not clear about how to obtain a work study job 

1 2.17% was saying what should be common sense 

1 2.17% was unhelpful 

1 2.17% was very repetetive and generic 

1 2.17% Wasn't that helpful. I honestly don't really remember any of the information. Statistics aren't helpful. 



Q79. Would you like to receive periodic e-mails with One Stop's money saving tips and great advice on how to "Live Like a Student" 

Count 

Percent 

366 32.97% Yes (please provide e-mail address) 

Count 

Percent 

1 0.27% aberhow@hotmail.com 

1 0.27% acook@umn.edu 

1 0.27% adams878@umn.edu 

1 0.27% ahlqu039@umn.edu 

1 0.27% Alex360.Uckun@gmail.com 

1 0.27% alfve007@umn.edu 

1 0.27% allen892@umn.edu 

1 0.27% amesx072@umn.edu 

1 0.27% and01632@umn.edu 



1 0.27% anetapszczola@yahoo.com 

1 0.27% angel132@umn.edu 

1 0.27% angelaross91@gmail.com 

1 0.27% austi272@umn.edu 

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1 0.27% cady.phillips@yahoo.com 

1 0.27% campb875@umn.edu 


1 0.27% carl3988@umn.edu 

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1 0.27% chaselockbeam@yahoo.com 

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1 0.27% joemamajim@hotmail.com 

1 0.27% joh07920@umn.edu 

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1 0.27% jolly041@umn.edu 

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1 0.27% JuliaWiersum@gmail.com 

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1 0.27% mikegolmann4dreamcometrue@gmail.com 

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1 0.27% miner086@umn.edu 

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1 0.27% moham492@umn.edu 

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1 0.27% moor0808@umn.edu 


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1 0.27% ziel0068@umn.edu 

744 67.03% No 


Q80. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following statement:Overall, the Welcome Week presenters were knowledgeable. 

Count 

Percent 


839 54.94% Agree 

107 7.01% Neutral 




Q81. After attending the Pride & Spirit event, I . . . (Check all that apply) 


787 51.54% 14.43% Understand the importance of sportsmanship 

1210 79.24% 22.18% Have a greater sense of school pride 

996 65.23% 18.26% Am more likely to attend athletic events 

1198 78.45% 21.96% Was excited to be in the new stadium 

1083 70.92% 19.85% Was proud to be a part of making the M on the field 

89 5.83% 1.63% Other (please specify)

Count 

Percent 

1 1.12% 

1 1.12% A LOT of standing. 

1 1.12% Already had great sense of pride and planned to attend many events 

1 1.12% am disgusted that my tuition pays for that stadium 

1 1.12% Am still a Badger fan 

1 1.12% awesome 

1 1.12% became very resentful of the football team and cheer squad. This was a waste of time and enegry, especially since I do not plan on attending 

any games. 

1 1.12% Best day of all welcome week 

1 1.12% Bought football season tickets, I was on the fence about it before the event. 

1 1.12% BREW CREW! 

1 1.12% can not wait to be at our first home game. 

1 1.12% can't wait for football season to start!!! 

1 1.12% decided not to come to football games - I'd rather study 

1 1.12% Did not do any of the above. Actually I feel that it undermined sportsmanship. 

1 1.12% did not enjoy it and was annoyed. 

1 1.12% Enjoyed the antics of Goldy. 

1 1.12% Feel less excited about school spirit than ever before 

1 1.12% Felt a connection with my classmates! 

1 1.12% Felt more like a community 

1 1.12% felt that it should have been shorter. 

1 1.12% find it pathetic how important football is to our school. 

1 1.12% got cold 

1 1.12% got the whole stadium on its feet 

1 1.12% got very cold 

1 1.12% Had a great time! 

1 1.12% had fun and glad I learned the cheers 

1 1.12% had fun!! 

1 1.12% had no voice, an indication of a awesome time! 

1 1.12% HATE IOWA 

1 1.12% Have no better understanding of the cheers 

1 1.12% I am definetely going to be a marching band member next year 

1 1.12% I can't wait to cheer at Gopher Game!

1 1.12% I did not like the Pride and Spirit Event 

1 1.12% I felt the articulation of the cheers and how they were taught was very confusing. 

1 1.12% I'm in the marching band performing was AWESOME! 

1 1.12% I'm so excited! I'm definitely going to every game, considering it was super fun when there wasn't even a game. 

1 1.12% In all honesty, that was awful. 

1 1.12% In the band!! Woot! 

1 1.12% It ran late and it was harder to get home because I was out later than expected and busing had changed times. 

1 1.12% it was all good except making the M 

1 1.12% It was fun but too many cheers were thrown at us at once and the cheerleading coach could've done a better job teaching us the cheers. 

1 1.12% learned the cheers 

1 1.12% Learned the songs 

1 1.12% learned we hate Iowa 

1 1.12% lost my voice; actually bought tickets! 

1 1.12% Love marching band 

1 1.12% Loved being in the marching band 

1 1.12% LOVED THIS EVENT 

1 1.12% Making the M took way too long and we couldn't hear any of the directions 

1 1.12% none 

2 2.25% None 


1 1.12% None of the Above 

1 1.12% Played in the band!!!! 

1 1.12% Played in the Band!!!! 

1 1.12% Put away my tuba 

1 1.12% Realized even more how much I love marching band 

1 1.12% realized I needed to bring warm attire to truly enjoy the experience 

1 1.12% Realized the great decision I made in joining marching band 

1 1.12% SKI-U-MAH! 

1 1.12% SO FANTASTIC. 

1 1.12% SO much fun! 

1 1.12% Sport, sports, sports... there is more than just sports. 

1 1.12% Still do not like sports 

1 1.12% This was my favorite event.

1 1.12% Too cold. The cheerleading coach needs to learn how to teach her cheers. Pointless videos. Too many speakers. Hard to hear. Too late. Don't 

give out noisemakers in an outside stadium when you want 5,000 people to listen. 

1 1.12% Too long 

1 1.12% Want to join the rooter club 

1 1.12% was a bit annoyed that we spent two hours to do absolutly nothing useful, only to have to make our own way back to St. Paul. 

1 1.12% was angered by the school's lack of attention to anything but football 

1 1.12% was dead tired 

1 1.12% Was excited for homecoming! 

1 1.12% was exhausted and chilly 

1 1.12% Was extremely glad I didn't miss it! 

1 1.12% Was in Marching Band 

1 1.12% Was not particularly helpful in fostering any positive feelings 

1 1.12% was proud to be a Gopher 

1 1.12% was very cold 

1 1.12% WAS VERY TIRED OF CHEERING 

2 2.25% Waste of time 

1 1.12% We didn't get a chance to learn the Minnesota rouser. 

1 1.12% went to Coffman for free food. 

1 1.12% wished that the cheers and cadences had been presented in a more understandable way 

1 1.12% wished the gopher football team was better 




Q82. Gophers After Dark events . . . (Check all that apply) 


616 40.34% 29.79% Gave me the opportunity to interact with others 

739 48.40% 35.74% Were fun and relaxing 


Count 

Percent 

1 2.50% 

1 2.50% Allowed me to check out the Whole!!! 


1 2.50% awesome DJ

1 2.50% Comedy Sportz was great! 

1 2.50% Couldn't attend it was too late. 

1 2.50% Decent 

1 2.50% free food 

1 2.50% Free Food 

1 2.50% fun 

1 2.50% good for free food 

1 2.50% got me an awesome tye-die shirt and a delicious rootbeer float 

1 2.50% had amazing free arcade games! 

1 2.50% Had to leave because of how late it was 

1 2.50% had yummy free food. 

1 2.50% Helped me meet up with my high school friends. 

1 2.50% hypnotist was awesome 

1 2.50% Hypnotist was awesome! 

1 2.50% I did not attend because the whole schedule ahead of Gophers After Dark was way too tiring for me to handle all the fun at night. I probably 

would not have been able to get up the next morning if I attended the Gophers After Dark 

1 2.50% i loved the hypnotist shows 

1 2.50% I really enjoyed the T-shirt tyedying. 

1 2.50% It was messy and chaotic and you couldn't do the things you wanted unless you got there as soon as it started. 

1 2.50% Just looked to see what it was like and got a cookie 

1 2.50% Loved the comedy show 

1 2.50% loved the food! 

1 2.50% Really surprising and FUN 

1 2.50% SO MUCH FUN! 

1 2.50% The Best Night! 

1 2.50% The hypnotist late show gave me an opportunity to meet new people sitting around me by laughing and being in awe together, it sparked a 

commonality between us where we wanted to talk about what we had just seen. 

1 2.50% The hypnotist was amazing! 

1 2.50% They were fun but generally too busy to be called "relaxing" 

1 2.50% tooo crowded 

1 2.50% Was kind of lame. 

1 2.50% was like the best part of welcome week. I would like to thank the greeks for bringing in brave new workshop 

1 2.50% went too late 

1 2.50% Were a bit too crowded and a bit too late

1 2.50% were a little too chaotic, busy, hectic, the line for free nachos was ridiculous 

1 2.50% Were hilarious 

1 2.50% were very crowded 

1 2.50% were WAY to busy! 

673 44.07% 32.54% Did not attend 



Q83. Please rate each of the following Gophers After Dark events: - Hypnotist Dr. Jim Wand 

Count 

Percent 



38 4.45% Average 


2 0.23% Poor 



Q84. Please rate each of the following Gophers After Dark events: - Comedy Sportz 

Count 

Percent 





1 0.12% Poor 


853 Respondents

Q85. Please rate each of the following Gophers After Dark events: - Nacho bar 

Count 

Percent 



137 16.06% Average 


4 0.47% Poor 



Q86. Please rate each of the following Gophers After Dark events: - Décor-eat Your Own Cookie 

Count 

Percent 





6 0.70% Poor 



Q87. Please rate each of the following Gophers After Dark events: - Fort Wilson Riot concert 

Count 

Percent 





3 0.35% Poor 


853 Respondents

Q88. Please rate each of the following Gophers After Dark events: - Video game competition 

Count 

Percent 





3 0.35% Poor 



Q89. Please rate each of the following Gophers After Dark events: - Free bowling, billiards, and arcade games 

Count 

Percent 





1 0.12% Poor 



Q90. Please rate each of the following Gophers After Dark events: - Tye-dye t-shirts 

Count 

Percent 





4 0.47% Poor 



Q91. Do you plan to attend Gophers After Dark during the school year 

Count 

Percent 

1355 88.85% Yes 

170 11.15% No (please explain) 

Count 

Percent

1 0.59% Academics and clubs take priority, may attend in the future. 

1 0.59% As a commuter, it's difficult to attend 

1 0.59% At this point, I am not sure. 

1 0.59% baskeball conflicts 

1 0.59% Because I am commuting I probably won't be able to attend them. 

1 0.59% Because I don't want back home late, I am a commuter. 

1 0.59% Because of transportation issues and getting home before it's too dark. 

1 0.59% Being a commuter and having to find a way back to my housing that late at night is a problem. Metro-Transit does not provide transportation to 

where I need to go that late at night. 

1 0.59% Bus doesn't run that late 

1 0.59% Busy schedule 

1 0.59% Busy with other things 

1 0.59% Does not interest me 

1 0.59% don't have time 

1 0.59% For a commuter, it is hard to find a way home that late at night. 

1 0.59% Gophers After Dark events occur mainly when I have to work, as I work midnight shifts on my off-campus job. 

1 0.59% have too many classes that I have to study for 

1 0.59% I am a commuter and a female student. It's unsafe to travel on the bus when late. 

1 0.59% I am a commuter and buses don't run that late 

1 0.59% I am a commuter and the bus schedule doesn't allow it. 

1 0.59% I am a commuter, and it might be difficult to attend since I live about 20-30 minutes away by bus. 

1 0.59% I am a commuter. It is difficult to stay that late - buses/train don't run that late. 

1 0.59% I am commuter and my last bus leaves Coffman before Gophers After Dark starts. 

1 0.59% I am commuting from 45 minutes away and it's difficult to fit into my schedule. 

1 0.59% I am not a late night person. I work on a early to bed and early riser. Just not my kind of thing. 

1 0.59% I am not interested. 

1 0.59% I am so busy with sports and friends! 

1 0.59% I can stay late because of culture issue. 

1 0.59% I do not think I will have time. 

1 0.59% I don't know anyone yet that will be going to it. 

1 0.59% I don't know enough info about it and didn't really know that there was Gophers After Dark during the school year. 

1 0.59% I don't plan on it, but it is a possibility. 

1 0.59% I feel I will be too busy sleeping or studying. 

1 0.59% i gotta help my family

1 0.59% I guess I'm undecided. 

1 0.59% I have better things to do 

1 0.59% I have early class and I'm not a big bowler or billiards player. 

1 0.59% I have early morning classes, and don't plan on staying up that late. 

1 0.59% I have problems with ride arrangements. 

1 0.59% I have to be up early everyday to be to classes on time because I am a commuter. 

1 0.59% I live off campus so I like to be home early. I prefer not to ride the bus late at night or figure out a way/ride home. 

1 0.59% i live off-campus 

1 0.59% I might but it isn't something that I can definitely say that I will do. 

1 0.59% I might, but I am a commuter and as such would be staying out past the time when busses are running to my metro transit station. 

1 0.59% i take a bus home and it will be hard to get a busy late at night to take me home 

1 0.59% I think I'll find other activities with friends 

1 0.59% I will attend Gophers After Dark after Welcome Week when it is less crowded. All the events I was looking forward to (Target Run, Late Night at 

MOA) were disappointing. I waited (lines or assigned times would have been better) for 1 hr and 15 min. I eventually gave up. I didn't even 

attend MOA, even though I wanted to because I knew it would be the same. Don't do events that aren't realistic. I was really excited to go and 

was disappointed. 

1 0.59% I will be busy with homework and activities, I plan on hanging out with friends throughout the day (I may go a few times, but not regularly) 

1 0.59% I will probably be studying 

1 0.59% I work as a CCC and live very close to campus thus I will be commuting home when I have time. 

1 0.59% I work the night shift, and I have a family to take care of. 

1 0.59% I would just go an hang out with people. 

1 0.59% I would not have a ride home due to the late hour. I wouldn't feel safe on the bus. 

1 0.59% i would prefer to do other activities during my free time at night 

1 0.59% I would prefer to sleep. 

1 0.59% I would rather focus more on my school work first semester and then once I've organized my study plan start to attend more. 

1 0.59% I would rather have fun somewhere else.. 

1 0.59% I'd rather go to wild parties. 

1 0.59% I'd rather hang out with friends in more unstructured ways 

1 0.59% I'll probably participate in other events with my friends 

1 0.59% I'm at the university paying a considerable, no, CONSIDERABLE amount of money to get an education. Gophers After Dark and any other 

non-work or non-service-based activity does not fit into my plan for college. 

1 0.59% I'm just not interested in that kind of stuff. 

1 0.59% I'm not really sure yet 

1 0.59% I'm not sure 

1 0.59% It didn't seem like something I'd want to go to more than once.

1 0.59% It doesn't seem that exciting. 

1 0.59% It isn't that I don't want to, I just haven't given it much thought. I might, once I get more settled in, but for now it is not on my schedule. 

1 0.59% It really depends on how busy it is. 

1 0.59% Its inconvenient for me as a commuter who lives more than 10 miles away. 

1 0.59% it's too late 

1 0.59% Large amounts of people in one area is not my idea of a good time. I would much rather see a couple of friends at a time. 

1 0.59% live off campus 

1 0.59% live off campus and want to go home after classes 

1 0.59% live off campus and would rather be home 

1 0.59% Marching band takes up time 

3 1.76% maybe 

3 1.76% Maybe 

1 0.59% Maybe, but I am more likely to be directly involved in community service during the entirety of the school year. 

1 0.59% Maybe, depending on my work load, sleeping habits, or other social plans. 

1 0.59% Maybe, maybe not. Depends on what else I have going on. 

1 0.59% Maybe I'm a commuter and I take the bus, so staying here that late can be more trouble than it's worth. 

1 0.59% Might not have time nor the money to go. 

1 0.59% More interested in doing homework 

1 0.59% My school activity is Marching Band, and Pep Band, and the rest of the time is for homework and classes. 

1 0.59% No experience 

1 0.59% no interest 

2 1.18% not interested 

1 0.59% Not interested. 

1 0.59% Not my thing 

1 0.59% Only if I'm not loaded with homework. 

1 0.59% Only if it look specifically interesting or fits into my schedule. 

1 0.59% Other things to do 

1 0.59% possibly 

1 0.59% Probably too late for transit buses to take me home. 

1 0.59% School is much more important, and possibly even more fun. 

1 0.59% since i live off compus it is very scary to take city bus at night and walking home past three blocks. 

1 0.59% Some things are hard to go to since I am a commuter. 

1 0.59% Studying requires too much time.

1 0.59% They're too late at night and I'm a commuter so it'll be dificult for me to return home at midnight. 

1 0.59% too crowded. 

1 0.59% too late 

1 0.59% Too late. I like to wake up early, so I have to be to bed early. 

1 0.59% too tired 

1 0.59% Unless my friends are set on going, there are other places in Minneapolis to have fun. 

1 0.59% Unsure. 

1 0.59% was way too busy 

1 0.59% Well maybe 

1 0.59% will not be on campus 

1 0.59% Would rather go home. 


Q92. Which of the following on-campus events would like to attend (Check all that apply) 


860 63.56% 11.22% Comedians 

1107 81.82% 14.45% Concerts 

1045 77.24% 13.64% Films 

699 51.66% 9.12% Recreational tournaments 

692 51.15% 9.03% Celebrity speakers 

593 43.83% 7.74% Hypnotists 

706 52.18% 9.21% Bowling and billiards 

319 23.58% 4.16% Skill shops 

371 27.42% 4.84% Craft-making 

431 31.86% 5.63% Dance workshops 

485 35.85% 6.33% Cards or board games 

346 25.57% 4.52% Video game tournaments 



7662 Responses

Q93. In which of the following did you participate on Saturday (Check all that apply) 


263 17.27% 16.84% An off-campus Service Experience 

1061 69.67% 67.93% An on-campus Engagement Symposium 

238 15.63% 15.24% Neither of these 



Q94. Why did you not participate in an off-campus Service Experience or an on-campus Engagement Symposium 

Count 

Percent 

206 100.00% 

Count 

Percent 

1 0.49% Alarm clock did not go off in time. 

1 0.49% alarm did not go off. 

1 0.49% An issue with transportation to the event arose and I was unable to make it to the campus that weekend. 

1 0.49% because I am in the marching band 

1 0.49% Because I was not interested. 

1 0.49% Because the Welcome Week Program is very tiring and they encourage us to participate in late night activities such as Gopher's After Dark, or 

Residence Hall activities, and then expect us to get up early the next morning. I was exhausted by Saturday and I needed a day to sleep in. 

1 0.49% Because we decided that we were so tired from the prior events that it was in our best interests to get more sleep so we would be more 

prepared for the following days. 

1 0.49% Becuase my group went to intrasessions instead 

1 0.49% Cause i was sleeping. 

1 0.49% commuting conflict 

1 0.49% Conflict 

1 0.49% Couldn't find a ride. 

1 0.49% dad was having surgery 


1 0.49% Did not feel well 

1 0.49% Did not have one 

1 0.49% did not have time 

1 0.49% Did not know hen we were meeting 

1 0.49% exemption 

1 0.49% Family Plans And Work. 

1 0.49% Feel uncomfortable

1 0.49% Football practice. 

1 0.49% Friday was boring so I decided to go home and see my family instead. 

1 0.49% group leaders gave vague information, made it hard to find out how to attend 

1 0.49% Had a work orientation 

1 0.49% Had other important plans for the day. 

1 0.49% had to do something else that day. 

1 0.49% had to work 

1 0.49% I accidentally missed the meeting time. 

1 0.49% I accidentally over slept so I woke up too late to go to the symposium. 

1 0.49% I accidently slept in. 

1 0.49% I ahd a Gymnastics team meeting, and I was not interested in the symposium 

1 0.49% I am a commuter, and was told they are not required 

1 0.49% I am a member of the U of M Women's Tennis Team and could not attend do to practice. 

1 0.49% I am a member of the University of Minnesota Football Program, and on saturday we were told to follow our athletic schedule which did not 

consist of either an off-campus Service Experience or an on-campus ENgagement Symposium. 

1 0.49% I am in marching band, we were at the state fair marching. 

1 0.49% I am in the marching band, we performed at the state fair 

1 0.49% I am part of marching band, and thus followed the SPAT camp schedule instead. 

1 0.49% I am very sick. 

1 0.49% I arranged several accommodations with my Disability Services specialist due to the overwhelm associated with such a large, tightly-scheduled 

Welcome Week plan. However, I sincerely wish I had been able to attend! 

1 0.49% I attended church Saturday morning and arrived to participate in the very end of the on-campus symposium. 

1 0.49% I can't remember what our options were that day. Maybe I did do the Engagement Symposium, but I don't remember. 

1 0.49% I could not find my group, and followed a residential group but left early to meet with my group. 

1 0.49% I could not meet with my group due to conflicts. 

1 0.49% I did not participate because I was tired from the week. 

1 0.49% I did not participate. 

1 0.49% I did not wake up in time and half of my group also did not attend. 

1 0.49% I didn't know we were supposed to do one of the activities.. 

1 0.49% I didn't know when the times or locations were and i forgot to ask about the them the day before. 

1 0.49% I didn't really know what either were about 

1 0.49% I didn't remember what time to meet. 

1 0.49% I didnt want to attend. 

1 0.49% I didn't want to go to a Social Justice Film Festival.

1 0.49% I do not attend Sunday services. 

1 0.49% i do not know 

1 0.49% I do not know what that is 

1 0.49% I don't know 

1 0.49% I dont remember which one I participated in or if I participated at all. 

1 0.49% I don't remember. 

1 0.49% I felt that it was unnecessary, I've done several hours of community service through boy scouts and I felt that you weren't going to show me 

anything that the boy scouts hadn't. 

1 0.49% I felt the whole welcome week program lasted much too long and since this portion was not required, I did not go. 

1 0.49% I got lost 

1 0.49% I guess it is important. 

1 0.49% I had a meeting with another of the students at Mcnamara. 

1 0.49% I had a wedding to go to 

1 0.49% I had be excused for work. 

1 0.49% I had no idea where I was supposed to be nor when I was supposed to be there. 

1 0.49% I had no transportation (commuter) to campus on that day. 

1 0.49% i had other things out of college wanted to take care of and Jenny said it was fine. 

1 0.49% I had previous engagements that required my presence during that time period. 

1 0.49% I had previous plans made with ym family 

1 0.49% I had prior marching band committments 

1 0.49% I had prior obligations 

1 0.49% I had spat camp activities. 

1 0.49% I had to go baby-sit my cousin, due to a family emergncy that my aunt had to deal with out of town. 

1 0.49% I had to go home for a family event. 

1 0.49% I had to help my twin sister move in at St. Olaf (sorry!!). 

1 0.49% I had to return to Fargo, ND from Friday-Sunday to attend my brother's wedding. 

1 0.49% i had to work 

1 0.49% I had to work and had an exemption. 

1 0.49% I had to work that morning so I showed up a half hour late and I was told all I missed was a walk through the museum. 

1 0.49% I had to work this day and my manager wouldn't let me take time off. I work in Edina so I had to take the bus for nearly 2 hours each way. 

1 0.49% I had to work. College is expensive. 

1 0.49% I have a phobia of water and the off-campus Service Experience was canoeing down the river through campus. I did not attend a Engangement 

Symposium because my leader did not care to tell me any information other than this canoeing thing. 

1 0.49% I have arthritis and was not able to keep up with my group due to joint pain.

1 0.49% I may have, I don't really remember 

1 0.49% I might have. I just don't remember. It's tough to remember the specific name of all the activities we did during Welcome Week. They all 

became a blur after a few days. 

1 0.49% I missed it so I just went to Coffman to get my textbooks. 

1 0.49% I missed our meeting times. 

1 0.49% I overslept and missed the service experience day. 

1 0.49% I overslept and my group left without me 

1 0.49% I really don't remember if I did or not. 

1 0.49% I slept in. 

1 0.49% I slept in. And heard it would have been better not to have been toured around the Weisman. 

1 0.49% I think it was because the team leaders said it was optional and that we can meet up at 11 a.m. by Coffman. 

1 0.49% I thought it would be more important to buy my books and set up the printer in my room. 

1 0.49% I thought it would be more useful to do other things and find meaningful volunteer opportunities that i cared about later on in the year. 

1 0.49% I took work off for welcome week and was then needed on saturday. 

1 0.49% I unfortunately slept in until the later afternoon and had totally missed any participation with my group. 

1 0.49% I wanted to participate in the service project but due to miscommunication i missed it 

1 0.49% i was at a wedding 

1 0.49% I was at work 

1 0.49% I was busy 

1 0.49% I was completely exhausted from the week's activities and was sick because of it. 

1 0.49% I was during the day so I could not attend. 

1 0.49% I was excuse because I had to work, and I told the headquarters the wrong time after looking at my schedule but i told my group leaders, and 

she told me it was going to be ok :) 

1 0.49% I was excused for the day. 

1 0.49% I was exempt from the events from Friday through Sunday. 

1 0.49% I was exempt to show at State Fair FFA 

1 0.49% I was exempted 

1 0.49% I was exhausted and did not desire to come. 

1 0.49% i was ill. 

1 0.49% I was in bed sick with a cold. 

1 0.49% I was in the marching band and playing at the state fair 

1 0.49% I was involved in marching band. 

1 0.49% I was late and missed these events. 

1 0.49% I was late in arriving for the Symposium, so I didn't know where to go.

1 0.49% I was lost 

1 0.49% I was marching with the marching band at the Minnesota State Fair 

1 0.49% I was not able to attend for personal reasons. 

1 0.49% I was not able to come because I was sick. 

1 0.49% I was out of town. 

1 0.49% I was overwhelmed with all the events that had happened in the previous days and was very tired. 

1 0.49% I was scheduled to work and was unable to find a substitute or skip work. 

1 0.49% I was sick 

1 0.49% I was sick so my mom took me to the urgent care and then the ER 

1 0.49% I was sick, and my parents drove up from Milwaukee to surprise me on my birthday. 

1 0.49% I was sick, so I had to miss out on about half of the welcome week activities because I was admitted into the hospital. 

2 0.97% I was sick. 

1 0.49% I was sleeping and relaxing after the big transition to college and being on the go. Sorry. 

1 0.49% I was supposed to go canoeing and it was freezing cold so I slept in. 

1 0.49% i was tired from the week. 

1 0.49% I was tired there was soo much going on throughout the week and I never had any down time. Many of the events were fun but there was just 

so much stuff planned for us. 

1 0.49% i was tired. 

1 0.49% I was tired. Too much stuff going on for the first three days. 

1 0.49% I was told it was not worth going to 

1 0.49% I was too exhausted from the rest of Welcome Week. I was starting to get sick from lack of sleep. 

1 0.49% I was unable to make it to the U because of a prior commitment that I did not know would conflict with welcome week until the day before. 

1 0.49% I was unaware of the opportunity 

1 0.49% I was working at the Minnesota State Fair 

1 0.49% I wasn't in the cities, therefore I could not go with my group to either one. 

1 0.49% I wen to ISSS office because I got a hold. 

1 0.49% I went back to my room at 3:00 a.m. so I could not get up in time to attend the event. 

1 0.49% I went home for the day. 

1 0.49% I went home to visit my family and bring more stuff back Sunday. I was also with the band throughout the morning until about 4PM 

1 0.49% I woke up too late. 

1 0.49% I'm a member of the U of M Marching Band. We rehearsed and performed at the Minnesota State Fair that day. 

1 0.49% I'm in the marching band and was performing at the State Fair on Saturday. 

1 0.49% I'm not sure what these were. Maybe I did attend. 

1 0.49% It ended up being just a lecture. I thought it would be hands-on experience

1 0.49% Marching band at the State Fair!! 

1 0.49% Marching band schedule. 

1 0.49% My Dad was taking out a big tree in our front yard and I didn't want him to be doing it alone. 

1 0.49% My group just didn't. 

1 0.49% My group wasn't informed about it. 

1 0.49% My sister came to visit me, family takes priority. 

1 0.49% n/a 

1 0.49% Needed sleep. 

1 0.49% No free time! I was very busy 

1 0.49% No one in our group wanted to go, so our leader said we didn't have to since no one else would be there. 

1 0.49% Not interested 

1 0.49% not interested! 

1 0.49% Not sure. I may have but the name isn't ringing a bell. 

1 0.49% Other plans 

1 0.49% other priorities 

1 0.49% Other priorities 

1 0.49% Our group left without us. 

1 0.49% Our group never was told to do a service project. 

1 0.49% Our leaders did not bring us. 

1 0.49% out of town for a wedding 

2 0.97% over slept 

1 0.49% Over slept 

1 0.49% Overslept 

1 0.49% Parents came down to visit and drop off things I forgot. I wish I had the opportunity to attend because it sounded very interesting and fun! 

1 0.49% Previous engagement. 

1 0.49% Religious sabbath day 

1 0.49% seemed boring 

1 0.49% Showing at the fair 

1 0.49% The bus' schedule was not on time. 

1 0.49% The one our group had looked incredibly uninteresting and I wanted to sleep in. We had way too many events. 

1 0.49% There wasn't enough time during the day. 

1 0.49% They did not sound very entertaining. 

1 0.49% time conflicts


1 0.49% To be honest, I might have participated in either of these, but I don't recall either of them since the names don't sound familiar. 

1 0.49% Too tired, the schedule during the week finally caught up to me. 

1 0.49% unknown 

1 0.49% Visited my family and got more materials for my dorm. 

1 0.49% Was at Marching Band 

1 0.49% was at state fair with family 

1 0.49% Was burnt out and overwhelmed. Spent a relaxing day at the dorm bonding with roommate and learning where classes are on campus. I would 

usually feel bad for ditching community service events, but I plan to compensate for that during the year. 

1 0.49% Was in Marching Band at the time 

1 0.49% Was out of town 

1 0.49% Wasn't about to make it on Saturday for Welcome Week. 

1 0.49% way too sick of being talked to. super annoyed 

1 0.49% We had the Symposium and it seemed boring, I would have done the Service Experience 

1 0.49% We just went to grand avenue and walked around. 

1 0.49% We thought the bus left at noon but it left at 9 am 

1 0.49% We went to downtown Minneapolis and just walked around, exploring the city. 

1 0.49% We went to Explore U instead 

1 0.49% we went to the explore-u 

1 0.49% We were all very tired and decided that the Engagement Symposium wasn't worth our time. I believe that, had it been an off-campus Service 

Engagement, I would have been more inclined to attend. However, I didn't feel like sitting down to listen to something that would eventually 

make me fall asleep. That would have made me feel guilty for not showing more respect towards an activity and a group of people that deserve 

that kind of respect. 

1 0.49% welcome week leaders didn't tell us where to go 

1 0.49% Went home for a couple hours to grab stuff for my dorm. 

1 0.49% Work. 

Q95. Please describe your service and engagement-related experience: 

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Percent 

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1 0.10% - 

1 0.10% "journey of hope" was sad and very informative. I learned a lto of new information about AIDS/HIV that i was not aware of before. It 

got kind of long but it was overall very good! 

1 0.10% "Taking a Stand Against Genocide" Unfortunately, it was very depressing, especially since it was first thing in the morning, but it 

also made me want to help with World Without Genocide and S.T.A.N.D. here on campus.

1 0.10% . 

1 0.10% :) interesting 

1 0.10% A film. 

1 0.10% A man came in and spoke about his camp for children affected by HIV/AIDS 

1 0.10% a man who started the AIDS camp for kids 

1 0.10% A program about children with AIDS/HIV and sexual health. 

1 0.10% Against genocide, interesting, intriguing 

2 0.20% AIDS 

1 0.10% aids info 

1 0.10% AIDS symposium. It was terrible. The speaker was not engaging and lost the attention of almost everyone around me within 5 minutes. It was 

also excessively long. 

1 0.10% AIDS/ charity talk. Long and unnecessary! 

1 0.10% Although I recognize that genocide is an important issue, it was definitely not a topic I wanted to hear about for two plus hours. The 

presentation wasn't awful in content but two of the speakers held the microphone too close to their mouths making their voices almost 

unbearable to listen to. 

1 0.10% art 

1 0.10% Art and social Iesumes 

1 0.10% Art Craw; 

1 0.10% Art Crawl 

1 0.10% Art crawl. I did not enjoy being told what each art piece meant, and not being given the chance to observe the pieces myself and decide for 

myself what they meant to me. 

1 0.10% Art Museum 

1 0.10% Arts involving social issues. 

1 0.10% Attended a genocide symposium. 

1 0.10% Attended the Wiesman Art Museum and received a presentation on art appreciation. 


1 0.10% awesome! 

1 0.10% awesome!! i loved canoeing down the Mississippi river! It was an amazing experience. 

1 0.10% Being apart of the Summer Bridge Program 

1 0.10% Birthday bags and blanket making at the Hillel House 

1 0.10% Bit boring 

1 0.10% boring 


1 0.10% Boring and didn't feel like I was really making that big of a difference 

1 0.10% BORING!

1 0.10% boring,and a waste of time. 

1 0.10% Boring. 

1 0.10% By then, I was super tired and I think the whole audience was falling asleep again. But it was very sad and all, but I kept nodding off. 

1 0.10% Camp heartland staff and people infected and affected by HIV came to speak to us. 

1 0.10% Canoeing down the Mississippi River was a great experience! 

1 0.10% Canoeing was awesome and we got to learn some sweet history of the area. 

1 0.10% Canoeing was very fun and enjoyable. 

1 0.10% canoeing, ok 

1 0.10% Children affected by aids 

1 0.10% colored lunch bags for United Way 

1 0.10% Colossal waste of time. That is all. 

1 0.10% cpr was fun. 

1 0.10% Dakota talked to us about getting our voices out there as college students and voting. She was very passionate about the subject and I found 

that very engaging. I'm a bit more willing to read the newspaper or maybe watch the news whereas before I wasn't into anything of the sort. 

1 0.10% decorated a lunch bag for the united way kids 

1 0.10% did not like. all we did was sit and talk about poverty in the twin cities while others got to go kayak and other fun stuff. 

1 0.10% different 

1 0.10% Discussed genocide 

1 0.10% Don't remember. 

1 0.10% Downtown Minneapolis. Walked around and saw the attractions. 

1 0.10% Dull 

1 0.10% During my engagement symposium we walked through the Weisman Art museum. Within the museum we analyzed the various forms of art 

that are held there, from a temporary piece made from recycled tables and cinder blocks to bowls from Native Americans that are hundreds of 

years old. The focus of the discussions was how can I make something better, who do these belong to, and finally what does this art mean to 

me 

1 0.10% During our engagement session we were briefly informed of out activity and then shuffled around the museum. We looked at very specific items 

that were not interesting to me or, it seemed, to the tour guide. I felt like we were told exactly what each particular piece meant and was trying 

to convey. We were not given the opportunity to think for ourselves and I do not understand why art is related to community engagement other 

than the fact that the art was from the community. 

1 0.10% During the Engagement related experience, we were told about the importance of student voting on campus to make sure that the politicians 

would pay attention to the voices of students. I had already voted in the primary, so it was nice that they gave me the form necessary to change 

my address now that I am living on campus. However, I did think it odd that almost all of Comstock was at this voting symposium, as a great 

deal of our students are international students and cannot vote in the election anyway, so they had to sit around for long periods of time doing 

nothing. 

1 0.10% Enlightening. 

1 0.10% excellent 

1 0.10% exciting 

1 0.10% eye opening and gave me a chance to see what type of volunteer oportunities there are available

1 0.10% feminist video....was very interesting and we had a nice discussion as a whole group of about 20 people... 

1 0.10% Film 

1 0.10% film fest, it was excellent 

1 0.10% Film Festival 

1 0.10% Film Festival (GLBT) 

1 0.10% film viewing and discussion 

1 0.10% For my service and engagement-related experience I had the opportunity to learn more about river sustainability while hiking and canoeing 

along the Mississippi River. 

3 0.30% fun 

1 0.10% Fun 

1 0.10% fun and helpful 

1 0.10% Fun and helpful 

1 0.10% fun social justice film 

1 0.10% fun! 

1 0.10% Fun, interesting 

1 0.10% fun. gave me a greater sense of community. 

1 0.10% genocide symposium - too long 

1 0.10% Genocide. Mass Killings of Specific Peoples. 

1 0.10% Getting involved with volunteer programs. 

1 0.10% Going to the session made me want to get involved right away. 

3 0.30% good 

3 0.30% Good 

1 0.10% Good topic, but the presentation was way too long. Definately lost attention by majority of the students... 

1 0.10% Good! 

1 0.10% Got an idea of what goes on around campus and what I can engage in on my free time. 

1 0.10% Grand Avenue in St. Paul 

1 0.10% great way to get involved and help out 

1 0.10% Group 94 was assigned to the engagement experience in the Weisman Art Gallery. Within the gallery the tour guides and exhibit were 

moderately interesting yet the closing discussion was very poorly mediated. Myself and others felt compelled to revisit the gallery to see more 

of the artwork on our own time. 

1 0.10% Guest speakers talked about AIDS and Camp Heartland and ways we can and should become involved on campus. 

1 0.10% hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahhahahahah 

ahhahahhahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahah! 

1 0.10% Helped make birthday presents for families that can't afford to buy them, was a good experience that made me feel glad for contributing to the 

community 

1 0.10% Helped me connect and understand people that are different from myself.

1 0.10% Helpful and important to be aware of different experiences 

1 0.10% helping my comunity and little kids k - 1 for a year 

1 0.10% Hillel blankets were fun and rewarding. 

1 0.10% Honestly, i found it hard to keep my head up. it was cool to see someone who made an impact, but when you carry on about the same thing for 

2.5 hours it gets a bit long. 

1 0.10% I liked the progarm. 

1 0.10% I already knew about the amount of poverty in the Twin Cities but it introduced me to a new program that I thought was very effective in serving 

others. 

1 0.10% I atteded the symposium on HIV/AIDS. It made me want to be involved with One Heartland. 

1 0.10% I attended "Taking a Stand Against Genocide." It was really eye opening and I enjoyed going to it. This being said, I think it dragged 

on a little towards the end. 

1 0.10% I attended "The Line" documentary video. I was shocked to hear about this woman's experience with rape and the emotional toll it 

had on her. I really enjoyed the group discussion we had afterward. 

1 0.10% I attended an on campus Symposium about Genocide. I am glad there is an organization like this on campus. 

1 0.10% I attended an on-campus film festival concerning social justice issues. 

1 0.10% I attended Knots and Nash at the Hillel Center. 

1 0.10% I attended Taking a Stand Against Genocide, which explained STAND and World Without Genocide's stance against genocide and their 

movement to end genocides. While somewhat interesting, it was a little long (but the video was interesting). I wish we were able to engage with 

it more. 

1 0.10% I attended the "Art and Social Justice" symposium. It was wonderful to see the classrooms in the STSS building as well as explore 

the Weissman. The symposium showed me many great opportunities for community involvement. However the combination of art and social 

justice seemed rather contrived. Discussing the social message of three meeting tables lined up against a stack of cinder blocks didn't appeal 

to the vast majority of the students. 

1 0.10% I attended the "Take A Stand Against Genocide" symposium, which really inspired me to attend a STAND meeting. I've always 

been interested in the Holocaust and Rwanda, and now I'm aware there is a group to educate others and prevent genocides from happening. 

1 0.10% I attended the "Taking a STAND against genocide" symposium, which focused on the genocides still happening in foreign countries 

of which many Americans may not be aware. I believe the symposium would have been more effective if it offered more opportunities for the 

audience to engage and interact with the presentation, which would strengthen the sense that we can do something about the problem. 

1 0.10% I attended the CPR class, once we were actually learning CPR it was engaging and applicative, but the extremely long lecture beforehand was 

not necessary and was quite boring. 

1 0.10% I attended the engagment symposium on genocide. It was inspirational and powerful, though a very heavy topic for the first stop of the morning. 

1 0.10% I attended the Film Festival and found it to be very informational. 

1 0.10% I attended the film festival, and I saw "Straight-laced." 

1 0.10% I attended the Genocide Intervention Network Symposium. 

1 0.10% I attended the genocide symposium which didn't provide much new information but was a good refresher on what is happening in the world. 

1 0.10% I attended the Journey For Hope presentation for HIV and was very moved by the entire speech. I think it was awesome that people can have 

that much passion for helping others live more happy and successful lives no matter what is wrong with them or not. It made me want to get 

involved in all sorts of groups like that. 

1 0.10% I attended the one on aids it was very emotional and inspiring for me! I really enjoyed learning about it! 

1 0.10% I attended the presentation about Heartland.

1 0.10% I attended the social justice film festival and viewed a documentary about Native American portrayal in sports 

1 0.10% I attended the Social Justice Film Festival, and viewed the film Straightlaced 

1 0.10% I attended the Stand against genocide symposium. I felt there were a few powerful moments, but overall, the presentation was too long. The 

presenters should either condense the program or rearrange it to make it more interesting and/or engaging. 

1 0.10% I attended the symposium about children affected and infected with HIV and AIDS. The event was very moving, but I was hoping to actually get 

a chance to do service work instead of just hearing and learning. 

1 0.10% I attended the symposium discussing the importance of art and social change. I thought the closing discussion and tour of the art gallery were 

interesting and thought provoking. However I felt the opening presentation was a bit unnecessary and it failed to captivate me like the rest of 

the events. 

1 0.10% I attended the symposium on genocide hosted by World Without Genocide. It was a really interesting presentation, especially the presented 

documentary. Parts moved a little slowly, and I would have appreciated a bit more interactive structure to the discussion, but it really did make 

me want to get involved in what I am now aware of as such a pressing global issue. 

1 0.10% I attended the symposium on genocide. Although it was a very interesting topic a 2.5 hour lecture was a very long time to merely sit through an 

information session. I do feel that it is an important topic which needs to be addressed, but I don't feel as though that this was the best time or 

place to inform students about these issues. I think that a physical service project would help students actively improve their community as well 

as form a bond and interact more openly with other students. Welcome Week was not an appropriate time to bring up the issue of genocide. 

1 0.10% i attended the symposium on Genocide. it was informative and touching, but not very well presented and therefore boring. 

1 0.10% I attended the symposium on genocide. It was very informative but the information could easily have been condensed to a half-hour session 

instead of two and a half hours. It was extremely long and became boring fairly quickly. I had trouble staying awake for a majority of the 

session. I would not recommend a session that long for next year on that topic. 

1 0.10% I attended the symposium on genocide. Overall it felt unprofessional and unprepared. I think that such a heavy and important topic could have 

been presented in a more engaging and impacting way. The presenters merely read to us for about 45 minutes in a dry, non theatrical way 

which did not do the topic justice. 

1 0.10% I attended the Take Heart America service program. I thought that the presentation (though it started late) was engaging. I thought the 

presenters were interesting and genuine. They helped me understand the difference between a heart attack and cardiac arrest. I also got to 

re-learn CPR methods which will help me at my summer job as a daycare worker. 

1 0.10% I attended the United Way engagement experience about poverty in the twin cities area. We then filled lunch bags with snacks and decorated 

them. When we finished we were given live united shirts. 

1 0.10% I attended the Weisman Art museum for the engagement experience. It was very interesting to see some of the pieces of art which took a lot of 

skill to create. However, when our group met back at the STSS building to discuss the meaning and the politics behind the art, well, the room 

was very silent... It was a difficult task to determine connections between some of the very abstract art and the questions the presenters asked 

us in the STSS interactive classroom. The experience was neutral. 

1 0.10% I atteneded the STAND against genocide symposium. I gained a better understanding of what is happening around the world. However, I 

thought the session was too long and should have been cut short because people were falling asleep and I couldn't keep my attention going. I 

almost fell asleep but overall, it was very interesting. 

1 0.10% I became more aware of the community that surrounded the St. Paul Campus. 

1 0.10% I can connect to others easily. 

1 0.10% I did everything that was stated on the welcome week packet. 

1 0.10% I did not enjoy the engagement symposium. 

1 0.10% I did not like it. 

1 0.10% I did not like the art museum, I would have been more interested in seeing something else 

1 0.10% I did not particuallary enjoy the Art Crawl because we only looked at five peices of art and I do not understand or like modern art, so it did not 

connect with me.

1 0.10% I did not understand how I was helping the commmunity by watching a movie. 

1 0.10% I did the students agaisnt hunger which was virtually the same as feed my starving children which was an amazing service to do. We made 

food packets to send off to those in haiti 

1 0.10% I did the symposium with the Weisman Art Museum and was very bored by the whole thing. It was short, not very informative, and the 

presenters lacked the passion to make their cause or purpose seem important. Also, I wanted to do a service project to actually help my 

community, not sit around and talk about how art makes me feel. I think everybody should do service projects in the future. They're more 

rewarding. 

1 0.10% i didn't enjoy it too much because i wasn't very interested in art 

1 0.10% i didnt feel like i was doing a great service by learning how to do cpr 

1 0.10% I didn't learn that much about community service oppurtunities on campus like I was hoping to. We toured the Weisman and learned about art 

and social change. 

1 0.10% I didn't like that we were not able to go into the community and help those around us, I went to a film festival and I felt that I could have used 

my time more efficiently helping others. 

1 0.10% I didn't like the way the information was given to me. It wasn't interesting or exciting in any way. 

1 0.10% I didn't really see how it was called a service project, I would have rather gone out into the community to serve. 

1 0.10% I didn't really understand how the art related to social issues. 

1 0.10% i didn't really understand the art. 

1 0.10% I do a lot of volunteer work. I was a Link Leader for 2 years in high school (equivalent to a Welcome Week Leader), I was in NHS for a year, 

and I've done a lot of other volunteer work. 

1 0.10% I do not remember anymore. The week was a blur. 

1 0.10% I don't even remember what I did on Saturday. The Weisman Pointless. I would rather just learn where my classes are and learn t useful 

things. Like the bus system, where the tunnel is to the Pioneer Dining Hall. And how can I eat in other halls when my u card won't let me in 

1 0.10% I don't like this part which talked about art. 

1 0.10% I don't remember it all that well. 

1 0.10% I don't remember it. 

1 0.10% I enjoyed listening to the speakers although the session was a little long. It did make me want to go out and help others though. 

1 0.10% I enjoyed watching the film that I watched because it made me think more about how women are portrayed in the media and the negative 

consequences that has on society as a whole. 

1 0.10% I fell asleep. And watched the rest of my group sleep during the times that I actually was awake. 

1 0.10% I felt indoctrinated by the group presenting the Students in Democratic Process symposium, MPIRG. I felt that the symposium was slanted too 

much to the left after they mentioned the "negative consequences" of the Citizens United decision. Also, there should have been 

more information for out-of-state students planning to vote in their respective home states. 

1 0.10% I felt it was a worthy cause but it was extremely long-winded. We could have gotten the message effectively in a much shorter program. Again, 

I felt as if the program was not respectful of my time. 

1 0.10% I felt it was boring because we already learned all of the information they told us in high school. The event was also extremely early. I did enjoy 

the part where I got to register to vote. 

1 0.10% I felt that I had a great introduction to the art community and I am more likely to look into artistic event held on campus in the future. 

1 0.10% I felt that I was being talked at. 

1 0.10% I found my assigned synopsium to be informative, but also drawn out. I felt like I was in a goverment class all over again, however I found the 

speakers' enthusiam captivating.

1 0.10% I found the Symposium to be quite boring - it appeared many people could agree with this statement based on the bobbing heads. It was all 

about elections and voting - for someone like me who is already registered to vote, it was quite boring. For people out of state and the 

information didn't quite pertain to or they didn't care about the Minnesota Elections, it was also quite boring for. I feel it was waste of my two 

hours... 

1 0.10% I got to learn about the negative light in which music videos sometimes portray women. It was very interesting because when you see music 

videos, you don't often think about the bad aspects of it, but with the real life comparisons the film talked about they were easier to see. 

1 0.10% I got to learn many kind of arts even if they were just a table or solid words. These pieces of arts can relate to people and give them to ideas to 

help communities. The arts can also relate to you and express ideas to create opportunity. 

1 0.10% I had a lot of respect for the speakers, but the session was very long and drawn out. 

1 0.10% I had the genocide experience-and it was awful. It would have been a lot better if they cut the allotted time by at least a half. or more. it dragged 

out way to long and wasn't interesting after the first half hour, plus i didn't feel like they gave us solid ways to help the cause 

1 0.10% I had the opportunity to register. 

1 0.10% I had the United Way symposium. It was a bit long winded but informative. 

1 0.10% I have no idea 

1 0.10% I heard a speech about the importance of voting. 

1 0.10% I heard a very long presentation on HIV/AIDs. It was mildly interesting, but long and early in the morning, and I was tired from the activities the 

day before. 

1 0.10% I helped out at the Arc thrift store. It was really nice knowing that I was helping the store look more presentable so that more people would shop 

there. I also connected with some girls that are really nice. 

1 0.10% I honestly don't remember it much. 

1 0.10% I learned a lot about United Way. Previously, I have never known what this organization was. 

1 0.10% I learned a lot and it made me feel better about starting college. 

1 0.10% I learned about poverty in the Minneapolis area. Two presenters from United Way came and showed us how easy it was to get involved with 

their organization and had us help decorate lunch bags for children who were waiting in line at the food pantry. We also heard from both the U's 

standpoint on volunteering and a student's standpoint. 

1 0.10% i learned about the importance of voting 

1 0.10% I learned what AIDS really is and how the people are going through a very tough time. The people who have AIDS can be just like us, but many 

people descriminate agaunst them even if they don't think they are doing so. 

1 0.10% I like taking Take Heart Minnesota and hearing about survivors' stories. 

1 0.10% I liked going to the weisman, but i didnt get a lot of information about community involvement/ issues 

1 0.10% i liked seeing the local art of the area. 

1 0.10% I liked the fact that we were able to do something small for the organization 

1 0.10% I liked the idea of art that could tell you about a social issue, but I did not really enjoy the artwork they choose to show us. Most of the art looked 

like any old person could do it, instead of some great artist. 

1 0.10% i liked working at Arc, the work was simple but you could tell it greatly helped the organization 

1 0.10% I listened to people with HIV talk about thier life and it really motivated me to help them. Solving problems like HIV, or incurable cancer are what 

I came here to do. 

1 0.10% I listened to speakers from Live United. It was all about poverty and the homeless in Minneapolis. 

1 0.10% I listened to the group from One Heartland. I really enjoyed the presentation and learning about people living with AIDS.

1 0.10% I listened to the presentation about the man who started a camp for children who are affected by HIV/AIDS 

1 0.10% I made cards and put together birthday gifts for underprivileged kids. 

1 0.10% I met up with my group at our GMS spot early in the morning before we walked to Tate hall. We were introduced to a select number of movies 

we could watch, pertaining to experiences we would soon face in our on campus life. I went to the GLBTA session, and the movie I watched 

was moving. 

1 0.10% I misclicked 

1 0.10% I packed disaster relief bags, and also made birthday bags for the food shelf to give away. 

1 0.10% I participate in the Symposium called Journey of Hope. It talked about the camp. We also heard experiences from people who either were HIV 

positive or had parents who were. We were given the numbers to Boyton if we were interested in testing and such. 

1 0.10% i picked up a bunch of wet clothes covered in shit in the back of a semi. But it was funny ha 

1 0.10% I prefer to participate in an off-campus Service Experience, but I was assigned to an on-campus Engagement Symposium. Also, the topic of the 

symposium I had to attend was not one of my interests. Therefore, the only positive thing I could get was understanding various points of view 

from other people about that topic. 

1 0.10% I really did not see a service that i did i was just walking around and did not feel like there is sevice to do. 

1 0.10% I really enjoyed going to the Weisman Art Museum and the instructor was very enthusiastic. I saw the art in a whole different light. 

1 0.10% I really enjoyed helping make birthday bags for kids that have little. I really liked being able to talk to other people and have fun at the same 

time. I love wrapping gifts and making a difference makes me feel good. 

1 0.10% I really enjoyed helping others. The experience has made me want to volunteer during the school year. 

1 0.10% I really enjoyed making the blankets at the Hillel House with my group. It really made me think about all the issues in the communityto the 

community and what i can do to help solve the problem. It also got me interested in being involved in those community organizations. 

1 0.10% I really enjoyed the Art Crawl symposium at the Weisman, looking at the expression of social issues in the visual arts. This experience was 

great for fostering a discussion of the value/purpose of art as well as the social justice issues presented. The discussions seemed to continue 

around campus after the activity. 

1 0.10% I really enjoyed the social justice film I went to called the line. It gave me a chance to get an indepth look at what many people go through and 

how they feild. 

1 0.10% I really liked the cause and I am going to volunteer next summer. 

1 0.10% I saw the social justice film "Reel Bad Arab." 

1 0.10% I signed a waiver to be more eco-friendly around the University while at the St. Paul campus. 

1 0.10% I sorted silk flowers and large items at Arcs Value Village. It was awesome. 

1 0.10% I thought it was fun. I got to sort through earrings and pair them which is surprisingly rewarding, like a puzzle. I didn't necessarily like the place 

we volunteered at even though it was a non-profit organization they still have paid workers. I would much rather have volunteered in a soup 

kitchen or channel one or in a hospital. 

1 0.10% I thought it was good to get away from campus and be involved in something bigger than just college life. The activity was sort of discusting, 

but I was able to have fun with it and enjoy the time I spent there. 

1 0.10% I thought it was very interesting and makes me want to get involved in some type of service. 

1 0.10% I thought that it was nice to be able to interact with some more people and get to know some faces. 

1 0.10% I thought that the art symposium was really interesting. It was a little dry, but that was mostly because I am not an art aficionado. It was cool to 

see what other people do and how they can spread awareness through art. 

1 0.10% I thought the art symposium was not helpful or interesting. 

1 0.10% I thought the experience was somewhat dull, but very informative.

1 0.10% I toured the art museum which was very interesting. 

1 0.10% I toured the weissman art museum. It was filled with art, including very strange art. 

1 0.10% I visited the Weisman Museum and learned more about art and student involvement. 

1 0.10% I volunteered for Feed Ny Starving Children and it was a great experience. It was my first time and I'm thinking about doing it again some day! 

1 0.10% I volunteered in Brooklyn Center at the Arch Village thrift store. I felt very connected to my community and realized that even helping a little bit 

makes a big impact. 

1 0.10% I was able to walk through the Weisman and see how the artists portrayed social issues through their work 

1 0.10% I was amazed at how a group of people (my peers) who had just met each other could work together to create blankets and make birthday 

bags for the homeless. It really gave me pride in my school to see how people from all sorts of backgrounds were excited to help out and make 

a difference in the community. 

1 0.10% I was assigned to the "Taking a Stand Against Genocide" symposium. I was expecting to learn more about the places and events 

where genocide is occurring, what is currently being done in an attempt to help, and what we students can do to help. I only heard several 

people's stories about their experiences with genocide, which were not very informative about the actual issue, and was made to feel guilty by 

one of the presenters. She essentially told us that we are responsible for the deaths of people caught in the genocides because we have done 

nothing yet. I did not find that acceptable; we should have been given information and resources to help instead of a guilt-trip. 

1 0.10% I was disappointed that my group had the symposium and not the service. I felt like the speakers were very knowledgeable, but I didn't learn 

very much or gain any sense of accomplishment. 

1 0.10% I was in awe at the information that was presented, however I feel that the Boyton health service information ruined the moment and the feeling 

to get involved. Although it is vital information, it made me feel disconnected with the heartfelt stories that were being told by people affected by 

AIDS/HIV. 

1 0.10% I was in the Journey of Hope presentation, which I think was the most interesting part of welcome week. 

1 0.10% I was not impressed with the Social Justice film festival. There is much we could have done to get engaged in the twin cities community and 

watching movies was not a good use of our time and was not important or related to getting involved in the community. 

1 0.10% I was thankful to have a chance to go to the Wisemen art museum. 

1 0.10% I was very boring and uninformative. The museum was interesting, but the talk was boring. 

1 0.10% I was very disappointed with our service project. I thought we were going to be given the experience of actually going out in the community and 

helping. However, we were talked at for two hours about how to volunteer. Yes, I would love to learn how I can volunteer, but I would also just 

like to volunteer. It could have been an awesome and unique experience, however, it was a disappointment. 

1 0.10% I was very interested, or have very much fun. I would have rather been doing something than hear about art, I feel like I had listened to enough 

stuff the past week. 

1 0.10% I was very knowledgeable and interesting. 

1 0.10% I watched a film about Arabians and how they are portrayed in films. 

1 0.10% I watched a movie and listened to a speaker about suicide and depression. 

1 0.10% I Watched a movie on the negative depictions of the arabian culture in American Cinema. The fim was interesting in it's display of subliminal 

propoganda used in many hollywood movies. 

1 0.10% I watched a movie on the objectivication of women in music videos. 

1 0.10% I watched a social justice film about how women are personified in music videos. We then discussed the video. I liked the video, and it really 

got me thinking about how the world has lost some of its morals in the past years. 

1 0.10% I watched a social justice film on how women are negatively portrayed in present day music videos. The movie was interesting, but I was 

excited to get out in the community and do some sort of service so the day was disappointing overall to me. 

1 0.10% I watched a United Way presentation about poverty in the Twin Cities that was pretty interesting. Then I decorated and filled a healthy snack

ag for kids at Pillsbury United Communities. 

1 0.10% I watched a video about how women were portrayed in music videos and found it disturbing. My whole group had to stick together so that's why 

we watched it. 

1 0.10% I watched a video called Straightlaced, talking about gender roles and the GLBT community. 

1 0.10% I watched a video on Suicides and how it affects other people. 

1 0.10% I watched films on social justice. 

1 0.10% I watched the film "Reel Bad Arabs." 

1 0.10% I watched the movie "Music Within" as a part of the Social Justice Film Festival. 

1 0.10% I went and packaged bday gifts for parents to give to their children if they couldnt afford it. It was fun and I took in a lot! 

1 0.10% I went canoeing on the Mississippi and also took a hike on some of the trails close to the Mississippi. 

1 0.10% I went on a short tour to the art museum to see how art can influence social change. I enjoyed the tour but I wished we couuld have looked 

around at more exhibits. 

1 0.10% I went on an art crawl. It was fun. 

1 0.10% I went to a film about gender roles. 

1 0.10% I went to a information session on genocide. It is an important issue, but it was rather boringly presented. 

1 0.10% I went to a presentation called a "Journey of Hope" that i thought was the worst Welcome Week event. The message itself was a 

very positive thing, but it was too long and was not planned out very well. They talked about the camp for children affect by HIV and AIDS then 

they jumped to a presentation about Boynton Health Services then back to the children with AIDS and then finally a talk about sexual health. It 

felt like it was thrown together last minute and no one was really prepared to present it. 

1 0.10% I went to a service called Poverty in the Twin Cities. There was a lot of power point presentations and the leaders talking at the students, it 

would have been a lot more interesting if the students could have been more involved. 

1 0.10% I went to a thrift store and helped them fold donated clothing. I also learned about the ARCH program and how it helps and benefits the 

community. 

1 0.10% I went to an informational session that was called Journey of Hope and it talked about an organization called One Heartland (I think). They 

talked about these kids who are HIV positive can go to this camp in the summer and talk openly about their condition. The speakers also talked 

about how you can extract this disease. 

1 0.10% I went to arc and helped move new clothes arrivals to racks in the store. 

1 0.10% I went to ARC and helped organize clothes that were donated. It was kind of fun, but not something I would probably do again. I love to 

volunteer but it wasn't really what I like to do. Also, it was really hot. 

1 0.10% I went to ARC and sorted clothing 

1 0.10% I went to ARC thrift shop in Brooklyn Center. It was overall pretty good the people were not to thankful for the help but it wasn't bad. 

1 0.10% I went to Explore-U and got introduced to a lot of interesting and pertinent student organizations in which I would like to participate. 

1 0.10% I went to sort clothes at a thrift store. I thought it was a neat project and it wasn't strenuous and we could just hang out and talk while we did it. 

It was fun and laid back and yet we were still helping out those who need it. 

1 0.10% I went to STAND. One of my good friends is part of that group, so I already knew most of what they told us about Dafur. I think it went on a bit 

too long. People tried to leave during the break. 

1 0.10% I went to STSS and learned about art and toured the museum. 

1 0.10% I went to the Wiseman art museum. We just looked at art and what the goal of the museum is. 

1 0.10% I went to the "Students in the Democratic Process" engagement symposium. I liked how passionate the young speaker (I think her

name was Dakota) was, and I am all for stressing the importance of voting, but I felt like at times it was a bit patronizing. It felt as if they 

assumed that I had no idea how to vote or how to utilize our government. The whole civics breakdown lesson was where I felt this the most--I 

was being taught the same things I learned in 5th grade, maybe even earlier than that. There was also one woman who kept saying, "Ahh 

I'm so old, I'm ancient, I was born in the 60s", and that just really irked me--it felt like she was saying that our generation is totally ignorant 

and has no respect for or knowledge of older generations. I also didn't like the fact that the activities for the prior night went until 1:00 but they 

had us up before 9:00 the next morning to sit in a lecture for two hours. These may be just very particular, individual experiences, but I did feel 

like it detracted from the overall experience. 

1 0.10% I went to the engagement movie on the power of music videos. And I left feeling pretty grossed out with how much our society has indirectly 

degenerated women and their bodies by making them only seen as sex objects. 

1 0.10% I went to the genocide Symposium 

1 0.10% I went to the Hillel house and made birthday bags 

1 0.10% I went to the hillel house and participated in the Un-birthday Party. We made cards and decorated bag and filled them with birthday gifts. these 

gifts will be distributed at food shelves for parents to give to their children on their birthdays. 

1 0.10% I went to the Journey of Hope and I'm glad I did. I learned a lot from being there about HIV. It was inspiring. 

1 0.10% I went to the lecture on HIV/AIDS. My experience would have been better if I had been able to go out and do something, instead of just 

listening to various speakers for 2 hours. Welcome Week already contained a lot of information which had to be taken in from long sessions so 

it would have been nice to be able to do a useful activity in the community and accomplish something useful. 

1 0.10% I went to the one on aids. To be completely honest I thought that it was much too long. They repeated a lot of stuff that I had already heard 

throughout other presentations. 

1 0.10% I went to the seminar that talked about Camp Heartland and the hardships of living with AIDS. 

1 0.10% I went to the social justice film festival and watched the film on disabled persons. I enjoyed the film, and I think it helped me in my 

understanding of social justice in relation to disabled persons. 

1 0.10% I went to the Social Justice Film session. I learned a lot about gender stereotyping and its impact on individuals and society. 

1 0.10% I went to the symposium about taking a stand against genocide. The first half wasn't very interesting at all, and many students around me were 

falling asleep. I feel if they had started with the video they made and maybe if the skit hadn't been so long, more people would have been 

interested. 

1 0.10% I went to the Take Heart, MN symposium, and it was informative. However, it was also very boring. 

1 0.10% I went to the United Way presentation 

1 0.10% I went to the Wiesman Art Museum and was given a tour talking about how civil rights and social justice is related to artwork. I did not 

particularly enjoy this because I'm not really into artwork. 

1 0.10% I wish i would've been in the service project. The symposium was boring... 

1 0.10% I would have preferred a service project than a symposium. 

1 0.10% I would really have liked to gone out and done service in the community, however I think organizers thought Honors students needed to go to a 

symposium. The symposium was on an interesting topic, but the presenters made us feel like we were being "talked at" and it was 

way too long (an hour and a half would have been plenty). 

1 0.10% im not a voter so it was long for me 

1 0.10% In-class presentation and then art tour. 

1 0.10% informative and inspiring 

1 0.10% interesting 

1 0.10% Interesting 

1 0.10% Interesting and addressing an important topic, but a long presentation that wasn't very engaging.

1 0.10% Interesting learning session 

1 0.10% interesting, and eye opening 

1 0.10% Interesting. 

1 0.10% It allowed me to think about the different types of lives that people have and how well off I already am. 

1 0.10% It didn't really do anything for me. I would have rather attended a service project and done something good for the community 

1 0.10% It felt good to do my part in helping the homeless and hopefully making them feel better as they move from location to location. 

1 0.10% It gave me plenty of ways to get involved at the university. 

1 0.10% It got pretty long, but it was still informative. The stories about HIV and the camp for children affected by it were very touching. 

1 0.10% It helped me understand my volunteering has an affect, but made me feel guilty that I wasn't helping that particular project. I am in volunteering 

and can't do anymore, but I would rather not feel guilty for already doing what I can somewhere else. 

1 0.10% It made me think about current social issues and how they can be represented in art. 

1 0.10% it made me think about what i can do to volunteer 

1 0.10% It made me understand more and it was very interesting. 

1 0.10% It made me want to join the group for helping to get rid of genocide around the world. 

1 0.10% It really opened my eyes to different aspects i normally did not think about. 

1 0.10% It really opened my eyes to what others really experience in their every day lives, and how it is our responsibility to accept everyone for who 

they are. Also, it was sad to see the speakers give out their emotions so freely and people not to accept them 

1 0.10% It seemed a little too focused on AIDS and not enough on the "involvement" aspect, and thus somewhat irrelevant. The Boyton 

information was useful, though. 

1 0.10% It showed me the importance of voting and getting involved in the election process. I signed up to vote for the upcoming fall and found 

information about the voting process. 

1 0.10% It talked about genocide and really opened my eyes to the other genocides besides the holocaust 

1 0.10% It taught me more about HIV and AIDS and how it's contracted. It was sad but it was good to learn about how it affects people who live with it 

and people who have family member that have it. 

1 0.10% It took a long time. 

1 0.10% It was a Genocide Symposium. 

1 0.10% It was a good experience and helped me become aware of the issues on campus, and how I can become more involved, we had a fun time 

1 0.10% It was a good experience but I was expecting more of a service project, not just watching a film 

1 0.10% It was a good presentation but it was way too early in the morning. I couldn't stay awake. 

1 0.10% It was a great way to realize how others need help way more than what some do in Minnesota but also the United States. It got me thinking 

about that again. 

1 0.10% It was a little boring, but good. 

1 0.10% It was a little dull. 

1 0.10% It was a little too much sitting and listening. The topic was relevant, but I had trouble staying alert for the entire symposium. 

1 0.10% It was a long movie about a woman in Alabama. 

1 0.10% It was a lot of fun and I got to know more UMN students!

1 0.10% It was a lot of information and they talked at us for a long time. It was great, but they could've shown us some more first-hand pictures or videos 

of genocides to have a deeper and possibly more meaningful effect. 

1 0.10% It was a ok experience that helped me learn about issues in the school and world. 

1 0.10% It was a presentation on AIDS awareness and an example of how students can get involved. 

1 0.10% It was a presentation on genocide. It seemed a bit long. 

1 0.10% It was a speech about genocide. It was a very serious topic, but even so, many kids I saw were falling asleep. 

1 0.10% It was a symposium on Genocide. It motivated me to be more aware of my surroundings and get involved in a group that makes changes 

around the world. 

1 0.10% It was a symposium the Community Service Learning program, one of the many opportunities to volunteer in the community. 

1 0.10% it was a very eye opening experience. 

1 0.10% It was a very informative and emotional presentation, but I think three hours was too long of a time period for students to "have" to 

sit still. I would have liked to see more engaging ways to interact, such as actually setting up a "Camp Darfur" or some other form of 

interaction. 

1 0.10% It was a very interesting and informative event. 

1 0.10% it was a very interesting presentation on AIDS but it was very early in the morning. 

1 0.10% It was a very knowledgeable presentation, a little dry but I realized how important it was to vote so we got all registered and I am ready to vote! 

1 0.10% It was a very positive experience. 

1 0.10% It was a very sad AIDS related program, but many people were falling asleep because it was so early in the day. Not sure on how it could be 

fixed. possibly just put this later in the day. 

1 0.10% It was a very unique experience. 

1 0.10% It was a waste of time. 

1 0.10% It was about against genocide. We watched a video about genocide in many countries and saw real-life stories about this issue. 

1 0.10% It was about AIDS. It was informative, but a little bit drawn out and repetative. 

1 0.10% It was about children with aids. 

1 0.10% it was about genocide, and it was interesting, but way too long, so i fell asleep. 

1 0.10% It was about poverty and the united way. It was slightly boring though. Could have found better ways to interact with us 

1 0.10% It was about poverty and thing we could do through United Way to help the situation. We then made and decorated a snack bag that would be 

given to a child that went to a food shelf with a parent. 

1 0.10% it was about rape and everything that goes along with it 

1 0.10% It was about the Enginneers without Borders group. 

1 0.10% It was about the importance of voting. It explained why Minnesota has a high voter turnout. 

1 0.10% It was absolutely the most boring, worst put together, 3 hours of my life. And everybody else in my welcome week group thought the same 

thing. 

1 0.10% It was all about voting and it seemed that it was highly opinionated as to why you should vote. 

1 0.10% It was all right. I enjoyed the art museum. 

1 0.10% It was alright 

1 0.10% It was alright, but it was very long.

1 0.10% It was amazing and it made me feel like I was actually making a difference in a child's life. Being in their position once, I know how much it will 

mean to those children to get a gift bag on their birthday. 

1 0.10% It was an AIDs awareness symposium. 

1 0.10% it was an eye opener watching the movie. 

1 0.10% It was an interesting topic, but I wish I had the opportunity to do more of a service project. 

1 0.10% It was an intriguing experience however I do not feel that working in the ACR homes would be an ideal interest for me. 

1 0.10% It was awesome. 

1 0.10% IT WAS AWFUL. It was way too long for an informational session about voting. I was planning on voting anyways because making my voice 

heard is important to me. The only useful thing was that we got to register to vote on the spot and that we were taught to fill out an absentee 

ballot. The speakers were interesting, but I didn't want to wake up at 7:00 am THE MORNING AFTER GOPHERS AFTER DARK to hear about 

why I have to vote for 2 hours. I would have much rather done a service project 

1 0.10% It was basically an 3-hour talk about genocide, which was totally not what I have expected. I thought we got to have some hand-on 

experiences. 

1 0.10% It was boring and pointless. 

1 0.10% It was boring having the pieces in the Weisman Museum explained to me about how the connected with social issues. 

1 0.10% It was boring, long and drawn out. They did a 1.5 hour speech that basically said the same thing over and over again 

1 0.10% It was boring. 

1 0.10% It was cool to see the museum and to bring up some topics that stemed from that. 

1 0.10% it was cool. i really love the weisman. 

1 0.10% It was eye opening 

1 0.10% it was eye opening to hear from people and children suffering from AIDS and HIV, makes you want to make sure your always safe 

1 0.10% It was eye-opening 

1 0.10% it was fine, but not very entertaining or engaging. 

1 0.10% it was fine. 

1 0.10% It was focused on genocide and included a documentary on genocide survivors. 

1 0.10% it was fun 

1 0.10% It was fun 

1 0.10% It was fun and exciting. 

1 0.10% It was fun and I learned a lot 

1 0.10% It was fun and interesting. 

1 0.10% It was fun and made me feel beneficial. 

1 0.10% It was fun and relaxing while helping others in need at the same time. 

1 0.10% it was fun and worth going to. 

1 0.10% It was fun I enjoyed it. 

1 0.10% It was fun to work in a thrift store. 

1 0.10% It was fun, I felt has if our group bonded while making a difference.

1 0.10% it was fun. 

1 0.10% It was fun. 

1 0.10% It was fun. I felt like i was helping the community. We went to the Helliel House and made un birthday presents. 

1 0.10% it was good and a good way to learn more about school and ideas. 

1 0.10% it was good because i could relate the the speakers. I love volunteering, so it was nice to know other people do too 

1 0.10% It was good information though not well presented. 

1 0.10% it was good to hear about the group but it got a bit boring. 

1 0.10% It was good! 

1 0.10% It was good! but long. 

2 0.20% It was good. 

1 0.10% It was good. It brought the attention of how woman are treated in society. 

1 0.10% It was great and informative. 

1 0.10% It was great doing community service 

1 0.10% it was great! i got to meet other new people and friends. Not only that It made me more open and active and excited in participating in student 

organization groups. 

1 0.10% It was great. 

1 0.10% It was hard not to fall asleep. I already planned to volunteer through a local church this fall so nothing really applied to me. I didn't think the 

speaker was bad, but a lot of people were really annoyed with her. 

1 0.10% It was hard to see how what we did (organizing clothes) actually helped people. I could see in the long-run how it would helps those with mental 

disabilities, but there was no direct interaction. If there was that direct connection to those in need, I think it would have been more impactful. 

1 0.10% It was helpful to go into the cities and see where we can go for fun. 

1 0.10% It was helpful, but very boring. 

1 0.10% It was horrible. The presentation reminded me of something done in high school, and these presenters were way past that age. It was just bad, 

and not effective in getting the message across at all. People were sleeping everywhere, and the only reason I wasn't was because I was 

actually interested in the topic from prior education on it. 

1 0.10% It was incredibly boring and not useful. 

1 0.10% It was incredibly boring! It was like a waste of my morning. 

1 0.10% It was informational and an interesting thing to participate in. 

1 0.10% It was informational. 

1 0.10% It was informative and made me more willing to participate in student groups. 

1 0.10% It was informative and moving, but not the hands-on experience I was looking for. 

1 0.10% It was informative, but it wasn't exactly what I was interested in, so I was not very attentive. 

1 0.10% it was interesting 

1 0.10% It was interesting and engaging. 

1 0.10% It was interesting and informative. 

1 0.10% It was interesting but it started later than scheduled and was a little long.

1 0.10% It was interesting but long. I signed up to do a service project but got a speaker instead. 

1 0.10% It was interesting for a while - we had the symposium on genocide. However, it got to be a little long, and after the break our Welcom Week 

Leader said that our group could leave if we wanted, and so most of us actually ended up going back to our res hall. I would have much 

preferred the community engagement/service project. 

1 0.10% It was interesting i learned new things that i didn't know before i was in the activity. 

1 0.10% It was interesting learning and watching the films that were being played. It really made people think and I think it was a good experience. 

1 0.10% It was interesting to learn about the AIDS camp, and I applaud the effort that they are putting forth. I would definetely go to that again. The 

beginning was a little slow and boring though. 

1 0.10% It was interesting to learn about the extent of poverty right under our noses here in the Twin Cities that we often don't notice. It motivated me to 

become more involved with service projects and other forms of volunteerism during my time here at the U. 

1 0.10% It was interesting to learn about. 

1 0.10% It was interesting until the presenter was just repeating everything that was taught to me my Senior year of High school. It was not that 

engaging. I wasn't assingned to a service and engagement-related experience. They sat us down, and talked, but then we registered to vote. 

THAT was engaging and fun, but not the information thing before. 

1 0.10% It was interesting, but I feel that it was not helpful or relevant to Welcome Week or the college experience. 

1 0.10% it was interesting, but i would rather have done a service project. 

1 0.10% It was interesting, yet too long to be engaged in it. 

1 0.10% it was interesting. 

1 0.10% it was interesting. but to me it was extremely long. i was in the lecture about AIDS and HIV 

1 0.10% it was Journey of Hope. it was very informational of the daily issues of those who have AIDS it was also information about Bonyton, which it 

was good to get more info about health services. 

1 0.10% It was kind of fun and informative. Was a little boring to me though. 

1 0.10% it was kinda fun 

1 0.10% It was life changing! 

1 0.10% It was long and tiring 

1 0.10% it was long boring and useless 

1 0.10% It was long but very informative on how to vote as a college student at the U of M. 

1 0.10% It was long... 

1 0.10% it was longer than it should have been 

1 0.10% It was much too long for something mostly meant to recruit new members. They could have just shown the video and given us the website. 

1 0.10% it was nice 

1 0.10% It was nice to be in a classroom setting and it felt like a good relaxing transition to school. 

1 0.10% It was nice to help package the food that was being sent to those who needed it in Haiti. 

1 0.10% It was not good. It was about voting in Minnesota. I am an Iowa resident and am not voting as Minnesota. They spent about 30 minutes 

registering to vote, I just think they could have talked about voting in general and people can register on their own. 

1 0.10% It was not very exciting, and I didn't feel like I did any service for the community. I didn't like this activity. 

1 0.10% It was not very interesting- I did think the art was cool, but the discussion was irrelevant to what we learned.

1 0.10% It was ok but short 

1 0.10% It was ok. 

1 0.10% It was okay but it was not very organized. 

1 0.10% It was pointless, I have no interest in bricks that have been stacked together and then used as a stand for a table. 

1 0.10% It was poorly presented. Although genocide is a very interesting topic, the manner in which the group presented it made everyone very bored 

and turned students off to the topic instead of making them more enthusiastic about it. It was wayyyyyyyy too long (two and a half hours) and it 

would have been much better to actually do a service project. 

1 0.10% It was positive. 

1 0.10% It was pretty boring 

1 0.10% It was pretty cool 

1 0.10% It was pretty cool and a little bit long. 

1 0.10% it was pretty fun. We went to the art museum and were given a guided tour of the art in the building. The tour was knowledgeable and 

interesting. 

1 0.10% It was pretty long and boring. The subject material was interesting, but the presentation was not. 

1 0.10% It was probably not a good morning activity-I felt the speaker truly cared about their topic, but the presentation was far too long and the 

message was out of place. 

1 0.10% It was really boring. 

1 0.10% It was really cool being able to see the different art works in the Weisman and knowing that the art work changes a lot. 

1 0.10% It was really depressing. It was a worthwhile topic, but it was so long that most of the viewers were falling asleep. 

1 0.10% It was really enjoyable. We volunteered at a thrift store and helped organize clothing. 

1 0.10% It was really fun and I learned a lot. 

1 0.10% It was really good. I went to the social justice film festival and watched a movie called the line. It gave me insight to a lot of things i didnt know 

or think about before. 

1 0.10% It was really informative and interesting and made me want to make a difference! 

1 0.10% It was really inspiring. It was interesting to hear about the lives of those affected by AIDS. I did not know how some kids were treated so cruely. 

I would like to volunteer at the camp in Willow River. 

1 0.10% It was really interesting and informative to learn about the Engineers Without Boundaries (EWB). The speakers were all very familiar with the 

program and had experienced its projects first-handly already. It was very engaging. 

1 0.10% It was really interesting and quite fun 

1 0.10% It was really interesting but a bit too excessive. The presentation dragged on. 

1 0.10% It was really interesting to hear about a topic that I don't normally think about very often. 

1 0.10% It was really long, I would have much preferred to go out and do a service project. 

1 0.10% It was really nice figuring out some organizations I might want to join. 

1 0.10% It was really useful for me to interact with the community around campus. 

1 0.10% It was refreshing for me to hear and It made me more aware of HIV/AIDS and how people are treated differently because of t. It was so sad to 

hear the speeches but overall I gained information and would like to help in the future. 

1 0.10% It was somewhat educational, but wasn't the most interesting or engaging.

1 0.10% It was sooooooooo boring and it seemed pointless. 

1 0.10% It was sort of unorganized but showed the value and opportunities of what volunteering is like. 

1 0.10% it was students against hunger 

1 0.10% It was Taking A Stand Against Genocide. Although genocide is a very important topic to understand, the symposium was much too long and 

got boring to the point of falling asleep. 

1 0.10% It was terrible. The genocide presentation was a depressing and boring start to the day, especially after being at Pride and Spirit the night 

before. The powerpoint was extremely long, and the "play" was really just a big, long reading about people we didn't even know or 

want to know. I was somewhat able to pay attention to the film. At the end, the presenters repeated over and over again that we (the students) 

were responsible for genocide, even the genocide that happened before we were born.....that made me mad. The 2 hours of lecture were the 

worst 2 hours of welcome week, and I would not recommend it for future years. 

1 0.10% It was the most boring thing all week. 

1 0.10% It was the one about AIDS. it was long but very interesting 

1 0.10% It was too early to be sitting watching a video on rape, and having a discussion about it. Ordinarily, I would have been completely into it 

because it was actually interesting, but because Welcome Week went so late, and we got up so early for the symposium, I was absolutely beat. 

1 0.10% It was too long and all we got to do was decorate bags. It was cool to learn about volunteering oppotunities but they could've presented it in a 

shorter time and still been just as effective... 

1 0.10% It was very boring because I was not interested in the movie topics. 

1 0.10% It was very boring. Everyone was falling asleep the entire time. 

1 0.10% It was very boring. The engagement symposium did not connect me at all with the u of m. At the end of the week over half of my group viewed 

it as the low point of the week. 

1 0.10% it was very cool, Dakota was an excellent presenter. 

1 0.10% It was very eye-opening to see and hear about what troubles some little kids have to deal with. 

1 0.10% it was very helpful 

1 0.10% It was very informative and it really helped me understand that there are many different types of rape and that there are ppl I can go to if that 

ever would happen to me. 

1 0.10% It was very informative and opened my eyes to different viewpoints. 

1 0.10% It was very informative. 

1 0.10% It was very informatonal, but the speakers spoke for too long and there wasnt enough hands on volunteering to actually do. (United Way) 

1 0.10% It was very inspiring to learn what I could do to help stop genocide. 

1 0.10% it was very interesting 

1 0.10% IT was very interesting and definitely inspired me to want to do more. 

1 0.10% It was very interesting to learn CPR bystander training. 

1 0.10% It was very interesting to see the Weisman Museum. 

1 0.10% It was very interesting, and I learned about the various ways that one can get involved on the campus. There are many choices, and you can 

choose one that fits your goals and ambitions. 

1 0.10% It was very interesting. I was involved in the one where we got to choose a film to watch. I watched "The Line" and I thought it was 

very interesting. The conversation afterward was eye opening and interesting as well 

1 0.10% It was very long and too drawn out.

1 0.10% It was very long but taught about HIV/AIDS awareness 

1 0.10% It was very moving. I was in the AIDS symposium, and was brought to tears several times by the stories of the affected and afflicted. 

1 0.10% It was very well informed and gave me a better perspective on things. 

1 0.10% It was way too long. It started out as a presentation about a camp for kids with AIDS, which is fine. But then it turned into an informercial for 

Boynton Health Services and ended with a message of "you should really use condoms. no really, you should.". 

1 0.10% It was way too long. The portion about AIDS and HIV related issues was well put together and informative. Even heartfelt. But then suddenly it 

was a commercial for the on campus hospital, which was useful but not after an already hourlong presentation. Also, the sexual health 

information seemed a little extensive. Especially after the presentation about AIDS. 

1 0.10% it wasn't very helpful, information given was things I already knew and it was boring. I wouldn't choose to attend something like that again. 

1 0.10% It went well. Learned a lot. 

1 0.10% It's great that we did it, but at the same time it seemed kind of empty because nothing really got done. 

1 0.10% Journey of Hope 

1 0.10% just kidding, we did the art museum. 

1 0.10% Just watched and discussed a film that analyzed the women in music videos 

1 0.10% Kind of boring, i would much rather have done a service project. 

1 0.10% Leaders from United Way discussed poverty in the Twin Cities and how it affects those around us. 

1 0.10% Learned about children with HIV/AIDS and a camp that helps them feel like they belong and no one is afraid. 

1 0.10% Learned about how art can be used to show problems in communities and how boundaries can be taken down. 

1 0.10% Learned about the social issues involved in the artwork at the weisman and how it pertains to our everyday lives. 

1 0.10% Learned about the Weisman Art Museum. 

1 0.10% Learned about United Way 

1 0.10% Learned about United Way and prepared a snack pack for poor children. 

1 0.10% learned about voting 

1 0.10% Learned CPR 

1 0.10% learned more about the heartland camp and what they were all about 

1 0.10% Learning about and visiting the Weisman Museum 

1 0.10% Learning about United Way opened my eyes to something I was vaguely familiar with prior to this experience. I feel strongly now that I will do 

my best to volunteer and it was nice making bag lunches and already volunteering. 

1 0.10% learning about voting and registering to vote 

1 0.10% Listened to a talk about aids 

1 0.10% listened to the AIDS/HIV speech 

1 0.10% long 

1 0.10% Long but useful! 

1 0.10% looked around in the Wiesman museum. 

1 0.10% Looked at art.

1 0.10% Looked at artwork and talked about social justice issues 

1 0.10% Looking at art was boring, but it was nice to see the building. 

1 0.10% Love the movie we watched for social justice 

1 0.10% made bags for kids to put food in 

1 0.10% Made blankets at hillel 

1 0.10% Made blankets at the Hillel Jewish center 

1 0.10% made blankets for a homeless shelter at hillel. it was very short and our group of four only made 2 blankets so i feel we didn't do very much but 

i suppose if you combined all the groups, a significant number of blankets were probably made. 

1 0.10% Made me aware about the culture that can be found within the city. 

1 0.10% made snack bags for a boys and girls club through live untied 

1 0.10% Made tie blankets and Hillel 

1 0.10% Making birthday bags and emergency relief packages 

1 0.10% Making blankets 

1 0.10% Making blankets at Hillel. 

1 0.10% Making blankets for People Serving People was fun. I think I migh volunteer there after learning more about their services. 

1 0.10% Met in Coffman's great hall and listened to an HIV / AIDS awareness presentation about Heartland camps 

1 0.10% Mind-numbing. It was pretty bad. 

1 0.10% MOA 

1 0.10% Movie 

1 0.10% My engagement experience involved hearing about genocide from the STAND group on campus. 

1 0.10% My engagement-realted experience was about AIDS/HIV and the speakers were very knowledgeable and persuaded me a great deal to get 

involved in volunteer work helping those with HIV or AIDS. 

1 0.10% My experience was educational and very eye opening. I very much enjoyed hearing the stories of people with HiV/AIDS. It made me want to 

really get involved and help people. 

1 0.10% My goup went to Tate Lab and watched videos about Justice and Human rights. The video that I saw opened my eyes to the exploitation of 

women that is seen day to day in the residence halls and on campus. I now will be able to acknowledge when something happening is wrong 

and do something to stop it. I may also attend the social justice film festival in October. 

1 0.10% My group and I walked around the Weisman Art Museum and discussed pieces. 

1 0.10% My group and I went to a thrift store to help sort through clothes and get them ready for a big sale that they were having. 

1 0.10% My group attende the Journey of Hope engagement symposium. It was good to learn about the organization/camps, but the Boynton Health 

Services part got long, and the safe sex part made me very uncomfortable. 

1 0.10% My group attended a session on United Way. It would have been great if everybody would have been able to keep their eyes open. The 

presenters weren't very exciting, therefore it was difficult to pay attention. Overall, it seemed like a waste of time. 

1 0.10% My group attended the HIV/AIDS presentation. By listening to speakers with the disease made it very emotional.. 

1 0.10% My group created emergency relief packages with towels, bandaids, toothbrushes, combs, nail clippers, and other hygine items. We also 

created birthday bags for kids who do not usually get to celebrate their birthday. 

1 0.10% My group did the art crawl and was allright, but I would not consider it "public service" etc..

1 0.10% My group made birthday bags for children who's parents could not afford to buy them gifts. The experience was fun and rewarding. It made me 

feel good to help others, especially while I was enjoying time with friends. 

1 0.10% My group put on a carnival for those with disabilities at RCA homes. What an inspirational experience! By far the best part of Welcome Week. 

1 0.10% My group walked through the Wiessman Art Museum and talked about a few different pieces. I personally did not find it to be much fun or 

helpful as I do not fully understand modern art but it did give the the opportunity to learn about service groups that I can participate in during the 

school year. 

1 0.10% My group went and unloaded/folded clothes for the Arc Center. 

1 0.10% My group went canoeing with a few other groups. We were not told that we were to go hiking before the canoeing, so it would have been nice if 

our group leaders had told us this information so I would have work better shoes. Regardless, I enjoyed learning more about the Mississippi, 

especially because I'm not from aroung the area, so I could find out how to get involved in outdoors-y events. 

1 0.10% My group went to a carnival and helped disabled people get around and enjoy themselves. 

1 0.10% My group went to the Arc Valu Village and unloaded/folded clothes. 

1 0.10% My group went to the Hillel House to make "un-birthday" bags for homeless children to celebrate their birthdays with. 

1 0.10% My group went to the Museum and first had a discussion and then went to the museum to look at the artwork and talk about it. I thought it was 

interesting but also a little bit boring. 

1 0.10% My group went to the Weisman and learned how are relates to social conflict and how artists use their work as an outlet to foster change. 

1 0.10% My group went to the Weisman Art Museum. Although some of the exibits were interesting, I fet that overall it was a rather boring and pointless 

experience. I would have much rather done a service project. 

1 0.10% My group went to the Weismann for the social justice issues, it made me realize that you can see that an artist is trying to make others aware 

through their art. 

1 0.10% My group worked at the ACR home carnival. It was a great experience being able to work with ACR homes. 

1 0.10% My service experience was dull. I thought I was going to be out doing community service- that's what I wanted to do. Instead, I listened to a 2 

hour presentation that had a message I got after 30 minutes. I appreciate the message: people with aids/HIV are normal, you can hug them, 

hang out w/ them, etc. They should not be discriminated against and should not be treated any differently than someone without this disease. 

However, the presentation was dull and long. 

1 0.10% National Honor Society related volunteering, Humanitarian Aid trip to Reynosa, Mexico. 

1 0.10% Not particularly memorable, as in, I forgot all about it. 

1 0.10% Not the greatest, I would have preferred to do an actual service project 


1 0.10% Observed Art work. 

1 0.10% okay 

1 0.10% One Heartland symposium 

1 0.10% Our exploration of art at the Weisman as an expression of a desire for social change was intelligent and enjoyable. It tried a bit too hard at 

some points to find a social message for every piece to express, but it kept to its goals and material. 

1 0.10% Our group attended a symposium that was supposed to inspire hope. There were children unfortunately living with the AIDS disease or 

sickness that spoke to the students. The speakers also got the audience involved in an interactive way to really have the event stick in our 

minds. 

1 0.10% Our group attended an anti-genocide symposium. In all honesty, it was hard to stay awake. The presentation was boring and lacked 

interactivity. 

1 0.10% Our group attended the symposium about HIV and Boynton Health Services, It was interesting, but I honestly don't see how it relates to 

welcome week.

1 0.10% Our group made tie blankets at Hillel for a homeless shelter. 

1 0.10% Our group made tie-blankets for children living at the People Serving People homeless shelter. 

1 0.10% Our group missed the first part of the Museum thing. None of us knew what was going on, we pretty much just walked through the museum 

without gaining anything from it. 

1 0.10% Our group missed the intro meeting, so I was confused about what we were doing. 

1 0.10% Our group took a tour of the art museum and talked about how the different modern art displays appeared to us as an individual. We also 

discussed how they affected us emotionally and how the artist conveyed that emotion to his viewers. 

1 0.10% Our group took a trip to Uptown and explored. 

1 0.10% Our group used the Weisman Art Museum as a means of learning about differing perspectives and social movements. I have trouble 

considering so-called "modern art" to truly be classified as art, so despite the good intentions and messages of the exhibit, I found 

the experience to be rather pointless. 

1 0.10% Our group went to Brooklyn center to do service work by folding clothes and sorting earrings. Then later we watched a movie about what the 

business does for disabled people and how our help can benefit many others 

1 0.10% Our group went to the Weisman Art Museum, and I enjoyed it a lot. There were very interesting displays and the leaders challenged us to look 

beyond the face of the art and dig deeper into possible controversial issues represented in the pieces. 

1 0.10% Our small group took a bus to Brooklyn Park and visited a service-oriented thrift store. Once we arrived, we were instructed to sort through 

boxes of donated clothing in order to make the process easier for the workers of the thrift store. 

1 0.10% Our topic was Genocide in the world. It was very informational and showed the weaknesses of the human race. 

1 0.10% Ours was about genocide. It was very informative, but kind of long. It was rather bleak too. I liked it, but it was unsettling. 

1 0.10% Ours was the 'Stand Up Against Genocide Symposium.' Once welcome week began, Istarted to understand what the rest of it would be like, 

and then I knew that instead of sitting in another lecture hall, I would want to go out and do a service project at the end of it all. Maybe give 

students an overlook of what the week will look like, and remind them that they'll be going to many indoors events where you sit and listen, so 

they may want to seriously consider a whole different kind of project--a community service project. If I would've known/realized that I would be 

sitting and listening for much of welcome week days, I would've chosen service project instead of 'I don't care' on my event selection. 

1 0.10% Overall it was good. I learned a large amount about the topic and the issues surrounding the topic. 

1 0.10% Overall, working with the Hillel Jewish center to make blankets for the homeless was a wonderful and rewarding experience! 

1 0.10% Packed food 

1 0.10% People got up there and talked about how to stop genocide. That sums it up prttey well. 

1 0.10% Positive and informative. 

1 0.10% presentation about hiv/aids 

1 0.10% Presentation on genocide and genocide prevention. 

1 0.10% Pretty sure mine was the "art crawl", but I'm not that into art so it wasn't that amazing. However, the staff who gave the tours were 

very knowledgable. 

1 0.10% quite a valuable lesson for me 

1 0.10% really boring and mostly waste of time, 

1 0.10% Related art in Weisman to Social Justice Issues. 

1 0.10% Relatively interesting. 

1 0.10% Sat in Coffman and listened to speakers from Project Heartland. 

1 0.10% since i am not a citizen i would have rather done the service experience because i cannot vote

1 0.10% So much i really cant remember 

1 0.10% Social Issues Art Crawk 

1 0.10% social issues art crawl 

1 0.10% Social Issues Art Crawl taught us about how art is a means to portray views and opinions on social issues. 

1 0.10% Social justice film 

1 0.10% Social Justice Film Fest 

1 0.10% social justice film festival 

1 0.10% Social justice film festival 

2 0.20% Social Justice Film Festival 

1 0.10% Social Justice Film Festival - Dreamworlds 3 

1 0.10% Some representatives from the United Way spoke about the levels of homelessness in the Twin Cities, and the struggles that they face. They 

also emphasized the importance of volunteering for any help group, or anything that aids these kind of programs. 

1 0.10% Somewhat entertaining, the video was interesting, but long. 

1 0.10% Sorted clothers 

1 0.10% Sorted through donations at a thrift store in Richfield, MN. 

1 0.10% Sorting clothes at the value village 

1 0.10% STAND against genocide presentation 

1 0.10% STAND genocide 

1 0.10% Stop Genocide. It wasn't overly engaging in the format it was done. 

1 0.10% Students against Hunger 

1 0.10% Students against hunger where we packed rice meals for the people in Haiti 

1 0.10% Students Against Hunger, it was fine but we should have eaten earlier... 

1 0.10% stupid. watched a movie. 

1 0.10% symposium 

1 0.10% symposium about genocide 

1 0.10% Symposium on Genocide. Interesting topic, but too long of a lecture. 

1 0.10% t was honestly boring and not interesting. Genocide is really terrible and I feel really bad about it, but the presenters did an awful job. They were 

not good speakers and they did not present any information in ways that make people care. The 'play' they did was NOT a play. 

1 0.10% Take Heart America partnered with the American Heart Association came and gave a presentation about sudden cardiac arrest and what to do 

when it happens. We leared how to give bystander CPR. 

1 0.10% Take Heart! Minnesota 

1 0.10% taking a stand aginst genocide 

1 0.10% taught me about the abomination in the modern world that is genocide and how we can take action against it 

1 0.10% The "Stop Genocide" seminar was interesting but a little depressing. I do not feel that we really can do anything to stem the tide of 

genocide in other countries.

1 0.10% The "Taking a Stand Against Genocide" presentation was very boring and ill-prepared, when covering a topic that is hugely 

important and could have been an interesting and informative experience. 

1 0.10% the aids one, it was fun and informative 

1 0.10% The AIDS synopsium was very touching and made me want to get involved. 

1 0.10% The art building was cool, but our tour guide was horrible as well was the discussion after the tour in the STSS building. They were very 

disorganized. 

1 0.10% The art crawl could have been more relevant to the topic which I understood it to be about beforehand. The pieces we looked at were not super 

relevant nor was an effective discussion facilitated. 

1 0.10% The art museum had interesting pieces, however, the tour limited the time and selectability of what pieces we looked at. 

1 0.10% The art tour was not something I truly understood why we were doing and I would have preferred to be doing the community service outreach. 

Thankfully our tour got done early and I was able to catch the volleyball game in the morning. 

1 0.10% The art was confusing 

1 0.10% The art was far too abstract for many of the students who attended it. 

1 0.10% The bystander CPR had valuble information but needed to be presented in a more engaging way. 

1 0.10% The democratic process got me excited to vote and helped me register. 

1 0.10% The engagement symposium consisted of two voting-advocate speakers who shared their passion about democracy and the voice of youth. 

We filled out a voter registry form. 

1 0.10% The engagement symposium contained important information, but it was too long and boring. 

1 0.10% The engagement symposium for the Weisman Art Museum at STSS on art and social justice was probably the least organized or engaging part 

of the entire Welcome Week. The discussions did not flow and the presenters did not necessarily try hard enough to get discussions going. 

There was a little controversy about the table and cinder block exhibit, and it was not made positive by the discussion leaders after the visit to 

the museum. Also, the social justice wheel's point was never made clear. 

1 0.10% The engagement symposium provided insight into the issues that directly or indirectly affect the university community, and emotionally attached 

me to the overall importance of these issues. 

1 0.10% The engagement symposium was a great presentation. The topic was HIV and AIDS awareness. It made the students want to become 

involved. It was interesting to hear different perspectives on how HIV/AIDS have affected people's lives. 

1 0.10% The engagement symposium was horrible. It was incredibly boring and not at all applicable to my life as a college student. The Weisman is 

great and I love looking around it, but our "leader" was a bad tour guide, and what she said seemed really random and not at all 

interesting or useful. The only good parts about it was looking at art and the cool new science education building. The rest was terrible. 

1 0.10% The engagement symposium was on encouraging students to vote. It was a repeat of everything that was taught in high school government 

classes. 

1 0.10% The experience described the impact that people in America could have on influencing policies in other countries and how we could make a 

difference. It talked mainly about the presence of genocide in the world and how it affected people and talked about what we could do to help 

make sure that this sort of thing wouldn't happen again. 

1 0.10% The experience was interesting and engaging. 

1 0.10% The experience was that exciting. We mainly sat in a lecture hall and listened to people talk and watched a short documentary. It would have 

be nice if the was more student involvement in during the engagement. 

1 0.10% The Explore-U was midly informative, intoducing several student organizations and on-campus buisnesses. The free food and other items were 

appreciated and the dancing was entertaining. 

1 0.10% The film opened my eyes. 

1 0.10% The film was haunting of my own experiences and pushed into a mental breakdown. Seriously, if a film contains edgy material, put a bloody

warning label on the damn thing! 

1 0.10% The film was pretty interesting. It was cool to see other people's views on things. 

1 0.10% The founder of camp one heartland gave a speech about AIDS awareness and how children with AIDS are often shunned and heavily made 

fun of. We learned the ways to attract AIDS and useful ways in protecting ourselves against contracting AIDS. Many brave speakers gave 

speeches and it really had an impact on myself and others around me 

1 0.10% The Genocide one was interesting and the topic is extremely important to me but the it wasn't very interactive or engaging. 

1 0.10% The genocide presentation was mediocre. The group didn't seem to actually DO anything and seemed very poorly prepared (didn't know who 

our senator was, didn't know what their own hotline would do when they called), and one of the presenters fell asleep during his own video. 

1 0.10% The genocide symposium was informative, but dry for that time in the morning. Their documentary was excellent however. 

1 0.10% The Genocide Symposium was interesting, but didn't keep me or the students around me interested. I wish there had been more interaction. 

1 0.10% The instructor at the Weisman Art Museum was very engaging and helped me see the artwork in a different light. 

1 0.10% The Journey of Hope symposium was an eye-opener for me in how a certain group of people were treated due to a lack of knowledge, and also 

of how much it meant to these people to feel accepted finally. 

1 0.10% the lecture on voting was pretty uninteresting. 

1 0.10% The lecturers adressed an important global issue: genocide. While I found the presentation to be somewhat informative and it reminded me of 

the power each person has to make a difference, it was extremely bland and the presenters didn't do a good job attracting interest in their 

particular program. In fact, I am uncertain as to how successful their efforts are. I feel that I'll be finding other ways to get involved on campus. 

1 0.10% The One Heartland symposium and HIV/AIDS awareness program. 

1 0.10% The people were friendly. 

1 0.10% The presentation was disorganized and much of the material was redundant. 

1 0.10% The presentation was too long for the topic. 

1 0.10% The presenters for the genocide awareness symposium were a bit boring for my taste. 

1 0.10% The presenters were knowledgable, but the presentation was far too long to be engaged and interested in. Several of the students became 

bored quickly. 

1 0.10% The service experience gave me the opportunity to help around the community and see what is going on around the community. 

1 0.10% The service experience that I was involved in was social injustice. What we did was we went to the Weisman Art Museum and looked at paints 

and sculptures and then related the pieces to socialism. 

1 0.10% The service project that my group worked on was for Arc. It was an interesting experience as I haven't volunteered there before and I got to 

learn more about what Arc does to help families. 

1 0.10% The social justice film festival was interesting and informative I was glad I participated 

1 0.10% The Social Justice Film that I selected, "The Line", was interesting and very helpful in creating conversation and discussion about 

the line between consent and sexual assault. The session got a little long toward the end and it was very warm and slightly uncomfortable in 

the room due to the number of students. The speaker/leader was very knowledgeable, relatable and made the group lively and made people 

interact. 

1 0.10% The something hope or heart which was a camp provided for kids infected or affected by HIV. very good presentation. 

1 0.10% The speaker was from heartland. It was very angaging to have people come speak about personal experiences they have had. 

1 0.10% the speakers talked about very important issue and i was impressed about that. But, honestely, the symposium was too long and boring. 

1 0.10% The speakers were great and the information given to us was helpful. 

1 0.10% The students in the democratic process engagement didn't pertain to me at all since I'm not from Minnesota and don't plan on voting in

Minnesota. They should have talked more about how to get absentee ballots and how to register for out of state kids since registering for a 

Minnesota election is way easier. 

1 0.10% The symposium dealing with genocide was interesting but not very engaging. 

1 0.10% The symposium is interesting, learned more on voting. 

1 0.10% The symposium on genocide was overly depressing and aimed at placing guilt on the students. I found it very unhelpful. 

1 0.10% The symposium on genocide was very eye-opening and made me more aware of the world's problems. 

1 0.10% The symposium on preventing genocide was really informative, but seemed somewhat dull at times. There was just so much information, and 

although the topic was serious and the presentation was well done, it could have been more interactive and engaging. 

1 0.10% The symposium was about genocide, but unfortunately I didn't feel connected to the topic. I expected to be moved to tears or touched, but 

instead the presentation was about different organizations against genocide and contained mostly factual information. Maybe having the 

symposium in the morning caused it to be so dull, but I was not very satisfied with it and would rather have liked to do a service project instead. 

1 0.10% The symposium was interesting to learn about but could have taken place in half the time. It felt a little all other the place. 

1 0.10% The symposium was kind of boring and I wish I had heard about more service projects available. 

1 0.10% The symposium was very informative and well presented. 

1 0.10% The topic was very interesting, and the presenters knowledgeable, but the way the information was presented did not capture interest very well. 

1 0.10% The United Way gave us a presentation and then we made snack-packs for children at food shelfs. 

1 0.10% The United Way talked to us about how we can get involved in volunteering. 

1 0.10% The video I watched on how music videos portray women was very interesting. It was very disturbing to see how women's bodies are used to 

bring more attention and money to a music video 

1 0.10% The Weisman was really great to see. I preferred just looking at the art and talking about, not the discussion before and after. 

1 0.10% Their were too many speakers, and it went to long. 

1 0.10% There were a lot of technical difficulties and it wasn't what I expected. I thought I'd be hearing from children with AIDS, not children who know 

people with AIDS. 

1 0.10% They did not set it up well, and we did not accomplish a lot. 

1 0.10% They talked about HIV/Aids and how it has affected the lives of children and adults. 

1 0.10% Tie blankets 

1 0.10% Too long & boring 

1 0.10% Too long to pay full attention for the whole time 

1 0.10% Too Long, not that exciting, could have been shortened into like an hour 

1 0.10% Too long. Should be optional. 

1 0.10% Too preachy. I will not be involved with that issue. 

1 0.10% Tour of the Weisman. Very interesting and the presenters were knowledgeable. Presented excellent points and questions. 

1 0.10% Twas boring and uninformative 

1 0.10% Twas grand. 

1 0.10% 'Twas interesting. 

1 0.10% united way

1 0.10% United Way came and talked to us about poverty in the Twin Cities. I found it helpful and enticing. 

1 0.10% United Way did a great job of showing how poverty affects people. They also had a helpful website for finding volunteer opportunities. 

1 0.10% United way presentation. 

1 0.10% United Way presented a session on poverty 

1 0.10% United Way presented a symposium about poverty. I think that it was very good and it made me want to volunteer more and help others. 

1 0.10% united way, wanted to volunteer 

1 0.10% United Way. They provided a lot of information that I did not know about the Twin Cities, and I have lived here for 13 years. 

1 0.10% unpacking and tagging donations at a thrift store 

1 0.10% useless 

1 0.10% very boring 

1 0.10% Very boring. I plan to vote already and I am registered, therefore the experience was not relevant to me. 

1 0.10% Very boring. Too much lecturing. Let us go out and volunteer and do a service project not sit on campus and learn about how to volunteer. 

1 0.10% Very fun and warming to the heart 

1 0.10% very fun coneing 

1 0.10% very good way to socialize with the group in a new way 

1 0.10% Very informatiave and inspirational in that itenticed me to learn more about the social justice program 

1 0.10% Very informative 

1 0.10% Very inspirational and touching, but very, very long. 

1 0.10% very interesting 

1 0.10% Very interesting but it got a bit long. 

1 0.10% Very long and poorly organized. 

1 0.10% very satisifying except for the person in charge was very rude 

1 0.10% Volunteering at thrift store 

1 0.10% voting 

1 0.10% walked through the art museum and talked about social issues 

1 0.10% Was fun and enjoyable 

1 0.10% was not very interesting. 

1 0.10% Was very interesting and insightful. 

1 0.10% watch films on controversial topics 

1 0.10% Watched "Reel Bad Arabs" 

1 0.10% Watched a documentary on suicide. Helped educate me about how depression should be viewed. 

1 0.10% watched a film on native americans 

1 0.10% watched a movie.

1 0.10% Watched a presentation and short video on genocide. 

1 0.10% watched films in science building 

1 0.10% watched movie on genocide and went to uptown. 

1 0.10% watched movies 

1 0.10% Watched something on genocide. Kind of boring. 

1 0.10% Watched the movie 'the line' about rape. 

1 0.10% Watching a video and learning didn't seem as important as the groups who got to go out and do something, and I felt very disappointed when I 

heard that other groups got involved with things that will help others, while we could have been doing something to help the community as well, 

so I feel like my entire group and myself would have perfered to make a difference rather then hear another lecture. 

1 0.10% Watching films about social justice issues 

1 0.10% Way too long. Information was repeated over and over again. 

1 0.10% Way too long... pretty boring as well 

1 0.10% We attended a symposium about stopping genocide. It was very interesting and moving. I enjoyed it, even though it was long winded at times. I 

noticed some of my peers sleeping or texting. I plan on joining a related student group. 

1 0.10% We attended an on-campus presentation by United Way. I myself am already knowledgeable about their activities and have donated to them. 

Therefore, I would have liked to have had a general "ways to get involved service-wise in the Twin Cities" presentation. The 

organization-specific presentation was interesting, but I feel I have not increased my resources in regards to getting involved in the Twin Cities 

community. 

1 0.10% we combined with many other students, discussed the importance of art, specifically of modern art, then walked through the art museum talking 

about the many different pieces. 

1 0.10% We decoratead treat bags for United Way. 

1 0.10% We decorated and filled birthday bags for kids whose parents could not afford to buy them a gift. 

1 0.10% We decorated paper bags and added in snacks for younger kids who are either staying after school for an event or standing in line waiting for 

food relief with their parents. I really enjoyed the project and thought it was an ingenious idea that was very considerate and outstanding. 

1 0.10% We did a social issues art crawl 

1 0.10% We did an art crawl. It made me think differently. 

1 0.10% We did the Social Justice Films and I did not like it. Other groups actually went out and worked in the community and I would have enjoyed that 

more. 

1 0.10% We dis the art crawl at the museum. I felt it was too structured. I wanted to have some freet timeto explore the museum by myself. 

1 0.10% We discussed how art is used to express opinions 

1 0.10% We explored the Walker Art Museum looking at connections between the art and important social issues relating to community service. 

1 0.10% We filled almost a hundred bags for relief to be sent to Haiti and other similar disaster areas. We also made birthday baskets. It makes me feel 

so good to know I helped someone else out who has less than I do. 

1 0.10% We focused on poverty in Minneapolis! It was something everyone in out group was very excited about so it gave us all an extra push to do 

something for our community. 

1 0.10% We got a tour of the Weisman Art Museum and saw some of the art that was there. After that, we had a big group discussion and shared our 

thoughts at some of the pieces of art they had. 

1 0.10% We got talked to by the United Way about poverty 

1 0.10% We got to hike around the Mississippi and canoe on the river. It was really fun!

1 0.10% We got to learn about engineering without borders, which was really nice. They answered all the questions I had and I really liked the designs 

they put up for their trips. 

1 0.10% We got to learn about the different projects the speakers had when they went to various third-world countries. It was very interesting to hear 

their experiences as well as the projects they did to help the countries. 

1 0.10% We got to learn how to help people with sudden cardiac arrest. I now am confident that I will be able to take action if necessary. 

1 0.10% We had 2 talks about social issues raised by art pieces and visited the museum. 

1 0.10% We had a presentation from Engineers Without Borders. It was very informative and now I know more about what they do. 

1 0.10% We had a very long presentation on AIDS 

1 0.10% We had the Democratic Symposium. I thought the groups that were chosen to go to it were a little poorly chosen. It seemed that only Comstock 

Hall was there and it has a lot of international students so the whole thing didn't apply to them. Out of state students were left out as well 

because they didn't tell us how to get out-of-state absentee ballots, only in-state absentee ballots. It's important to vote anywhere, not just 

Minnesota. 

1 0.10% We heard a presentation on a summer camp for children infected with or affected by HIV or AIDS, heard from the creator of the camp, several 

campers, and some volunteers from the program. It was informational and it sounded like a lot of fun for the campers and counselors so I 

signed up to be interviewed to be a camp counselor there. 

1 0.10% We heard about genocide. It was rather long but had good information. 

1 0.10% We heard about the camp dedicated to those affected by HIV which was an eye-opener to a problem I did not know about 

1 0.10% We heard presentations from several on and off campus tutoring opportunities and were given flyers on those jobs. It was useful and I plan to 

apply to one of these. 

1 0.10% we heard speakers about AIDS 

1 0.10% We helped make fleece blankets for Hilel and it was a grand experience. 

1 0.10% We helped make meals for Kids Helping Kids. I had done Feed My Starving Children in the past and always enjoyed it, and I enjoyed this as 

well. Not to mention helping to feed that many kids feels great. 

1 0.10% We helped mentally disabled people navigate and enjoy a carnival. It was fun and inspiring. 

1 0.10% We helped unpackage clothes and get them ready for sale at a second hand shop. It was rewarding work, and we had fun while doing it! 

1 0.10% We learned a great deal about Genecide. 

1 0.10% We learned a lot about HIV and Aids. The speakers were very well informed and I learned a lot from the experience. 

1 0.10% We learned about AIDS and HIV. It was a very knowledgeable experience and made me want to get involved with projects like that. 

1 0.10% We learned about AIDS/HIV and the effect these diseases have on the people infected and affected by them. 

1 0.10% We learned about art and how it relates to social injustices. 

1 0.10% We learned about art and the culture around it. 

1 0.10% We learned about art at the Weissman Museum 

1 0.10% We learned about HIV and AIDS. The program was too long. 

1 0.10% We learned about HIV/AIDS and what people are doing about it. Namely, Camp Hope. 

1 0.10% We learned about how to volunteer and get involved. 

1 0.10% We learned about Journey of Hope and a camp where kids with HIV and AIDS can go and be themselves away from the stigmas society has 

against them. 

1 0.10% We learned about poverty in the Twin Cities and how the United Way works to combat issues of education, health care, and basic needs in the

lives of the poor. 

1 0.10% We learned about poverty in the twin cities and it was really interesting to know that there are ways that we can help. 

1 0.10% We learned about social issues in the artwork at the Weisman Art Museum. 

1 0.10% we learned about some of the resources and places on campus 

1 0.10% We learned about the foundation Journey of Hope for childhood cancer patients. The presentation was well done and lots of oppurtunities of 

being involved were presented to the students 

1 0.10% We learned about the Live United organization and helped decorate and bag lunches for kids. 

1 0.10% We learned about voting and then they handed out sheet to register to vote. 

1 0.10% We learned about voting. 

2 0.20% we learned cpr 

1 0.10% We learned how to do CPR on a person who has sudden cardiac arrest. 

1 0.10% We learned more about HIV/AIDS and about people who are getting involved to overcome this disease. We even heard about Camp Hope 

which is a summer camp for kids to have somewhere to go to with their story. 

1 0.10% We learned the impact that hiv/aids has on individuals and the community. 

1 0.10% We listened in on a presentation regarding prevention of and issues related to HIV/AIDS. 

1 0.10% We listened to a lecture on voting. And I did not like it at all. It maybe would have been fun if it was a lot shorter than 2 and 1/2 hours long. It 

was opinionated and not interactive at all. 

1 0.10% We listened to a presentation about Poverty in the Twin Cities by the United Way and then we decorated lunch bags and filled them with food 

and a drink for kids in need. I thought it was a really interesting presentation and I had a lot of fun decorating the bags and helping make a 

difference in the community. 

1 0.10% We listened to a presentation on genocide and the club on campus that worked against it. 

1 0.10% We listened to a seminar about ending the practice of Genocide. 

1 0.10% We listened to a speaker talk about HIV and the camp the program runs. It was pretty interesting. 

1 0.10% We listened to a speaker, it was very interesting 

1 0.10% We listened to children suffering from AIDs and HIV as well as from others who have been affected by it. 

1 0.10% We listened to people talk about AIDS prevention and social and emotional effects of living with AIDS 

1 0.10% We listened to peoples experiences with AIDS and how it has effected their lives. We also learned about Camp Heartland and ways that we 

can volunteer through Camp Heartland. 

1 0.10% We listened to speakers from the United Way that told us how we could get involved. They also shared their experiences and told us the pros 

and cons of their experiences. 

1 0.10% We listened to speakers from United Way and got to opportunity to learn about poverty in the twin cities. We got a pretty good idea of what kind 

of decisions these people make on a day to day basis and really gave us more empathy toward them. We also got the chance to decorate treat 

bags which we filled with healthy snacks to be distributed to children at the shelters later. It was a really fun experience but made us feel like 

we would be touching the live of children who really just need a pick-me-up. 

1 0.10% We listened to speakers that told us about being involved in the democratic experience and why it matters. 

1 0.10% We listened to the genocide presentation. Although it was informative and for the most part interesting, it got very long and drawn out. 

1 0.10% We listened to the secretary of state and they talked to us about getting involved and voting. I thought it was boring and didn't relate to me 

since i am already registered to vote and plan on voting.

1 0.10% We listened to the United Way speakers talk about poverty and the benefits The United Way provides for them; after that, we made snack 

packs for kids in poverty situations. 

1 0.10% We listened to the United Way speakers. It was a very informational experience and really showed us what it is like to make tough decisions 

about where to put your money when you are poor. 

1 0.10% we looked at art 

1 0.10% We looked at art and talked about how it related to social change. It was very boring and I didn't really learn anything about it. I would have 

much preferred to do a service project. 

1 0.10% We looked at artwork and discussed how it related to social justice. 

1 0.10% We looked at modern art 

1 0.10% We made birthday cards and goodie bags for children in need. 

1 0.10% We made birthday cards at the Hillel House for kids whose parents cant afford them. We prepared gift bags as well. 

1 0.10% We made birthday gifts for poor kids. It was a good time. 

1 0.10% we made brithday cards for children 

1 0.10% We made snack packs for underprivelaged children. 

1 0.10% we made snacks for kids! 

1 0.10% We made tie blankets for homeless children. It was really fun and I connected with my group. 

1 0.10% We made tie-blankets at Allel Jewish Student Center. 

1 0.10% We made tied fleece blanket at Hillel for the homeless shelter. 

1 0.10% we matched movies on social justice, which were pretty cool 

1 0.10% We met at the new STSS building and learned about art and how it portrays social issues and opinions about the environment and whatnot. 

Then we toured the Weisman art museum where we learned about certain pieces that involved social opinions. 

1 0.10% We met in coffman and talked about the hpv/aids camp. 

1 0.10% We met with Dakota and Jameson of MPIRG. I met them at the Environment Session at the St.Paul campus. They were extremely nice and 

passionate about their cause. Their presentation was well done. I am interested in government and I will most likely be joining MPIRG, but I am 

not sure that people who are not as passionate about these things enjoyed the presentation. 

1 0.10% We met with the people from United Way who discussed getting involved on campus 

1 0.10% We packed food for children in third world countries who would otherwise not have anything to eat. 

1 0.10% We packed small lunches for kids and learned about poverty in Minneapolis. 

1 0.10% We registered to vote, learned about important facts 

1 0.10% We sat and listened to a presentation telling us that genocide is bad. Not much more than that, really. I would have quite appreciated more 

hard data on currant genocides instead of the blanket message "it is happening." 

1 0.10% We sat in a room and listened about genocide. I personally, after that experience, would have chosen something different because i did not like 

the way it was presented. 

1 0.10% We sat in a room and talked about the political controversies of art. I would have much rather wandered around the Weissmen then talked 

about we saw, rather than being led around and told what select pieces meant. 

1 0.10% We sat through a session with United Way, going through a slideshow, doing examples with candies, and then we packed sacks of snacks for 

children to pick up at the food shelves. 

1 0.10% We saw art and discussed how we can use art in the community.

1 0.10% We saw EWB and they explained how they strive to bring appropriate technology to various communities around the world. 

1 0.10% We saw the feminist movie and stuff 

1 0.10% we saw the 'journey of hope' symposium... it seemed a little misguided to have little kids with aids to make us want to have safe sex. 

1 0.10% We sorted clothes at a thrift shop. It was fun. 

1 0.10% we sorted through clothes at a thrift store. 

1 0.10% We sorted through toys for Arc's. 

1 0.10% We talked about community engagement for a long time, it honestly felt like a class though so it was a turn off to it because of the environment. 

1 0.10% We talked with Engineers Without Borders about what they do, and then I was part of a small group discussion on sustainability. 

1 0.10% We toured all three campuses and saw the new stss building. 

1 0.10% We toured the art museum and I felt as though it had no relation to anything and I would rather have done a serive project like I had signed up 

to do. 

1 0.10% We toured the Weisman Art Museum and connected art to service. 

1 0.10% We toured the Weisman Art Museum. It was interesting to see but I wish we could've looked around on our own instead of only being able to 

see 5 pieces. 

1 0.10% We toured the Weissman Art Museum. It was really cool to actually go through the museum but the presentation was boring. 

1 0.10% We toured the Weissman. It was completely pointless and offered me no benificial knowledge afterwards. 

1 0.10% We toured the Wiesman Art Museum 

1 0.10% We toured Walker Art Museum. What was the point of that Seriously. 

1 0.10% We traveled to ACR Homes to help run a carnival for the residents. I worked at the lemonade stand. 

1 0.10% We visited the museum and discussed the artwork. 

1 0.10% We visited the Weisman Art Museum. 

1 0.10% We visited the Weisman Art Musuem and had to discuss the social issues the the art peices addressed. 

1 0.10% We visited the Wiesman Art Museum and learned about several of the pieces of artwork currently on display. 

1 0.10% We walked along Mississippi River trails and paddles to St. Anthony Falls and back. 

1 0.10% We walked around the art museum and learned about the meanings behind the art. 

1 0.10% We walked around the art museum. I did not find this at all helpful. 

1 0.10% We walked around the Wiesman Art Museum and made connections between Social changes and art. 

1 0.10% We walked around to learn and see the community. 

1 0.10% We watched a film on how Arabs are portrayed stereotypically in Hollywood and talked about how those films affect those who watch them and 

how to make others more aware of the stereotypical portraying. 

1 0.10% We watched a film on social justice which was amazing, I could tell it impacted the audience, people really began sharing; it was amazing. 

1 0.10% We watched a movie 

1 0.10% We watched a movie about poverty. 

1 0.10% We watched a movie about social justice,and had a discussion 

1 0.10% We watched a movie about suicide and mental health.

1 0.10% We watched a movie about suicide prevention. 

1 0.10% We watched a movie and had a discussion about understanding the line representing people's sexual boundaries. 

1 0.10% We watched a movie and that enlightened me. 

1 0.10% we watched a movie called reel bad arabs. 

1 0.10% We watched a movie on racism 

1 0.10% we watched a movie, opened my eyes to the bad things happening close to the community and the respect i should show to theses victims. 

1 0.10% We watched a movie. 

1 0.10% We watched a social justice movie on music videos and feminism. I thought the video was very interesting and now when i see a music video I 

think about it a completely different light. 

1 0.10% We watched a social justice movie which discussed rape and sexual assault. 

1 0.10% We watched a video about how music videos portrayed women and discussed how it (most of the time) negatively affected the way women are 

seen in society today. 

1 0.10% We watched an interesting film at the Social Justice Film Festival. It was alright. 

1 0.10% We watched films on Social Justice. I understand that this is an important aspect of college life, however I would have much rather done 

off-campus community service. 

1 0.10% We watched some local movis 

1 0.10% We went and explored the art museum. 

1 0.10% We went canoeing and hiking, it was fun. 

1 0.10% we went canoeing in the Mississippi, it was really fun and a great experience. 

1 0.10% We went canoeing on the Mississippi River and learned a lot about it on the way. 

1 0.10% We went canoeing on the Mississippi river and walked by the river while listening to U of M workers explain the history of the river and its role 

at the University. 

1 0.10% We went canoeing on the Mississippi. 

1 0.10% We went canoing and hiking in the park by the boat house. We got a chance to learn about the park and how lucky we are to live on it. 

1 0.10% We went downtown 

1 0.10% We went downtown to explore the city. That was my favorite day of Welcome Week 

1 0.10% We went into a room in STSS building and listened to a presetation about Arts. They gave us an opportunity to tour around the Weisman Art 

Museum. Then we came back to STSS building and listened to another presentation and then close with a little reflection. 

1 0.10% We went o arc value village and organized boxes of clothing to be put on the floor for future sale 

1 0.10% We went on a walking tour and learned about the history of the Mississippi river. Then we went canoeing on the river. 

1 0.10% We went to a film festival. 

1 0.10% We went to a film festival. Overall, I disliked this day the most. i really wish my team would have been able to go out in the community and 

actually make an impact instead of just watching movies about what is wrong in society. 

1 0.10% We went to a presentation called Journey of Hope, which was about childhood AIDS. 

1 0.10% We went to a presentation on AIDS and how it can affect not only yourself, but the people around you. To be careful and know limitations. 

1 0.10% We went to a thrift store and helped unload boxes of clothes for the store.

1 0.10% We went to a thrift store and sorted through clothing to tag and made gift bags for an upcoming event they were having. 

1 0.10% We went to an art crawl 

1 0.10% We went to Coffman to learn about CPR and sudden cardiac arrest. I feel confident about performing CPR if it is necessary and it was really 

informative to hear from people who had experienced and had been saved by CPR. 

1 0.10% We went to Grand Ave. 

1 0.10% We went to Hillel and got to make tie blankets for homeless children as a small group. It was really fun and we all felt like we were really 

making a difference in the community! Our group of five ended up making five whole blankets while we were there! 

1 0.10% We went to Hillel and helped make blankets for homeless children in the Minneapolis area, 

1 0.10% We went to Hillel and made a ton of tie blankets for homeless children. It was pretty fun and easy 

1 0.10% We went to Hillel and made blankets for homeless children and families. It was very enjoyable and I learned a lot about what happens when a 

family becomes homeless. 

1 0.10% We went to Hillel and made fleece blankets for People Serving People. 

1 0.10% We went to look at art in the Weisman art museum. It was very boring and a complete waste of time, especially for CSE students who have no 

interest in art. I would not recommend this to anyone. 

1 0.10% we went to the art mueseum and and learned about how art impacts our lives and tells a story. 

1 0.10% We went to the art museum and it was very pointless 

1 0.10% We went to the art museum and learned about how art influences social change. 

1 0.10% We went to the Art Museum and learned the resaon behind the art and how it pertained to society. 

1 0.10% We went to the art museum to explore social issues, but I felt like we didn't talk about the social issues enough. 

1 0.10% We went to the Art Symposim. It was ok, but we missed the introduction, so it was not as complete of an experience. Also, the discussion at the 

end did not go very well - there was not a high level of respect to each other among the students. I wish I could have done a real service 

project. 

1 0.10% We went to the EWB. It was fun to hear about the countries they have helped. 

1 0.10% We went to the genocide program, which was a bit dull. However, the performance piece at the end was very interesting and entertaining. 

1 0.10% We went to the Hillel House and make birthday baskets for impoverished children. 

1 0.10% We went to the Hillel house and pack birthday presents for children of lower class families. 

1 0.10% We went to the Justice society film festival, it was very interesting and good to be at! 

1 0.10% we went to the museum and looked at art 

1 0.10% We went to the One Heartland presentation, and it was very moving. However it seemed very long, and almost started to get repetitive. Having 

the founder/owner speak was very cool. 

1 0.10% We went to the Social Justice film festival and watched "The Line" It was really interesting and I learned a lot about rape. 

1 0.10% We went to the social justice film festival. 

1 0.10% We went to the Social Justice Film Festival. It was engaging and interesting. 

1 0.10% We went to the STSS and talked about how art can relate to social issues. Then we went to the Wiesman art museum and talked about several 

works there. 

1 0.10% We went to the symposium about Genocide 

1 0.10% We went to the symposium on genocide and it was extremely interesting and made me want to become involved.

1 0.10% We went to the Weisman and got to experience some of the art. 

1 0.10% We went to the Weisman and interpreted some of the pieces. 

1 0.10% We went to the weisman and saw a how art related to social issues 

1 0.10% We went to the Weisman Art Center and discussed social issues before and after the tour. 

1 0.10% We went to the Weisman Art gallery and learned on how to get involved with art. 

1 0.10% We went to the Weisman Art Museum and learned about different ways to express views about social issues.The museum was awsome.I will 

go back to it some other times. 

1 0.10% We went to the Weisman art museum, it was a little boring 

1 0.10% We went to the Weisman for an Art Crawl. It was actually one of my favorite parts because I loved looking at the art but I was mad that it was 

so short. It was really fun and it was one thing that I wish would've taken longer. 

1 0.10% We went to the Weismann Art Museum and looked at the modern day art there and discussed what issues they represent. 

1 0.10% We went to the Weissman Art Center and looked at the art and how it pertained to a social issue. 

1 0.10% We went to the Wiesmen Museum and were introduced to different ways to view art and to look beyond the appearance to understand the 

social issues they face. We were able to recognize different issues and see how some artists try to rectify the situation. 

1 0.10% We went to the wiseman art museum and then talked about the art. It was kind of boring! 

1 0.10% we went to uptown 

1 0.10% we went to uptown. 

1 0.10% We were able to tour the Weisman and understand the art. 

1 0.10% We were at the United Way Symposium. It was very informative. And being decorate bags that will go to children less fortunate than myself 

was rewarding. I plan on volunteering with this group. 

1 0.10% We were given a presentation by live united and were told ways in how to volunteer and get involved. We also decorated bags and filled them 

with snacks for kids at food shelves. 

1 0.10% We were in a session describing Camp Heartland. I thought the cause was amazing and am interested inbecoming involved with their program; 

however, the program was two hours long, which got a little lengthy. 

1 0.10% we were introduced to the united way, and bagged lunches impoverished children 

1 0.10% We were late to the engagement symposium due to confusion which left 10 of our group still here in Bailey Hall. Other than that it was pretty 

good. 

1 0.10% We were made aware of the program called "world without genocide", a program to help prevent and end genocide. 

1 0.10% We were presented with background information on several different social justice films. After choosing which one we wanted to watch, we 

separated into groups to watch it and discuss it afterwards. 

1 0.10% We were talked at for a couple of hours. Important issues, but a disappointment because I wished I could have been out there actually serving 

the community, 

1 0.10% We worked at a place where they re-sell used clothes to help people and that was a good experience. I really liked it! 

1 0.10% We worked at Arc's and got to learn about what the store is about and how they help others. 

1 0.10% We worked with united way and filled bags with snacks for children at food shelves. It also informed me about many volunteer opportunities 

that I am now very interested in participating in. 

2 0.20% Weisman Art Museum 

1 0.10% Weisman Art Museum - Exploring social change through art.


1 0.10% Well I learned a little about a Social Justice Retreat, and then we went to seperate rooms for a video and discussion of our interest. I chose a 

video on depression and suicide and it's connection in college life. The video was very shocking and informative. I really enjoyed the discussion 

after and listening to everyone's point of view's and input. 

1 0.10% Went downtown, was very good experience for knowing the city. 

1 0.10% Went to a film and discussion about rape and sexual assault. 

1 0.10% Went to ACR homes and help run a carnival for physically and mentally impaired people 

1 0.10% went to an art museum 

1 0.10% Went to museum 

1 0.10% Went to STSS building and Weisman Art Museum 

1 0.10% Went to the art gallery and learned about the world we live in. 

1 0.10% Went to the art museum and learned how art influences social change. 

1 0.10% Went to the Arts Symposium and learned a lot about how to convey messages in art. 

1 0.10% Went to the Weisman and looked at three pieces of modern art. 

1 0.10% went to the Weisman art museum. 

1 0.10% While the topic was important (genocide prevention), the presenters did not make it very interesting and it seemed to drag on, even though 

there was a lot of good information. I think a better format would have been beneficial, and maybe not so much information. 

1 0.10% Worked with Student against Hunger to package food for Haiti. It was fun and I felt like was helping someone. 

1 0.10% Working the ACR carnival was fantastic. I plan on volunteering again. 

1 0.10% Would have liked more interaction with people rather than clothes, still glad to help the community despite this. 

Q96. The service and engagement experience . . . (Check all that apply) 



324 25.41% 7.58% Gave me a sense of connection with others who may have similar interests 

370 29.02% 8.66% Introduced me to community organizations that I am now interested in being involved in 

408 32.00% 9.55% Gave me a sense of connection to the community 

415 32.55% 9.71% Helped me identify resources available to me in the community 

510 40.00% 11.94% Made me realize that I am part of something bigger 

586 45.96% 13.72% Made me realize that I can make an impact with others or on particular issues 

597 46.82% 13.97% Gave me the opportunity to think about issues that I may not have thought of before 

367 28.78% 8.59% Helped me identify ways to incorporate community engagement into my college experience 


Count 

Percent 

1 1.37% =(




1 1.37% did not do much for me 

1 1.37% Did not help me in any way 

1 1.37% Didn't do anything for me! 

1 1.37% didn't do much for me 

1 1.37% Didn't help me in any way. 

1 1.37% don't remember 

1 1.37% felt like I was being pressured into joining the genocide group on campus, and I didn't like that 

1 1.37% free condoms 

1 1.37% had no effect on me 

1 1.37% Helped me register for voting in November 

1 1.37% honestly bored me. I couldn't find the connection. 

1 1.37% I already believed all of the above, but this had no impact on me or my ideas. 

1 1.37% I did not see service at all. 

1 1.37% I didn't get anything out of the symposium. I would recommend not doing it. 

1 1.37% I don't like it. 

1 1.37% I forgot; honestly. 

1 1.37% I got nothing out of it. 

1 1.37% I hated the experience. 

1 1.37% I take away anything. 

1 1.37% It did not help at all. 

1 1.37% It was a movie. 

1 1.37% it was terrible 

1 1.37% Let me take a nap 

1 1.37% Made for some good napping. 

1 1.37% made me fall asleep 

1 1.37% made me feel like I got stuck with the one that no one else wanted 

1 1.37% Made me hate politics 

1 1.37% Made me tired. 

1 1.37% Made me very bored. 

1 1.37% N/A

3 4.11% none 

2 2.74% None 



1 1.37% None- was not helpful 

2 2.74% not good 

1 1.37% please read above 

1 1.37% Read above. 

1 1.37% The meeting did not apply to me because I'm out-of-state. 

1 1.37% The session wasn't engaging enough on an individual level and it felt like we were just being talked at for two hours. 

1 1.37% was a disorganized speech 

1 1.37% was a heavily biased presentation 

1 1.37% Was an interesting topic but poorly presented 


1 1.37% was horrible. 

1 1.37% Was not all that interesting. 

1 1.37% was not extremely helpful nor interesting. 

1 1.37% was not good 

1 1.37% was not my favorite. 

1 1.37% was really boring. 

1 1.37% was really fun too! 

1 1.37% was three hours of sitting and listening to information that could have been condensed into a 20 min. meeting. 

1 1.37% Was very boring considering it was at the end of a long (welcome) week. 

1 1.37% was very boring! 

1 1.37% wasn't very helpful in any of the above ways 

1 1.37% We didn't really do anything helpful. I wish we would have done a service project instead of watch a movie 



Q97. The Explore-U student group and vendor fair . . . (Check all that apply) 


1115 73.89% 19.03% Introduced me to student groups in which I would like to participate 

715 47.38% 12.20% Introduced me to businesses in the campus community 

673 44.60% 11.49% Gave me a sense of resources available in the business community

548 36.32% 9.35% Assisted with learning about specific resources and locations 

482 31.94% 8.23% Helped me understand the importance of planning my college experience 

565 37.44% 9.64% Helped me identify ways to be intentional in creating a successful college experience 


733 48.58% 12.51% Was fun and I found it to be relaxing 


Count 

Percent 

2 2.27% 

1 1.14% AWESOME 

1 1.14% Enjoyed the free food. 

1 1.14% Explore-U was too crowded for me to enjoy. 

1 1.14% FOOOOOOD 

1 1.14% free stuff 

1 1.14% Free stuff 

1 1.14% free stuff is good 

1 1.14% Free stuff! 

1 1.14% Fun but not relaxing 

1 1.14% Fun, but not relaxing! 

1 1.14% fun, but not relaxing.. toooo packed 

1 1.14% fun, not really relaxing 

1 1.14% Fun, not relaxing 

1 1.14% Gave me a lot of useful free things 

1 1.14% Gave me free food. 

1 1.14% gave me free stuff! 

1 1.14% gave me menus for food 

1 1.14% Gave me plenty of free stuff 

1 1.14% GREEK LIFE 

1 1.14% had free food 

1 1.14% I could not find what I was looking for 

1 1.14% I did not enjoy it. 

1 1.14% I didn't find anything that really excited me 

1 1.14% I don't know if Mariucci was just the only available location to host the fair, but it was jam-packed and pretty hard to get around. Maybe the field 

house could be a better spot 

1 1.14% I enjoyed receiving all of the free stuff.

1 1.14% I liked getting coupons. 

1 1.14% I loved the free stuff!!! 

1 1.14% I was crowded and super fun, but I think it might work better if the students attending were staggered. 

1 1.14% I wish more student groups did this, especially those I have been trying to get in contact with online. 

1 1.14% It was crowded and hard to see everything 

1 1.14% It was fun, but not relaxing! It was crowded, but it was still fun. 

1 1.14% It was fun, but not relaxing. It was very crowded and warm. 

1 1.14% It was fun, but really packed. 

1 1.14% It was hard to talk to the group reps since there were so many people and and not much room to move around 

1 1.14% It was incredibly busy and somewhat difficult/annoying to navigate through. 

1 1.14% It was too crowded to be enjoyable. 

1 1.14% It was very crowded 

1 1.14% Lacked enough engagement 

1 1.14% lots of free stuff 

1 1.14% Lots of free stuff! Was amazing. 

1 1.14% loved the free stuff!!! 

1 1.14% My favorite part of the week 

1 1.14% None of the above. Just got free stuff, which was cool 

1 1.14% not enough vendors, was kind of dissappointed 

1 1.14% Once again, things were really crowded and although I did find things that interested me, I thought there were going to be groups there. 

1 1.14% provided me with lots of free stuff! 

1 1.14% Provided me with many free pens 

1 1.14% Super busy and hectic 

1 1.14% the best part of my welcome week! 

1 1.14% The best part of welcome week!! 

1 1.14% The fair was very crowded and I did not find many organizations that I am interested in there. 

1 1.14% The upper floor was WAY too crowded. 

1 1.14% There were a lot of people so it was overwhelmingly crowded. 

1 1.14% this fair was amazing! 

1 1.14% this was the best event but it wasn't relaxing 

2 2.27% too crowded 

1 1.14% Too crowded, people were shoving flyers in my face and I was extremely overwhelmed at the end. All I wanted to do was leave after only about 

45 minutes of being there. 

1 1.14% Too many students and booths in too small a space.

1 1.14% very crowded 

1 1.14% was a great place for free food. 

1 1.14% was a madhouse 

1 1.14% was chaotic 

1 1.14% Was claustrophobic and caused me to leave before I could really see any tables 

1 1.14% was crowded 

1 1.14% was crowded. 

1 1.14% Was extremely enjoyable, although somewhat cramped. 

1 1.14% Was extremely hectic and slightly stressful, but fun. 

1 1.14% was far too crowded to be enjoyed 

1 1.14% was far too crowded to learn anything about student groups 

1 1.14% was overwhelming 

1 1.14% was poorly organized, too busy, cramped for space, and i felt demeaned by the fact that outside businesses were allowed to advertise and 

have booths 

1 1.14% Was really crowded. 

1 1.14% was too busy, and the clubs I was interested in were not there. 

1 1.14% was too crowded 

1 1.14% was too crowded, but fun 

1 1.14% was very crowded 

1 1.14% Was VERY crowded. 

1 1.14% was way too crowded I could even move let alone see what groups the tables were representing. I just left. 

1 1.14% Was way too crowded to accomplish anything 

1 1.14% Way too crowded, super long lines, poorly set up. All the frats and sororities should've been in one part, food part in another, etcetera 

1 1.14% Way too many people. Very crowded. It was hard to do anything because of all the different people. 

137 9.08% 2.34% Did not attend 



Q98. During your first year of college, do you plan to visit the businesses you learned about at Explore-U 

Count 

Percent 

1115 81.33% Yes 

256 18.67% No 


Q99. At the Late Night at the Mall of America (MOA) event, I . . . (Check all that apply)


716 47.48% 17.56% Had an easy time accessing the bus transportation 

793 52.59% 19.45% Used my wristband to get into Nickelodeon Universe 

381 25.27% 9.34% Went to Underwater Adventures 

71 4.71% 1.74% Played miniature golf at Moose Mountain 

701 46.49% 17.19% Had the opportunity to interact with others 

737 48.87% 18.07% Had fun and it was relaxing 


Count 

Percent 

1 3.85% bus ride was too much of hassle 

1 3.85% Busy 

1 3.85% Couldn't attend because it was too late with bussing issues. 

1 3.85% Did not have a chance to visit any attraction, because all of the attractions were so crowded 

1 3.85% Found businesses and services I may wish to visit at the Mall while I am at college. 

1 3.85% Got in line for the bus an hour before the first bus left in order to avoid long lines. 

1 3.85% got really wet on the log ride (dont sit in the front) 

1 3.85% had fun, I wouldn't say it was relaxing though 

1 3.85% Had fun, wasn't relaxing 

1 3.85% had the best birthday ever! 

1 3.85% Had to wait in a long line. 

1 3.85% It was so much fun that I did not even think it was tiring at all! 

1 3.85% It wasn't relaxing, but it was fun 

1 3.85% meet new people 

1 3.85% Met new friends 

1 3.85% met spongebob and go diego go! 

1 3.85% so busy 

1 3.85% Students were not friendly 

1 3.85% This event should have been earlier so that we could have explored the stores. 

1 3.85% this event was awesome. 

1 3.85% too crowded, take us to valley fair next time 

1 3.85% Waited in long lines 

1 3.85% Wasn't aware we still had to buy our tickets for the underwater adventures, I was under the impression they were billed to our student accounts 

and didn't think I would be able to still get in when not provided with a ticket 

1 3.85% wished the stores were open.

1 3.85% Would LOVE to do it again! 

1 3.85% Would recommend the Log Water Ride unless its at the end and is hot outside. 

653 43.30% 16.01% Did not attend 



Q100. Why did you not attend the Late Night at the MOA event 

Count 

Percent 

624 100.00% 

Count 

Percent 

1 0.16% - i had a family wedding to attend 

1 0.16% Actually, I'd like to go there but it's too late. 

1 0.16% After a week of standing in lines and large mob's of people i was very tired. 

1 0.16% After all of the activities we had for the week, I was to exhausted to go that late at night. Plus, I knew how long the lines would be and did not 

want to wait in them while I was that tired and still had to drive home. However, the main reason I did not attend is because my house is a lot 

closer to MOA than the U of M campus, yet they would not let me drive myself to the MOA. 

1 0.16% After being at the Target Run, I did not want to wait in line for the bus, wait in line to get into the mall, wait in line for rides all night, and wait in 

line for a bus back to the U. Plus, I live in Middlebrook so it was very inconvenient for me to go all the way to east bank to get on the bus and 

then have to walk home at 1:00am afterwards. That would not be safe. 

1 0.16% After the hectic lines at Target Run, I decided that I would rather spend my time with some of my closer friends. Also, i have been to MOA 

many times before. 

1 0.16% After waiting in line to get on a bus for the Target run for an hour and 45 minutes I was afraid that the lines for the trip to the Mall of America 

would be just as long, as well as the lines for all of the attractions. I wanted to go to Underwater Adventure at the mall, but I stopped at Coffman 

to buy a ticket and they were sold out. 

1 0.16% As a commuter, the time was a little late to catch the bus to go back home, I would have liked to attended but my busing schedule didn't fit the 

time lines. 

1 0.16% at a wedding 

1 0.16% Attending Gopher Volleyball. 

1 0.16% becasue there were events planned for the next day an i wasnt about to be all tired all over again 

1 0.16% Because I am a commuter, and returning home at 1 in the morning would be too late and dangerous for driving. 

1 0.16% Because I am from Minnesota I have been there so many times. But I do my friends from other states loved it. 

1 0.16% Because I am in the marching band and needed to get sleep. 

1 0.16% Because I figured it was going to be ridiculously busy. 

1 0.16% Because I figured it would be to crowded and i hung out with people on campus instead. 

1 0.16% Because I grew up in St. Paul, I have been to the MOA a number of times and wanted to explore the U of M campus instead. 

1 0.16% Because I haven't made any friends. 

1 0.16% because I heard that the lines would be too long to go on anything

1 0.16% Because I needed to sleep and had other business to attend to. 

1 0.16% Because I was exhausted after an extremely long day. 

1 0.16% Because I was exhausted and wanted to spend time with my friends instead of being in a loud and crowded mall, I was tired and needed sleep 

and a break from an intense schedule 

1 0.16% Because I was extremely exhausted and I hate crowds. 


1 0.16% because i was so tired and wanted to go bed early. 

1 0.16% Because I was utterly exhausted after a full day and week and decided I didn't want to wreak further havoc to my body's normal sleep schedule 

by being up until 1 AM or later. 

1 0.16% because i wasn't able to stay until late night 

1 0.16% Because i went to the volleyball game and since i am from here Mall of America didn't seem too appealing to me. 

1 0.16% Because I'm in marching band. 

1 0.16% Because intimidated by lines 

1 0.16% Because It was my birthday and I had better things to do. 

1 0.16% because it was too crowded 

1 0.16% Because it was too late for me being a commuter. 

1 0.16% Because my good friend from back home was visiting 

1 0.16% because the target event went so poorly 

1 0.16% Been there already and was meeting with family. 

1 0.16% Been there to much 

1 0.16% Busy 

1 0.16% chilled with roommates 

1 0.16% commuter 

1 0.16% commuter student, would be to late and difficult to get home 

1 0.16% Couldn't plan a bus ride back to my apartment. 

1 0.16% Did not go 

1 0.16% Did not want to spend time waiting in line for busses in the cold - spent time with friends in the dorms instead. 

1 0.16% Didn't feel like it. The thought of 5000 kids in the mall of america park makes me want to barf. 

1 0.16% Didn't know where the buses were 

1 0.16% Didnt seem fun 

1 0.16% Didn't want to drive home very late at night 

1 0.16% Didn't want to go to another "target run" with huge lines. 

1 0.16% Didn't want to wait for buses, was too exhausted with the week. 

1 0.16% Didn't want to wait in line for small rides. Would have went if the stores would have been open.

1 0.16% Do you really want to know 

1 0.16% Doing other things. 

1 0.16% dont have time. 

1 0.16% Even if I lined up early, I knew it was going to take a long time to get there and back. Also, it was going to be crazy and hectic and there are so 

many activities during welcome week that i was already feeling very tired. 

1 0.16% family issue 

1 0.16% fatigued 

1 0.16% Feeling under the weather. 

1 0.16% Felt it might be too hectic 

1 0.16% figure it would be way to crowded and decided to Tye-dye bandannas 

1 0.16% Firstly, I didn't have anything to do with the hours of free time between explore-u and the MOA event (as I did not sign up for dinner and was 

not interested in going to the volleyball match at that time). Secondly, it was just too late for me, because I didn't want to make the drive home 

too late since I was already tired from the day before. 

1 0.16% Got sick of waiting in line for the bus. 

1 0.16% had friends in town 

2 0.32% Had other plans 

2 0.32% Had other plans. 

1 0.16% Had other things in my dorm to take care of 

1 0.16% Had other, more pressing plans. 

1 0.16% had plans 

1 0.16% Had plans. 

1 0.16% Had some other off campus event to attend, though I would have otherwise attended Late Night at MoA 

1 0.16% Had to be at home. 

1 0.16% Had to work at my job! 

1 0.16% Heard from an older student that it was very crowded in past years, so much so that they couldn't have fun. 

1 0.16% Heard it would be packed, decided to do other things. 

1 0.16% Heard negatives about it from years prior. No stores are open that late. All that would be done is sitting in line for rides 

1 0.16% hung out at a friends house 

1 0.16% Hung out in my dorm and watched a movie with friends, I was concerned about the bus situation and did not want to wait for a bus 

1 0.16% Hung out with friends off campus 

1 0.16% I was too tired 

1 0.16% I already have been there many times, and I felt like relaxing in my room. 

1 0.16% I am a commuter and didn't feel like driving all the way home at one in the morning. 

1 0.16% I am a commuter and had a long drive to visit family 

1 0.16% I am a commuter and had to take the bus home.

1 0.16% I am a commuter and I do not like to take the bus when it's very late. It gets unsafe. 

1 0.16% I am a commuter and since it takes me an hour and a half to get home from campus via bus, i did not want to stay out too late. I do not feel 

safe traveling on the city bus late at night since i have to transfer buses in downtown saint paul. 

1 0.16% I am a commuter student and I get around by public transportation and I wasn't able to attend because of time issues with the buses. 

1 0.16% I am a commuter student and the buses to my area do not run that late. I would've loved to go. 

1 0.16% I am a commuter student.I had transportation issues. 

1 0.16% I am a commuter, and i have been to moa plenty of times 

1 0.16% I am a commuter, I did not want to stay that late and I have been to the MOA many times, it did not make a difference to me personally. 

1 0.16% I am afraid of rides, I am not into golfing or underwater world. I am use to the MOA since I am from around here. I had a friend come over from 

out of town. 

1 0.16% I am apart of the marching band, and thus followed the SPAT camp schedule. 

1 0.16% I am celebrating the month of Ramadan so I attended late night prayer. 

1 0.16% I am from Minneapolis and have been to the MOA a lot so I didn't feel like going again. 

1 0.16% I am from Saint Paul and have been there 1,000 times and I was very tired from the full welcome week schedule. Otherwise I would have. 

1 0.16% I am not a fan of most rides at MOA, and a friend from Iowa was visiting and staying back at the U was the only way to see him this month, so I 

decided to skip out. 

1 0.16% I am terrified of rides. 

1 0.16% I am worried about not being save getting home late night taking city bus 

1 0.16% I assumed it would be very similar to the Target event, and transportation to Target was very unorganized and made the trip not worth it. 

1 0.16% I attended a family wedding. 

1 0.16% I attended the Bailey Hall event, we tye dyed bandanas. 

1 0.16% I attended the KISS concert at the state fair with some friends. 

1 0.16% I attended the volleyball game and after that I wanted to catch up on sleep. 

1 0.16% I believed it would be too crowded to be very much fun, and I was tired from all of the other Welcome Week activities. 

1 0.16% I bought a ticket for Underwater Adventures but they were sold out when my friend wanted to purchase one so I then sold mine. 

1 0.16% I chose not to participate. 

1 0.16% I chose to go to the Lady Gophers Womens Volleyball Game instead; also, I'm from Minnesota so the MOA is not a big deal for me. 

1 0.16% I chose to go to the volleyball game instead. 

1 0.16% I chose to stay at the U and spend time with friends. 

1 0.16% I chose to work on Nature of Life Assignments 

1 0.16% I could not find my group and I got frustrated. And I was spending 3 hours rescheduling my timetables. 

1 0.16% I decided not to go through the crowds and the rush of the excitement. I wanted to relax in the evening and get some sleep. 

1 0.16% I decided to attend a different social event. 

1 0.16% I decided to attend the volleyball game and then hang out with the new friends that i made in my dorm 

1 0.16% i decided to get some extra sleep and go to bed because i was so tired.

1 0.16% I did not attend because I new that there would be far too many students attending and it would have been a lot of standing in lines. 

1 0.16% I did not attend because I was exhausted. Also, because after the Target Run, I did not think that it would be worth it to go to the Mall of 

America with the potential of having such huge lines. 

1 0.16% I did not attend for three reasons. I get motion sick, so riding rides is not very fun for me. I figured it would be just as crowded and difficult to 

find friends as the Target run was, and I was too exhausted at that point to go through that again. Thirdly, I wanted to hang out with my 

roommate and some of the friends I had recently made instead. 

1 0.16% I did not attend Late Night at MOA because I have been to MOA so many times it just isn't very exciting for me anymore. 

1 0.16% I did not attend Late Night at MOA because my brother came to town so i went out to dinner and hung out with him the remainder of the night. 

1 0.16% I did not attend the even because I knew that there would be a lot of people there, and didn't see the prospect of waiting in numerous lines for 

extended periods of times to be appealing. A lot of people in a place like that creates chaos, which is not enjoyable to me. After attending the 

"Target Run," I was aware that the event could turn into a zoo. 

1 0.16% I did not attend the Late Night because I had previous plans with old friends from my high school who were here for the Minnesota State Fair. 

1 0.16% I did not attend the Late Night MOA event because a friend from out of town came for a visit. 

1 0.16% I did not feel like it. And the wait for the buses to Target/crowds made me apprehensive about the MOA event. Also, the pickup for the buses 

was not close to my dorm hall. 

1 0.16% I did not have a ride. 

1 0.16% I did not have time. 

1 0.16% I did not want to be stuck in a line for the entirety of the night; too crowded 

1 0.16% I did not want to hassle with the bus. 

1 0.16% I did not want to stand in the long lines again & just decided to go and watch a movie with hallmates 

1 0.16% I did not want to stay out so late. I was exhausted after the long day. 

1 0.16% I did not want to stay up so late and have to drive home. 

1 0.16% I did not want to take on the lines and I had plans to meet up with friends in a different res. hall 

1 0.16% I did not want to wait in line for rides. 

1 0.16% I didn't attend because i am a commuter and it was hard to get transportation so late at night. 

1 0.16% I didn't attend Because i am a commuter Student and after midnight my bus doesn't come any more. 

1 0.16% I didn't attend the late night to MOA because I couldn't get a ride and I didn't want to lose my part time so I had to miss out on the fun to MOA. 

1 0.16% I didn't find it very interesting. I live in MN and have been to MOA multiple times. 

1 0.16% I didn't know anyone else who was going, so I would have just been walking around MOA alone, which didn't sound like fun. 

1 0.16% I didn't want to deal with all of the crazy lines that i assumed would be everywhere that night, much like how the target run was. 

1 0.16% I didn't want to get caught up in yet another crown of long lines. 

1 0.16% I didn't want to go 

1 0.16% I didn't want to have to deal with the busing, like for the target event. 

1 0.16% I didn't want to stand in line to go on some of the rides. I didn't want to be around a lot of people. I just wanted to relax and go to bed early. 

1 0.16% I didn't want to travel there. 

1 0.16% I didn't want to wait in long lines because I felt like we did a lot of waiting during welcome week

1 0.16% I didn't want to wait in long lines like the Target Run. I was also just tired and preferred to hang out in the dorm. 

1 0.16% I didn't want to wait in the long lines. 

1 0.16% I didn't want to walk around in the mall with a huge number of other people. 

1 0.16% I dislike the nickelodeon universe, and I figured that lines would be extremely long anyways. So instead, I played ultimate frisbee with some 

friends by middlebrook. A much better use of my time, in my opinion. Also, I wanted to get a good night's sleep for once this week. 

1 0.16% I do not enjoy rides. 

1 0.16% I do not enjoy shopping, and I did not feel like staying up late. 

1 0.16% I do not like rides and I did not want to deal with the buses and pay extra for golf or Underwater Adventures. 

1 0.16% I don't like MOA that much when it comes to rides. 

1 0.16% I dont like rides very much 

1 0.16% I dont like rides. 

1 0.16% I don't want back home too late, it is not safe. 

1 0.16% I expected it to be like the Fun Zone: huge lines waiting for anything. 

1 0.16% I expected the lines to be incredibly long. Also, I had met someone at the U-Fair and planned to hang out with them that night. 

1 0.16% I fell asleep 

1 0.16% I felt it would be too chaotic and was exhausted from the week of events so I chose to meet people in the dorm and hang out. I felt that Mall of 

America will always be there for me and it would be more fun to go when I wasn't overly exhausted. 

1 0.16% I felt sick. 

1 0.16% I felt there would be too many people there and that I would have to wait in line forever. 

1 0.16% I figured it would be as crowded as the Target run. 

1 0.16% I figured it would be mass choas. 

1 0.16% I figured it would be ridiculously crowded and I've been there many times before. 

1 0.16% I figured it would be too crowded... 

1 0.16% i figured the lines would be huge 

1 0.16% I figured the lines would be insanely long. I thought I could explore other aspects of the campus. 

1 0.16% I figured the lines would be long after the late night at Target and I felt like taking a night off and watching a movie with some friends in the 

dorm instead. 

1 0.16% I figured the lines would be too long with so many people going. From what I heard, that was exactly the case and many people waited half an 

hour to ride a single ride. 

1 0.16% I figured there would be too many lines. The Target run was frustrating and I didn't want to do it again. 

1 0.16% I figured there would be too many people and not enough time to ride the rides. 

1 0.16% I forgot where the buses were. Yes I know I'm brilliant. 

1 0.16% I go to the mall all of the time and wanted to spend my time with other friends who were not eligible to go to the event. 

1 0.16% I go to the MOA all the time on my own time. 

1 0.16% I got a futon that night, and I spent my time rearranging my room.

1 0.16% I got to the bus stop really late so I just went to Applebees with some friends instead 

1 0.16% I had a family engagement 

1 0.16% I had a family event to attend. 

1 0.16% I had a family wedding to attend 

1 0.16% I had a guest that I couldn't bring along. 

1 0.16% I had a migraine headache. 

1 0.16% I had actually already gone to the Mall that day, and I wasn't particularly interested in either the aquarium or the rides. 

1 0.16% I had better things to do 

1 0.16% I had church in the morning, and I wanted some rest. 

1 0.16% I had church the next morning, so I stayed in and hung out with other friends. 

1 0.16% I had family business to take care of. 

1 0.16% I had heard that the lines would be really long, and I didn't want to wait in them. 

1 0.16% I had heard that there was a large amount of people attending the event and that it was very crowded 

1 0.16% I had heard the lines were really long and I was tired. 

1 0.16% i had homework to do for my biology class 

1 0.16% I had just spent fourteen hours at spat camp for Marching Band and had to be up early the next day. 

1 0.16% I had made other plans. 

1 0.16% I had marching band practice 

1 0.16% I had no transportation to the event. 

1 0.16% I had other obligations 

1 0.16% I had other places to go. 

2 0.32% I had other plans 

1 0.16% I had other plans already 

1 0.16% I had other plans and I live in Minnesota so I have been to MOA a thousand times. 

1 0.16% I had other plans with family. 

1 0.16% I had other plans with friends and I've been to the MOA before. 

1 0.16% I had other plans with new friends and I live very close to MOA and go there all the time. 

1 0.16% I had other plans with people 

1 0.16% I had other plans, and I figured the lines would be long with so many people attending. 

4 0.64% I had other plans. 

1 0.16% i had plans with my girlfriend that came down to see me 

1 0.16% I had previous plans to meet my brother for dinner 

1 0.16% I had something going on that night.

1 0.16% I had to drive home (45 minutes) and still get up early the next day for welcome week. 

1 0.16% I had to go back home to work that night :( 

1 0.16% I had to go home for a wedding. 

1 0.16% I had to go to a wedding. 




1 0.16% I had to work. 

1 0.16% I had to work.... 

1 0.16% I had work back in my home town and was unable to attend. 

1 0.16% I had worked a 4 hour shift at the state fair just before the MOA event, so I needed a shower, I was exhausted, and my feet hurt. I was also 

tired of swarms of people all around me and waiting in super long lines for everything. 

1 0.16% I hate crowds. 

1 0.16% I have a light stomach and didn't feel comfortable riding rollercoasters and other rides at nickolodean universe 

1 0.16% I have a severe anxiety disorder so I feel uncomfortable being down in the city that late in a large mall with thousands of people I do not know. 

1 0.16% I have already been to the MOA 

1 0.16% I have been there a lot and i knew the ride lines would be really long 

1 0.16% I have been there before and no stores we're going to be open. 

1 0.16% i have been there many time before 

1 0.16% I have been there many times before and have been to the attractions. I did not want to deal with that many people. 

1 0.16% I have been there plenty of times 

1 0.16% I have been to MOA many of times and have already experienced everything that was being offered to do. 

1 0.16% I have been to MOA many times and I also had church at that time. 

1 0.16% I have been to the Mall of America a few times before and decided I would rather stay on campus, watch the volleyball game, and then get a bit 

of extra sleep. 

1 0.16% I have been to the Mall of America before. I did not feel so inclined to experience another 'target-night' transportation effort. 

1 0.16% I have been to the Mall of American many times before so I decided I would rather spend time with my family that night. 

1 0.16% I have been to the MOA many times before as I am from the area and did not feel the need to go there again. 

1 0.16% i have been to the theme park at the mall several times and had other things to do. i would have been more likely to attend if some of the shops 

were open for business, but i understand the difficulty in organizing that. 

1 0.16% I have heard from past freshmen that the lines were too long and not necessarily worth it. 

1 0.16% I have personal health issues. 

1 0.16% i heard from previous students that it was overcrowded and a lot of waiting in line 

1 0.16% I heard it was kind of boring and was going to be packed so I made other plans 

1 0.16% I heard lines were too long

1 0.16% I heard that it was going to be very crowded there, and the lines for the rides were going to be very long. I hung out with a couple of my friends 

and had a good time. 

1 0.16% I heard that it was very crowded and I have been to MOA many times before. 

1 0.16% I heard that there would be a lot of long lines and after all the waiting throughout Welcome Week, that was the last thing I wanted to partake in. 

1 0.16% I hung out with my friends i had met through the residence hall 

1 0.16% I hung out with my friends in the dorms. 

1 0.16% I just had hip surgery and am not allowed to go on rides and shouldn't be walking a lot. 

1 0.16% I knew it was going to be packed and I didnt feel like waiting in line for 40 min. to get on a ride. 

1 0.16% I knew it would be too crowded and ultimately not fun. After my disappointing target experience (i waited for a bus for 1 hr and 15 minutes, 

couldn't get on because it was so crowded and gave up) I didn't even try to go to MOA even though I wanted to and was looking forward to it. 

Have realistic events! It is disappointing when not everyone can participate. 

1 0.16% I knew it would be very crowded. 

1 0.16% I knew it would be way too busy and I hung out with a friend. 

1 0.16% I knew the lines would be crazy and I am not a huge rides person. They kind of freak me out so I stayed back with my roommate and a couple 

other people. 

1 0.16% I like sleep, and Welcome Week has deprived me of it. 

1 0.16% I live 30 minutes away from the Mall of America so I've been there plenty of times. It wouldn't have been too exciting to go for me. 

1 0.16% I live far away and had to be picked up 

1 0.16% I live in bloomington and have been there many times, and I hate nickelodeon Universe 

1 0.16% I live in Bloomington so I thought it would be pointless for me to take the bus to MOA, come back to campus, and then go back to Bloomington. 

I wish there was a way for me to leave from MOA. 

1 0.16% I live in MN, so I already went to MOA lots of time 

1 0.16% I live in Mpls so the mall is not very exciting for me. 

1 0.16% I live in the area and work at the mall. I felt no need to spend my saturday night there. 

1 0.16% I live off campus and had a 45 minute drive home and wanted to use the time to do other things that I needed to get done. 

1 0.16% I live off campus and I wanted to go home and go to bed earlier than that. 

1 0.16% I missed the buses 

1 0.16% I needed downtime after a crazy week, and I needed to relax for a night. 

1 0.16% I needed more time to relax. 

1 0.16% I needed sleep and I lost my voice at the Women's Gopher Volleyball game earlier that night. 

1 0.16% I needed time to relax and sleep because of the early start of most of the days of Welcome Week. 

1 0.16% I needed to rest because I was going to church early Sunday morning. 

1 0.16% I spent the night catching up on sleep. 

1 0.16% I spent the night with my family. 

1 0.16% I stayed here with friends I had already met. 

1 0.16% I stayed in, and thought there would be no buses like the Target Run

1 0.16% I tend to become ill if I stay up too late, so I opted to go to bed on time in order to maintain my health before starting school. I have lived in the 

Twin Cities all my life and have visited the MOA many times. I don't have a stomach for rides and have already experienced a 

behind-the-scenes tour of Underwater Adventures. I saw no real reason to go. 

1 0.16% I thought it would be really crowded like Target night and I thought there would be a lot of lines. 

1 0.16% I thought it would be too busy, and I've been there many times before. 

1 0.16% I thought it would be too crowded and I was already exhausted 

1 0.16% I thought it would be too crowded and I was too tired 

1 0.16% I thought it would be too crowded and my friends were not attending either. 

1 0.16% I thought it would be too crowded. 

1 0.16% I thought it would be very crowded and I wanted to watch the women's volleyball game instead. 

1 0.16% I thought that it was be as poorly organized as the Target Run was. I didn't want to wait in line or walk around. 

1 0.16% I thought that the time of the event was kind of late and it'd not be very convenient for me since I live an hour away. 

1 0.16% I thought the lines for the bus might be really long like they were for Target night. 

1 0.16% I thought the lines would be too long. 

1 0.16% i thought there were going to be too many people 

1 0.16% I took a nap after the incredibly long and boring previous two days and missed the bus. 

1 0.16% I took a nap and missed it completely, I really wanted to go. 

1 0.16% I used the time to hang out with both new and old friends. During that time I was able to strengthen our bonds of friendship in a safe and fun 

environment by watching movies together. We also did not want to stand in line for a long time. 

1 0.16% I wanted a night off of planned events and a chance to see some friends. 

1 0.16% I wanted to avoid more crowds. 

1 0.16% I wanted to be with my friends in the dorm and the lines were too long at MOA 

1 0.16% i wanted to but the people i was with decided that they would rather hang out in a dorm room than wait in long lines 

2 0.32% I wanted to catch up on some sleep. 

1 0.16% I wanted to get some sleep. 

1 0.16% I wanted to hang out with friends and was tired from all the welcome week activities in the day. 

1 0.16% I wanted to sleep. 

1 0.16% I was afraid to come home late, might be my parents will worry much for me. 

1 0.16% I was at a wedding 

1 0.16% I was at home. 

1 0.16% I was at the state fair. 

1 0.16% I was at the Volleyball game. 

1 0.16% I was baby-sitting, as I said before. 

1 0.16% I was busy 

1 0.16% i was busy settling in, and it ran too late for my sleeping schedule

1 0.16% I was commuting, and I didn't want to go home at 2 a.m. and then have to wake up at 7 a.m. to catch my bus. I was tired from walking around 

all day and wanted to relax. 

1 0.16% I was doing other residence all events. 

1 0.16% I was exempt from the events Friday through Sunday. 

1 0.16% I was exempted 

1 0.16% I was exempted, I am pregnant and also have a one year old so it was too much of a hassle. Also, I wasn't able to go on the rides anyways. 

1 0.16% I was exhausted after the day of walking and decided to just stay and hang out with friends. 

1 0.16% I was exhausted and it was an optional activity. 

1 0.16% I was exhausted from all the other activities we did that day so stayed at my dorm and did other late night activies 

1 0.16% I was exhausted that night and chose to watch a movie with some friends I had met during the week. 

1 0.16% I was exhausted! 

1 0.16% I was exhausted!! But i think it would have been a lot of fun! 

1 0.16% I was extremely exhausted and not feeling well, so I decided it be in my best interest to remain in the dorm and catch up on my sleep so I could 

get better before classes started instead of starting off my college experience on the wrong foot. 

1 0.16% I was extremely tired and wanted to grab a bite to eat with a friend. 

1 0.16% I was far too tired after all the events to go to that. Also, me and my friends just hung around in various dorms. 

1 0.16% I was feeling sick and I figured the lines would be long and it would be too frustrating. 

1 0.16% I was going to go but then I forgot and it was too late. I forgot because I was tired after marching band practice. 

1 0.16% I was gone because of an excused conflict. 

1 0.16% I was hanging out with friends who did not want to go. 

1 0.16% I was hanging out with other people. 

1 0.16% I was hanging with friends, discovering campus 

1 0.16% I was having a good time in my room and felt that the lines would be very long. I have been to MOA many times before and didn't have a huge 

need to go. 

1 0.16% I was invited to play ultimate frisbee behind Ferguson instead, and then stayed in the dorm to watch a movie with some new friends. It's not 

that I didn't want to go, it's just that I got sidetracked. Though the Target Run, which was fun, mind you, did make me rather wary of lines at 

MOA. 

1 0.16% I was just so tired from everything we had been doing everyday! 

1 0.16% I was not feeling good and I needed sleep. 

1 0.16% I was not feeling well, and turned in early. 

1 0.16% I was not in the cities, therefore I could not attend. 

1 0.16% I was not in the city on that night. 

1 0.16% I was not interested. 


1 0.16% I was planning on attending the Late Night at the MOA, but then I decided to just hang out with my friends. 

1 0.16% I was planning on going but all of the day's activities made me exhausted. I found myself losing sleep and getting very tired early in the day.

1 0.16% I was quite tired during the daytime and I don't like late night acitivies. 

1 0.16% I was really tired from all the planned events. 

1 0.16% I was sick and had to go home. 

1 0.16% I was sick and in the hospital 

1 0.16% I was sick for a few days with the flu. 

1 0.16% I was sick of welcome week things. 

1 0.16% I was sick, otherwise I would have loved to have gone. 


1 0.16% I was sleeping. I needed it after marching band. 

1 0.16% I was spending time with a friend who would only be in town for that night, otherwise I definitely would've gone. 

1 0.16% I was still finding classes that i want to attend, and i worried about the huge crowd. 

1 0.16% I was super tired from all of the other events from the day..so i went to bed. 

2 0.32% I was tired 

1 0.16% I was tired - I had already attended several late-night activities and decided to stay in that night. 

1 0.16% I was tired after all of the previous late nights 

1 0.16% I was tired and am a commuter, so i didnt want to be too tired to drive home. 

1 0.16% I was tired and did not feel like dealing with crowds 

1 0.16% I was tired and did not want to deal with the crowded lines and buses. 

1 0.16% I was tired and did not want to stay out until 1 a.m. 

1 0.16% I was tired and didnt want to deal with crowds. 

1 0.16% I was tired and heard from upperclassmen that the waiting in line wasn't worth the experience. Also I had a terrible time trying to get on a bus 

for the Target Run and I didn't want to get shoved around while waiting for a bus for 2 hours again 

1 0.16% I was tired and I am not a big fan of roller coasters. 

1 0.16% I was tired and wanted to go to bed early. 

1 0.16% I was tired and wanted to sleep after a very busy day. 

1 0.16% I was tired and worn out from all the other activities and it was too late. 

1 0.16% I was tired because of the large number of activities during the day, and also during the Target Run I had to wait for over an hour for a bus to 

take me and ended up getting back to my room very late. 

1 0.16% I was tired from earlier in the day and I am from Minneapolis so I have been there many times before. 

1 0.16% I was tired from the week. 

1 0.16% I was tired of being surrounded by a ton of freshman and I wanted to stay at the dorm and relax. 

1 0.16% I was tired of waiting in lines for everything and I was really tired so I hung out with other people on my floor. 

1 0.16% I was tired so i went to sleep instead. 

1 0.16% I was tired, and my feet hurt from walking around earlier in the day, so I decided to stay in my room and rest.

6 0.96% I was tired. 

1 0.16% I was tired. No shopping. 

1 0.16% I was to exhausted and since I was a commuter I didnt want to stay up that late if I would have to drive home. 

1 0.16% I was to worn out to attend. 

1 0.16% I was told the lines were too long. 

1 0.16% I was too exhausted from the week, my other friends were attending, and I knew the lines would be crazy long. 

2 0.32% i was too tired 

2 0.32% I was too tired 

1 0.16% I was too tired after all the other Welcome week activities. 

1 0.16% i was too tired after having a busy week 

1 0.16% I was too tired after the volleyball game, so I made friends with people in my residence hall. 

1 0.16% I was too tired all day, and since I live in the metro I've been there a million times. And those long lines just didn't sound amazing that day. 

1 0.16% I was too tired and did not feel like dealing with crowds and lines. 

1 0.16% I was too tired and didn't want to wait forever to get on the bus like on the Target run. I feared for my life that night! 

1 0.16% I was too tired and I was sick of all the people, the crowds, and lines. 

1 0.16% I was too tired and just wanted to hang out with my roommate in my room. 

1 0.16% I was too tired and my feet were sore. 

1 0.16% I was too tired and preferred to attend the movie night going on at my dorm. 

1 0.16% I was too tired and wanted to catch up on sleep. 

1 0.16% I was too tired from all he other welcome week suff and I heard it was going to be really crowded. 

1 0.16% I was too tired from all the other events. 

1 0.16% I was too tired from the daily activites. Also, I was discouraged by the masses of unorganized people that I encountered trying to get on the bus 

for the Target run that I didn't want to waste my time getting pushed around in the street for hours again. 

1 0.16% I was too tired from the day's activities, so instead I attended the Diet Coke Classic Vollyeball Game and then returned to my residence hall for 

a community event (a viewing of Slumdog Millionaire). 

1 0.16% I was too tired from welcome week events. 

1 0.16% I was too tired to attend. 

1 0.16% I was too tired! 

1 0.16% I was too tired, I did not have a friend to go with, and I figured the lines would be rather long. 

1 0.16% I was too tired, so I decided to attend the volleyball game instead. 

2 0.32% I was too tired. 

1 0.16% I was unable to go. 

1 0.16% I was very sick of crowds, chaos, noise, buses and staying up late. 

1 0.16% I was very tired after such a long week, had a terrible experience with the Target busses and didn't want to deal with that again and was 

concerned about waiting in long lines.

1 0.16% I was very tired and attended the movie night in my dorm instead. 

1 0.16% I was very tired and decided that a quiet night of TV with some girlfriends was more important. 

1 0.16% I was very tired and was st home that day spendin time with my family. After the target run I was not too excited to wait in long lines for 

everything. 

1 0.16% I was very tired and went to bed early. Welcome week is useful but really wears you out. 

1 0.16% I was very tired by that point and wanted to relax. Had it been sooner in welcome week, I may have gone. 

1 0.16% I was very tired by then and saw that it was until 1:00 am. I wanted to sleep! I would've liked to go if it was during the day. 

1 0.16% I was very tired from all the weeks events and wasn't sure who would all go/ didn't know others well enough to think it would be a good time 

1 0.16% I was very tired from the long couple of days, and I wanted to take that night to relax. 

1 0.16% I was very tired from the other Welcome Week activities. 

1 0.16% I was working 

1 0.16% I was working at the Minnesota State Fair. 

1 0.16% I was working. 

1 0.16% I was worn out from all of the welcome week activities and needed to just relax. Also, I had blisters on my feet from all of the walking between 

middlebrook and mariucci 

1 0.16% I was worried of how packed buses might be after target night. I decided to stay with friends on campus instead. 

1 0.16% I was worried there would be too long of lines and did not want to wait for hours and not get to do much. 

1 0.16% I wasn't interested and chose to get a full night's rest. 

1 0.16% I went home after marching at the Minnesota State Fair 

1 0.16% I went out to dinner with my mom because she was flying back to New Jersey the next morning. 

1 0.16% I went to a family barbecue. 

1 0.16% I went to bed early instead. 

1 0.16% I went to our Frontier Hall nightly activity instead, and I assumed the lines would be really long for the rides I've grown out of enjoying. 

1 0.16% I went to the State Fair with friends and family from my hometown. 

1 0.16% I went to the State Fair with friends. 

1 0.16% I went to the State Fair with my family. They came down to visit. And, I figured it would be way too busy, and I've been to the MOA park many 

times. 

1 0.16% I went to the volleyball game 

1 0.16% I went to the volleyball game against Dayton 

1 0.16% I went to the Volleyball game instead. 

1 0.16% I went to the Volleyball game. 

1 0.16% I went to the women's volleyball game against Dayton University at the William's Arena. 

1 0.16% I went to visit some friends i did not see. 

1 0.16% I work at Nick Universe so I'm there too much already 

1 0.16% I would prefer to sleep.

1 0.16% I'd been there recently. 

1 0.16% if i could attend i could not get a ride home 

1 0.16% I'm a commuter and I couldn't have gone home if I had attended to that event 

1 0.16% I'm a commuter and I needed to take the bus home 

1 0.16% I'm a commuter and none of the buses run that late. 

1 0.16% I'm an introvert and didn't feel compelled to spend time with large crowds 

1 0.16% I'm not a big fan of rides. 

1 0.16% I'm not super interested in rides 

1 0.16% In chicago for a wedding 

1 0.16% Inefficient travel methods utilized 

1 0.16% Is a commuter and wouldn't have a ride after that late at night. 

1 0.16% It sounded dumb and I barely fit in any of the rides 

1 0.16% It sounded like there was going to be a lot of waiting in lines, and like it was going to be chaoitc. 

1 0.16% It was my last chance to see my family before they left town, so we had a barbecue instead/ 

1 0.16% It was not of interest to me. 

1 0.16% It was on a Saturday night, and the buses don't run to where I live that late. 

1 0.16% It was optional. 

1 0.16% It was too crowded 

1 0.16% It was too crowded. 

1 0.16% it was too late and i was exhausted. 

1 0.16% it was too late and i was tired. Also, i was afraid that there would be no buses can get me home. 

1 0.16% It was too late at night and I am a commuter. 

2 0.32% It was too late at night. 

1 0.16% It was too late for me and I was tired. 

1 0.16% It was too late for me since I commute. 

1 0.16% It was too late for me to attend being as I was a commuter student and I couldn't rely on public transportation to take me back. 

1 0.16% It was too late to commute from school and back home. 

1 0.16% It was very late at night and I was relying on my parents to pick me up. I did not want them to wake up at 1 am to drive me home from school 

everyday. I skipped a lot of the late night events because they were really late at night and it was very inconvenient for me as well as my 

parents. 

1 0.16% It was way too hard to get on the buses. The line at the Superblock was about 300 people and I waited in line for an hour before I finally 

decided just to stay in my dorm. 

1 0.16% It went to late and I have to drive so I had to get up early to be back on time the next day and I was tired and needed more than 3 hours of 

sleep. 

1 0.16% it's too late

1 0.16% it's too late for me 

1 0.16% I've been on all the rides before and didn't feel like waiting in line with crowds of people. 

1 0.16% I've been there many times, and I didn't enjoy the prospect of incredibly long lines. 

1 0.16% ive been there plenty of times before and i knew the lines would be long. 

1 0.16% i've been to the mall before and lines for the ride didn't seem like what i wanted to do that night 

1 0.16% I've lived 20 minutes from MOA my entire life, I've experienced all the activities that were planned out so it did not seem appealing to me 

1 0.16% knew the lines would be really long 

1 0.16% line was too ,ong 

1 0.16% Line was too long 

1 0.16% lines 

1 0.16% Lines were gonna be really long. 

1 0.16% Lines were too long, had other plans. 

1 0.16% Lines were too long, stores were not open. 

1 0.16% long lines 

1 0.16% Long lines and stores were not open 

1 0.16% Marching band 

1 0.16% Marching band again 

1 0.16% Marching band schedule. 

1 0.16% My friends and I were tired and decided to just hang out in one of their rooms instead. 

1 0.16% My friends and I were tired from the many activities of Welcome Week and decided to hang out instead. 

1 0.16% My friends weren't going and I wanted to spend time with them. 

1 0.16% My knees hurt from walking too much during other welcome week events 

1 0.16% My parents were in town and I wanted to see them. 

1 0.16% My roommate had just moved in and I enjoyed chatting with her and other friends more than I would have enjoyed waiting in lines. 

1 0.16% My roommates and I had bonding time. To get to know one another more. 

1 0.16% My sister came up 

1 0.16% My sprang leg wasn't feeling good, so I need to rest it. 

1 0.16% Needed to go to bed early in order to wake up at 5:00am Saturday morning. 

1 0.16% No ride. 

1 0.16% No time as a commuter 

1 0.16% No way home 

1 0.16% None of the activities interested me. 

1 0.16% not interested

1 0.16% Not interested in the programs. 

2 0.32% Not interested. 

1 0.16% Not Interested. 

1 0.16% On the Targe run night the bus lines were very long and people were pushing and grabbing. The lines would have been just as long and 

annoying for the MOA event. 

1 0.16% Other plans 

1 0.16% other plans!! friends were in town 

1 0.16% Other plans. To many people going didnt want the lines 


1 0.16% other things to do 

1 0.16% Poor transportation 

1 0.16% Previous commitment 


1 0.16% Resting from marching band and hanging out with friends 

1 0.16% sick of lines and big crowds of people 

1 0.16% Sickeness 

1 0.16% Slept. 

1 0.16% Some friends of mine were visiting for the weekend from North Dakota, and I can go to the Mall of America anytime. 

1 0.16% spending time with friends in the dorms 

1 0.16% State fair 

1 0.16% stores were not open 

1 0.16% Target night was crazy and unorganized and I didn't want to go through something like that again 

1 0.16% Target run was so chaotic and I heard that people only got on 2 rides the whole time last year. 

1 0.16% The buses took too long. 

1 0.16% the day leading up to it had a big break in between events. 

1 0.16% The line for the busses was too long, so we went into downtown. 

1 0.16% The line for the target run was so long that I didn't want to wait in line again. 

1 0.16% The lines for the bus were too long 

1 0.16% The lines for the Target event where crazy and I did not want to experience the same thing with the MOA 

1 0.16% The lines to get on the busses were very long, and the Mall was packed with kids anyway. There are just too many of us to all attend these 

events. 

1 0.16% The lines were way too long to get on the buses. 

1 0.16% The other events were extremely unorganized. I did not feel like waiting in more lines and I live in the metro area so I can go to MOA whenever 

I want. 

1 0.16% The previous days of Welcome Week resulted in fatigue which required more attention than the MOA.

1 0.16% The Target night was a hassle for Middlebrook residents, so I did not want to wait an hour for a bus, then another half hour to be able to enter 

the mall. 

1 0.16% The target run led me to believe that the MOA event would be extremely crowded and therefore unpleasant. 

1 0.16% The target run was really busy, and i wanted to experience the MOA at a time where i could see everything in its normal manner. 

1 0.16% The Target Run was so unorganized that I felt it would be the same way with MOA. 

1 0.16% The transportation for the Target Run was quite unorganized and lengthy, and I thought the MOA event would also consist of a lot of waiting 

and lines. 

1 0.16% There were other things to do. 

1 0.16% There were too many people 

1 0.16% There were very long lines to wait for the bus and i have lived near MOA all my life, so I have seen it all. 

1 0.16% This is my home town and did not feel the need to see it. I spend time there already 

1 0.16% Thought it would be too busy and crazy like the Target run. 

1 0.16% Thought it would be too busy. 

1 0.16% thought it would be too crazy like the target run 

1 0.16% Thought it would have long lines, very busy and not be a good way to spend my time 

1 0.16% Thought many people would not be going and I would be able to mingle with people and just hang out. 

1 0.16% thought the lines would be really long so i wouldn't get on a lot of rides I was just there 

1 0.16% Thought the lines would be to long and not fun. 

1 0.16% tired 

1 0.16% Tired 

1 0.16% Tired. 

1 0.16% To sleep in. 

1 0.16% Too big of lines 

1 0.16% too busy to get on the bus. 

1 0.16% Too busy. 

1 0.16% too busy. long lines. tired 

1 0.16% too crowded for something not worth the wait 

1 0.16% Too difficult to fight the crowd to get on a bus and wait in line for rides. It was not worth the hassel. 

2 0.32% too late 

1 0.16% Too late for commuters. The day was too long for me to engage in further activities. 

1 0.16% Too late in the night. Wanted to sleep. 

1 0.16% Too late to get back home 

1 0.16% too late, and i was tired 

1 0.16% Too late, had a long drive home

1 0.16% Too late. I like to get up early so I have to get to bed early. I want to try to get into a routine BEFORE classes start, so that I'm not catching up 

on sleep just the day before. 

1 0.16% too long of a break before it so I went home and I had guessed that lines would be way too long, and heard that they were. I go to MOA often, 

so it wasn't a big deal for me 

1 0.16% Too long of lines. 

1 0.16% Too long of waiting time between the last activity and the MOA event. As a commutter, I had nothing to do to pass by time, so I went home 

instead. 

1 0.16% too many people 

1 0.16% Too many people 

1 0.16% too many people and once I have a close group of friends, i will go then. 

1 0.16% Too many people, late, hung out with other students that stayed at campus 

3 0.48% too tired 

2 0.32% Too tired 

1 0.16% Too Tired 

1 0.16% Too tired and allergies 

1 0.16% Too tired from other Welcome Week akctivities 

1 0.16% Too tired. Thought it would be overcrowded like Target Run 

1 0.16% tooo worn out 

1 0.16% Transportation issues. 

1 0.16% Very very sick. 

1 0.16% Volleyball 

1 0.16% Wanted to hang out with some friends i hadn't gotten to see yet in a setting that wouldnt be overly crowded 

1 0.16% was doin other stuff back at the dorms 

1 0.16% was eating dinner at my grandma's house 

1 0.16% Was not feeling well 

1 0.16% Was really tired and couldn't stay up that late 

1 0.16% Was tired 

1 0.16% was too tiered 

1 0.16% Was too tired 

1 0.16% Was too tired and didn't want to have to wait in long lines to go on rides. 

1 0.16% Was with marching band section 

1 0.16% Wasn't very interested in going at the time 

1 0.16% watch the volleyball match in sports pavilion. 

1 0.16% Way too late. I had an obligation called church on Sunday, and I did not attend MOA because that would have been bad for me not to get any 

sleep and then to do all of the activities that I am involved in and need to be at in my church.

1 0.16% Way too many people there to have fun! 

1 0.16% Way too tired. 

1 0.16% We thought the lines would be insane. 

1 0.16% We went to the volleyball game. 

1 0.16% Went to dinkytown with a lot of other people. 

1 0.16% Went to the volleyball game instead. 

1 0.16% work 

1 0.16% Work. 

1 0.16% Worn out from a long week. 

1 0.16% would have been too crowded like every other activity we do as a whole class. 

1 0.16% wouldnt have a ride back home. 


Q101. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following statement:There were enough options at the MOA event to keep me entertained. 

Count 

Percent 


342 40.00% Agree 





Q102. Please provide suggestions for evening entertainment or community exploration options for the future: 

Count 

Percent 

764 100.00% 

Count 

Percent 

2 0.26% 

3 0.39% - 

1 0.13% -- 

1 0.13% A comedian, or a hypnotist who puts a show on for all of us like Jermaine Davis. 

1 0.13% - games works 

1 0.13% . 

1 0.13% 9 PM to 1 AM is far too late. 

1 0.13% A better bussing system; I do not appreciate being stepped on and pushed to get on a bus.

1 0.13% A campus wide scavenger hunt like "the amazing race" would be cool. 

1 0.13% A concert with live local musicians would be cool as an option for enertainment at night. 

2 0.26% A concert! 

1 0.13% A couple different options of activities which would disperse the crowds over multiple events. 

1 0.13% A live concert or show. 

1 0.13% A local band or student band. 

1 0.13% A lot of the evening entertainments seemed fun but it is difficult for commuters. Perhaps some entertainment events can be scheduled earlier in 

the future. 

1 0.13% A more detailed map, but it was fun to walk around with just friends. 

1 0.13% A movie or film for people who are interested to watch. A show like acting out something or so. That would be enteraining. 

1 0.13% A movie so we could just relax for evening entertainment, 

1 0.13% A night walk in St.Paul,although you probably cant do it. I love all of the lights and it gives you something relaxing to do. 

1 0.13% A play or musical. 

1 0.13% A scavenger hunt throughout campus during the night to places where activities sometimes occur. 

1 0.13% A service project in the community would have been more effective than the symposium. Late night at the MOA was fantastic! 

1 0.13% A sophomore told me that he went to Como Zoo last year as part of Welcome Week, but no one else has yet confirmed that, but in fact, denies 

it. Regardless, that might be something fun for students to do. 

1 0.13% A theatrical performance would be a fun evening entertainment option. 

1 0.13% A trip to the zoo, maybe a daytime shopping experience at the mall of america or ikea, exploration around the heart of the cities. 

1 0.13% a way of shortening the lines and a longer time there. 

1 0.13% A way to be able to explore the downtown, uptown, and st. paul without having to just pick one. 

1 0.13% Add some free food because I was starving the entire time and felt like passing out from starvation. 

1 0.13% advertise how fun it is and what happens at each event more clearly 

1 0.13% afsdharhbrabrfxhbsbdzgsdth thsvfbrh rth 

1 0.13% All of the evening entertainment I participated in was extremely fun and well put-together. The events I did not attend but heard about through 

friends who attended also seemed like they were fun events. 

1 0.13% Allow all of the groups to do actual volunteer work. 

1 0.13% Allow more time or let the students know how many people that will be attending. 

1 0.13% An activity right within the Superblock, a carnival maybe, also with tours of the different halls. That way we can visit the different halls and meet 

new people. 

1 0.13% An off-campus concert or event. 

1 0.13% An online forum for local and national service organizations could be integrated into the Welcome Week Sign-Up process. It would provide 

students with an opportunity to choose their service or engagement experience. I wish that I could have learned more about actual 

organizations rather than just attending a symposium. My only recommendation for any of the evening activities would be a repositioning of the 

DJ and dance area in Coffman Union. It was a hazard at the entrance, and severely limited both space for dancing and the attendee's sense of 

freedom/peace (given the constant knowledge that you will be the first thing everyone sees as they enter from the River Pkwy entrance). 

1 0.13% An optional exploration or something that lets churches or other religious institutions in the area come and tell students where they are and how

1 0.13% Any popular group. 

to get involved at their church would be very helpful. On-campus, student-run religious organizations are great, but I really crave being able to 

talk with people who both share my beliefs and are much older and wiser. 

1 0.13% Any type of sport or games offered. Options for both St. Paul campus and Minneapolis campus. 


1 0.13% Better transportation would make them more enjoyable. 

1 0.13% Better ways to transport people. 

1 0.13% Biking stuff 

1 0.13% board games, movies, etc. 

1 0.13% Both the evening entertainment and community exploration were fun and effective. I have complete confidence in saying no suggestions are 

needed to improve these already perfected events. 

1 0.13% Breakdancing competitions 

1 0.13% camping! treasure hunt at night with maybe groups of 4 

1 0.13% capture the flag 

1 0.13% Celebrity speakers 

1 0.13% comedians & concerts 

1 0.13% Comedians and concerts 

1 0.13% Comedians were a good idea. 

1 0.13% COMEDIANS. I want to own a comedy club when i'm older, so that would be very helpful. 

1 0.13% comedy or film at the campus 

1 0.13% community exploration didn't go as well because everything was closed! 

1 0.13% Commuters should be able to go first when going home, since city buses don't run as often and so commuters don't have to wait a long time. 

1 0.13% como zoo 

1 0.13% Concert or BBQ would be fun. 

1 0.13% Concerts and music events 

1 0.13% Concerts or Movies, for a relaxing time. 

1 0.13% Concerts would be something that I would love to attend. 

1 0.13% Concerts, comedy shows, hiking around lake Calhoun, etc. 

1 0.13% Concerts, On-Campus Entertainment, Tours of Downtown 

1 0.13% Concerts. 

1 0.13% Connecting students with the local schools. (pre-k, k-12) 

1 0.13% Current ones worked very well 

1 0.13% Dance Event! 

1 0.13% dance party taco night local artist concert

1 0.13% Dance. Get a DJ and like free Red Bull or something. And have a giant dance at The Mall or some big area. 

1 0.13% Dinkytown 

1 0.13% Direct interaction with those in the community who need help. 

1 0.13% Do a big movie night in the theater instead of the fun zone. 

1 0.13% DO NOT 'set students free' to explore on their own, especially when they have no clue about where they are or what they might be interested in 

that is close by. Maps would be nice. 

1 0.13% Do not get rid of the MOA trip. 

1 0.13% Do not make the activities so late, because most commuters do not like attending those late activities and it is inconvienent for us 

1 0.13% do shifts so its not a mob like target run 

1 0.13% Do the MOA thing again, it was awesome. 

1 0.13% Don't assign such a busy schedule so the freshman are too tired to attend the late night activities. More free time and off on our own would 

have been better. 

1 0.13% Don't make it go so late so that more commuters would be able to go. 

1 0.13% Don't plan so many mandatory sessions and activities in the day so that the students aren't too burned out before the entertainment portion of 

the day. 

1 0.13% Don't plan so much and let people do what they want. 

1 0.13% Downtown Minneapolis was interesting and fun, but it was very business-ey. Not many places were open or lively on a Sunday morning. A 

different neighborhood to replace Downtown Minneapolis would be advisable, unless it was on a different day/night. 

1 0.13% drop us off closer to grand 

1 0.13% Earlier activities would be great! 

1 0.13% earlier times 

1 0.13% Easier bus access and some way to make lines less crowded. 

1 0.13% Either make evening entertainment earlier, OR have an optional sleepover area for commuters. teh Commuters could sleep outside in tents, or 

in Coffman, or in Willey, etc. Someplace that could inhabit the commuters. 

1 0.13% Evening entertainment was scheduled too late at night. Welcome Week is exhausting, and by the time it is midnight I know a lot of kids just 

wanted to go to bed. This is unfortunate, because most of the stuff I wanted to do during the week was late at night. 

1 0.13% evening visit to Valleyfair would be my preference. Either way, I would love if we were aloud to bring a guest, that is not a student. 

1 0.13% everything the same it was perfect 

1 0.13% Everything was good; we needed more time at fun events like MOA. 

1 0.13% explore campus at night. 

1 0.13% feed my starving children! 

1 0.13% Find a way to reduce lines. One great way would be having the underwater adventures sell tickets at the door of the mall, or even at various 

times throughout welcome week. 

1 0.13% for commuter late night activity was too late, we want to go but after that there is not bus can take our home 

1 0.13% For evening entertainment, watching movies one night would be fun. 

1 0.13% For sure Pride and Spirit! Make sure people know everything is more optional. 

1 0.13% For the community exploration, it would be nice to have set places to see in the community. I didn't know what all there was, so my group and I

just walked around Nicollet Mall. 

1 0.13% For the late night evening entertainments, they should not be held at late night, because as a commuter, I did not have a chance to attend most 

of the evening entertainments. For the community exploration, I was not assigned to the preferred place I selected in the Welcome Week Event 

Selection. 

1 0.13% Free Food. 

1 0.13% Free time. There were so many things going on and most students wanted to explore on their own time. 

1 0.13% fun things 

1 0.13% Give more free time, and not have mandatory programming run so late into the evening 

1 0.13% Give more information regarding the campus connectors and circulators, and how to use them. 

1 0.13% Give more options on what to go to, or trade off the MOA and the target run for less crowds 

1 0.13% Give more time to explore with the Community Exploration session. 

1 0.13% give us choices to choose to go or not 

1 0.13% Give us more time beforehand to settle down so that more people are motivated to go to the events. 

1 0.13% Give us more time exploring! We hardly got to see anything. 

1 0.13% Go to a Twins game, or maybe even a semi pro game of any sport. This could include the Royals. 

1 0.13% Go to state fair 

1 0.13% Go to the State Fair! 

1 0.13% Go to valleyfair, or the state fair. 

1 0.13% Going to downtown Minneapolis was cool, but just letting us roam around got boring after a while. 

1 0.13% Going to Grand Avenue on Sunday of Labor Day weekend wasn't the smartest idea. Saturday or before would work better to gauge the 

community better. 

1 0.13% Going to the state fair. 

1 0.13% going to uptown 

1 0.13% Going to watch a movie or going on a boat ride. 

1 0.13% Goldstein Museum for fashion design majors, the Guthrie area, maybe an interactive theatre type of event 

1 0.13% good 

1 0.13% Good options. 

1 0.13% Guided tours as an option, so people would learn more about Twin Cities' culture. 

1 0.13% Have a concert, provide more information about local sporting events, etc. 

1 0.13% Have a little more structure. The welcome week leaders should be a little more knowledgable of their location and be able to point out areas 

they think the students would be interested in. 

1 0.13% have better ways to get people there so its not so crowded. or assign people different departure times 

1 0.13% Have community exploration an optional activity. Since I live close to the cities, I already know my way around the community so it felt like a 

waste of time. 

1 0.13% Have events in dinkytown. 

1 0.13% have hip-hop artist come around.

1 0.13% Have local musical artists perform. 

1 0.13% Have MOA/Nickelodeon Universe be open longer. I didn't have time to ride all the rides I wanted because the lines were so long and we could 

only be there until 1 

1 0.13% Have more buses and be more organized 

1 0.13% Have more buses because the lines were so long. 

1 0.13% Have more buses that go back to Sanford Hall!! 

1 0.13% Have more buses to take people. 

1 0.13% have more group oriented activities 

1 0.13% Have more interesting activities for commuters. I did not attend most of the optional activities because i could go home instead, which sounded 

way more exciting than attending the sessions. 

1 0.13% Have more size small t-shirts at Gophers after Dark and more maroon and gold dye. 

1 0.13% Have more than one option for each night to eliminate the crowds. 

1 0.13% Have more than one place to have late night events so that lines are not as long and it isn't as crowded. 

1 0.13% Have more than one thing going on so everyone doesn't do the same thing. 

1 0.13% Have more things so there are smaller lines. 

1 0.13% Have multiple options each night/day. 

1 0.13% have shops open at moa. 

1 0.13% Have some of the events earlier in the day so commuters can attend. 

1 0.13% Have some of the stores open later so that we can shop. 

1 0.13% Have the new Freshmen perform a quick performance if they choose to or not. 

1 0.13% Have the stores at MOA open for that event too. 

1 0.13% have there be other places to go so MOA isnt so busy 

1 0.13% Have things more spread out. The main issue concerning the evening events was that all of the events were big events that the entirety of the 

class was likely to attend. This made all of the lines extremely long and most the activities were crowded. I think that if there were more events 

to choose from on a given evening, like Gophers After Dark night, then there would be a much more enjoyable, quicker experience for the 

student. 

1 0.13% Have various things, because with someone students it gets so congested. 

1 0.13% Having a longer time at MOA! 

1 0.13% Having an option geared more towards introverts like myself who prefer not to be in large crowds and prefer to make friends through smaller 

less noisy activities. The hypnotist for example allowed me to meet several new friends while waiting in line when it was not that crowded, its 

just sometimes the events were just too loud to meet new people. 

1 0.13% Having options available that allow for 8-9 hours of sleep each night of Welcome Week would be nice. 

1 0.13% Having people print off there schedules and show them the buildings that they are in 

1 0.13% Having something local to the Residence Halls like a late night cook out and basketball tourny or volleyball tourny. Something that people can 

go to with out having to travel very far. Also, better advertise the late night activites that take place in the residence halls at 10, I barely heard 

about them. 

1 0.13% Help us figure out the bus system. (not the campus connector)

1 0.13% hire a famous musician. 

1 0.13% Honestly, I think the MOA is perfect. 

1 0.13% Humor plays 

1 0.13% hypnotist 

1 0.13% Hypnotists, Comedians, Sports Games 

1 0.13% I loved the trip to MOA. 

1 0.13% I am new to Minnesota so I have no idea :D. 

1 0.13% I am new to the Twin Cities, what do you want me to say 

1 0.13% I attended an improv show in the Whole with some of my friends. It was really funny, but I don't think it really got publicized. I think others would 

have really liked it. 

1 0.13% I believe MOA is the way the go. I really enjoyed myself. 

1 0.13% I believe that there should be different events besides on major one. 

1 0.13% I cannot think of a single person who did not appreciate and love the free food. However, it is important to make water fountains or other drinks 

available, as well. Too many salty foods + scarce beverages = dehydrated freshmen! 

1 0.13% I can't think of any at this time. 

1 0.13% I can't think of any. 

1 0.13% I can't think of anything, sorry! 

1 0.13% i could prefer if the reduced the eveining entertainment thing or have commuters sleep in school during welcome week 

1 0.13% I did not attend community exploration. 

1 0.13% I didn't go to any of them because of marching band's toll on my body, so I suggest listening to others students who have some relevant 

information to tell you. 

1 0.13% I do not have any suggestions 

1 0.13% I do not have any. 

1 0.13% I don't have any. 

1 0.13% I don't have any. The activities seem good. 

1 0.13% i dont know 

1 0.13% I dont know 

1 0.13% I don't know 

1 0.13% I don't know the area well enough to have a suggestion. 

1 0.13% I don't know the area well enough to suggest anything. 

1 0.13% I don't know yet 

1 0.13% I don't know--the options in the evening were good this year. 

1 0.13% I don't really have any other ideas. 

1 0.13% I enjoyed the activities in Coffman because they were fun, and I could easily walk back to the dorm when I was ready. 

1 0.13% I feel like what we have right now is perfect!

1 0.13% I feel that if some of the stores were open, the mall would have made a lot of money. Also the food vendors weren't spectacular 

1 0.13% I feel that what was offered was offered a good variety of activities. 

1 0.13% I felt that what we had this year was great! 

1 0.13% I found the entertainment and community exploration options currently offered to be fine. 

1 0.13% I had a great time at MOA. As for the midnight Target run, it was really hectic, so if there would have been anyway to make that a little less 

crazy, that would have been great, but overall I thought the evening entertainment options were really fun. 

1 0.13% I have no further suggestions because I liked the ones that were available to me this year. 

1 0.13% I have no other suggestions, the MOA was a great idea, I just wanted to relax with my friends that night. 

1 0.13% I have none 

1 0.13% I have none. 

1 0.13% I honesty don't know what I'd do differently. 

1 0.13% I just wanted more time to go to optional activities with other students and to interact with new friends while meeting new people. 

1 0.13% I like the events that were options for us this year. 

1 0.13% i liked all of them so no suggestions 

1 0.13% I liked the already existing options. 

1 0.13% I liked the option of MOA and I think other people who did attend enjoyed it, I was just very tired. 

1 0.13% I loved the idea of the target run and hope that there can be more buses chartered in the future to maximize the students' time at target. 

1 0.13% I loved the Target run, the Mall of America, and just getting free stuff in general. I wouldn't change any of these activities, especially because 

none of them are required, and people can find other things to do in that time if they do not want to attend. 

1 0.13% I really don't have any. 

1 0.13% I really don't know. I was fine without any entertainment. I think we are college students, we don't need to be constantly entertained. We like to 

sleep and socialize on our own. 

1 0.13% I really liked the entertainment and that we got to see the volleyball game was really cool too. 

1 0.13% I really want to participate in an open-mic in the Whole or someplace. 

1 0.13% I think a real detractor to the quality of evening entertainment was how everyone got there at the same time and flooded the place, creating 

long lines and a lot of noise. 

1 0.13% I think it would be a good idea to have a commuter camp out. One night during welcome week have the commuters sleep out in one of the 

grassy areas with tents and such. And on the night have all the late night activities so that those who have to commute far will be more likely to 

join in and stay. 

1 0.13% I think it would be fun to go to the Science Museum of Minnesota for a community exploration event. 

1 0.13% I think it'd be better if the fun evening events were during the day instead of late at night because then it'd be more convenient for some of the 

commuter students. 

1 0.13% I think MOA is a good idea, it's just hard if everyone wants to go there. Perhaps the State Fair would be fun. 

1 0.13% i think moa was really good option and that should be kept in the future 

1 0.13% I think that for the Target run, it should be held at a couple of different Targets around the area. It was ridiculous how long you had to wait for 

everything. 

1 0.13% I think that games could have made my experience more enjoyable.

1 0.13% I think that MOA is a great option--I was just tired. 

1 0.13% I think that some of the evening entertainment should be tailored more toward commuters. It was often a difficult decision whether I wanted to 

attend the event and get home super late and have to find something to do for several hours between the end of the welcome week day's 

events and the evening event or if I just wanted to go home. It seemed like commuters had to decide if they wanted to participate and meet 

new people or if they shouldn't go because they would have to be driving home really late at night. For the community exploration trip I would 

really recommend for it to be on any other day of the week-on Sunday A LOT of stores/places were closed so there wasn't a lot to do in 

Downtown Minneapolis. I would also recommend that (if it's on another day of the week) it should be longer because having only about two to 

two and a half hours in town was not a lot of time to see much. 

1 0.13% I think that the entertainment this year was very good. 

1 0.13% I think that their should be like a specific dance night, and not just for like break dancing, but to get everyone in a big area, and be able to 

interact and have a good time. 

1 0.13% I think that there should be a late night concert for new students to attend. 

1 0.13% I think that they were good events, the lines were just too long. 

1 0.13% I think the bus system should be a little better on the Target run & MOA trip. 

1 0.13% I think the entertainment options are good! 

1 0.13% I think the Mall of America was a good idea. 

1 0.13% I think the MOA run is fine, I just hung out with people instead of going to that because of personal preference. 

1 0.13% I think the MOA was a great decision, I was just to tired to attend. 

1 0.13% I think the options provided are good ones, but if more room could be made or more options provided, maybe they wouldn't be sooooo crazy 

and hectic. 

1 0.13% I think there were a lot of entertaining things going on during welcome week. There isn't really anything that needed to be added. 

1 0.13% I think they were all great! 

1 0.13% I think welcome week did a good job at selecting evening entertainment... keep it the same! 

1 0.13% I think you give good options, it is just that it can get late for some students. 

1 0.13% I think you should do rotations of students going to certain activities, send half of the freshmen to target one night, te other half the next night, 

etc. 

1 0.13% I thought all of the events were well planned and coordinated. 

1 0.13% I thought everything was great. But I'm also not sure what other options are around. :) 

1 0.13% I thought it was all fantastic, and have no sugestions. 

1 0.13% I thought it was all really great. 

1 0.13% I thought it was all very good 

1 0.13% I thought MOA was one of the most fun night activities some of the night activities could be a little overwhelming but this activity was one of my 

favorites. 

1 0.13% I thought that MOA was a great time and would suggest that for the future. 

1 0.13% I thought that the activities given were very fun. Sometimes the lines were quite long, so maybe more activities of a similar nature would 

alleviate the large groups of people. 

1 0.13% I thought the current options were good since they cover a wide range of students interests. 

1 0.13% I thought they had good activities for both of these.

1 0.13% I thought they were fine. 

1 0.13% I truly loved the MOA experience. It was such a memorable experience meeting new people and having fun at the park and underwater world! 

Definitely suggested as a "must-do" for all freshmen. 

1 0.13% I was really looking forward to going to the MOA, however, I live in Minnesota so I've been on the rides thousands of times. I really think it's a 

great evening activity. 

1 0.13% I was too busy to do evening entertainment 

1 0.13% I wish I could have gone to grand ave of uptown but I had to go downtown, so my suggestion would be to let students pick and choose more. 

1 0.13% I wish that the Jermaine Davis speaker and Pride and Spirit would've been earlier in the day so that I could've gone to them. I'm really sad that 

I had to miss out on those things just because I am a commuter student. 

1 0.13% I wish the events could have started earlier in the evening because it was hard staying out so late every day to participate in fun events when i 

knew I would have to wake up around 7 the next day. 

1 0.13% I wish there was a concert. 

1 0.13% I wished that they were held earlier so commputer students can participate. 

1 0.13% I would always welcome more volunteering opportunities! 

1 0.13% I would be a good idea for the late night stuff not be so "late night" I do not like late nights and I get off of my sleep schedule which 

impacts my performance on the coming days activities. 

1 0.13% I would definitely make the evening activities start earlier in the evening. That way, commuters aren't forced with making a choice between 

making friends and having to go home because we don't feel safe driving when we're really tired. Also, the gap between dinner and the 

activities was a bit long for commuters, and a lot of times we just sat/walked around to spend the time since there wasn't much else to do. 

1 0.13% I would have attended something like a bonfire. There could be music, games, food, etc. Great for socialization and relaxation. 

1 0.13% I would have enjoyed spending part of one of the nights on Grand Ave. in St. Paul. Other than that, I thought that the events were well planned. 

1 0.13% I would have just like more options for my "free time" since as a commuter student I didn't have as many opportunites to meet with 

residential students who would at least have something to do in that free time. 

1 0.13% I would have liked more sporting events. 

1 0.13% I would have liked more time to explore Downtown, especially on a day when the places were actually open, because I felt like I was rushed. 

1 0.13% I would have more fun options for during the day for commuter students so they will be able to attend too! 

1 0.13% I would if I was more familiar with what Minneapolis had to offer. 

1 0.13% I would like some events that don't run so late so that commuters like myself can participate. 

1 0.13% i would like some music options for evening events. Music or other fine arts. 

1 0.13% I would like to have a few more hours of Community Exploration, as I didn't feel that two hours was enough time to really see anything. Also, 

Sunday is not the best time to hold such an event, since most places are closed on Sundays. 

1 0.13% I would like to have seen more live music around the campus to provide a more exiting atmosphere with more variety of options. 

1 0.13% I would like to see the evening entertainment more publicized. My group went to Downtown Minneapolis for community exploration, and it 

would have been better if we had been dropped off in a more centralized, well known location. 

1 0.13% I would love to do this again. The lines were long, but that did not stop me from having a lot of fun with new friends and Welcome Week 

Leaders. 

1 0.13% I would not use a tour of the Wiseman Art Museum because for a lot of people there is no interest at all in art. 

1 0.13% I would prefer fewer late night activities. Students want to get a lot of sleep before classes start.

1 0.13% I would say to not plan the latenight activities that late because commuters have a hard time getting there and getting back home because of 

parking and transportation issues. 

1 0.13% I would stick with MOA that sounded really fun. 

1 0.13% I would suggest free food and if possible, open some of the stores too so that people can shop. 

1 0.13% i would think that if one held several events in a single night, such as a target run, a late night to MOA, a campus wide capture the flag game, 

games in residence halls, etc. more people would get involved. not everyone likes a big group, and not everyone likes a small group. with 5000 

freshmen one just has to do his/her best to accommodate several interests. 

1 0.13% I wouldn't change it, I'm just the type of person who prefers to stay in than attend big events. 

1 0.13% If I had been a resident and not a commuter I would have stayed late to participate in the late night activities but I had to catch a bus home 

each night and I couldn't afford to miss it. Therefore, I was unable to attend these events. Maybe next year if it is in the budget there could be 

buses back to our houses after late night activities for commuters. 

1 0.13% If it was possible for students to visit Uptown, Downtown and St. Paul it could be very beneficial. 

1 0.13% If the timing works out again next year, go to the STATE FAIR!!! I was really bummed I didn't get a chance to do that. 

1 0.13% If there is an away Gopher game, students should have scheduled time to watch the game on the big screen in the stadium. 

1 0.13% If weather permits, swimming at Lake Calhoun would be enjoyable. 

1 0.13% If you are to have late night options during Welcome Week that go until the wee hours of the morning (like MOA until 1:00) it would be 

INCREDIBLY helpful to have a chaperone at the bus stop back at the University so as to make the students feel safer waiting for a bus or ride 

or maybe even the option to stay overnight at one of the dorms. 

1 0.13% ikea run :) 

1 0.13% I'm not from around here, so I do not know what is available to do in the surrounding communities... 

1 0.13% I'm not sure what to suggest. 

1 0.13% I'm not sure. 

1 0.13% I'm not very familiar with the community. Perhaps some exploration of restaurants, stores, and theaters would be fun. 

1 0.13% I'm pretty sure you already do everything I can think of. 

1 0.13% I'm sure it was a good event. 

1 0.13% Improve marketing. 

1 0.13% Instead of just directing a group "downtown" or "uptown" I think they should visit certain things. Learn about things that 

maybe won't be discovered otherwise. Like a walk in Loring Park, or a tour of coffeeshops in uptown. It just wasn't directed enough. 

1 0.13% Instead of just walking around trying to find something to do in the community exploration, there should be points of interests that the college 

would think us students would like to go to. 

1 0.13% Instead of only the MOA being opened, I think it'd be interesting to see other events like an open mic downtown or something like that since not 

everyone is into roller coasters. 

1 0.13% Instead of setting students loose in the city, provide options such as movies or shows Downtown, kayaking or biking Uptown, and tours in St. 

Paul. 

1 0.13% instead of target run, MOA run 

1 0.13% it is too late 

1 0.13% It might be nice to have an option to explore some of the museums around the twin cities or the theaters. Or maybe even the sports arenas. 

1 0.13% It should be on-campus

1 0.13% It was a very fun time but there was a lot of people so the lines were really long which made it hard to go on all the rides one wanted with such 

little time. 

1 0.13% It was all very fun! 

1 0.13% it was all well done. 

1 0.13% it was fun 

1 0.13% it was fun! 

1 0.13% it was good overall, the Target run was crazy though. I think that needs to be more organized 

1 0.13% it was good, but more free time 

1 0.13% It was good. 

1 0.13% It was great but all the people was overwhelming. 

1 0.13% It was great how it was. 

1 0.13% it was just fine 

1 0.13% It was really crowded at MOA. I'd suggest creating the option of taking some people to the Fair. Many might be interested in going their instead 

of MOA. 

1 0.13% it was really great! loved the free noodles 

1 0.13% it was rly fun, i have no other comments 

1 0.13% It was very fun! 

1 0.13% it was well planned out. 

1 0.13% It would be a lot easier to pay attention and enjoy everything more if it didn't go so late and then start so early in the morning. 

1 0.13% it would be awesome if some stores were open 

1 0.13% It would be better if the evening entertainment was more accesible to commuters; it is difficult to stay out until midnight or later if you have a 

long drive home and have to get up early in order to make it back to campus for the morning activities. 

1 0.13% It would be better if the required activities ended earlier and the evening entertainment started earlier 

1 0.13% It would be fun if they had the stores open. I would have spent money and it would be good advertising for the various stores, as well as 

revenue. 

1 0.13% It would be fun to have a movie night kind of like a drive-in where we could sit on the grass in the mall and watch a movie with friends!! 

1 0.13% It would be good to have more dorm activities and more announcements about them 

1 0.13% It would be great to have some of the cool stuff offered at the evening entertaining for just our welcome week group. If there were shifts of 

people throughout the week to experience one event or something, it would be easier for me to making connections within my group since it 

takes longer for me to make friends. 

1 0.13% It would be nice to go to a local and inexpensive grocery store (during the day so we can see where we're going to find it in the future) just so 

we know where that resource is available to us and how to get there. 

1 0.13% It would be nice to have a little free time to get to meet the people on your floor. 

1 0.13% It would be nice to have at least one low-key event such as a movie night. During Welcome Week, students are exhausted and wish to sit and 

relax. Even though the evening activities were enjoyable, it was still tiring. 

1 0.13% It would be nice to have more transportation options to the evening events to prevent long waits in line for rides to and from the event 

(particularly to the Target trip).

1 0.13% It would be nice to have some college-specific community exploration. I think that Carlson visited some businesses, and doing the same for 

CSE would be fantastic. 

1 0.13% It would be nicer if we explored the community as a whole group because some people don't know where anything is. 

1 0.13% It would have been a little nice if not as many people were going to each event. 

1 0.13% it would have been amazing to go to either valley fair or the state fair 

1 0.13% it would have been better if it was not late night 

1 0.13% It would have been great if we could have gone to the state fair and gotten to see some community aspects of Minnesota-since myself and 

other non-Minnesota residents have never been to the state fair before. 

1 0.13% It would have been more interesting/fulfilling to have been able to go do one of the service projects rather than listen to a presentation 

1 0.13% It would have been nice if the food court was open. 

1 0.13% It would have been nice to have 2 different options and have each for 2 nights so lines wouldn't be so long. 

1 0.13% It would have been nice to have been closer to Lake Calhoun when we went to Uptown. There really was nothing to do once we got to Uptown 

1 0.13% It'd be nicer to end Welcome Week earlier so that we can enjoy more activities at night. 

1 0.13% its fine, need more free time 

1 0.13% its just too much 

1 0.13% its too crowded... 

1 0.13% just dont make us do stuff in the morning an i would attend more night events 

1 0.13% Just have them earlier so there arent huge breaks 

1 0.13% Just provide more info on the GSM 

1 0.13% Karaoke. 

1 0.13% keep going 

1 0.13% Keep it up. 

1 0.13% Keep the Late Night at MOA but make sure kids understand that it is going to be organized and fun. 

1 0.13% Keep the same entertainment but try to find better ways to transport students so that the waitlines aren't as long. 

1 0.13% Keep them the same because they are fun. 

1 0.13% Learning about the area around the U, like roads with a map. 

1 0.13% Lectures by prominent professors that are open to the public. 

1 0.13% Less forced and mandatory recreational activities. We are 18 now, we can make our own decisions about when and with whom we socialize. 

1 0.13% Less is more. I wanted to start my summer homework, find out where my classes were and explore the university on my own or with friends. I 

was unable to do any of this due to the packed days and nights. 

1 0.13% Less places further away. My knees are bad and i didn't appreciate it. 

1 0.13% Less seminars and have the fun activities earlier on in the evening. 

1 0.13% Less structure! Some of it felt more like a class than for fun! 

1 0.13% Less structured time for kids to explore the campus with leaders and just spend time with friends. 

1 0.13% Let students explore both uptown and downtown if time permits.

1 0.13% Let us sleep for at least 8 hours once during welcome week. 

1 0.13% Lines were not too bad, had a lot of fun!! 

1 0.13% Lines were ridiculous. I did not get to the Target Run even after waiting in line for an hour and a half. It was unbelievably annoying. It is mainly 

the reason why I did not try to go to MOA. 

1 0.13% Lines were soo long for rides that it wasn't worth staying at. 

1 0.13% Live Concert maybe 

1 0.13% live entertainment. 

1 0.13% Local sporting events 

1 0.13% Longer time 

1 0.13% Longer time allotments. 

1 0.13% make at least some of the events earlier in the day. 

1 0.13% make events where most of the class attends a bit more effiencient (some venues were not very well arranged, causign undue congestion). 

1 0.13% Make sure its optional 

1 0.13% Make sure that the busing system will be efficient for the number of students. 

1 0.13% Make the evening activities end earlier if you want us to be up on time in the morning. Getting 5 hours of sleep per night is not a good way to 

start a school year. 

1 0.13% Make the events start earlier and have less free time because most students just wait for the next event. 

1 0.13% Make them longer. 

1 0.13% Make things less scheduled. 

1 0.13% Make transportation easier- Having a long line of busses isn't convienient, spread them out throughout campus. 

1 0.13% Making the events smaller or perhaps certain halls could go at certain times. 

1 0.13% Mall of America was so much fun. I would maybe get rid of the Target run because it took over an hour just to get onto the bus and then it took 

over an hour to pay for the few items that I needed. 

1 0.13% Mall of America was the most fun night! 

1 0.13% Maybe a concert from a famous musical artist. 

1 0.13% Maybe a concert 

1 0.13% Maybe a football game or something along those lines 

1 0.13% Maybe a night specifically for each floor, to try to get people to connect with those they are living with, rather than all the nights being primarily 

activities with every freshman attending. 

1 0.13% Maybe do it in sections or something. The lines were kind of ridiculous. 

1 0.13% Maybe go to a close movie theatre and watch a current movie. 

1 0.13% Maybe go to a movie, or a play. 

1 0.13% maybe going to downtown Minneapolis, Rosedale Mall, Brunswick Zone 

1 0.13% Maybe have a DJ playing, or more places to get drinks there 

1 0.13% maybe just include more free time so students can choose from a variety of options, including exploring alone

1 0.13% Maybe just make them a little earlier so it is easier for commuters to attend. 

1 0.13% maybe not make it so late so people who dont live on campus can still attend the activities and be able to have a ride home. since i am busing, 

it's harder to travel around late in the night. 

1 0.13% Maybe some late night shopping at MOA 

1 0.13% maybe some school provided food at MOA. we hadn't eaten since six and then we spent several hours at the mall. it would have been nice to 

eat something with out paying for the business provided food there. 

1 0.13% Maybe split the freshman class into two groups. So group 1 goes to target and group 2 goes to MOA one night. And they switch the next night. 

1 0.13% Maybe split the group in half for the MOA trip so that the lines to some of the rides are shorter. 

1 0.13% Maybe start it earlier. 

1 0.13% Maybe suggest to bring money if he or she wants to buy food. 

1 0.13% Maybe the fast food restaurants that sponsor the U could also be open in the mall. 

1 0.13% Maybe Valleyfair, but I know that is kind of far and more expensive. 

1 0.13% Maybe work with Target Field and see if you can get them to set aside some tickets for students to purchase as an event. I stopped by Target 

Field during a game and thought that a baseball game would be something fun to attend. 

1 0.13% Minnehaha Falls 

1 0.13% Minnesota State Fair 

1 0.13% MINNESOTA TWINS GAME! It would allow the use of the bus system, introduce students to the metropolitan culture, and welcome them to the 

city as a whole rather than just the university. Plus, who doesn't love a good Twins game 

1 0.13% MOA 

1 0.13% MOA had no free food. I, along with my friends were starving. Otherwise all other events were great. The cookies especially at gophers after 

dark were good! 

1 0.13% MOA is good. 

1 0.13% MOA is great! keep it! you could try minnetonka, stillwater or st. anthony as exploration options if neither is included already. also, valleyfair 

would be an awesome addition! 

1 0.13% MOA sounds fun. I tried to go, but I missed the buses 

1 0.13% moa was a good idea. 

1 0.13% MOA was a good opportunity but it was difficult to go on rides and go to underwater world because of the masses of people. 

1 0.13% MOA was a great event to have. I also liked the volleyball game. Both were excellent options for the night's events. 

1 0.13% MOA was a great idea and should be continued. I think that there could be more activities that involved gopher pride. 

1 0.13% MoA was amazing! 

1 0.13% MOA was fun but the lines for all the rides took about an hour. If there is any way to reduce the lines it would be better. 

1 0.13% MOA was great, doing it again would be an entirely good suggestion. 

1 0.13% MOA was really crowed. I wish the lines could have been shorter for the amount of time we were able to spend there. 

1 0.13% MOA would still be fun! 

1 0.13% MOA!!! 

2 0.26% more buses

1 0.13% More buses for the target run 

1 0.13% More buses; more organization 

1 0.13% MORE BUSSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

1 0.13% more busses. it took a long time to get to the actual site for diffrent events 

1 0.13% More campus pick up locations, i.e. Coffman. 

1 0.13% more commuter friendly 

1 0.13% More commuter friendly events. 

1 0.13% more effective transportation, more options to decrease clutter 

1 0.13% More events so people can scatter and not be so crowded. 

1 0.13% MORE FOOD OPTIONS! 

1 0.13% more food options, i was starving! 

1 0.13% More free bowling! 

1 0.13% More free food. 

1 0.13% More free stuff 

1 0.13% more free stuff! 

1 0.13% More free time. 

1 0.13% more fun 

1 0.13% more fun options to meet varying interests and activities. 

1 0.13% more hypnotists 

1 0.13% More low key events at individual halls would be nice, its less intimidating 

1 0.13% More movie nights, Capture the flag more than one night, and more optional activities that wouldn't be nearly as crowded as MOA and Target. 

1 0.13% More music events 

1 0.13% more options and programs and less free time 

1 0.13% More organized target buses from the superblock. 

1 0.13% more pick up locations 

1 0.13% More places to explore. 

1 0.13% More recreational activities 

1 0.13% More recreational athletics and/or free time. 

1 0.13% More spending time with people in your hall, maybe even split up by floors. 

1 0.13% more sports 

1 0.13% More stores should be open at the MOA. It would be massively better if lots of stores were available. 

1 0.13% More structured, group activities would be good, for people who don't already have a group of people they know that they're coming to the 

evening entertainment with. 

1 0.13% More time at MOA.

1 0.13% more time at the community exploration event--we only got about an hour. 

1 0.13% More time at the Mall of America. 

1 0.13% More time downtown or don't go on a Sunday because everything was closed. 

1 0.13% More time during community exploration 

1 0.13% More time for community exploration, it was fun and helpful, but short. 

1 0.13% more time if possible 

1 0.13% more time please 

1 0.13% More time to go into downtown and explore those shops. 

1 0.13% more transportation, free food 

1 0.13% Move night! 

1 0.13% Move them earlier in the day so that you can participate without being dead tired. 

1 0.13% Movie at CMU. 

1 0.13% movie!! 

1 0.13% Movie. 

2 0.26% movies 

1 0.13% Movies for evening entertainment. Bike tours of campus and Minneapolis would be really cool. And it would show people all of the ways there 

are to get around with walking or driving. 

1 0.13% movies in the mall or concert 

1 0.13% Movies on the Mall or rent out a movie theater. Send everyone to their rooms for a night to spend with their roommates. 

1 0.13% Movies, comedians 

1 0.13% Movies. 

1 0.13% movies. games outside. video game things. 

1 0.13% My community exploration day was very unorganized. We more or less wandered the streets of downtown until it was time to leave. It needs 

more structure. 

3 0.39% n/a 

10 1.31% N/A 

1 0.13% N/A. 

1 0.13% na 

3 0.39% NA 

1 0.13% Night games 

1 0.13% No comment. 

1 0.13% no idea 

1 0.13% no idea. 

1 0.13% No ideas. :(

1 0.13% No suggestion 

1 0.13% no suggestions 

4 0.52% No suggestions 

1 0.13% No suggestions are necessary, you've all done a great job. 

1 0.13% No thanks. 

14 1.83% none 

3 0.39% None 

1 0.13% none 

1 0.13% None! They were really great. The target run was unorganized in that people waited a long time to get on a bus. It was a lot more organized 

when we went to MoA. 

3 0.39% none. 

2 0.26% None. 

1 0.13% not all go at the same time 

1 0.13% Not jam so many activities into the morning so that everyone will have enough energy to go to the evening activities. 

1 0.13% Not needed 

1 0.13% not so late 

1 0.13% Not so late at night so the commuters like me can join 

1 0.13% Not so late. 

1 0.13% not so many planned events late into the night, it really cut into sleep time and time to meet people on our own. 

1 0.13% Not so much is needed, 

2 0.26% Not sure. 

1 0.13% Not that 

1 0.13% nothing just keep it up the way it's now 

1 0.13% nothing, what i see and hear about is great 

1 0.13% Offering the opportunity to visit multiple parts of the city. 

1 0.13% One thing to add to the MOA event would be to have either free beverages or something like that. There were only a few shops open and they 

all charged a few bucks for water. 

1 0.13% open 

1 0.13% Open Coffman up for freshman night to have entertainment and to see what it has to offer. 

1 0.13% Open gym/rec center time with the whole class. 

1 0.13% open more food places. 

1 0.13% Open rec center 

1 0.13% open shopping 

1 0.13% Open stores

1 0.13% Open the stores! 

1 0.13% Open the younger kid rides because some of us don't like the scary, intense rides :) 

1 0.13% Open up TCF Bank Stadium for a night to play sports. 

1 0.13% Opening up Valleyfair for the night would be fun. 

1 0.13% Other on campus activities. 

1 0.13% Outdoor games 

1 0.13% outdoor movie or mall of america overnight shopping 

1 0.13% Outdoor movie. 

1 0.13% Overall, the options probably couldnt have been better 

1 0.13% Pajama night! With tea and a quiet movie and conversation. Or maybe board games 

1 0.13% Parks in Minneapolis, food shelters, movie night 

1 0.13% Perhaps a late night trip to Valley Fair. 

1 0.13% perhaps stay open even longer 

1 0.13% Perhaps they might be earlier. 

1 0.13% Personally I thought that this was an amazing idea. Almost everyone I talked to went to MOA and loved it. I think it should be the same next 

year. 

1 0.13% Play movies at the student theaters. 

1 0.13% play xbox. classic movies 

1 0.13% Playing frogger on Washington Ave. 

1 0.13% Please make plans that are convinent for commuter students. 

1 0.13% Please, next time do not make the fun and optional activities so late at night! 

1 0.13% Please. Improve the Target Run. That was a nightmare. 

1 0.13% Possible entertainment options would be: a dance, a concert, a play, board game tournament, or a movie night. The activities that were 

available this year were great ideas, but having 5,100 kids in one place trying to do the same thing was chaotic. 

1 0.13% Possible have a movie option available at the IMAX at the MOA 

1 0.13% Possibly a Twins or Vikings game 

1 0.13% Possibly going to target field. 

1 0.13% Possibly going to the state fair, 

1 0.13% Possibly set up more days for MOA and split up grouops. There were a lot of people there and was only able to go on 2 rides because the lines 

were so long. 

1 0.13% Probably have the bus situation for the Target run better handled. I thought people were going to get run over by the bus as it pulled up. It was 

way too chaotic. 

1 0.13% Provde free food because I did not know to bring any money 

1 0.13% Provide a better and more organized way to transport the students to the events. 

1 0.13% Provide a climbing wall when you say there will be a climbing wall

1 0.13% Provide an additional free day to encourage students to explore areas of specific interest. 

1 0.13% Provide many options so that the entire freshman class is not at the same place at the same time. 

1 0.13% Provide more buses 

1 0.13% Provide more buses to the more popular areas. 

1 0.13% Provide more entertainment, and check the weather. Thanks! 

1 0.13% provide more food spots at moa 

1 0.13% Provide options and/or variations on each event. MOA and Gophers After Dark excluded, the night entertainment events were extremely 

crowded and many students simply were not having fun and just left. 

1 0.13% Provide some "hot spot" ideas to go visit when you go out into the city on Sunday. It was great to be out in the city, but as someone 

who is not from around here, I didn't know about cool things to go see. 

1 0.13% Providing food or beverage would be great. At least let us know that there won't be free food so we eat and/or bring money to buy something. 

1 0.13% Providing multiple things to do each night. Like having bus rides to the State Fair besides MOA. Have some groups for students who feel 

homesick. 

1 0.13% Recreational tournaments. 

1 0.13% Relaxation 

1 0.13% Remind people that if they would like to eat to bring money for food because every single person in our group did not bring any money for food. 

1 0.13% Rosedale mall 

1 0.13% Rotate them among different sections of the freshman class so that the events aren't overcrowded. 

1 0.13% Same thing but allow more rest time before hand. 

1 0.13% Scavenger hunt 

1 0.13% Sculpture garden. 

1 0.13% See a play or musical downtown. 

1 0.13% See if you can get stores to stay open at night for students. 

1 0.13% Seeing plays or attending concerts 

1 0.13% Segways. 

1 0.13% shopping at MOA or a movie 

1 0.13% Shopping opportunities at the Mall of America. 

1 0.13% Shorter lines 

1 0.13% Shorter lines. 

1 0.13% should make it an option again to go to the fair 

1 0.13% Show some movies around campus. 

1 0.13% Since I'm living in Middlebrook and neither I nor any of my friends have a car, none of us are planning to riding a bus to Grand Avenue to shop 

in boutiques that are way out of any college students price range. Most of us in our group would have much rather gone on the downtown 

Minneapolis trip since downtown has such an exciting reputation and lies tantalizingly close to Middlebrook. I feel that the community 

exploration trip should have focused more on exciting places that are closer to campus and more low-budget than Grand Ave. 

1 0.13% Sit Down Outdoor Movie

1 0.13% Sleeping. 

1 0.13% smaller breaks before evening entertainment 

1 0.13% Social type events to get to know people 

1 0.13% Some kind of concert. 

1 0.13% Some sort of concert would be nice to attend. 

1 0.13% Some to way to shorten the lines would be nice :D 

1 0.13% Something closer to (or on) campus and dont have it go so late. 

1 0.13% Something closer to campus that you can walk to. 

1 0.13% Something community service related... 

1 0.13% Something earlier in the night. 

1 0.13% Something that's more student friendly. It was awesome that MOA was available but the likely-hood that any students here will have $60 to just 

blow at nick theme park is kind of unlikely. 

1 0.13% Somewhere closer. More sports games either to play or watch teams. 

1 0.13% somewhere like a twins game 

1 0.13% space events out and discern when exactly events start 

1 0.13% Split Freshmen into two groups. One group can attend gophers after dark one night followed by MOA the other night while group B attends 

MOA night one followed by GAD the second night 

1 0.13% Split going to MOA into 2 or 3 nights so it isn't so crowded (lines were over an hour at almost every ride). 

1 0.13% split up the night activities into groups so not all 5000 some freshman are going at the same time. 

1 0.13% Sports of some sort. Small groups capture the flag game perhaps 

1 0.13% Sports tournaments 

1 0.13% Stand up comedy 

1 0.13% State Fair 

1 0.13% State fair! 

1 0.13% State Fair! 

1 0.13% STATE FAIR! 

1 0.13% State Fair!!! 

1 0.13% State Fair!!!!! 

1 0.13% State Fair, or something else 

1 0.13% State Fair. 

1 0.13% State Fair... next year! 

1 0.13% Suggestions for where to hear live music, poetry readings, etc. on or around campus would be great. 

1 0.13% Taking some groups downtown for a concert or something would have been fun...Target was fun, but it was crazy. 

1 0.13% Target Field tour

1 0.13% Target Field! and local concert venues. that would be sweet 

1 0.13% Target run - rethink whole program and time schedules 

1 0.13% Target run was such a hassle. For future reference maybe be a little more organize, have more buses to shuttle students back and forth, as 

well as more pickup locations. 

1 0.13% Target should not plan the transportation for that event next year. 

1 0.13% Target was alot of fun, but the busing was one of the most ridiculous things i have ever been a part of. The mall is a great idea, so were the 

sporting events and gopher night. Maybe a big movie night one night would be cool. or a big concert or something 

1 0.13% The amount of time allotted for the trip at the MOA wasn't long enough because of all the long lines. It would have been nice to have had the 

chance to ride a couple more rides. 

1 0.13% The bus line took too long 

1 0.13% The buses had an incredibly long line; perhaps there would be a more effective way to transport all the students such as having a number of 

buses go to each dorm for the hall residents, and one at Coffman for the commuters. Especially coming from Middlebrook on the West Bank, 

making our way over to the Mariuchi Arena and standing in line for so long was not enjoyable. 

1 0.13% The choice to go to all 3 locations and have more time at each location/ 

1 0.13% The community exploration largely consisted of walking around, so that would have to change. I would be more inclined to go to evening 

entertainment if there weren't so many students attending at once. 

1 0.13% the community exploration session needs to be longer. or you should just not have it at all. Its not worth going for only 2 hours. 

1 0.13% The community exploration time was too short to do much and my welcome week leaders didn't bother touring us. 

1 0.13% The Convention Center might be an cool place to see during the exploration. I don't know if it was within reach of the downtown dropoff location 

as I attended the Uptown exploration. 

1 0.13% The evening activities were great but they seemed crowded. 

1 0.13% The evening events we have, currently, are very fun and I liked it a lot. I can't really think of other options. 

1 0.13% The event at MOA could not have gone better. 

1 0.13% The events planned were fine, I enjoyed have free time. 

1 0.13% The free food was a great way to get people to check out the late night entertainment. 

1 0.13% The leaders should stay with the people in their group who need help to find their way around town. our leaders went to a cafe to watch the 

twins game, so many of us were lost and didn't know places to go for shopping, etc. 

1 0.13% The lines at Nickelodeon Universe were really long, and it might be beneficial to either send students in shifts, or find a bigger venue. Maybe 

Valleyfair 

1 0.13% The lines for the ride were extremely long. It would be more fun if some of the shopping areas were open as well. 

1 0.13% The lines on some ride were long, maybe do it in rotation next time 

1 0.13% The lines to get to the mall and at the mall were ridiculously long. 

1 0.13% The lines were long and we were hungry! 

1 0.13% the lines were long for the main rides but that was expected. at explore U, try to encourage everyone to go around one way and it would be a 

lot easier to navigate. maybe give us a map with the layout of where each booth is. I feel like I missed a lot after leaving. 

1 0.13% The lines were SO long. I only rode on 3 rides. There should have been music playing, free food... 

1 0.13% The lines were way too long for the rides and for the buses. 

1 0.13% The mall of america is a great idea for entertainment, especially due to the large volume of students that may want to go. As for suggestions, I

know that it would be hard to work it in, but maybe have it open for students on a weekday that's not relatively busy, so that some of the shops 

are open as well. 

1 0.13% The Mall seemed fine. I would've gone, but my family decided to go to the fair that day. 

1 0.13% the mall was awesome! 

1 0.13% The Minnesota State Fair is fun and rewarding and interesting for out-of-state students. 

1 0.13% The Minnesota State Fair! 

1 0.13% The MOA bus system was actually really well run. You need to run the Target Run in a similar way. 

1 0.13% The MOA event wasn't big enough. There was line at every ride. Even on a few where you wouldn't expect a line. 

1 0.13% the MOA is fun for those who don't live in MN but for those who are from MN there should be a different option 

1 0.13% The MOA was great- continue that (especially Undersea Adventures). 

1 0.13% The ones already there are good. 

1 0.13% The ones provided were fine. 

1 0.13% The ones provided were good. 

1 0.13% The ones you had were pretty good 

1 0.13% The open ended things where activities were optional seemed to be best. 

1 0.13% The options were great it was just that the lines and waits got to be a little bit annoying. 

1 0.13% The options were very good, but I was tired and did not want to stay up till 1am or beyond. 

1 0.13% The pre-welcome week event selection made it seem like I had a choice of which community I could explore, but really didn't! living in 

Middlebrook nearest to Minneapolis, it would have been helpful to become more acquainted with that area rather than St. Paul. 

1 0.13% The provided evening entertainment or community exploration was adequate. 

1 0.13% the rides are for little kids 

1 0.13% The same things would be nice, but just less of everything in general. Welcome week was far too long. 

1 0.13% The Science Museum. 

1 0.13% The State Fair 

1 0.13% The State Fair in St. Paul may have been a cool event to go to. 

1 0.13% The State Fair, maybe we could go in smaller groups such as residence halls. 

1 0.13% The target run needs to be more organized. There needs to be welcome week leaders directing students and making them wait in lines. We 

were pushed and shoved for an hour and a half and never even got to target. 

1 0.13% The Target Run was crazy. However, I wish that getting on the buses could have been like getting on the buses for the MOA trip because that 

was way more organized and less chaotic. 

1 0.13% The time of the activities should be close to each other so students can feel motivated and stay longer. 

1 0.13% The Welcome Week events were at the same time as the Residence Hall Community Events, making it impossible or difficult to attend both. 

1 0.13% there could have been more "food options" at MOA 

1 0.13% There need to be a lot more buses for the Target Run. 

1 0.13% There seemed to not be enough time in Nickelodeon universe to do the fun rides.

1 0.13% There should be a tie-dying contest! Tie-dye was my favorite part and I believe students will enjoy more activities that involve tie-dying. It can 

be anything from shirts to socks! 

1 0.13% There were a ton of things I wanted to do at gophers after dark, but nothing really interested me at the fun zone. I feel like it would have been 

better if you had tie-dyeing and cookie-decorating at the fun zone because I wanted to try those but didn't have the chance because I wanted to 

see the hypnotist and other things. 

1 0.13% There were already enough. Cool with that! 

1 0.13% There were good choices. 

1 0.13% There were not many options for food available at MOA, so more food vendors there would have been nice. Exploring Downtown Minneapolis 

was a great time and it was a nice to have towards the end of Welcome Week when things are starting to slow down ans we could really enjoy 

it. 

1 0.13% There were so many people at MOA that it was hard to do everything I wanted to do. The lines were extremely long, and I was only able to go 

onto two rides, and I wait in line early to go onto the buses. I would have rather paid to get in and enjoyed going on all the rides I wanted to go 

on. 

1 0.13% There were too many students so the lines were too long. 

1 0.13% They said it was pretty fun so just keep going. 

1 0.13% They were all interesting and people really liked them. 

1 0.13% They were great just the way they were. 

1 0.13% Time off! 

1 0.13% too many people, more rides 

1 0.13% tours of the tunnels 

1 0.13% trip to yellowstone national park 

1 0.13% Try leaving for MOA earlier so the kids have more time to shop and hand out around the mall while things are still open. 

1 0.13% Try to break up the freshman class more or have more scheduled shifts to avoid such massive crowds. 

1 0.13% Try to have to downtown tour on a different day than Sunday so that the shops are open. 

3 0.39% twins game 

1 0.13% Twins game. 

1 0.13% Twins/vikings games 

1 0.13% Two different nights at MOA would be better to decrease the length of the lines to some of the more popular rides. 

1 0.13% ultimate frisbee 


1 0.13% uptown 

1 0.13% valley fair 

2 0.26% Valley fair 

1 0.13% Valley Fair 

1 0.13% Valley Fair would be a great evening event and having a free lunch coupon for somewhere when a group goes off campus to explore the 

community. 

1 0.13% Valley Fair.... maybe....


1 0.13% valleyfair 

3 0.39% Valleyfair 

2 0.26% ValleyFair! 

1 0.13% Valleyfair!!! more bowling opportunities 

1 0.13% Very Busy 

1 0.13% Visit Lake Cahloun area for hiking and biking as a group 

1 0.13% Visiting Downtown Minneapolis at night could provide students with more of an idea on the nightlife of the city. 

1 0.13% Visiting the como park zoo, the Art Institute, or another local attraction would be very interesting. 

1 0.13% walk around the town 

1 0.13% We could go to someplace like a Grand Slam or similar recreational facility with laser tag, game arcade, batting cages, etc. 

1 0.13% We don't need evening entertainment! We are all tired from the pointless events and walking during the day. We just want to hang out and 

meet people. 

1 0.13% We should have been at MOA longer so we could have done everything that we wanted. 

1 0.13% What was included was fun. 

1 0.13% What was offered was more than sufficient. 

1 0.13% what we did was excellent...but in future years perhaps an option for a Twins game or Vikings preseason game could be arranged for 

interested students 

1 0.13% When students go to the community exploration, they should have a leader giving a tour. Not everyone has to go, but it was hard to explor 

when I didn't know where I was. 

1 0.13% When there are buses I believe the MOA bus line was structured much more smoothly than the buses to Target 

1 0.13% Would you please put it during the day time, it's not convenient for commuters. 

1 0.13% xbox 

1 0.13% You're doing great, keep up the good work! 

1 0.13% zoo 

Q103. What Community Exploration trip did you attend on Sunday 

Count 

Percent 

770 51.06% Downtown Minneapolis 

150 9.95% Grand Avenue - St. Paul 

354 23.47% Uptown, Minneapolis 



Q104. Why did you not attend a Community Exploration trip 

Count 

Percent

206 100.00% 

Count 

Percent 

1 0.49% A group of girls and I decided to walk around campus to become more familiar. We also worked out at the recreation center. 

1 0.49% Again, I had several accommodations for Welcome Week arranged with Disability Services. I had a doctor's appointment to attend in my 

hometown related to my disability, so I could not attend. 

1 0.49% Again, I was sick of welcome week. 

1 0.49% Again, no idea where nor when I was supposed to be somewhere. 

1 0.49% Again, Sundays schedule for the Football Team told me to follow my athletic schedule and did not list any events that were going on. 

1 0.49% Again, too tired. 

1 0.49% Already familiar with area 

1 0.49% baskeball 

1 0.49% Because I am in marching band and felt like resting that day 

1 0.49% Because I attended to the State fair instead. 

1 0.49% Because i had family business to attend. 

1 0.49% Because I was already very familiar with the location. 


1 0.49% Because I'm in marching band 

1 0.49% Because my family had a traditional thing going on on Sunday for the whole family which I couldn't be missed too, so then I had to skipped 

Sunday. 

1 0.49% Being part of the marching band, I wasn't fully aware of the details of this trip or that I was able to attend. 

1 0.49% busy 

1 0.49% busy. 

1 0.49% by then it was too little too late 

1 0.49% Church 

1 0.49% Conflict 

1 0.49% Couldn't find my group because of misscommunication. 

1 0.49% did not want to 

1 0.49% Didn't know where to go 

1 0.49% emergency at home, thus did not attend. 

1 0.49% exempted 

1 0.49% Family event 

1 0.49% Family Plans. 

1 0.49% Family was going to the state fair sunday, and a previous commitment prevented us from going to the fair on monday. 

1 0.49% Football Practice

1 0.49% friends in town 

1 0.49% gone at wedding 

1 0.49% had a prior commitment 

1 0.49% Had to work at the Maplewood Mall. 

1 0.49% Half of our group missed the bus, because we met at the wrong location. 

1 0.49% i accidently over slept...i wish i would have made it 

1 0.49% I already know the twin cities community very well. 

1 0.49% I am a member of the U of M Women's Tennis Team and could not attend due to practice. 


1 0.49% I am familiar with all areas 

1 0.49% I am from Minneapolis and nothing on the tour was something that I needed to see again. It would have been like giving me a tour or my own 

bedroom. 

1 0.49% I am from the twin cities and none of the options seemed new or exciting so I decided to do my own thing. 

1 0.49% I am so tired and jiust need a rest and prepare for classes. 

1 0.49% I attend the Bentson bbq to thank them for giving me a scholarship. 

1 0.49% I attended church and lunch with my sister. 

1 0.49% I attended church Sunday so I did not attend any activities at the University that day. 

1 0.49% I chose to go home instead. 

1 0.49% I could not find my group 

1 0.49% I could not find where my group was meeting. 

1 0.49% I couldn't make it on that day. 

1 0.49% I did not attend because I already have been to Downtown Minneapolis hundreds of times, and also because I didn't really make any 

connections with the other people in my Welcome Week group, so I wouldn't have had anyone to explore with on the trip. 

1 0.49% I did not attend because I am already very familiar with the Minneapolis area. 

1 0.49% I did not attend because I wanted to go to Uptown, not Downtown. Also, I wanted to prepare for classes. 

1 0.49% I did not attend the Community Exploration trip because I was too worn out from the previous day. I chose to catch up on sleep instead. 

1 0.49% I feel like I know my way around the city pretty well, and was already taken on several tours during orientation and welcome week. 

1 0.49% I felt I knew the city very well and thought my time was better utilized preparing for class. 

1 0.49% I felt that I would eventually go there on my own so I decided not to go. 

1 0.49% I followed my spat camp schedule on Sunday. 

1 0.49% I forgot what time to meet and did not arrive in time to get on the bus. 

1 0.49% I forgot what time we were supposed to meet our group. 

1 0.49% I got here late and my group had left. I decided to go grocery shopping with Mom instead and then meet them back here. 

1 0.49% I had a BBQ for the Bentson Family Scholarship that I received.

1 0.49% I had a family conflict that day which caused me to not attend the Community Exploration trip. 

1 0.49% I had a family event on Sunday afternoon. 

1 0.49% I had a family function 

1 0.49% I had a family function to attend to. 

1 0.49% I had a family trip to the State Fair. 

1 0.49% I had a prior commitment with my family. 

1 0.49% I had a scholarship event 

1 0.49% I had a semi final soccer game in Richfield that was followed by a day spent with my extended family. 

1 0.49% I had a sprained ankle and did not want to put too much pressure on it by walking all day. 

1 0.49% I had a training session for my on campus job with UDS. 

1 0.49% I had a wedding 

1 0.49% I had already been downtown several times 

1 0.49% I had already been to downtown Minneapolis and needed to get caught up with dishes, laundry, and cleaning. 

1 0.49% I had church so I didn't get back in time to go 

1 0.49% I had family obligations that prevented me from attending. 

1 0.49% I had friends who came from out of town to visit me and so I showed them around my dorm and the campus. 

1 0.49% I had marching band engagements 

1 0.49% I had no transportation to the event on this day. 

1 0.49% I had really gotten all the answers I needed on Friday. The rest of the week was really pointless to me so I decided to skip out on this. 

1 0.49% I had the Bentson Family Scholarship barbecue/luncheon to attend, so I was exempt - the times overlapped. 

1 0.49% I had the Bentson Scholars' Barbeque that afternoon. 

1 0.49% I had to attend church. 

1 0.49% I had to be excused for work. 

1 0.49% I had to get my books and figure out FAFSA things with my parents. 

1 0.49% I had to go home for a wedding. 

1 0.49% I had to go to church, and by the time I came home, it would not have been practical to attempt to find my group in downtown Minneapolis 

when I didn't have a car. 

1 0.49% I had to go to the Bentson Scholars BBQ. 

1 0.49% I had to meet at Centennial for a job training activity for the dining hall, that apparently wasn't scheduled for that day opposing what my email 

told me. If not for that, I would have attended the activity. 

1 0.49% I had to meet with my family that day to buy books and pick up dorm supplies, as there was no other convenient time. 

1 0.49% I had to purchase work clothes for my UDS jobs on campus and I believe that was more important than bumming around the city for shits and 

giggles with two leaders who do not know what they were talking about. 


1 0.49% I had to talk to my manager about my part time job. I couldn't bare to lose it. I needed the job.



1 0.49% i had to work this weekend, i was the videographer for multiple weddings 


1 0.49% I had work and our leader didn't show up. 

1 0.49% I had work back in my hometown and was unable to attend. 

1 0.49% I have been to downtown Minneapolis many times before, and I am familiar with the area. 

1 0.49% I have lived in Minneapolis all my life so I already been downtown plenty of times. 

1 0.49% i have lived in the cities and been there a lot so it seemed not as useful for me. 

1 0.49% I just wanted to chill and get ready for Sorority Rush. 

1 0.49% I live in the area and didn't understand why we would go downtown on a Sunday when everything is closed. There isn't much to do on a normal 

day, let alone a sunday. 

1 0.49% I live in the area, so I've already visited all of these areas. Plus, my family wanted to stop by and visit and drop off a few things, so that added to 

the decision. Also, my group basically went there, got food, and came back, so I didn't miss much. 

1 0.49% I missed the bus. 

1 0.49% I missed the leaving time!! 

1 0.49% I needed time away from campus for a few hours and went to the State Fair with my parents instead. 

1 0.49% I needed time to get my dorm in order, visit the bookstore and relax. 

1 0.49% I needed time to relax. 

1 0.49% I needed to travel with my church to an event out of town. 

1 0.49% I slept in 

1 0.49% i slept in and missed it 

1 0.49% I slept in. 

1 0.49% I spent the afternoon with some distant family on Sunday. 

1 0.49% I wanted to attend, but I had to go to a scholarship picnic. 

1 0.49% I wanted to take time to explore campus for myself in order to find out where classes are. I was also very tired from all of Welcome Week's 

previous events. 

1 0.49% I was at home 

1 0.49% I was at home getting more stuff to bring to my room. 

1 0.49% I was at the seventh-annual Bentsons Scholars BBQ and was excused from the Community Exploration trip because of a time conflict. 

1 0.49% I was at work 

1 0.49% I was attending a Scholarship BBQ (Bentson) 

1 0.49% I was baby-sitting. 

1 0.49% I was competing in the State 4-H Dairy Judging Contest at the Minnesota State Fair. 

1 0.49% I was excused for cheerleading.

1 0.49% I was excused for the Bentson Scholar Barbecue 



1 0.49% I was exempt to show at State Fair FFA 

1 0.49% I was exempted because I am pregnant and have a one year old at home needing child care. 

1 0.49% I was exhausted after almost a full week of non-stop activities so I just wanted to relax. Also, I didn't think there would be much to do on a 

Sunday afternoon in downtown; and because I grew up locally, I've been to downtown and did not feel the need to explore it any further. 

1 0.49% I was exhausted by Spat Camp, so Sunday was church, and then a day of rest. 

1 0.49% I was exhausted on Saturday and did not desire to come. The event was optional. I already have been to the areas they were going to go to. 

1 0.49% i was exhausted. 

1 0.49% I was exhausted. 

1 0.49% I was extremely tired of walking 

1 0.49% I was following the spat camp schedule. 


1 0.49% I was learning the transit system and exploring a church in St. Paul. 



1 0.49% I was participating in the 4-H dairy judging contest. 

1 0.49% I was sick and had to stay home. 

1 0.49% I was sick and was in the hospital 


1 0.49% I was still sick with a cold. 

1 0.49% I was tired from all the activities going on during the week and I wanted to sleep in. 

1 0.49% I was tired of welcome week events. 

1 0.49% I was too tired and did not feel like doing more extensive amounts of walking 

1 0.49% I was too tired and slept til noon that day. 

1 0.49% I was unable to attend. 

1 0.49% I was very overwhelmed..It was too much to do that whole week. 

1 0.49% I was with family, exploring campus together. 

1 0.49% I was working. 

1 0.49% I went back home for a couple nights. 

1 0.49% I went home for family business. 

1 0.49% I went home to get more stuff and spend some of the long weekend with my family and I already know the area very well. 

1 0.49% I went out to lunch with my sister and she just told me where certain thigs were.

1 0.49% i went to duluth to see my girlfriend and party with some friends 

1 0.49% I went to find my group and didn't see them and looked around but saw no one and all the buses was all heading to uptown Minneapolis. 

1 0.49% in marching band spat camp schedule conflicted 

1 0.49% It did not sound fun. 

1 0.49% It didn't sound too entertaining, plus it was too early after being out late at MOA. 

1 0.49% it was not appealing to me. 

1 0.49% It wasn't on my schedule. 

1 0.49% ive been to all the places many time before 

1 0.49% know the places very well 

1 0.49% Lost group 

1 0.49% Marching Band 

1 0.49% Marching band schedule, so explored on my own. 

1 0.49% Marching bandddddddddddddddddddddddd 

1 0.49% Missed my group 

1 0.49% Missed my group. 

1 0.49% My family came up from Illinois because I forgot some things at home and didn't get a proper goodbye when I moved in. 

1 0.49% My knees hurt from walking too much during other welcome week events 

1 0.49% needed to go to church. 

1 0.49% no bus. 

1 0.49% No ride. 

1 0.49% No transportation 


1 0.49% Our group could not find our leader and we weren't sure on where to go. 


1 0.49% Out of town. 

1 0.49% overslept 

1 0.49% Personal health issues. 

1 0.49% Personal reasons 

1 0.49% plans with parents 


1 0.49% SICKNESS! 

1 0.49% so tired to attend 

1 0.49% Still exhausted and didn't want to wake up that early for something that I can find out on my own.


1 0.49% The communication with our Welcome Week Leader was poor. We thought we left at a later time then in actuality. I would have really liked to 

attend this event, but there was just a lost in translation. 


1 0.49% was at home. 

1 0.49% Was attending family event 

1 0.49% was not interested 

1 0.49% Wasn't about to make it. 

1 0.49% We had a miscommunication about the timing of things, so we missed the bus. We would have gone otherwise. 

1 0.49% Went and explored city with group of new friends. Much more efficient. Also heard WWL from other groups (not mine) saying it was a waste of 

time and telling their kids it was okay to skip. 

1 0.49% Went off campus with my faimly for Labor Day 

2 0.97% Work. 

Q105. The Community Exploration trip . . . (Check all that apply) 


1024 80.57% 26.73% Gave me the opportunity to explore the Twin Cities 

387 30.45% 10.10% Gave me a sense of connection to the community 


840 66.09% 21.93% Was fun and relaxing 

197 15.50% 5.14% Let me utilize the Vita.MN newspaper I received when boarding the bus 

548 43.12% 14.30% Offered enough things to do/see 


Count 

Percent 

1 1.20% 

1 1.20% A waste of time 

1 1.20% Allowed me to enjoy some free time with my friends in my group 

1 1.20% allowed me to go pick up some things I needed at Target! 

1 1.20% Because I am from the Minneapolis area, this was irrelevant to me because I know the area very well. 

1 1.20% Bored because many things were closed on Sunday, we wandered aimlessly the whole time. 



1 1.20% Brueger's was awesome. 

1 1.20% Buy stuff for dorm 

1 1.20% did not go where I wanted to go.

1 1.20% did not have enough time. 

1 1.20% didin't have many things to see or do 

1 1.20% didn't have enough time to explore at all 

1 1.20% Didn't receive a Vita.MN 

1 1.20% Downtown is generally an expensive place so I don't really think Nicollet Mall is the best place to let students "explore" unless they 

have a lot of money. 

1 1.20% Everything is closed on Sunday! I didn't see much of anything. 

1 1.20% Gave me the experience of having my bus hit by a car. 

1 1.20% Got me a job interview! 

1 1.20% Grand Ave doesn't offer much, nor is it particulkarly close to either campus - another community should be focused on. 

1 1.20% Helped me get away from all the people on campus for a bit 

1 1.20% I chilled in the Hyatt on some fancy couch. 

1 1.20% I didn't get to see much in Minneapolis because my group just ended up walking around and sitting in a restaurant. 

1 1.20% I ended up carrying a worthless newspaper around most of the day. 

1 1.20% I lived right next to downtown for 18 years so going downtown was not exciting to me. 

1 1.20% I wandered around with people until we were completely bored, so we waited the last hour for our wwls to get on the bus. To be honest this 

was a failure (esp. on labor day Sunday, when nothing is open!) 

1 1.20% it didn't offer anything interesting to do and see and since it was on Sunday (right before labor day) a lot of stores were closed 

1 1.20% It gave me time to eat, since I've already been to Uptown. 

1 1.20% it was not fun 

1 1.20% It wasn't really that fun, I have been to Grand Ave. before and there isn't much to do, we were told vita.mn were going to be there but they 

never showed up. But it was relaxing to sit in the courtyard of the law school and just nap in the grass. 

1 1.20% It wasn't very fun because nobody knew where we were. 

1 1.20% Kinda bummed me out, because the downtown busses were full, and most of Grand Street is closed on Sundays. 

1 1.20% Lacked focus and direction 

1 1.20% most things were closed 

1 1.20% needed to be longer 

1 1.20% None 


1 1.20% not long enough, we only did like one thing 

1 1.20% not really much for guys in nicollet mall 

1 1.20% Our bus got hit by a car on the way so we had little time downtown 

1 1.20% Saw almost no points of interest. Could have allocated time better myself. 

1 1.20% SHOPPING! 

1 1.20% Should allow more time for exploration.

1 1.20% should have been optional 

1 1.20% The problem was that everything in downtown Minneapolis is closed on Sunday. 

1 1.20% there is nothing to do downtown on a sunday afternoon 

1 1.20% There was not enough time to do anything on this trip. 

1 1.20% This should have been a guided activity. I felt like I was just let loose in the city. 

1 1.20% too short 

1 1.20% was a huge waste of time because we only toured Nicollet Mall and no one wants to spend money. 

1 1.20% was a waste of time. 

1 1.20% was a waste of time. What college student is going to go downtown and spend hundreds of dollars at shops And pretty much everything was 

closed, anyway 

1 1.20% was awful, there was nothing to do on sunday, I wish my group would have went somewhere else besides downtown minneapolis 


1 1.20% was boring - I wish I was assigned to Uptown, not Downtown 

1 1.20% Was boring. It would have been more useful to learn the Metro Transit to get there. We just aimlessly walked around. 

1 1.20% was frustrating. 

1 1.20% was not helpful at all since almost all the stores and businesses are closed on Sunday, especially during a holiday weekend. 

1 1.20% was not long enough to explore more of the area. 

1 1.20% Was not very fun and did not last long enough. 

1 1.20% Was not what our group was scheduled to do (our group was supposed to go downtown, not uptown). 

1 1.20% Was on a Sunday so everything was closed... 

1 1.20% Was too long for what little there was to do on Grand Ave. 

1 1.20% was too short 

1 1.20% Was too short 

1 1.20% wasn't long enough 

1 1.20% wasn't that great 

1 1.20% wasn't very fun 

1 1.20% wasn't very interesting 

1 1.20% We did not get the Vita.MN magazines that were supposed to tell us what to do. 

2 2.41% We did not receive the Vita.MN newspaper 

1 1.20% We did not recieve the Vita.MN paper 

1 1.20% We did not see anything interesting and I found it quite boring. It was not the location I wanted to attend. We just walked around for an hour or 

so. 

1 1.20% We didn't have nearly enough time. 

1 1.20% We went to the wrong place, so we were a little disappointed.



1 1.20% What Vita.MN newspaper Also this section was too short. 

Q106. The closing small group meeting . . . (Check all that apply) 


599 47.13% 18.40% Helped me know how to put what I learned at Welcome Week into action 

959 75.45% 29.45% Allowed me to reflect on my Welcome Week experience 

828 65.15% 25.43% Made me feel connected to my group 

796 62.63% 24.45% Encouraged me to stay connected to my group members 


Count 

Percent 

1 1.35% 

1 1.35% Allowed me to realize how connected our group had become. We were like family. 

1 1.35% Allowed me to realize that Katie Derbyshire is awesome 

1 1.35% Answered final questions 

1 1.35% Could not attend - at a scholarship dinner 

1 1.35% Did not accoplish anything 



1 1.35% Did not attend due to a family emergency 

1 1.35% Did not attend. 

1 1.35% did nothing for me 

1 1.35% did really nothing 

1 1.35% didnt attend 

1 1.35% didn't attend 

1 1.35% didnt do much 

1 1.35% Didn't do much of anything for me. 

1 1.35% didn't go 

1 1.35% had a nice ring of closer, but it opened a whole new set of doors. 

1 1.35% I did not attend 

1 1.35% I did not attend because the rest of our group/leaders were so late. 

1 1.35% I didn't attend 

1 1.35% I didn't go, I was separated from my group.

1 1.35% I didn't think there was much point to that. 

1 1.35% I wanted to go but couldn't because my group wasn't where they were supposed to be 

1 1.35% I was at the Bentson Scholars Bar B Que 

1 1.35% I wasnt told where this was going to take place. 

1 1.35% it was boring 

1 1.35% Loooved my group. Great group of people. 

1 1.35% Made me feel like I had an upperclassman resource to contact if I need anything this year! 

1 1.35% none 

2 2.70% None 



1 1.35% none of these 

1 1.35% not extremely helpful 

1 1.35% Nothing- waste of time 

1 1.35% Our closing meeting was less than five minutes long and all we did was go around saying one school group we wanted to attend and then we 

were dismissed. 

1 1.35% Provided me with final information we needed to know. 

1 1.35% sucked kind of 

1 1.35% The advisors gave really good advice for freshman 

1 1.35% they didn't have this meeting. no one knew if there was a meeting. 

1 1.35% Waddup hangman 

1 1.35% was a waste of time 


1 1.35% was fun and sad to have it end 

1 1.35% was nice :) 

1 1.35% Was not as great as any of those options make it out to be. 

1 1.35% was not attended by my roommate nor I. 

1 1.35% was not necessary 

1 1.35% Was pointless 

1 1.35% was pointless. 

1 1.35% wasn't anything worthwhile; we just concluded the week 

1 1.35% WASTE OF TIME. Everyone just wanted to get out. 

1 1.35% We did not have one to the best of my knowledge. 

1 1.35% we didn't have one

1 1.35% We didn't have one 

1 1.35% We didn't really have one. 



Q107. Which of the following did you attend on Sunday (Check all that apply) 


67 4.45% 3.73% Movie and game night at Walter Library 

92 6.12% 5.13% Greek Recruitment Check-In 

63 4.19% 3.51% Late night intramurals at the Fieldhouse 

403 26.80% 22.45% Residence Hall Community events 

707 47.01% 39.39% First Floor meeting 




Q108. Why did you not attend the events on Sunday 

Count 

Percent 

379 100.00% 

Count 

Percent 

1 0.26% 

1 0.26% After a long week of being out and about, it was nice to have a night of my own to relax with friends. 

1 0.26% After the meeting I was tired from the week and I didn't want to hang around campus until 8pm without anything to do. 

1 0.26% Apparently I didn't look at my Welcome Week handbook close enough. I didn't realize those activiites were available until seeing them on this 

survey. 

1 0.26% As a commuter, we were told that the events were essentially completed by then. 

1 0.26% As with the MOA on Saturday, the accumlated fatigue from the previous days required more attention than the late night Sunday Activities. 

1 0.26% Away with friends from back home at a going-away party. 

1 0.26% Because I finally had free time and I wanted to spend it with friends. 

1 0.26% Because I had to go home and transportation was not available at night 

1 0.26% Because I had to go home off campus. 

1 0.26% Because i thought we had to go home and it was just for residencal students. 

1 0.26% Because I was at home. 

1 0.26% Because I was fasting and they started around the time that I got to eat. 

1 0.26% Because I was not interested.

1 0.26% Because I was really tired and none of the people in my group stayed. 

1 0.26% Because I was tired after the long 5 days of Welcome Week and needed to return home because I am a commuter. 

1 0.26% Because it was nice outside and I wanted to go mountain biking and swimming. 

1 0.26% Because it was too late for me to stay at school 

1 0.26% Because of my commuting schedule. 

1 0.26% Benson Scholar Barbeque 

1 0.26% busy 

1 0.26% Busy 

1 0.26% cause i wanted to rest 

1 0.26% Church 

1 0.26% Commuter student. Left after the closure meeting 

1 0.26% Commuter. 

1 0.26% Day of rest from Marching Band 

1 0.26% Did not feel a burning interest 

1 0.26% Did not know about them. 

1 0.26% Did not know of all the events and did not find any that I would want to attend. 

1 0.26% Did not know that there were all those options. But also I just wanted to have a relaxing night. 

1 0.26% did other things 

1 0.26% Didn't know about it. 

1 0.26% Didn't know about them 

1 0.26% Didn't know about them. 

1 0.26% Didn't know about them. My WW Leaders didn't say anything. 

1 0.26% didn't know of the events 

1 0.26% didnt want to 

1 0.26% Didn't want to 

1 0.26% Exempted. Pregnant and child care. 

1 0.26% family emergency at home thus i was not able to attend. 

1 0.26% family issues 

1 0.26% Family plans on Labor day 

1 0.26% family plans. 

1 0.26% Family wedding 

1 0.26% family went to the state fair on sunday. 

1 0.26% Felt sick

1 0.26% football practice 

1 0.26% Friends visited. 

1 0.26% Got lost at the State Fair 

1 0.26% Had better things to do. 

1 0.26% Had other plans 

1 0.26% Had other plans and was sick of welcome week planned activities 

1 0.26% Had plans for that night 

1 0.26% Had to get home. 

1 0.26% had to go to church. 

1 0.26% Had to set up printer and other school things. 

1 0.26% had to work 

1 0.26% had to work and our leader didn't show up 

1 0.26% House Meeting was at 7:30 and just didn't have time. 

1 0.26% Hung out with my brother. 

1 0.26% i wasn't not there 

1 0.26% I already had planed to go home for a big family get together and the events happened while I was gone. 

1 0.26% I already had plans. 

1 0.26% I am a commuter 

1 0.26% I am a commuter and cannot stay too late on campus. 

1 0.26% I am a commuter and I was tired. 

1 0.26% I am a commuter and went home at night. 

1 0.26% I am a commuter student and needed to get home. 

1 0.26% I am a commuter student, so I could not stay late because I could not get transportation. 

1 0.26% I am a commuter, and didn't feel like staying during the hours between the closure meeting and the late-night activities 

1 0.26% i am a commuter, went home. I wouldve played sports but too long of a break to wait 

1 0.26% I am a commuter. I only participated in the Community Exploration trip and the small group closure meeting. After the closure meeting of 

Welcome Week officially ended, I directly went back to my current residence to take some rest after 5 days of many activities. Therefore, I did 

not attend the night activities on Sunday. 


1 0.26% I attended church at St. Lawrence Newman Center 

1 0.26% I attended church on Sunday, therefore I didn't make it to any events at the U that day. 

1 0.26% I attended my floor's CA meeting. 

1 0.26% I attended my house meeting and was hanging out wit some of the people from Middlebrook. 

1 0.26% I attended the community exploration.

1 0.26% I cannot remember which ones I attended. 

1 0.26% I clicked the wrong boxes 

1 0.26% I commute and none of them seemed appealing enough to stay. 

1 0.26% I decided to go home for my Birthday. 

1 0.26% I decided to spend time meeting more of the residents on my floor. 

1 0.26% I decided to stay in and get to know my roommates better, and had also been at the Rec Center until almost 9. 

1 0.26% I desperately needed a break. And I took a trip to the MOA and Ikea to explore the light rail system, eat dinner, and pick up a few things for my 

dorm room. 

1 0.26% I did attend we went downtown, and then had our small group meeting 

1 0.26% I did not attend because I didn't know anybody who was attending these events. 

1 0.26% I did not attend because we didn't go to explore u. 

1 0.26% I did not attend the events on Sunday because I'm a commuter. I don't live in a residence hall. I hung out with my friend at Bailey Hall, and we 

played Ping-Pong until she had to attend the resident hall meeting at 8. I went home because I planned on going back to campus on Labor Day 

to find classes, and to buy books that weren't there a couple of days prior. 

1 0.26% I did not attend the events on Sunday because there was a traditional thing that happened at my house for the whole family too. 

1 0.26% I did not feel like it. 

1 0.26% I did not feel like waiting around campus for a few hours before anything started, and I did not want to drive home and then back. 

1 0.26% I did not have enough time the rest of the week to unpack the rest of the stuff I brought. I had to get a few of my books. And I wanted to get to 

know more people since welcome week was hard to meet people just outside of your group. 

1 0.26% I did not know there were events going on Sunday night. 

1 0.26% I did something different with friends. 

1 0.26% I did the community exploration and my closing meeting, but I was still moving into my apartment and not only was it important to bond with 

people at welcome week, but I also needed to bond with my roommates at home. 

1 0.26% I didn't feel the need. 

1 0.26% I didn't know about many of the events on Sunday after community exploration in Uptown. 

1 0.26% I didn't know about some. I also already had family plans. 

1 0.26% i didnt know about them 

1 0.26% I didn't know some of those events were going on and I had other things I wanted to do. 

1 0.26% I didn't know that there was events... I live in Bailey which is cut off from the outside world. 

1 0.26% I didn't know that they were going on. 

1 0.26% I didn't know they were going on. 

1 0.26% I didn't know what time they were at. 

1 0.26% I didn't realize there were night events. 

1 0.26% I didn't want to get stranded on the East Bank, and I watched a movie with some friends. 

1 0.26% I do not remember any Sunday events. 

1 0.26% I don't really like this kind of acitivities.

1 0.26% I don't remember attending anything... maybe I was too tired. 

1 0.26% I finished unpacking 

1 0.26% I found a job opportunity on Friday and spent Sunday at my house working on a resume with the aid of my family. 

1 0.26% I found other things to do. 

1 0.26% I go to church every sunday. 

1 0.26% I got picked up to go home early. 

1 0.26% i had a family event 

1 0.26% I had a family event on Sunday afternoon. 

1 0.26% I had a family function 

1 0.26% I had a family get-together for the holiday weekend. 

1 0.26% I had a floor meeting. 

1 0.26% I had a movie night with friends. 

1 0.26% I had a prior engagement. 

1 0.26% I had a prior family commitment for the Labor Day holiday that I could not miss. 

1 0.26% I had a scholarship event 

1 0.26% I had a wedding 

1 0.26% I had better stuff to do 

1 0.26% I had church. 

1 0.26% I had dance 

1 0.26% I had family business to attend. 

1 0.26% I had friends who came from out of town and I showed them around my dorm and the campus. 

1 0.26% I had my cousins and other family staying at my home, and I wanted to spend time with them before they left. 

1 0.26% I had no transportation on this day. 

1 0.26% I had obligations with my family. 

1 0.26% I had other plans. 

1 0.26% I had plans to hang out with friends at non-university places. 

1 0.26% I had recruitment 

1 0.26% I had to buy textbooks and find where my classes are. 

1 0.26% I had to finish up projects at my house and i was really tired from the other late night events. 

1 0.26% I had to go home. 

1 0.26% I had to leave after uptown for late day church service. 

1 0.26% I had to meet up with family in town for dinner. 

1 0.26% I had to return to Fargo, ND from Friday-Sunday to attend my brother's wedding.

1 0.26% I had to visit friends that I won't be able to see for the next three years. 


1 0.26% I had to work at 5:00 and had to leave campus pretty much after the meeting. 

1 0.26% I had to work later around that time. 

1 0.26% I had to work, and I am a commuter so we were free to go. 


1 0.26% I had transportation issues. These events are too late for me(commuter students). 

1 0.26% I had work back in my home town and was unable to attend. 

1 0.26% I hadn't heard of them 

1 0.26% i hung out with friends instead 

1 0.26% I hung out with people In my hall and relaxed. 

1 0.26% I just went to my resident hall meeting and then I spent time with ppl that I just met. 

1 0.26% I leave after seven for commuters, and I had to work so I was excuse. 

1 0.26% I needed a break and chance to catch up on sleep. I also left the campus. 

1 0.26% I returned to my residence very late and wanted to get some sleep. 

1 0.26% I spent most of the day getting to know my roommate who moved in that day. I also wanted to relax for a day. 

1 0.26% I stayed in my residence hall to socialize and connect with the other residents on my floor. 

1 0.26% I took a nap and forgot to turn my alarm on. I was planning on going to some things, but didn't wake up until 10:00. 

1 0.26% I used the time to hang out/relax with some friends and went home early after the closing meeting. 

1 0.26% I wanted a break from all of the nonstop activities. 

1 0.26% I wanted some more time to relax and get more stuff done before classes start. I was all worn out from welcome week. 

1 0.26% I wanted to check out and find my way around Dinkytown, as well as read up on my class sylabus's 

1 0.26% I wanted to explore the campus myself and set up things in my room and meet other people in my dorm hall. 

1 0.26% I wanted to get home and relax. 

1 0.26% I wanted to go home and relax. 

1 0.26% I wanted to go home and relax. I also am a commuter so there wasn't much for me to do between events. 

1 0.26% I wanted to go home because I was very tired 

1 0.26% I wanted to have a night to relax and hang out with my new friends 

1 0.26% I wanted to relax after a busy week. 

1 0.26% I wanted to relax and hang out with some people in the residence halls. 

1 0.26% I wanted to relax and talk to people in the dorms without being at an activity. 

1 0.26% I wanted to relax with my friends on my floor. 

1 0.26% I wanted to relax.

1 0.26% I wanted to sleep in 

1 0.26% I wanted to sleep, relax, and spend time setting up my room. 

1 0.26% I wanted to spend time with other friends. 

1 0.26% I wanted to take the time to really settle into my apartment and prepare for class. 

1 0.26% I was also too tired again and wanted to prepare my stuff for school. 

1 0.26% I was at church and did not want to drive back to campus. 

2 0.53% I was at home 

1 0.26% I was at my house 

1 0.26% i was at the u with my group then we went to down town the we had a meeting aftre that we were free to go but i came back to the bookstore at 

coffmen to get all my books 

1 0.26% I was baby-sitting. 

1 0.26% I was busy and because I am a commuter, I found it inconvenient to come back to campus. 

1 0.26% I was busy meeting people on my floor, and writing my schedule for classes. 

1 0.26% I was busy running errands. 

1 0.26% I was Busy that day so I could not make it 

1 0.26% I was busy with family plans. 

1 0.26% I was completely exhausted. 

1 0.26% I was doing other things 

1 0.26% I was doing other things (hanging out with people, etc.) 



1 0.26% I was exhausted and wanted to relax with some of my new friends. 

1 0.26% I was exhausted and wanted to start preparing for classes. 

1 0.26% I was exhausted from all the other stuff we had done this week, and the events weren't that interesting to me. 

1 0.26% I was exhausted from Welcome Week, so I went to bed early. 

1 0.26% I was exhausted, and wanted to just relax and sleep 

1 0.26% I was finalizing my living arrangements, and getting all moved in. I relaxed that day. 


1 0.26% I was hanging out with a friend of mine, and we didn't feel like going to any of the events. I'm sure the events were great, but we were tired. 

1 0.26% I was hanging out with new friends i met during the week. 

1 0.26% I was here i attended Somali Student Association welcome dinner. 

1 0.26% i was in duluth partying and other things 

1 0.26% I was in my hometown for a doctor's visit and could not get sufficient transportation back until Monday. 

1 0.26% i was in the 4-H dairy judging contest.

1 0.26% I was just socializing with friends, no particular reason. 

1 0.26% I was meeting with other people and finding my Halls 

1 0.26% I was not aware of any of them. 


1 0.26% I was not interested in any of the events 

1 0.26% I was not interested in any of them, and I felt like I would be better utilizing my time by preparing for classes. 

1 0.26% I was otherwise engaged. 


1 0.26% I was physically and mentally exhausted after welcome week. I went out to dinner with a cousin. 

1 0.26% I was playing my sax to prepare myself for my auditions on Tuesday. 

1 0.26% I was really tired and just wanted some rest. 

1 0.26% I WAS SICK 

1 0.26% I was sick and at the hospital 

1 0.26% I was sick and had a cold. 

1 0.26% I was sick and had to stay home. 

1 0.26% I was sick and in the hospital 

1 0.26% I was sick of welcome week events. 


1 0.26% I was tired 

1 0.26% I was tired and decided to sleep and do some other research and applications. 

1 0.26% I was tired and decided to spend the day relaxing instead. 

1 0.26% I was tired and met up with friends to eat at restaurants in town and then watch a movie in their dorm instead. 

1 0.26% I was tired and wanted to go home and work on figuring out how to use my new computer and finding a snare solo for orchestra instead. 

1 0.26% I was tired from a very busy week and wanted to just watch a movie. 

1 0.26% I was tired from the other events I had attended during Welcome Week. 

1 0.26% I was tired from the rest of the week and had plans with a friend at home that was home that day from college. 

1 0.26% I was tired from the week's events and wanted to rest. 

1 0.26% I was tired from the whole week of walking and programs. 

5 1.32% I was tired. 

1 0.26% I was to tired to do anything. 

1 0.26% I was told that nothing on Sunday was required. Also, Sunday is a day of rest. 

1 0.26% I was too tired for the first few days, and I wanted to have a rest and good preparation for the new semester. 

1 0.26% I was too tired.

1 0.26% I was trying to get settled into my dorm room. 

1 0.26% I was unable to attend. 

1 0.26% I was unaware of some of the events. I had a residence hall meeting at 8pm which seemed to be a time when everything was going on. 

1 0.26% I was uninterested in them. 

1 0.26% I was very tired by the time end of the week, and I wanted more time to relax before school started. Also, I did not want to stay too late because 

it gets harder to get home later in the day for a commuter. 

1 0.26% I was very tired from Welcome Week. My roommate and I relaxed in our room and watched movies. 

1 0.26% I was visiting a friend at Bethel University. 

1 0.26% I was with a bunch of people just hanging out. 

1 0.26% I was with my roommate and went to watch a movie in one of his friend's dorm room. 

1 0.26% I was working on making sure I was prepared for the first day of classes. 

1 0.26% I wasn't aware of the events. 

1 0.26% I wasn't interested in any of the events offered, and besides, I was tired. 

1 0.26% I wasn't interested in ones i knew of, and i didn't know of all of them. 

1 0.26% I wasn't interested in Sunday's events. 

1 0.26% I wasn't interested. 

1 0.26% I wasn't really sure what was going on and I wanted to be able to relax in my dorm and get a good night's sleep for the next day. 

1 0.26% I went around the city with some new friends I met to explore. 

1 0.26% i went home 

1 0.26% I went home and had to attend ALL of the CA meetings due to my position as CCC. 

1 0.26% I went home and slept and finished unpacking. 

1 0.26% I went home and tried to relax before classes started. 

1 0.26% I went home for a couple nights. 

1 0.26% I went home to visit my family for the night and to rest. I am a bit sick, and want to get better before the first day of school! 

2 0.53% I went home. 

1 0.26% I went out of town with my family at night to my Uncle's house for an early birthday/ going away to college party for me. 

1 0.26% I went to church early in the evening. Then I went to the house meeting, and then I hung out with people on my dorm floor. 

1 0.26% I went to church. 

1 0.26% I went to my community meeting then went out to eat with my family. 

1 0.26% I went to my foes meeting at 9 and then went back home 

1 0.26% I went to my group events and then chilled with some new people I meet instead for the rest of the day. 

1 0.26% I went to the MN State Fair instead. 

1 0.26% I went to the Rec Center. 

1 0.26% I went to the small group meeting, but was busy at the other times.

1 0.26% I went to the state fair with some friends. 

1 0.26% I would not be able to get a ride home. 

1 0.26% I would rather stay home. 

1 0.26% I"m a commuter and I didn't feel like staying too late. 

1 0.26% I'm a commuter and it was optional to stay. 

1 0.26% I'm a commuter and none of these really pertained to me or I was not interested 

1 0.26% I'm a commuter. I had other important obligations. 

1 0.26% It was because I had a family gathering that we do every year so I wanted to go. 

1 0.26% It was my birthday so I went home to hang out with my family. My house is very close by. 

1 0.26% it's too late for me after i went to downtown minneapolis and group meeting 

1 0.26% It's too late, I don't want back home late. 

1 0.26% I've had more than enough of large groups of people, and new people in general. Additionally, I had serious business to attend to (class 

preparation), 

1 0.26% Just wanted to hang out in my room. Welcome Week keeps everyone so busy there is no downtime to just relax and do nothing 

1 0.26% LATE NIGHT!!! I do not like late night activities. I like to sleep. Plus I found some to be uninteresting. Maybe you should think about showing of 

the arts a little bit more and not the sports so much. 

1 0.26% Long drive home. 

1 0.26% Made fun with friends. 


1 0.26% Most of the events are not for me but for people living on campus. Plus I had to go see my Grandparents on Sunday. 

1 0.26% Mostly i was tired and unaware that these events were being held. 

1 0.26% My family came to visit me. 

1 0.26% My friends and I from my Welcome Week group decided to spend some time with each other on the last night before school starts 

1 0.26% My ride had to come early and I went home to babysit my nephews. 

1 0.26% My roommates and I wanted to go out to dinner to bond. 

1 0.26% no bus. 

1 0.26% No interest in them. 

1 0.26% None interested me, had other things to do. 

1 0.26% None of the events interested me. Also, I was so exhausted from the week which allowed zero relaxation time, that I just wanted to sit in my 

dorm and be lazy. 

1 0.26% None of them interested me and I wanted to get to bed on time. 

1 0.26% None of them seemed fun or useful to me. 

1 0.26% Nothing sounded too entertaining. 

1 0.26% other plans. 

1 0.26% other priorities

1 0.26% Othr Plans 


1 0.26% out of town. 

1 0.26% Personal activities came up. 

1 0.26% Personal reasons 

1 0.26% played bball at rec center 


1 0.26% Same thing. I was having a meeting with my manager about my part time job. 


1 0.26% Since I am a commuter I decided to go home, relax, and make sure that I had everything ready before classes started. Also there were many 

hours of time between the Sunday night events and the end of the small group final meeting, so for commuters there wasn't really anything to 

do during that time. 

1 0.26% Sunday = church 

1 0.26% The Bentsons Scholars BBQ lasted until 6-7pm and my WW leader said the closing meeting was somewhere from 5-6 pm and I was basically 

done for the entire day. 

1 0.26% The events didn't appeal to me 

1 0.26% The family event lasted all day, I had already met with my CA earlier that weekend so I got the information already. 

1 0.26% The people on my floor decided to watch a movie 

1 0.26% there was a long break so I just went home. I was planning on coming back but I ended up going to the state fair. 

1 0.26% There was just too much free time where I didn't have anything to do on campus, and I couldn't spend the money on gas to leave and come 

back. 

1 0.26% They did not interest me. 

1 0.26% They were not interesting to me. 

1 0.26% They were optional and I wanted to go home. 

1 0.26% They were too late at night - I have an hour commute home and I did not want to get home so late. 

1 0.26% This is out of proportion. I DID attend the events on Sunday. I DID NOT attend the nonrequired night activities. Instead I explored Minneapolis 

campus with a friend and visited Dinkytown. Soon afterwards I got stranded on east bank because Campus Connectors know how to really 

cause problems during welcome week. I walked back to St. Paul thank you very much. So at least i got an exercise routine in... if u call the 

exercise plan "Run from strangers on that sketchy road" But hey at least I am alive and not robbed! And I learned I can really run 

fast under stress! Thank you!!! 

1 0.26% time conflicts 

1 0.26% tired 

1 0.26% Tired 

1 0.26% tired and wanted to go home and I had other things to do 

1 0.26% Tired of Welcome Week, Wanted to relax. 

1 0.26% tired.....went to downtown target and watched nascar 

1 0.26% Too busy with other things

1 0.26% Too late. Went out to eat in Dinkytown. 

2 0.53% Too tired 

1 0.26% Too tired! I went to my House meeting, I'm not sure if that was an option. 

1 0.26% too tired, wanted to get a nap and do some laundry. 

1 0.26% Too tired, welcome week was exhausting 

2 0.53% Too tired. 

1 0.26% Took time to relax, and also do some exploring on my own. 

1 0.26% Transportation 

1 0.26% Transportation issues. I couldn't get a ride. 

1 0.26% used time to rearrange my room and school supplies. 

1 0.26% Wanted a relaxing day of not doing anything. 

1 0.26% Was attending family event 

1 0.26% was busy at home. 

1 0.26% was hanging out with friends in dorm rooms 

1 0.26% Was not aware of any activities 

1 0.26% was tired 

1 0.26% was too busy 

1 0.26% Wasn't able to make it. 

1 0.26% Wasn't interested and tired because we had to wake up early all week and we stayed up late. 

1 0.26% We decided to explore the campus a bit on our own. 

1 0.26% We had our own movie night. 

1 0.26% We wanted to watch a movie with some of the girls in our hall. 

1 0.26% we went to downtown minneapolis and group meeting after that it was too late to stay on compus 

1 0.26% We went to visit some other people 

1 0.26% Welcome week is very tiring. 

1 0.26% Went to an off-campus event. 

1 0.26% Went to dinner with family, then hung out with friends on East Bank. 

1 0.26% Work. 

1 0.26% Worked at the Maplewood Mall. 

1 0.26% wwl said it was optional 


Q109. Which of the following did you do on Monday (Check all that apply) 

Count Respondent % Response %

18 1.20% 0.42% Attended make-up sessions 

1208 80.59% 28.06% Rested 

1148 76.58% 26.67% Prepared for classes to begin 

736 49.10% 17.10% Found my classroom locations 

321 21.41% 7.46% Toured campus 

117 7.81% 2.72% Participated in Greek Rush activities 

91 6.07% 2.11% Participated in an event hosted by a student group (e.g., Rowing at the U) 

100 6.67% 2.32% Participated in an event hosted by a campus organization (e.g., Hillel's Annual Welcome BBQ) 

325 21.68% 7.55% Bought my books 


Count 

Percent 

1 0.78% 60 mile bike ride! 

1 0.78% acapella concert 

1 0.78% ballroom dance 

1 0.78% Biking by the river. 

1 0.78% bought things at bookstore 

1 0.78% checked out my residence hall 

1 0.78% did laundry 

1 0.78% Did laundry 

1 0.78% Did Laundry 

1 0.78% Did my laundry 

1 0.78% explored coffman union and the tunnel systems around the U 

1 0.78% Explored Downtown Minneapolis some more. 

1 0.78% Explored Minneapolis. 

1 0.78% explored river road on bike 

1 0.78% family and friends time 

1 0.78% Finally was able to get my bed lofted. 

1 0.78% Finished setting up and organizing my dorm room. 

1 0.78% Fixed my schedule; chilled with the bros 

1 0.78% Got last minute schbool supplies (e.g. notebooks) 

1 0.78% got my bed lofted finally at 930 at night. very very very very inconvenient 

1 0.78% had my family come to visit 

1 0.78% Had my family visit

1 0.78% Hang out with members of my Welcome Week group 

1 0.78% Hard to find classes when all the buildings are locked. Wanted to buy art kit because its not available in minneapolis bookstore, st paul union 

was closed. busses don't run regular times on monday, how do i know how long it will take. 

2 1.56% Homework 

2 1.56% Hung out with friends 

1 0.78% I had coffee with my mom. 

1 0.78% I went around campus to look for my classes but most of the buildings were locked. 

1 0.78% interacted with group members 

2 1.56% laundry 

1 0.78% Laundry 

1 0.78% Listened to 7 Days acapella on the steps of CMU 

1 0.78% listened to 7 Days and Basses Wild on the steps of Coffman 

1 0.78% met my family 

1 0.78% Met up with my sister and parents to fix the already broken microwave. 

1 0.78% Met up with other friends 

1 0.78% MN State Fair 

1 0.78% MOA 

1 0.78% Moved in to my new dorm room 

1 0.78% My mom came down at took my brother and I to dinner. 

1 0.78% Organize my room 

1 0.78% Participated in a student-organize, 100% substance-free, and overall really fun dance party on my floor in the residence hall! 

1 0.78% Participated in a volleyball game that my floor organized against another floor in Comstock 

1 0.78% Played Tennis with friends 

1 0.78% Played volleyball with my hall! 

1 0.78% Prepared homework for classes. 

1 0.78% Purchased notebooks and calculators that were not on the book list 

1 0.78% ran errands and went to MOA 

1 0.78% Ran errands. 

1 0.78% rec center 

1 0.78% Rec. Center 

1 0.78% relaxed 

1 0.78% Sanford Hall Community event. 

1 0.78% Set up my laptop 

1 0.78% shopped for necessities

1 0.78% shopping 

1 0.78% Since today is monday, the things that I checked are the things that I plan to do. 

1 0.78% Spent time with family 

1 0.78% spent time with friends 

1 0.78% spent time with friends I met at other welcome week events 

5 3.91% State Fair 

1 0.78% State Fair! 

1 0.78% Studied. 

1 0.78% Target 

1 0.78% Target run for last minute items. 

1 0.78% Target run with my dad 

1 0.78% timed my commute from class to class 

1 0.78% utilized rec center and super block bball courts. went to punch pizza 

1 0.78% U-YMCA 

1 0.78% Visited Friend's Relatives 

1 0.78% visited mankato 

1 0.78% visited relatives in the city 

1 0.78% Visited the Bookstore 

1 0.78% Visited the Recreational Center 

1 0.78% Visited the state fair and LD Phi BBQ 

1 0.78% volleyball tourny 

1 0.78% Watched Movies. 

1 0.78% went downtown 

1 0.78% Went downtown for school shopping 

1 0.78% went grocery shopping 

3 2.34% went home 

2 1.56% Went home 

1 0.78% Went home for a few hours 

1 0.78% Went home to get my car 

1 0.78% Went home to get things! 

1 0.78% Went home to visit family 

1 0.78% Went home! No classes on tuesday!!!!! 

1 0.78% Went home.

1 0.78% went shopping 

1 0.78% Went tanning and did laundry. 

1 0.78% Went to a residence hall party 

1 0.78% Went to fraternity to receive scholarship 

1 0.78% Went to Job Training on Campus 

1 0.78% Went to lunch with my parents 

1 0.78% Went to MOA to shop. 

1 0.78% Went to Rec Center and hung out with friends. 

1 0.78% Went to state fair 

1 0.78% went to state fair and got software 

1 0.78% went to target to buy things 

1 0.78% Went to target! 

1 0.78% Went to Target. 

1 0.78% went to the rec center 

1 0.78% Went to the residence hall event. 

1 0.78% went to the state fair 

1 0.78% Went to the State Fair 

1 0.78% went to the state fair with my family 

1 0.78% Went to the Tech Office for help. 

1 0.78% Work 

1 0.78% Worked 

1 0.78% Worked at church to get work that was delayed because of welcome week. 

1 0.78% worked at the last day of the fair 

1 0.78% worked off campus in blaine 

1 0.78% worked out 

2 1.56% Worked out 

1 0.78% worked out at the rec center 

1 0.78% Worked out at the rec center 

1 0.78% workout out 




Q110. In which of the following FREE TIME activities did you participate during Welcome Week (Check all that apply)


171 11.41% 2.67% Visited the U Card Office 

941 62.78% 14.68% Purchased items at University Bookstore 

252 16.81% 3.93% Picked up U-Pass 

802 53.50% 12.51% Found my classroom locations 

1137 75.85% 17.74% Logged on to MyU 

392 26.15% 6.12% Visited One Stop Student Services 

290 19.35% 4.52% Utilized Grad Planner 

71 4.74% 1.11% Utilized the Engage! search tool 

474 31.62% 7.40% Identified places to study 

351 23.42% 5.48% Worked out at the Rec Center 

815 54.37% 12.72% Met my Community Adviser 

39 2.60% 0.61% Visited the Commuter Connection Office 

199 13.28% 3.11% Stopped by the Tech Stop 

99 6.60% 1.54% Signed up for TXT-U 

56 3.74% 0.87% Followed Welcome Week on Twitter 

209 13.94% 3.26% Became a fan of Welcome Week on Facebook 

24 1.60% 0.37% Checked in to Foursquare 


Count 

Percent 

1 3.03% 

1 3.03% clearned my room 

1 3.03% Did not have much free time 

1 3.03% didn't really have free time... 

1 3.03% Exercised because the Rec was closed. 

1 3.03% Figured out my way around inside buildings 

1 3.03% Hung out in the BioCommons Room with members of the Student board 

1 3.03% hung out with friends 

1 3.03% Hung out with friends 

1 3.03% hung out with friends in different groups 

1 3.03% I had actually already performed all of the above activities. 

1 3.03% I napped whenever I could. It was very tiring. 

1 3.03% Laundry

1 3.03% Library 


1 3.03% Met great freinds! 

1 3.03% met hallmates 

1 3.03% Met more of the resident students and visited the dorms. 

1 3.03% Minnesota State Fair 

1 3.03% obviously lots of things 

1 3.03% organized 

1 3.03% Partied in everyone's room 

1 3.03% Played Tennis 

1 3.03% ran errands and relaxed 

1 3.03% Rested 

1 3.03% Sleep 

1 3.03% Ultimate frisbee 

1 3.03% Visited Core Power Yoga (Advertised at Explore-U) 

1 3.03% volleyball and lacrosse 

1 3.03% Walked around Dinky Town 

1 3.03% we didnt get enough free time 

1 3.03% What free time 




Q111. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following statements: - I was favorably impressed with my Welcome Week experience. 

Count 

Percent 


675 45.03% Agree 

359 23.95% Neutral 




1499 Respondents

Q112. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following statements: - Welcome Week made me feel more prepared to transition to the University. 

Count 

Percent 


762 50.83% Agree 

232 15.48% Neutral 





Q113. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following statements: - After attending Welcome Week, I have more confidence in utilizing the Campus Connector. 

Count 

Percent 


640 42.70% Agree 

270 18.01% Neutral 





Q114. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following statements: - After attending Welcome Week, I have more confidence in utilizing Metro Transit. 

Count 

Percent 


306 20.41% Agree 

444 29.62% Neutral 




1499 Respondents

Q115. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following statements: - Welcome Week gave me a greater sense of community and identity as the Class of 2014. 

Count 

Percent 


756 50.43% Agree 

260 17.34% Neutral 





Q116. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following statements: - Welcome Week helped me acknowledge my individual responsibility to the campus community, as well as ownership and 

responsibility for creating my college experience. 

Count 

Percent 


801 53.44% Agree 

288 19.21% Neutral 





Q117. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following statements: - I understand why Orientation and Welcome Week are needed for a successful transition to the U. 

Count 

Percent 


704 46.96% Agree 

223 14.88% Neutral 




1499 Respondents

Q118. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following statements: - I understand the importance of the Student Development Outcomes. 

Count 

Percent 


649 43.30% Agree 

419 27.95% Neutral 





Q119. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following statements: - The quality of the food provided during Welcome Week was good. 

Count 

Percent 


730 48.70% Agree 

334 22.28% Neutral 





Q120. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following statements: - After attending Welcome Week, I have a better understanding of how to be intentional with the experience I can create 

while at the University. 

Count 

Percent 


831 55.44% Agree 

272 18.15% Neutral 




1499 Respondents

Q121. Do you have a greater sense of school pride and respect for the University after attending Welcome Week 

Count 

Percent 

1343 89.59% Yes 

49 3.27% No 



Q122. Welcome Week gave me the opportunity to establish meaningful relationships with . . . (Check all that apply) 


1407 94.24% 31.53% My peers from the Class of 2014 

417 27.93% 9.34% Upper classmen 

986 66.04% 22.09% My Welcome Week leader 

711 47.62% 15.93% My CA 

211 14.13% 4.73% Other honors students 

160 10.72% 3.59% College advisers/honors advisers 

189 12.66% 4.23% College staff 

203 13.60% 4.55% Faculty 

128 8.57% 2.87% Student services staff 


Count 

Percent 

1 3.57% 

1 3.57% band members 

1 3.57% community businesses 

1 3.57% friends 

1 3.57% I met these people, but I think it takes a lot longer than simply a week to establish "meaningful relationships" with anyone. 

1 3.57% Interpreters 

1 3.57% It would have been better to separate roommates into different welcome week groups. They tended to stick together. 

1 3.57% Joseph and Dexter from Comstock UDS!!! 

1 3.57% marching band members 

1 3.57% Members of the marching band 

1 3.57% METRO TRANSIT 

1 3.57% MKO Leaders 

1 3.57% My room mate 

2 7.14% my roommate

1 3.57% My roommate 

1 3.57% My roommate and roommate neighbors 

1 3.57% my roommates 

1 3.57% Other speech geeks 

1 3.57% Other students 

1 3.57% People in the Marching Band 

2 7.14% roommate 

1 3.57% Roommate 

1 3.57% Students in my hall 

1 3.57% Students living on my floor and the floor below 

1 3.57% The marching band 




Q123. Please indicate your confidence in developing the following characteristics during your first year of college: - Responsibility/accountability 

Count 

Percent 

643 43.07% Extremely confident 

645 43.20% Very confident 

196 13.13% Moderately confident 

8 0.54% Slightly confident 

1 0.07% Not at all confident 


Q124. Please indicate your confidence in developing the following characteristics during your first year of college: - Independence and interdependence 

Count 

Percent 






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Q125. Please indicate your confidence in developing the following characteristics during your first year of college: - Goal orientation 

Count 

Percent 







Q126. Please indicate your confidence in developing the following characteristics during your first year of college: - Self awareness 

Count 

Percent 







Q127. Please indicate your confidence in developing the following characteristics during your first year of college: - Resilience 

Count 

Percent 







Q128. Please indicate your confidence in developing the following characteristics during your first year of college: - Appreciation of differences 

Count 

Percent 






1493 Respondents

Q129. Please indicate your confidence in developing the following characteristics during your first year of college: - Tolerance of ambiguity 

Count 

Percent 







Q130. What are your primary concerns/anxieties at this point in time (Check up to three) 


605 40.52% 14.51% Making friends and meeting people 

199 13.33% 4.77% Relationship with others (friends and family members) 

1053 70.53% 25.26% Academic coursework (doing well in class, workload) 

137 9.18% 3.29% Living situation (e.g., residence hall life, roommate problems) 

285 19.09% 6.84% Deciding on a major/career path 

361 24.18% 8.66% Health (nutritious eating, physical fitness, healthy lifestyle, adequate sleep, stress management, emotional health) 

544 36.44% 13.05% Financial concerns (paying tuition, budgeting) 

319 21.37% 7.65% Developing skills related to note-taking, studying, time management 

127 8.51% 3.05% Homesickness 

80 5.36% 1.92% Finding places to study 

362 24.25% 8.68% Finding a job (while in school) 

58 3.88% 1.39% Obtaining tutoring assistance 


Count 

Percent 

1 5.56% 

1 5.56% being able to make time for a job 

1 5.56% busses and metro transit! 

1 5.56% Finding a church 

1 5.56% finding a work study job and getting money to buy more books 

1 5.56% finding activities I like 

2 11.11% Getting involved in research 

1 5.56% getting on the track and field team 

1 5.56% Joining clubs as a commuter

1 5.56% Keeping my job 

1 5.56% Learning to study for the first time in my life 

1 5.56% Metro Transit & Connectors/Circulators 

1 5.56% motivation to use time efficiently 

1 5.56% Not judging people as I see them. 

1 5.56% Relationships/Personalities of professors 

1 5.56% There are hardly any scholarships available to International students and even if there were the scholarship will hardly cover the tuition. That is 

my biggest problem for now. 

1 5.56% Time managment 




Q131. On which of the following do you wish Welcome Week had provided more time/information (Check all that apply) 


341 22.84% 5.60% Academic requirements 

277 18.55% 4.55% Advising 

195 13.06% 3.20% Campus resources 

199 13.33% 3.27% Campus tour 

224 15.00% 3.68% Career planning 

295 19.76% 4.84% Choosing a major 

393 26.32% 6.45% Classroom experience 

436 29.20% 7.16% Study spaces 

337 22.57% 5.53% College life 

121 8.10% 1.99% Commuting to campus 

281 18.82% 4.61% Employment opportunities on campus 

299 20.03% 4.91% Financial aid 

817 54.72% 13.41% Free time 

289 19.36% 4.74% Interacting with staff from my college of enrollment 

129 8.64% 2.12% Involvement outside the classroom 

121 8.10% 1.99% Living on campus 

389 26.05% 6.39% Meeting new and current students 

287 19.22% 4.71% Meeting faculty and staff 

95 6.36% 1.56% Selecting classes for fall semester

403 26.99% 6.62% Time to get settled in my residence hall room 


Count 

Percent 

1 1.67% 

1 1.67% Building tours 

1 1.67% Bus system 

1 1.67% bus systems 

1 1.67% Bus Systems 

1 1.67% Campus Connector/Metro 

1 1.67% Campus Connectors 

1 1.67% Campus Connectors and Transit System 

1 1.67% city bus untilization 

1 1.67% explore campus 

1 1.67% familiarity with St. Paul campus 

1 1.67% finding classes 

2 3.33% free time 

1 1.67% Free time 

1 1.67% Free time again because I feel so strongly about it. 

1 1.67% FREE TIME!!!! 

1 1.67% Free time, especially in the mornings 

1 1.67% How commuters can easily get involved 

1 1.67% I marked free time but rather than more free time, I would like the free time to be more evenly dispersed especially in the beginning of the 

week. 

1 1.67% Information on mass transit 

1 1.67% learning to use the UM bus system 

1 1.67% libraries 

1 1.67% Meeting people that would be attending the same classes 

1 1.67% Metro Transit 

1 1.67% metrotransit 

1 1.67% more down time! We had so much planned out for us, that we didn't have any time to ourselves or to get settled in. 

1 1.67% More information on my program called "Access to Success" 

1 1.67% More off campus time 

1 1.67% more time for social, we'd meet people then have no time to interact 

1 1.67% More time just for chilling with friends and exploring campus on my own.

1 1.67% more time to sleep 

1 1.67% My major, Computer Science 

1 1.67% Not to have TOO many things packed into on day 

1 1.67% Public transportation and routes 

1 1.67% recreational sports 

1 1.67% relaxing! too many events led to extreme exhaustion!! 

1 1.67% Resources for students with families 

1 1.67% sleep 

2 3.33% Sleep 

1 1.67% SLEEPING 

1 1.67% study abroad 

1 1.67% the campus connector 

1 1.67% The Schedule becuase I never knew where/what time to meet my group. 

1 1.67% The tunnels! 

1 1.67% time for commuters to chill with residential 

1 1.67% Time to get books and explore on your own 

1 1.67% Time to get settled in my apartment 

1 1.67% Time to relax 

2 3.33% transportation 

1 1.67% Transportation 

1 1.67% Tutoring services, not necessarily free time but SLEEP time. If we're up late the night before, we're not going to be pepped up or optomistic for 

the next day. 

1 1.67% using the bussing systems 

1 1.67% Using the Metro Transit. They did not explain it AT ALL. Two days ago I tried to use the bus, never having used one in my life, and I got lost 

and took the wrong busses and ended up being alone in Saint Paul after dark. Not cool. 

1 1.67% Visiting locations near ones resident hall where they board campus transportation 

1 1.67% Way to much stuff planned--was so exhausted I hardly wanted to go out and meet people. Everyone was tired and crabby. We just want time to 

hang out and enjoy being away from home and living in college. 

1 1.67% work study 




Q132. On which of the following topics would you like to attend workshops/sessions during the fall semester (Check all that apply) 

Count Respondent % Response %

315 21.10% 6.68% Academic requirements 

330 22.10% 7.00% Advising 

197 13.19% 4.18% Campus resources 

82 5.49% 1.74% Campus tour 

361 24.18% 7.66% Career planning 

363 24.31% 7.70% Choosing a major 

162 10.85% 3.44% Classroom experience 

259 17.35% 5.49% Study spaces 

310 20.76% 6.58% College life 

70 4.69% 1.48% Commuting to campus 

374 25.05% 7.93% Financial aid 

360 24.11% 7.64% Free time 

365 24.45% 7.74% Involvement and student organizations 

104 6.97% 2.21% Living on campus 

302 20.23% 6.41% Meeting new and current students 

286 19.16% 6.07% Meeting faculty and staff 

98 6.56% 2.08% Selecting classes for fall semester 

90 6.03% 1.91% Time to get settled in my residence hall room 


Count 

Percent 

1 6.25% 

1 6.25% Campus Connector and Transit System 

1 6.25% Campus Connector/Metro 

1 6.25% Employment on campus 

1 6.25% familiarity with St. Paul campus 

1 6.25% Free time workshops 

1 6.25% libraries 

1 6.25% On and off campus transportation 

1 6.25% Selecting classes for spring semester 

1 6.25% Sports 

2 12.50% study abroad 

1 6.25% studying, and note taking 

1 6.25% Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program 

270 18.08% 5.73% None of the above



Q133. How important to you are the following study space characteristics - Quiet 

Count 

Percent 

685 46.03% Extremely important 

511 34.34% Very important 

235 15.79% Moderately important 

48 3.23% Slightly important 

9 0.60% Not at all important 


Q134. How important to you are the following study space characteristics - Food/drink 

Count 

Percent 







Q135. How important to you are the following study space characteristics - Restrooms 

Count 

Percent 






1488 Respondents

Q136. How important to you are the following study space characteristics - Markerboards 

Count 

Percent 







Q137. How important to you are the following study space characteristics - Safety/security 

Count 

Percent 







Q138. How important to you are the following study space characteristics - Power outlets 

Count 

Percent 







Q139. How important to you are the following study space characteristics - Laptop display device 

Count 

Percent 






1488 Respondents

Q140. How important to you are the following study space characteristics - Proximity to classrooms 

Count 

Percent 







Q141. How important to you are the following study space characteristics - Proximity to bus stop 

Count 

Percent 







Q142. How important to you are the following study space characteristics - Individual study 

Count 

Percent 







Q143. How important to you are the following study space characteristics - Group study 

Count 

Percent 






1488 Respondents

Q144. Please provide any additional comments on your answers above: 

Count 

Percent 

280 100.00% 

Count 

Percent 

1 0.36% 

5 1.79% - 

1 0.36% -- 

2 0.71% . 

2 0.71% ... 

1 0.36% :) 

1 0.36% A nice place to relax is always a good study spot 

1 0.36% A place that is quiet and comfortable where I can feel safe and keep focused. 

1 0.36% A space with the ability to work without interruptions, but still be able to talk to other people for help would be the ideal study space. 

1 0.36% All in all it was a great week! 

1 0.36% All of the libraries on-campus should have been identified. 

1 0.36% Any study space outside of my dorm really just needs to be quiet and have a place to sit/write on. 

1 0.36% as long as it is quiet and comfortable it is ok 

1 0.36% As long as it's quiet and i'm confortable i suppose it's all good. 

1 0.36% Being able to have a comfortable study space is very important whether by myself or with others 

1 0.36% Certain places would be good for certain things. 

1 0.36% Comfortable seating is a must! 

1 0.36% depends on the person and his or her mood and study habits 

1 0.36% Explore U was a great idea and was more helpful than anything else in terms of finding groups to get involved with. By the end of WW my desk 

was covered in pamphlets from many organizations that I have no strong interest in joining. I think that if students really want to get involved, 

then they will seek out student groups/organizations with which to participate. 

1 0.36% Free food/drink is always appreciated. 

1 0.36% Getting to school by bus is pretty different. Takes time and practice. 

1 0.36% good 

1 0.36% i am a commuter so i would like them to be near a bus stop 

1 0.36% I am a versitile studier. 

1 0.36% I am comfortable at all those area. 

1 0.36% I am going to try my hardest to work hard in college so that I can do well and graduate in four years. 

1 0.36% I am more worried about the people who I am going to find to study with than the place where i am studying. 

1 0.36% I am not picky when it comes to studying.

1 0.36% i am specific about my studying. 

1 0.36% I am still looking for a very quiet place to study - there is always the library, but I didn't discover too many others. 

1 0.36% I am still unsure about my specific study needs. 

1 0.36% I believe as I get used to the school, it will be easy for me to find and gain all these aspects of studying. 

1 0.36% I believe study areas are whatever appeals to the student, so all of these are important factors for students so that everyone can have a study 

area they feel comfortable with and an enviortment in which they can learn. 

1 0.36% I believe that all the study areas must be quiet. 

1 0.36% I can ignore a lot of the stuff that goes on around me so it doesn't have to be super quiet. Also, I'm flexible with the location and I like to switch 

things up. 

1 0.36% I can make do with most spaces, as long as they aren't loud. I'm sure that finding spaces will be easy once classes are in full swing. 

1 0.36% I can pretty much study in any place at any time, and if anyone is interrupting my studies, I won't have a problem with leaving the place. 

1 0.36% I can probably study almost anywhere so as long as there is an outlet to plug in my computer I'm good. 

1 0.36% I can study almost anywhere as long as it is moderately quiet. Usually I study better alone but I know a lot of people like to study in groups, and 

studying in groups is a great way to meet people that have similar classes that can help you. 

1 0.36% I can study with only having a quiet place. 

1 0.36% I cannot study in my dorm due to expanded housing, I have no where to study. 

1 0.36% I can't concentrate if there are buses going back and forth. 

1 0.36% I could make do without a marker board, but they are nice. 

1 0.36% I didn't go on the walking tour on Friday because I was sick, but outside of that one day there wasn't much talk of studying... It was all about 

getting involved, making friends, and shaping our amazing futures. 

1 0.36% I didn't have time during welcome week to look for study spaces. 

1 0.36% I do not feel the need to comment. 

1 0.36% I don't have any comments. 

1 0.36% I don't mind working with noise in the background, and with certain subjects I like to study in groups, but other times I like to be alone. 

1 0.36% I enjoy quiet spaces to study by myself that are preferably outside. 

1 0.36% I feel that I need a quiet place to study. 

1 0.36% I feel that my dorm room will be a good place to study most of the time. 

1 0.36% I find it difficult to know how to make study groups when you're a commuter. 

1 0.36% I find it easiest to study in a quiet space. 

1 0.36% I find that a great place for me to work on homework is over in the TCF Bank Stadium in a little room called the Nook. 

1 0.36% I have a feeling these spaces get full fast. 

1 0.36% I have no comments. 

1 0.36% I have no other concerns on my studying space characteristics. 

1 0.36% I have none. 

1 0.36% I have picked out quite a few different places where I may study throughout my time at the U of M ranging from the library to downstairs in my 

dorm to the breakout rooms in the Carlson School of Management. I tried to make intelligent choices for different kinds of studying such as

individual and group. 

1 0.36% I haven't studied for college courses before, so it's hard for me to say what's very important for me other than that I need things quiet when I'm 

studying alone. 

1 0.36% I hope to find a quiet place to study either individually or with a group 

1 0.36% i just like a clean and tidy study space.. 

1 0.36% I just like to study on my own time. 

1 0.36% I just need a convenient place to study. 

1 0.36% I just need a place to get used to. 

1 0.36% I just want somewhere quiet that has a desk and space for me to work at where no one else/ other students who are studying are located 

1 0.36% I like a space that is comfortable for me to relax in but a space that allows me to be productive 

1 0.36% I like a study space that's not too loud, but not completely silent; I need to be able to bring and hook up my laptop; and I prefer a combination of 

individual and group study 

1 0.36% I like how CBS requires students to be in a study group! 

1 0.36% I like it to be quiet and i hope i can find good study spaces nearby 

1 0.36% I like it to be quiet and work by myself! 

1 0.36% i like my roommate a lot, but i dont like bailey hall and the location of the st. paul campus. 

1 0.36% I like places that are quiet and have access to power. Other then that, I am not to picky. I plan on spending a lot of time in the CSE Library 

because it is quiet and right next to all of my classes. 

1 0.36% i like study groups 

1 0.36% I like study spaces that are by windows, I like looking outside. 

1 0.36% I like studying mostly alone 

1 0.36% I like things to be extremely quiet when I study. Sometimes, even people typing on their computers or turning their pages bugs me. 

1 0.36% I like to be alone in a quiet area when I'm studying. No distractions. 

1 0.36% I like to have a quiet place to study that will have restrooms, and outlets or just a good quiet place where I can study alone. Group study is 

more optional to me because I don't know most students 

1 0.36% I like to have my own little area to study usually by my self and extremely quiet. 

1 0.36% I like to listen to music and have a quiet place to do my work. 

1 0.36% I like to study in a quiet place. 

1 0.36% I like to study in a relaxed environment. Studying with other students in the same classes is very helpful. 

1 0.36% I like to study in groups and individually equally. 

1 0.36% I like to study in places where it is quiet and all of the essential resources are near-by. 

1 0.36% I like to study individually or with a group but at the same time, have everything available--food, restrooms, transportation, etc. 

1 0.36% I love studying outside, but there's no power source and almost all my homework involves a computer! 

1 0.36% I need a space that feels like a workspace, and does not feel like a space to relax/hang out. 

1 0.36% I need quiet space. I would like to find out where those quiet study spaces are.

1 0.36% I need quiet spaces to study, but I love to reflect on what I study with other peers in my classes to rehash all I've learned 

1 0.36% I need study spaces where I can study alone and where I can study for a group since both are important for me when studying for a class. 

1 0.36% i need to be able to focus 

1 0.36% I plan to study in my dorm and the libraries. 

1 0.36% I prefer a study space which has a comfortable atmosphere like Coffman when I am doing work that is not intensive. 

1 0.36% I prefer an area where I can work by myself, but also have the resources to relax when I want to take a break from the homework and studying. 

1 0.36% I prefer for a little noise while studying, I have a hard time concentrating in dead silence. Also I study better if I have the internet and something 

to drink. 

1 0.36% I prefer individual study, but I'm also happy with group study as long as they are a cooperative group willing to learn. 

1 0.36% I prefer study individually to study together. I also will not spend all of my independent study at the campus; I can also study at my permanent 

residence. 

1 0.36% I prefer to study alone, but can usually get more information out of a focused group study session. 

1 0.36% I prefer to study alone, but I'm not opposed to study groups. 

1 0.36% I prefer to study alone. 

1 0.36% I prefer to study in a quiet area. Proximity to classrooms is not really an issue, since I don't have time to study between most of my classes. 

1 0.36% I really like to study in quiet areas where i can spread 

1 0.36% I still don't know which libraries you can study in. Or where to study in in my residence hall. etc 

1 0.36% I study at home. 

1 0.36% I study best in a quiet area with few distractions, little noise, and little movement. 

1 0.36% I study the best in a quiet area alone. 

1 0.36% I think it speaks for itself 

1 0.36% I think that having a quiet space might be hard to come by, but is very important. I also enjoy both individual and group studying. It sort of 

depends which class it is for I suppose, and what the material is like. 

1 0.36% I think that its important to have a quiet place mostly so that the group members can better communicate. 

1 0.36% I think that study spaces are very important. 

1 0.36% I think that the power outlets are a big deal, and also having plenty of opportunities for both individual and group studies. 

1 0.36% I think these study methods are great! 

1 0.36% I think Welcome Week should have provided a little more information on where some good study spaces are. 

1 0.36% I want a nice quiet place to study and occasionally with a group. 

1 0.36% I want a quiet place to study individually. 

1 0.36% I want an accessible study area that is quiet so it's easier to study that is open for late hours if needed and allows food or drink in case of the 

long study hours. 

1 0.36% I want my resources to be very accessible to me. 

1 0.36% I want somewhere where it is reasonably quiet, not too many people, easy to access, someplace like home. 

1 0.36% I would just like a place to go so that I can study without distractions.

1 0.36% I would just like a place to study; I'm not really sure what exactly I will need personally until classes actually start 

1 0.36% I would like a space that I would not be interrupted in. 

1 0.36% I would like for it to be a place where I would not be bothered. 

1 0.36% I would like somewhere quiet to be able to just focus without interruption. 

1 0.36% I would like there to be comfortable and convienient study space on both campuses. 

1 0.36% I would like to be able to study in a group and I think I will be able too. 

1 0.36% I would like to find a study space that is fairly quiet with few distractions and is a comfortable place to occupy for a few hours. 

1 0.36% I would like to have a place to study in the residence halls more than by my classes. 

1 0.36% I would like to have an opportunity to study in a group but also would like to also be able to study alone while its quiet 

1 0.36% I would rather study alone than with a group because I get distracted easily. 

1 0.36% I would really like good places to go to study individually as well as with a group. 

1 0.36% I'd like a quiet place to study. 

1 0.36% I'd like a space where I can focus on what I need to do but still have access to other's opinions if i get stuck or need help 

1 0.36% I'd like there to at least be a place to drink water 

1 0.36% If I am going to study, I don't need all sorts of fancy stuff to distract me. 

1 0.36% I'll probably just study in my room. 

1 0.36% I'm not really sure yet. I've never studied here before. 

1 0.36% I'm not very picky about my study space. 

1 0.36% i'm really not sue because i haven't really gotten through all of my classes yet/ 

1 0.36% In study spaces, I look for a quiet and relaxed environment where I don't have to worry about being distracted. 

1 0.36% It depends on the class that I am studying for as well. 

1 0.36% It differs depending on the subject. 

1 0.36% It is good to have a quiet place to study, and a place that others can come too as well. 

1 0.36% It seems like I've already seen plenty of great places to study around campus. 

1 0.36% It will be more than awesome to have a quite place to study. 

1 0.36% It would be nice to have individual study spaces as well as group study spaces, but separated from each other since it would be louder in the 

group setting. That way people who want to study individually would have a quiet area where other people aren't talking. 

1 0.36% I've never had a problem with noise when studying, in fact I tend to turn on music in order to focus. However when working in a group it is 

better to have minimal background noise. As far as individual vs. group study, I plan on doing both so it is important that I find places for both of 

them. 

1 0.36% just fine 

1 0.36% laptops will be a must for studying for me, I believe, as is a quiet area. 

1 0.36% Libraries are good. 

1 0.36% Location is the most important 

1 0.36% make it availble to make it to bus on time

1 0.36% Make sure there are plenty of outlets for chargers and comfortable places to sit. 

1 0.36% More info on campus buildings and locations would be helpful. 

1 0.36% most likely to study in room or library 

1 0.36% Music helps my study. 

1 0.36% My answers will vary depending on the type of class I am studying for but these are just general answers. 

1 0.36% my dorm is perfect so far for studying 

1 0.36% My idea of a study space is comfortable, yet accessible to many different necessities. 

1 0.36% my res hall room will be fine 

1 0.36% N comments 

4 1.43% n/a 

15 5.36% N/A 

1 0.36% na 

3 1.07% NA 

1 0.36% Need peaceful areas to work, most places are noisy 

1 0.36% Nice library staff are important to me. 

1 0.36% no 

2 0.71% No additional comments. 

2 0.71% No comment 

1 0.36% no comment. 

1 0.36% No comment. 

1 0.36% no comments 

2 0.71% No comments 

1 0.36% no commment 

1 0.36% No further Concerns. 


1 0.36% No. 

23 8.21% none 

11 3.93% None 

1 0.36% none. 

3 1.07% None. 

1 0.36% Nope 


1 0.36% Other people who are focused

1 0.36% Quiet environment and not a lot of activity. 

1 0.36% quiet helps me focus and concentrate 

1 0.36% Quiet is less important when working in a group but essential for individual study. 

1 0.36% quiet study and group study is really important to me. 

1 0.36% Sometimes we need very quiet space to study so that we can think individually well, and sometimes group studying is a good way as well. But I 

don't know how to find study group on campus. 

1 0.36% Somewhere close to my dorm. 

1 0.36% somewhere i can be for a long time 

1 0.36% study conditions depend on the subject that is being studied 

1 0.36% study groups rock 

1 0.36% Studying is important for success at the U. 

1 0.36% Studying should not be a problem for me! 

1 0.36% Thank you to everyone that worked on making welcome week possible, I'm sure all the freshman that attened really benifited from it one way or 

another. 

1 0.36% The absence of distraction is key to a good study session, but holing yourself up in a cave-like area is equally detrimental, for obvious 

cave-person reasons. 

1 0.36% The Libraries seem to be adequate for my studies. 

1 0.36% The main concern is safety. If I am out late studying, it may be dark walking back to my dorm. I just need to know that I will be safe getting back 

to my room. 

1 0.36% The new STSS rooms with the mics/outlits/TVs is frankly, the bomb. It's awesome. 

1 0.36% The only thing that I am really concerned with about studying is just that there will be enough space. 

1 0.36% There are few power outlets and they are rendered inaccessible by many objects in the room. 

1 0.36% There are plenty of perfect spaces to student. 

1 0.36% There need to be places for students to study alone if for some reason they can't in their dorm, and also places for them to study in groups and 

be able to have conversations without bothering individual studiers. 

1 0.36% there needs to be more outlets and ethernet plugs 

1 0.36% There should be a quiet space just for anyone to study 

1 0.36% these are too many questions 

1 0.36% they should also be comfortable 

1 0.36% thse are necessities 

1 0.36% too long 

1 0.36% too much information to process at once 

1 0.36% Tutors nearby. 

1 0.36% Want to form a study group with people in similar or same classes 

1 0.36% What kind of question asks about how important bathrooms are 

1 0.36% Whiteboards are an amazing and underrated study resource that should be utilized more be the unviersity study spaces.


1 0.36% Would like a place that I can bring my computer to and not have to worry about annoyances including search filters. 

1 0.36% YOU mak noise when you study. It is nonsense that we have to be absolutely quiet when studying 

Q145. If you could change the Welcome Week program in any way, how would you change it and why 

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Percent 

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1 0.10% 

1 0.10% - 

1 0.10% -- 

1 0.10% I would make the Target run less crowded and make lines shorter throughout welcome week if possible 

1 0.10% . 

1 0.10% ... 

1 0.10% 1) I would spred the activites out more evenly throughout the week. (the first two days were really busy and the last two were empty) 2) I would 

have liked more structured free time in stead of hours with nothing to do. I would have enjoyed it if there were activites similair to Gophers After 

Dark and Fun Zone during the day because as a commuter I was less likely to stay for the late night events because I had to walk to my car 

and drive home late at night. 

1 0.10% 1) two or three days max 2) stagger entering times for all events in the arenas. 3) don't schedual from 8:00 till 8:00 (more free time is needed) 

4) don't have early mornings the days after target or the mall of america (we were all exhuasted all the time which is a bad way to start college) 

1 0.10% a bit less walking and more free time. 

1 0.10% A bit more free time 

1 0.10% a little bit more free time on the first couple of days. 

1 0.10% A little less intense, there was always so much to do I just wanted to downtime. 

1 0.10% A little less scheduled events. I felt like it was constant activity and i think that is why some people don't go because its so many activities right 

in a row. 

1 0.10% a little less structure. 

1 0.10% A little more free time to rest and meet new people. 

1 0.10% A little more free time. 

1 0.10% A little more time to relax and SLEEP! 

1 0.10% A little more time to settle in and get organized. 

1 0.10% A lot of the activities helped me understand my campus and made me feel more comfortable here, but a lot of it was unnecessary and could 

have been shortened. I had to sometimes chose not to go the the activities and night because my mandatory sessions started so early and the 

days were too exhausting for what i was getting out of them. 

1 0.10% A lot of the activities seemed rather pointless and not related to what I plan on doing at the U. Somehow make Welcome Week more connected 

to a person, or colleges, intended studies. 

1 0.10% A lot of the things that were included were unnecessary. Because of the length of welcome week and the amount of things we did, I am now 

exhausted and will have more trouble tomorrow when I have my first day of classes. A week (or nearly) is not necessary; two to three days

would be sufficient. 

1 0.10% A whole week is a very long amount of time for Welcome Activies. Going downtown felt pointless; all we did was walk around. 

1 0.10% Add more free time during the day. 

1 0.10% Add more free time to connect with other students besides those in your own group. 

1 0.10% Add more free time to mingle with people. 

1 0.10% Add more free time to settle in and to meet people in your floor and building. 

1 0.10% All Optional. 

1 0.10% Allow a little more down time 

1 0.10% Allow commuters to interact more with residential students. 

1 0.10% Allow for more free time, in which an individual may tailor their experience to themselves. 

1 0.10% allow for more move in time for those that have to move in later on the 1st. Also dont make us get up so early if they are going to keep us up so 

late. 

1 0.10% Allow independence to the students. 

1 0.10% Allow just a little bit more free time earlier on in the week -- I moved in on the 31st, so I had plenty of time to get settled, but if I would've been 

moving in on the 1st like many people, I feel I would definitely not have had sufficient settling time. Also, it was just tiring having nonstop 

events. 

1 0.10% Allow more free time so we can explore the campus on our own and pick up materials for classes. 

1 0.10% Allow more free time to meet people as wanted. 

1 0.10% Allow more freetime. It's very overwhelming to get books and do laundry for only 1 day. Have the leaders engage more with different individuals 

instead of the same group. Talk to minorities and those who would obviously feel different. I had trouble getting into the U atmosphere being 

that I am a minority and I felt somewhat left out; regardless of how cool everyone was. 

1 0.10% Allow more optional activities and free time, less leading by the hand and allow more independence 

1 0.10% Allow more time for move-in and settling in (I moved in Sept. 1 at 1:30 pm), fewer info sessions (college day, tours, etc.), and shorter in 

general. Welcome weekend instead of welcome week. It got really old and frankly kind of depressing. It was easy to get homesick. 

1 0.10% Allow more time for personal exploration around campus. 

1 0.10% Allow more time for relaxation and for students to settle in to being on the University campus. 

1 0.10% Allow more time for students to get settled into their dorm so that they are used to being away from home. 

1 0.10% allow some more free time during the day so students can find their classes and actually locate the room, instead of finding the building locked 

on labor day. 

1 0.10% Allow the students more free time during the Welcome Week program to explore the campus on their own. 

1 0.10% at fun zone i would spread out the food options because everything was crammed into one corner making it difficult for 5000 freshman to move 

around easily 

1 0.10% be able to go with another group if you have informed your leader. 

1 0.10% Be more clear about when our meal plans start. I asked someone with the title Assistant Manager, and he seemed really confused about it and 

could not answer my question. 

1 0.10% be more involved with the people your with 

1 0.10% Better set out time for commuter students. There was a lot of time that my group didn't know exactly what to do because we had hours of free 

time, but nowhere to go.

1 0.10% By making some of the later events more earlier. 

1 0.10% Change many of the activities from time based to a finish and leave format. My welcome week leader told me a handful of times that we had to 

stay at a location until a certain time even though we weren't doing anything useful. 

1 0.10% Change the floor meeting to near the first day so you can get to know your neighbors. 

1 0.10% Change up college day and the symposium because they were boring 

1 0.10% Changing around the time. If it were form 1-5 each day I think more people would attend. 

1 0.10% Changing time allocations for certain aspects; redundancy was emphasized during welcome week. 

1 0.10% College day should be a little shorter and less intense. 

1 0.10% College day was was boring, CFANS 

1 0.10% College Day, make it useful. 

1 0.10% Combine it into two days, 5 days of orientation is way too much and draining to have right before school. 

1 0.10% commuters need more things to do... 

1 0.10% compact it into a welcome weekend starting friday. It was a little too long. 

1 0.10% Condense it a little. Have more events in your residence hall. Less walking. More interaction with other students. 

1 0.10% condense it a lot. was way to long on somedays, and then other days there was nothing plan. don't make it as long 

1 0.10% Condense it into like 3 days instead of 5 long days so then kids dont get sick of it and start skipping events and sessions. 

1 0.10% consolidate events. There was just so much information and so many things to go to that I have great confidence when I say I doubt many 

students retained any helpful information. The first day should be dedicated to moving in and initial group meeting followed by Convocation. 

The second should be campus tours and resources and pride and spirit. The third should be community outreach like exploring the Twin cities 

so the shops might actually be open. This would also be a better night to have the MOA. The fourth, Saturday should be the campus 

involvement and college experience, (Jermaine Davis, groups on campus, outreach stuff.) Sunday should be just fun activites all day to 

connect to your group even more followed by the closure meetings. Monday should be kept as the last day to rest and finish preparing for 

classes. Have programs start at earliest 9:30 or 10, and have all events end just before dinner, and have an hour after dinner to relax before 

night activities start. Have all activities end at 12am at the latest. Encourage good sleeping habits to the students. 

1 0.10% Cut down on how much students have to walk to get from one place to another. Also give students more free time to relax during the day. 

1 0.10% Cut it down to like the weekend. 

1 0.10% Decrease its length by a day 

1 0.10% delete it 

1 0.10% Do a better job with crowd control 

1 0.10% Do less stuff during the day and let people be on their own more to settle in and get to know each other and explore by themselves. 

1 0.10% Do not have the large gaps of free time in the middle of the day because it is a time that you can't really do anything because you have to 

attend the next session. 

1 0.10% Do not include the marching band in college day, as it was a waist of time to pull us from practice. 

1 0.10% dont have it so long every day, sometimes i just wanted to relax with my friends 

1 0.10% Don't have so many activities on the weekend... weekends are for relaxing and having fun doing whatever. 

1 0.10% Don't make it a week long! Or if it must be a week long thing, then don't make it all day! Everyone gets so tiired and half the stuff we're forced 

to do is stupid. A lot of the classes we take are pointless because we already know the information that they're throwing at us. I think you 

should add in more free time, more down time, and less walking around and forcing us to take classes we don't care about. I know a ton of 

people who skipped the welcome week activities for this very reason. Also, some activities, such as the Target Run, were very poorly planned

out. Lines were insane, it was chaos, and absolutely no fun. 

1 0.10% Don't make it so long, there was a lot of down time 

1 0.10% Don't make one thing end at 1:15 and the next thing start at 1:45. That half an hour between things isn't enough time to actually leave the 

location and do something fun, it's just annoying free time. Compressing everything would leave more free time after all the stuff is done, or 

allow students to sleep in more. 

1 0.10% Don't pack so much stuff in at once. 

1 0.10% Don't plan things late and then expect us to get up early the first couple of days, because it starts off the week on a bad note by making 

everyone tired. 

1 0.10% Don't put us with our roommates - we spend enough time with them as it is. I like my roommate and all, but after spending time together 24/7, 

we got a little sick of each other. 

1 0.10% Don't require former PSEO students at the U to go through all of Welcome Week. Also, the breaks seemed to be way to concentrated. 

Sometimes it was really busy and other times there was nothing to do. 

1 0.10% dont wake up so early 

1 0.10% Downsize the whole thing 

1 0.10% During welcome week, it seemed as if it was a lot of events crammed into these few days; seeing that we started around 8 and ended around 

10 most days. 

1 0.10% Either more free time in the same number of days or go for an extra day in order to not pack the days so much. 

1 0.10% Either shorten the amount of days or shorten the activities of each day. 

1 0.10% Encourage students to bring their schedules to the tour events. This way Welcome Week leaders can help students find their buildings. 

1 0.10% expand groups, change them everyday mix it up 

1 0.10% Fewer info sessions, and more time to get to know people and the area. 

1 0.10% Fewer mandatory late nights. People need sleep! Pride & Spirit night seemed incredibly useless. Perhaps more optional activities overallas 

in making some things optional, NOT as in adding new things. 

1 0.10% Fewer things to keep us busy with - everyone was really sick of all of it by the end, and ended up skipping parts just to sleep, relax, and get off 

their feet. 

1 0.10% For commuters, have more things to do, because we had so much free time and nowhere to go relax, and nothing to do or eat. 

1 0.10% For it not to be mandatory for some events. 

1 0.10% Get a better group leader. 

1 0.10% Get rid of College Day, because it was not all that helpful. 

1 0.10% get rid of it 

1 0.10% Get rid of the redundancy. 

1 0.10% Get rid of the U of M Rotation day. I really thought it didn't teach me much and it lasted all day while i could have been doing other things to 

adjust to the campus. 

1 0.10% Give a schedule to each person as to when they have to meet and where--for everything. 

1 0.10% Give just a little more time to relax. 

1 0.10% give more free time and dont make the events start so early. 

1 0.10% Give more free time for people to adjust and walk around campus.

1 0.10% Give more free time to allow students to connect with each other more before the upperclassman arrive on campus. 

1 0.10% give more free time, give more of a chance to develop with the people that you meet 

1 0.10% Give more free time, have more group dining so people don't eat alone. 

1 0.10% Give more time during community exploration. I hardly got the chance to see anything Downtown! 

1 0.10% Give more time earlier in the week to go buy the books you need. 

1 0.10% Give more time taking a campus tour. We mainly stayed on the Minneapolis campus, and I am very unfamiliar with the St. Paul campus. 

1 0.10% give more time to hang out 

1 0.10% Give people a day or so before welcome week to get settled in. I was a part of MCAE so I didn't have anytime to settle in. 

1 0.10% give students choices to choose to go or not 

1 0.10% Give students more free time to explore and adjust on their own. 

1 0.10% Give students more free time to relax and meet people in a less forced environment, more in their own. 

1 0.10% Give students more time to buy books and explore campus on their own 

1 0.10% Give students more time to figure things out on their own. 

1 0.10% Give students more time to interact with people they have met. Let them choose who they want to spend time with. It was hard to spend time 

with friends I had met who were not in my Welcome Week Group since we were almost always with our group. 

1 0.10% Give the kids more of a break. I didint go to much of it because it was too constricted and by the end of most of the sessions I was tired and 

angry. I guess it was a bit too over bearing and the schedule was stacked. I got much more done to prepare for the fall semester when I started 

skipping stuff. 

1 0.10% give the students more free time 

1 0.10% Give us a bit more opportunity for sleep, and more time with our leaders. 

1 0.10% Give us a few less things to do. Most of the events were very helpful, but it was stressful how much we were on the move and doing things. 

1 0.10% Give us more free time during the day and another hall meeting. 

1 0.10% Give us more free time to settle in and not feel like we're constantly rushing. 

1 0.10% Give us more free time, I was exhausted! 

1 0.10% Give us more time discussing college life with upperclassmen 

1 0.10% Given the opportunity to change the program, I would remove the Scavenger Hunt Texting activity. Myself and other students I talked to agreed 

that the goal of learning about the buildings using a point system that served no purpose was a general waste of time. 

1 0.10% Go over information not covered in orientation. It got slighly repetitive. 

1 0.10% good 

1 0.10% Have a "Get to know your floor" for the residence halls. So you could get to know your floor. Teach about tolerating ambiguity, 

because I only know about it because I have had discussions on it from outside the U. 

1 0.10% Have a little bit of free time EACH day. 

1 0.10% have a little more down time mid-day to relax. 

1 0.10% Have a non traditional student group as they are in a different place in life than the freshman coming right out of high school, or do not require 

non traditional students to attend at all. For commuters, it would be more advantageous to have all events on weekdays, especially for those 

using public transportation as the schedules are much less frequent on weekends. 

1 0.10% Have better busing situations such as when we left from St.Paul Campus to go to Grand Ave. bring us back to St. Paul when we're done. Don't

drop us off at east bank where we have to cram on a campus connector to get back. 

1 0.10% Have fewer presentations by speakers; they repeated information a lot. 

1 0.10% Have it be a couple days and not go into the weekend. 

1 0.10% Have larger groups and not group people by area or college 

1 0.10% Have less 'busy-work" activities, and more of the activities that are necessary. For example, more activities focused on classrooms, 

meeting faculty, getting involved in student groups, tours, and fun! 

1 0.10% Have Matt Miller and Annie Economou give a seminar on how to be a Welcome Week leader and how to connect to the new students. 

Seriously, they were really good. 

1 0.10% Have more campus involvement information (ie. student groups) presented earlier in the week. 

1 0.10% Have more free time 

1 0.10% Have more free time and less presentations where speakers are simply talking to students with no interaction (convocation, CLA presentation 

in Northrop, Honors breakfast, Engagement symposium, etc.) 

1 0.10% have more free time and more time to make friends in your hall and not meeting people you will most likely never see again 

1 0.10% Have more free time for students. 

1 0.10% Have more free time to hang in my dorm hall. 

1 0.10% Have more free time. 

1 0.10% Have more freedom for us to explore the U on our own so we can meet other people from other groups. 

1 0.10% Have more fun activities 

1 0.10% have more hands-on activities instead of lectures 

1 0.10% Have more of a time to connect with the people in your house group and with your ca and health advocate 

1 0.10% Have more times where campus residents and commuters mix during group activities. 

1 0.10% Have one day less or one day more; just make on more day for time to do whatever is needed personally. Also include more bus and transit 

lessons. 

1 0.10% Have smaller groups. 

1 0.10% Have something solid and fun for like 5 hours a day and give us the rest of the day to ourselves and make friends. 

1 0.10% Have the activities start later in the day and have some free time in the middle of the day for rest 

1 0.10% have the groups for welcome week be half commuter, and half residence, and have the students who are commuters still go and participate in 

the all the things the residence hall kids do, so they can meet new people, and interact with the majority of their class instead of the select few 

who commute. 

1 0.10% Have the sessions be less boring. 

1 0.10% having more planned activities during the day that are optional, such as tours. Most of the required activities (especially on college day) were 

very boring and it was easily the worst day of the week. 

1 0.10% Having the campus tour optional because there are people who have tour the campus multiple times. 

1 0.10% Having the honors breakfast so early after the target run was a bit difficult. Also, the crowds at many of the events made attending them a bit 

discouraging. 

1 0.10% how often and early events were 

1 0.10% How the buses were operating during the Target Run by the superblock area, they should be a lot more organized like MOA buses were. Also

more free time to help the adjustment and not feel so rushed, along with shorter lectures and not having the same thing repeated at all the 

lectures, because by the end of the week, majority of people that I know were extremely tired, including myself, and stopped engaging in 

welcome week because of the long days with no time to relax, which made the last days drag on. 

1 0.10% I am a commuter student and would personally want to be able to STAY on campus during Welcome Week. Being able to live in a dorm during 

that week would have been advantageous to me because I would be able to stay out late for the Late Night Events. I did not want to bother my 

parents in picking me up at 1 in the morning and such and therefore would always have to go home early. I missed out on a couple of events 

because they were night events. If Welcome Week had an opportunity for commuter students to stay in the dorms or such during Welcome 

Week, then I believe they would have more participants. For an example, I would've loved going to the Target Run but it was so late at night 

that it was impossible for me. 

1 0.10% I change it by utilizing the campus circulator more. 

1 0.10% I did not like how we had to wait in so many lines the whole time. 

1 0.10% I didn't like the Biocaching we did for CBS. I felt like we had enough tours and that this was just aimless wandering around. I also didn't like the 

College day, mostly because my group leader was in CBS, so she didn't have much useful information for us. 

1 0.10% I don't know because I felt like everything was pretty all set. 

1 0.10% I enjoyed it a lot and I feel a lot more confident in entering college. A change that would be good would be more tour-ish things of the campus. 

We walk around it but arent really toured and therefore do not "learn" the places. 

1 0.10% I enjoyed Welcome Week. The seminars about money and things got a little boring. I think students would appreciate more free time between 

events. It would be nice to be able to have like an hour or two a day to just relax. 

1 0.10% I feel like all 6 days could have been condensed down into fewer days because the whole week started to feel dragged out 

1 0.10% I feel that many of the sessions about getting involved were repetitive and not needed. 

1 0.10% I felt like some things were really disorganized. I think that the leaders and the faculty helpers should make sure everyone knows what theyre 

suppose to do and where they're suppose to be. 

1 0.10% I felt that it was too long and I would shorten it. 

1 0.10% I felt that the Welcome Week leaders were not knowledgeable enough because they were not provided with enough clear information. Often, 

where we were supposed to be and what we were supposed to be doing was muddled, because no one had enough information provided to 

them. The Welcome Week booklet was useful, but there was too much information in it to sort through effectively. I felt it needed to be 

condensed and broken down to the Leaders more effectively so we could get the most out of our experience. 

1 0.10% I felt the weakest part of my Welcome Week experience was the engagement symposium. I felt it wasn't necessary and I was bored for the 

majority of the program. 

1 0.10% I just think some of the activities were a little overwhelming. For instance when I went over to the St. Paul campus to meet with my college 

group we had at least six to seven different sessions we had to do and I found some of them to be very boring and pointless. It just got to be so 

overwhelming playing all these games and just sitting around. 

1 0.10% I just thought a lot of the activities were pointless. On Friday we went to St. Paul and then went in some building and everyone could play 

games to win prizes. Are things like that REALLY necessary for me to become a better student I got a free key chain, but how is that going to 

help me with school this fall 

1 0.10% I know its good to be busy so we won't get homesick and it will be a better transition for us if we stay busy, but I was very sleep deprived during 

Welcome Week. Late hours and then getting up early in the morning don't mix very well 

1 0.10% I like all of them. Great! 

1 0.10% I like it. Possibly shorter days and more free time to explore 

1 0.10% I like that it helps the residence hall groups, but commuters usually have to decide between safely getting home or making friends and getting 

used to campus. Maybe if we had somewhere to stay on campus during Welcome Week. 

1 0.10% I like the way it's right now but if change should be made I suggest welcome week to be more organized and well laid out. There were couple of 

times where my welcome week leaders did not give us the right direction and did not show up on time.

1 0.10% I need to study with people who I get along with well but who I can also be serious with and study. I need a place to study that has little to no 

distractions 

1 0.10% I needed time to see my advisor and talk about study abroad programs. 

1 0.10% I provide more time for students to integrate with the campus and upper-classmen individually 

1 0.10% I really didn't get to know anyone in my group at all. In fact, it was hard to meet people. 

1 0.10% I really enjoyed Welcome Week. A lot of the time was scheduled for us, so we didn't have much time to socialize outside of our groups. But 

Monday gave enough time to regroup a bit and rest up. The one thing that would be nicer is to work on the congestion, as far as standing in 

lines. Maybe staggering things a bit more (I realize there are 5,000 students so this may be a tad unrealistic!) 

1 0.10% I think a practical change to welcome week would be to start welcome week two days earlier but have mandatory programming for less time 

each day, this would make welcome week less stressful and more bearable for leaders and students alike. 

1 0.10% I think it would be better if there wasn't quite as much going on all the time. There was so many structured events happening that it was 

overwhelming to an extent. 

1 0.10% i think it would be nice to have more activities as a group bringing everyone even closer together. Also, maybe breaking up some of the bigger 

events because its a challenge traveling everywhere with 5000 other freshmen. 

1 0.10% I think one week is too long. I have friends going to other schools and their welcome week covers just about the same topics but its only two or 

three days before classes begin. I also think on our first day we shouldn't have many, if any, welcome week things just so we can get settled 

into our housing. 

1 0.10% I think that maybe making it shorter would help because it is very jam packed and hectic! It was great to be able to just relax and get used to 

being a dorm and I feel like having another day of that could help. 

1 0.10% I think that our welcome week groups should be based on our floors rather then our halls. I will see the people on my hall more then the people 

on different floors and I would have liked the time to bond and get to know them better. 

1 0.10% I think that the kick off meeting should have been on the wednesday morning instead and the final day (sunday) should have been optional as 

well with the closing meeting being sometime before the late night at the MOA. 

1 0.10% I think that the program was good. Some sessions were boring, like the mandatory interest session we had to attend, but in general it's what 

you make it. 

1 0.10% I think that the welcome week groups should have times when we join other groups, so that we meet more people than just the ones in our 

welcome week group. 

1 0.10% I think that they should tailor some of Welcome Week more towards commuters because it seemed like they didn't realize that we had to travel 

to and from campus early every morning and late every night. My welcome week leaders understood that and tried their best to help (example: 

let people leave earlier if they needed to or met up with them at a location a little later in the day if someone couldn't get to campus really early), 

but it seemed like the early/late events didn't really think of commuters very well. 

1 0.10% I think that Welcome Week should only be 2-3 days because most of the information that we received over the week was the same, and it 

seemed like they were trying to force activities that weren't really necessary. I think there also should have been more free time because by the 

end of the day we weren't able to do anything because we were so tired and had to get up really early the next morning. 

1 0.10% I think the Campus Circulators should run during Welcome Week, so Freshmen can grab them in their free time for practice. 

1 0.10% I think there should be more time to rest, because we had to wake up early most days, and we got to bed late. So there wasn't much time to 

sleep. 

1 0.10% I think there was too much going on each day. It would have been nice to have some breaks in between some of the longer days. Some of the 

stuff I did not really find interesting. However much of the stuff we did helped me and now feel more confident here. 

1 0.10% I think we could have had more free time. Another thing that I didn't like was that a lot of the talks were very repetitive and were very similar to 

those at orientation. 

1 0.10% I think, if it were possible, it would be wonderful to meet up again once school starts. 

1 0.10% I thought It covered the vast majority of my concerns.

1 0.10% I thought it ran very smoothly and believe it shall work well for next years incoming freshman. 

1 0.10% I thought it was all good , the days got really long but i enjoyed most of it 

1 0.10% I thought it was good. 

1 0.10% I thought there were a lot of unnecessary parts of welcome week that really just ended wearing our group out so we were unenthusiastic about 

what we were doing. 

1 0.10% I thought they could've talked a lot more on flex dine. I don't know where it is good for and how I can find out how many more meals I have. The 

bus transportation makes me very nervous because I have no idea where a many of the metro transit stops are and which stop is my stop 

when I actually get on it. 

1 0.10% I wasn't assigned to the stuff I signed up for. 

1 0.10% I wish I could have attended more of the interest sessions on Friday. 

1 0.10% I wish it could just be more fun and less talking during the week. It'd be nice to have more fun activities on the weekdays rather than just the 

weekend. 

1 0.10% I wish there would have been more information about the academics. 

1 0.10% I wish we had more free time to get to know people especially from our floors or classes. There were a lot of "social" events, but 

they were too crowded and loud to make any meaningful connections, and the small amount of free time we did have was normally spent trying 

to get caught up on sleep, various errands on campus, and Welcome Week requirements. I didn't get to meet people on my own wing until 

Sunday night, which was disappointing. 

1 0.10% I would a little more free time at the begining of the week. It felt a little bit packed at the begining. 

1 0.10% I would add a free day in the middle of the Welcome Week program. Welcome week really seems to take a lot out of you. 

1 0.10% I would add a little more free time to the beginning of the week and move some of the activities to the end of the week to balance the week out 

a little better. 

1 0.10% I would add a little more free time. I moved in on Wednesday, and it took me around three days to get fully settled since we had activities all the 

time it seemed. It would be helpful not to move in on the day that Welcome Week events start. 

1 0.10% I would add another campus tour. 

1 0.10% I would add in more free time, and I would make it more clear when activities were optional and when they were required. 

1 0.10% I would add more days but not as long because I think I could get more out of this orientation if I had more time to soak it all in. 

1 0.10% I would add more free time and maybe mix up the groups a bit. 

1 0.10% I would add more free time. I felt like we were constantly going, going, going throughout the week. 

1 0.10% i would add more interaction with faculty and staff, one example would be to have all the interest sessions be led by faculty. it is important for 

the students to have interaction with staff before in the classroom so as to establish an understanding of the differences between high school 

teachers and college professors. 

1 0.10% I would add more things that get freshman excited about joining such a prestigious institution. more things like pride and spirit 

1 0.10% I would add more time to sleep, because I felt welcome week left me worn out before my classes even started. 

1 0.10% I would allot time to go to the bathroom. 

1 0.10% I would allow for more down time duirng the dary. And less repetition about all the involvement and oppurtunities and campus tours. We have 

toured the main campus many times. The redundancy of the week just makes it more exhausting, annoying and uninteresting. The target run 

was alot of fun at target but getting there made it almost not worth it due to the mob scene at the busses. More night activities is cool, but not 

such an early start and a better food system would be great. Some days we couldn't even eat due to the mass of students atttempting to get 

food and the strictness of the schedule. We didn't even get to go through the sustainability room in st paul becuase we had to catch the bus 

and come back to east bank for the next activitiy. 

1 0.10% I would allow for more free time during the first few days.

1 0.10% I would allow for more free time to get settled into the dorms and to roam around campus. Less Welcome Week, would have been more 

welcome. 

1 0.10% I would allow for more free time. 

1 0.10% I would allow more free time and time to relax. 

1 0.10% I would allow more free time because I know a lot of people as did I ,felt that there was little free time and would of liked to set up the dorm and 

get to know more people on their floor. 

1 0.10% I would allow more free time during the entire duration. The first couple days were so jam packed with activities that there was no time to go 

back to the room and actually settle in. The last couple days were nice because there was a sufficient amount of free time to hang out with 

people and to get settled into room. 

1 0.10% I would allow more free time for students during the day. 

1 0.10% I would allow more free time for students to interact with the people they want to and not force them to do too much. 

1 0.10% I would allow more free time for students to meet each other, rest, move in and get comfortable in their rooms, or just to explore on thier own. 

The Monday before classes is not sufficient time to get ready for the school year ahead. There are about a million things that I need to do 

before 8am Tuesday morning and I only had so many hours to complete those things. Also I would refrain from planing activities back to back 

unless we will have the entire afternoon to rrelax. The first two days (College Day and U of M day) especially were very hectic especially for 

students who had just completed MKO. There should be at least a one day break between MKO and Welcome Week. 

1 0.10% I would allow more free time for us to get to know each other better, in the class of 2014. 

1 0.10% I would allow more free time int the beginning and time for us to get to meet other people and establish a stronger bond that can grow 

throughout the week. Rather than have no free time and meet lots of people but only being able to interact with them briefly. 

1 0.10% I would allow more free time so you can get to know the people on your floor and living in Bailey around you. Also I would like more time in our 

College Group so I can interact with people in my own major! 

1 0.10% I would allow more free time to explore camupus to become individually acquainted with it. 

1 0.10% I would allow more free time, and take some of the lectures out, or spread them out more evenly. Getting talked at all day long is not fun, nor 

does it create a sense of pride, resposiblity, or of community. 

1 0.10% I would allow more time during the day to settle in and simply explore the campus, whether with a group or alone. Simply wandering around 

may familiarize us with the campus more than taking many busses and/or following a mass crowd to a specific place. 

1 0.10% I would allow more time for the students to have down time and meet other people on their own instead of being forced to meet people through 

group activities of whom you have nothing in common with and are being forced to interact. 

1 0.10% I would allow more time or have an activity that would let students explore the campus on their own for a day. 

1 0.10% I would allow more time to explore the Twin Cities. 

1 0.10% i would allow students more free time. we are after all college students. I felt like i was at camp all week. it seemed as if there was no time to 

relax and hang out with others or do your one thing. 

1 0.10% I would allow students more time to sleep without making them feel like they were missing something. I was so tired that there was no way i 

could have gone to mall of america but I felt like i was missing out on an oppertunity. what if i would have met my best friend that night Its hard 

going all day everyday without enough time to sleep. 

1 0.10% I would allow the students to actually learn how to work the campus connector. 

1 0.10% I would allow the students to have more free time because it is hard to have late nights for a full week. 

1 0.10% I would allow the students to have more free time in order to keep them organized and more rested for the upcoming week. 

1 0.10% I would appreciate more time for ourselves. We were so busy with Welcome Week that I have not had any time to relax and chill. I feel like now 

classes are starting, and yes im prepared, but I am also overwhelmed. 

1 0.10% I would become very involved in the planning and logistics of Welcome Week. Many students - in fact, all that I spoke to - felt as though we had

very little relaxation time. While this definitely kept those who needed occupation occupied, it left many of us drained and running on less than 

six hours of sleep. Additionally, I feel as though transportation logistics, Welcome Week Leader identification, and fallbacks for those who 

become apart from their groups would make the experience much less stressful and run more smoothly. 

1 0.10% I would break up the seminars with more free time to allow for digestion of all the information that we recieve. It gets to be overwhelming. 

1 0.10% I would change how late everything ran. With a thirteen hour day it was hard to be excited about pride and spirit which, in opinion, could easily 

be shortened. For example, we could've learned less cheers since we won't remember them by the game anyways, or the coach could've 

talked a lot less. 

1 0.10% I would change it so that there are more times for the commuters (or the commuters who don't really commute very far) to interact. We felt very 

segregated all week, like we were being treated differently. We don't expect to eat with the resident students or go to their hall events, but we 

could have been in their group. Also, the residence hall students shouldn't be in a group with their roommate. It allows them a crutch and then 

many of them don't get to know other people, they just stay talking to only their roommate. 

1 0.10% i would change it ti have more free time. 

1 0.10% I would change the amount of activities. It was a mass overload of information. 

1 0.10% I would change the length of Welcome Week. Many days we had hours between each activity and had to find things to do in that time period. 

1 0.10% I would change the length, because a week is too long. 

1 0.10% I would change the long boring lectures. They make us sit and I kept nodding off. 

1 0.10% I would change the part where we went to the stadium. Only by learning a few less cheers. 

1 0.10% I would change the program to include more free time and a better way of putting people into small groups which have similar interests from 

several different colleges. 

1 0.10% I would change the super early mornings! 

1 0.10% I would change the time we have to wake up, because some days we had to wake up so early and that left me being tired for the whole day. 

1 0.10% I would change times for the Commuters, because that was doing too much. If commuters started a little later, than I would've been happier. 

1 0.10% I would change Welcome Week by not so many days about 3-4 days would of been fine. Some activities not ending by 10pm or so. More info. 

about finding classes and taking students to ride bus. 

1 0.10% I would change when welcome week starts, and longer times for breakfast. 

1 0.10% I would cut down on the time spent in touring the campus in general - we mainly wandered back and forth between Middlebrook and Dinkytown 

without really learning anything about where we were going or how to get there - and increase the amount of contact that groups had with the 

professors. 

1 0.10% I would cut out the scavenger hunt and some of the sessions 

1 0.10% I would cut the advertising from the Explore-U event. It was very out of place. Also, it seemed to go on long, maybe cut it down by one day 

1 0.10% I would definitely shorten the WW program. Maybe by a day or two since by the end of the second day every one was like, "Not another 

seminar!" 

1 0.10% I would do less touring of the entire campus because anything pointed out, we can generally find on a map without any problems. I also 

wouldn't jam pack everything into early morning. I'd start most mornings at 9 or 10 instead of 7-8, especially when students are out at 

"Target Runs" until 2 AM. 

1 0.10% I would either have it shorter, or a little less busy. It's hard to say, but it just seemed really overwhelming. 

1 0.10% I would either make the days shorter or hold Welcome Week a week earlier. That way, students wouldn't already be tired for their first day of 

class. 

1 0.10% I would eliminate some of the sessions, because they get to be really long. 

1 0.10% I would ensure that every student has an opportunity to utilize metro transit at some point throughout the week, be it for exploring Minneapolis 

or to attend a service project. It is one of the more daunting challenges for freshmen, and I think exposure during the first week is crucial.

1 0.10% I would expand it over WEEKS and not in one short swing. I've forgotten more than half of the things they told me because there was too much 

information. And you should not plan late activities followed by early mornings. It causes lack of sleep. 

1 0.10% I would find a way to get some of the incoming freshman to lose their attitudes and get involved in the activitied 

1 0.10% I would fix Target Run, and their terrible buses. 

1 0.10% I would focus more on academic aspects of the university because I feel like they were somewhat neglected. 

1 0.10% I would gear the program a bit more towards bonding time within groups. I was unable to make a strong connection with most of my group 

members. 

1 0.10% i would get rid of it 

1 0.10% I would give everyone more time to sleep and rest, because paying attention to seminar and sessions while functioning on five hours of sleep is 

incredibly difficult! 

1 0.10% I would give more choices to attendees in order to more accurately depict the choices a college student will have to make after Welcome Week. 

1 0.10% I would give more free time and more time in the rec center with the Welcome Week group. 

1 0.10% I would give more free time during the day because the numerous activities became long and tedious over time. 

1 0.10% I would give more free time to students 

1 0.10% I would give more free time to the students, so that they can explore the campus on their own 

1 0.10% I would give students a little more free time in the first two days. It was pretty informative and helpful though otherwise. 

1 0.10% I would give students more free time and schedule some time for them to just hang out with there group members 

1 0.10% I would give students more free time to explore campus individually. Sometimes the large amount of information and activities was 

overwhelming. 

1 0.10% I would give students more free time; Welcome Week felt too structured and I didn't feel that I had ample opportunity to get to know the campus 

on my own terms. I could've used more time to sleep in in the mornings too. 

1 0.10% I would give students more time to sleep. 

1 0.10% I would give students more time to sleep. There was so much walking around and listening to lectures that we felt physically and mental 

drained a lot of the time, and then many times we had to wake up early the next day to do more stuff. It would be nice if Welcome Week was 

better paced so students could work up to eventful days and then slow down as the first day of classes got closer. 

1 0.10% I would give the students more free time and not such a busy schedule so they have time to relax, organize their room, and check out the 

campus for themselves. 

1 0.10% I would give the students more free time. 

1 0.10% I would give us more time to sleep in the mornings. 

1 0.10% I would greatly change college day, i found it to be extremely unhelpful. 

1 0.10% I would have a bit more free time because at times in the day the amount of activities was a bit much. 

1 0.10% I would have given students more information on how to use the metro bus system and the campus buses. I feel that we didn't get enough 

information to confidentely use these methods of transportation. 

1 0.10% I would have it less days because it gets overwhelming. 

1 0.10% I would have it that we didn't start so early and go so late. We should have had more free time to figure stuff out for ourselves. 

1 0.10% I would have less sitting around time because it got to be too long. 

1 0.10% I would have liked for the program for commuters to be more oriented for commuters. I felt like we were just doing everything the residential 

students were doing without any particular attention to what we may already know. The requirement to go to community exploration because

eing from here, we already know the area. For the most part, it was an enjoyable experience. 

1 0.10% I would have liked more free time to figure things out and to explore on my own. With rush going on all day on Monday, it didn't give me any 

time to solve personal issues. 

1 0.10% I would have liked more of a tour of the various buildings/halls on campus. 

1 0.10% I would have liked to explore more of the campus and see more of the stores and restaurants near by instead of just exploring the class rooms 

and other campus buildings. 

1 0.10% I would have liked to have much more free time. The packed schedule was exhausting and I felt I had little time to get settled in my room to be 

ready before classes begin 

1 0.10% I would have more down time between activities. It was a harsh transition to walk everywhere and having a non-stop schedule. It seemed so 

rushed, and I felt like I couldn't fully obtain the information I wanted to learn. 

1 0.10% I would have more free time because we are big kids now and need to learn to find things and ask for help. Maybe not a whole week of events 

before classes start. Now it's Labor Day and nothing is open so I can't even go into the buildings to see where my classes are actually located 

because everything is locked up. 

1 0.10% I would have more free time to rest and relax throughout the day because the schedule can get extremely tiring. 

1 0.10% I would have more information handed out on the different places you can purchase text books at, or how to use the U-card. 

1 0.10% I would have more options for the free time in between the events later in the week. 

1 0.10% I would have more time for students to interact with one another instead of just being spoke at by professors and leaders. I would also have a 

chance for students to learn where their classes are and how to use the campus connectors to get there. Someone should also teach freshman 

how to use the laundry room. 

1 0.10% I would have more ways to interact with students because i only really got to know my welcome week group. 

1 0.10% I would have much less random wandering and more structured events. I would love to have toured more research labs instead of having three 

tours of East Bank. 

1 0.10% I would have put more stuff on the agenda, and have gotten excited group leaders. 

1 0.10% I would have slightly less activities and more breaks in the afternoon to avoid "burning out." 

1 0.10% I would have sometime where you can search out your classes and get help finding them if you need. 

1 0.10% I would have the program changed so that it would not be so tiring. Many students failed and chose not to participate in some events because 

they were simply too exhausted from previous events. 

1 0.10% I would have the Welcome Week leaders go through a more rigorous training session and be more on the ball when it comes to organization. 

1 0.10% I would include more time devoted directly to getting to know people because I did not form many relationships and think I might of had I spent 

more time interacting and talking with others. This should not be optional 

1 0.10% I would just add a little more free time, because students like to stay out late at night and this helps them connect with more new people, but 

the times to get up were pretty early in the morning. 

1 0.10% I would just allow for more free time. I know people who weren't even able to settle into their rooms because they moved in the 1st and started 

welcome week stuff right away. I think that there should be a day of down time in order to let everyone get situated and assimilate into their 

dorm environment. 

1 0.10% I would just allow for more free time. It seemed as if the "freedom" on gets from going to college was non existent because we were 

always being told what to do. 

1 0.10% I would just like a little more time to settle in and have a little more sleep so I feel refreshed and ready to prepare for school. 

1 0.10% I would keep it a little less structured. I think it got to be too much on the last few days. 

1 0.10% I would let the freshman have way more free time! It was way to packed with things that weren't that interesting to me. I feel as thought having 

time to explore the campus and other things on our own is more beneficial. Also they needed more information on exactly how to navigate the

uses. 

1 0.10% I would let us rest more, but other than that, nothing!!! 

1 0.10% I would like it if the commuters were with the none commuters for some of it so that we weren't completely seperated, but I did enjoy meeting 

other commuters. 

1 0.10% I would like more free time to explore the campus. 

1 0.10% I would like more time to settle in to the dorms and a better system for the target run. 

1 0.10% I would like the free time to be shorter, so that the "late night activities" provided in the current Welcome Week will start at earlier 

time. Having no late night activities makes the Welcome Week more commuter-friendly. Also, the communication between Welcome Week 

staffs and other parties that are not directly related to Welcome Week programs should be clearer. When I went to Coffman Information Desk to 

buy Moose Mountain Golf ticket on Sept 1, the lady told me to come back again the next day, because they did not sell the ticket at Welcome 

Week price yet. On Sept 3, I went back to Coffman Information Desk, and the different lady told me that they did not and would not sell Moose 

Mountain Golf ticket at discounted price, and I should buy it at the Mall of America if I wanted to purchase at Welcome Week price. On Sept 4, 

in the afternoon I again went back to Coffman Information Desk, this time with my group leader. The man told me that the price for Moose 

Mountain Golf ticket was different from the supposed price. I told my group leader, and I thought she went to see the person-in-charge. After 

having the discussion, she told me that the Coffman Information Desk only sold Underwater Adventures and Moose Mountain Golf tickets at 

Welcome Week discounted price from Sept 1 to Sept 4 at 12:00 p.m. Therefore, I should have been able to buy Moose Mountain Golf ticket on 

Sept 1 or Sept 3. This experience proves that there was a miscommunication between Welcome Week party and Coffman Information desk 

party. 

1 0.10% I would like to have a bit more free time. 

1 0.10% I would like to have a little more free time so that we have more time to settle into our residence hall, meet people, and do errands on campus 

on other days besides Monday. Also, Welcome Week really kept us from visiting friends in dorms other than our own. 

1 0.10% I would like to have had more time to find my classes and to understand what to expect for my first day of class. 

1 0.10% I would like to have had some time to spend in my room in between all the activities because the long days were tiring. Also, I didn't like being 

herded around in large groups like a kid at summer camp. I would have liked to have had the option to skip certain sessions. The leaders made 

it seem like we would be in big trouble if we skipped anything, but some students skipped nearly everything and didn't seem to be reprimanded, 

while the rest of us pushed through the long days. 

1 0.10% I would like to have more free time to get settled in, buy books, hang out with people I've just met, go around campus, and find my classes. 

1 0.10% I would like to have more time in my dorm and not pack so much stuff into one day. Each night I was only able to get between 3-4 hours of 

sleep. So I wouldn't pack so much stuff into each day. 

1 0.10% I would like to see more free time for the students to explore on their own, and to just relax after a stressful move-in! 

1 0.10% I would lose some of the scheduled activities and extend the optional activities. Some of the seminars were repetitive and struck on points we 

already knew or didn't help. However, by the time we had evening activities, we were too tired to be able to enjoy them all the way or even 

attend them. 

1 0.10% I would love to see more free time added 

1 0.10% I would mainly change the Target Run because it was way to crowded. 

1 0.10% I would make college day a little more exciting and give students more free time to relax and nap. 

1 0.10% I would make going to dinner with the whole hallway and sitting together mandatory. 

1 0.10% i would make it a bit shorter and add more free time. I would have liked more free time because I met a lot of people but did not get to spend as 

much time with them to develop that new relationship as I would have liked. 

1 0.10% I would make it a hell of a lot shorter and provide a larger quantity of food for the FunZone so houses like Sanford can have at least a shot in 

hell at scoring free food. 

1 0.10% i would make it avoid weekends! 

1 0.10% I would make it less busy and have less "classes" to go to, because they weren't that informative. Also, lots of things were very

epettative. 

1 0.10% I would make it less busy because it made me tired and did not leave me with enough energy to make friends or interact with others in my 

group. 

1 0.10% I would make it more "family friendly". 

1 0.10% i would make it more compact into a lesser amount of days 

1 0.10% i would make it more flexible and also more organized 

1 0.10% I would make it more fun and probably a couple days shorter. I feel like a lot of what was told to us was repeated, again and again. 

1 0.10% I would make it more organized because most of the time I had no idea what we were supposed to be doing. 

1 0.10% I would make it more tailored to individual information sessions, like information on various things at school, versus big group sessions. 

1 0.10% I would make it much less unscheduled, more time for me to hang out with people in my dorm and get to know them better, more time to 

explore and do what I wanted, more time to rest and get settled in. By the end of Welcome Week I was SO tired, and wasn't settled in. I'm still 

getting settled because I had no time during Welcome Week, and it left me exhausted for classes. So now, instead of preparing me, Welcome 

Week has deteriorated me for class so I'm falling asleep during lecture, I'm very frustrated. 

1 0.10% i would make it shorter 

1 0.10% I would make it shorter and give MORE free time. 

1 0.10% I would make it shorter and optional to PSEO students. I already attended the University full time for a year. I already knew how to succeed in 

college, navigate the campus, and utilize resources. The information at Welcome Week was very redundant and a huge waste of my time. 

Even for students new to the university, the information became very redundant towards the end of the week. 

1 0.10% I would make it shorter because for commuter students, it is not easy going back and forth every day, driving to school early in the morning and 

coming home late at niht. 

1 0.10% I would make it shorter, as many of the presentations are the things that we have heard since orientation and they are getting too repetitive to 

be hearing over and over again. 

2 0.20% I would make it shorter. 

1 0.10% I would make it shorter. Most people wanted to be done with seminars and meetings and to just tour the campus or find their classes. 

1 0.10% I would make it shorter. The first few days were tons of fun, but after a while, the week started to drag on and I really just wanted to rest. 

1 0.10% I would make it so that we had more frre time. How this week was, with every minute planned out for us, seemed to take away independence 

and made following a routine difficult, For example, if someone works out everyday they weren't able to follow this routine this week. 

1 0.10% I would make more events optional, and let us pick our schedule a little more. Forcing us into a group and to do activities is not a good way to 

get us excited to go to school here. 

1 0.10% I would make more free time. It was a lot of information. They should either make the program shorter or give more free time. 

1 0.10% I would make more freetime to explore on your own and settle in more because even after a week, I'm still trying to get settled in my dorm. 

1 0.10% I would make more of the programs optional, because many of the classes were repetitive, such as the student panel. 

1 0.10% I would make shorter breaks between activities, because commuters will get bored with nothing to do. 

1 0.10% I would make some of the beginning events a little later. It can be very difficult to wake up so early to attend the events scheduled. 

1 0.10% I would make sure the community engagement symposium is more prepared. 

1 0.10% I would make th elate night activities more accesible to commuters, perhaps by either making them earlier or having the early activities later on. 

1 0.10% I would make the College Day more exciting. That day didn't excite me and it was difficult to meet people when the entire college of students 

were there.

1 0.10% I would make the days more balanced 

1 0.10% I would make the days shorter and let the students have more free time to figure things out themselves. We are college students and could 

transition more alone. 

1 0.10% I would make the days shorter because it gets very exhausting always doing things the entire week. 

1 0.10% I would make the days shorter. It seemed like many of the days dragged along and people began to lose interest in different events. 

1 0.10% I would make the days shorter. There were so many things going on during the days that I was almost too tired to go to the fun night events. 

1 0.10% I would make the explore the u event earlier in the week so students have more time to decide where to go to church on sunday 

1 0.10% I would make the late night activities start much earlier than they did, especially the Mall of America trip. 

1 0.10% i would make the long days even shorter 

1 0.10% I would make the symposium shorter (it was too long), give a little bit of free time at the beginning of the week to meet people on my floor, and 

possibly give students the opportunity to go to Uptown and Downtown in order to see more (as part of the Explore Community portion). 

1 0.10% I would make things less scheduled. 

1 0.10% I would make Welcome Week shorter because most of the information we had recorded we had already learned at Oreintation. Instead it would 

be better to focus on things that apply to living on campus and in the Twin Cities. 

1 0.10% I would move the "late night activities" earlier because I was often too tired to go. 

1 0.10% I would move Welcome Week up a few days to give us more than one day before classes to rest. I start classes tomorrow and I still have so 

much to get done before then, and I also need to catch up on sleep! I want to start classes well-prepared and well-rested and it would be easier 

to do that if we had additional days to relax. 

1 0.10% I would not change it. 

1 0.10% I would not make it feel like people are obligated to go. 

1 0.10% I would not make us get up so early after keeping us out so late. Welcome Week was alot of fun. But that symposium has GOT to go. 

1 0.10% I would not pack so many speeches into one day, specifically, Friday. Often, the speeches tended to repeat themselves with the same 

message. I could not physically take in any more speeches. As a result, I probably missed out on some of the important parts because my full 

attention was not there. 

1 0.10% I would not release students at 4:30PM and make them resume activities at 8PM. I would've preferred to just have evenings off or go a little 

later into the afternoon 

1 0.10% I would not send groups of students to downtown Minneapolis on a Sunday, when barely anything is open. 

1 0.10% I would organize a welcome week group based on something like common majors, same floor and hall, etc. That way you already have 

something in common with the people in your welcome week group. 

1 0.10% I would plan less activities for the first few days and more for the last few days. Everything was too crammed together in the beginning! 

1 0.10% I would prefer 2 or three faculty sessions, and maybe shortening Live like a student, the symposium, and pride and spirit (they got a little long) 

1 0.10% I would probably just condense it to like three days since it seemed like a lot of the activities got tedious and dull after we had been to the 

buildings multiple times. 

1 0.10% I would provide more activity options for commuters during free times because there wasn't a lot for us to do in between events. 

1 0.10% I would provide more free time and relaxation time to students because I was exhausted every single day. Because of this, I probably did not 

get a great experience. Always running around and being extremely busy all the time the week before classes almost made me mad at the 

University because I am going to be starting classes not only exhausted, but I am also getting sick. 

1 0.10% I would provide more free time for purchasing books. I would also inform students to double-check their booklists as many professors make last 

minute requests.

1 0.10% I would provide more free time to students because I did not have enough time to buy my textbooks and prepare for the fall semester. 

1 0.10% I would put more info on the gsms because I was late for the meeting 5 mins and I won't know where my gms was for the rest of my life 

1 0.10% I would put more time as free time, and make activities on the st. paul campus optional 

1 0.10% I would really like more time in general to not cram everything in. Even though we received so many informational packets over the summer, 

there was still a lot of information being thrown at us. All helpful, but I would like to have more time to soak it in and to enjoy the welcome week 

group. 

1 0.10% I would remove the more extraneous parts, like the service and engagement activities. I would create an index of resources and distribute it 

rather than activities like the scavenger hunt in Appleby hall. I would create a meeting on move-in night to explain things like laundry, garbage 

disposal, when meal plans reset for the week, how to print something if I don't own a printer, what does the dorm office have to lend(game 

room equipment, music room key, student kitchen supplies). 

1 0.10% I would say give us a little bit more time to get settled in and get to know people in our hall. 

1 0.10% I would say more free time would be better instead of so many structured, slow-paced group events. 

1 0.10% I would schedule more free time and less walking. It felt like Welcome Week was very rushed, and it was hard to relax and acclimate to a 

normal college lifestyle. 

1 0.10% I would shorten a bunch of the activities so that freshman aren't burnt out by the time that school starts. 

1 0.10% I would shorten it about 1 day. 

1 0.10% I would shorten it to less than a week and not have everything spanned out over a week when it could all be completed in three or four days 

because a week takes up a lot of time and is much harder for commuter students to accommodate themselves to and from these events. 

1 0.10% I would shorten it. The week got too long with a lot of awkward parts. 

1 0.10% I would some of the activities more optional, it's a lot of time and some of the activities didn't really help me. 

1 0.10% I would somehow mix up the groups occasionally so that you meet more people during the experience 

1 0.10% I would space the events out a bit more. It seemed like we hardly did anything on the first and last days but crammed everything into 16 hour 

days on the others. 

1 0.10% I would spend less time with structured tours and open houses and more time learning about what is to be expected of class work and such. 

Also, I would allow for more free time; I shouldn't feel the need to crash at 9 P.M. because of how exhausted I am from running all over the 

place. Also, I would like to spend more time getting to know faculty members from within my college. 

1 0.10% I would stretch it out to 9 or 10 days, so that events wouldn't be crammed in together and take up a whole day. I was asked repeatedly by 

parents if I had gotten my textbooks yet, had I lined up work study, did I fill out the valuables registry and medical summary, and I had to 

repeatedly and frustratedly tell them no, because getting up and getting ready for planned events from Welcome Week often lasted from 

around 7 AM to 9 PM. 

1 0.10% I would switch around a few of the days. Thursday and Friday were very overwhelming, but Saturday and Sunday were more relaxing. I would 

switch the schedule around so we didn't have the two most important days in a row. 

1 0.10% I would try and make it a lot less repetitive. I felt like most of the things that we went to we were just getting told the same thing. 

1 0.10% I would try and make it shorter if possible. 

1 0.10% I would try to make it mandatory or at least extremely encouraged to eat together with your welcome week group. that would help relieve 

tension and allow time to just sit and talk and to get to know the group members better 

1 0.10% I would want everything to not be as tightly scheduled. We needed more free time. Also, we were stuck going to bed late and then forced to 

wake up extremely most days. 

1 0.10% I would want more free time because i was very tired and it made it less enjoyable 

1 0.10% I would want more free time! We were all so drained and bored during the activities that many were not very effective. 

2 0.20% I wouldn't

1 0.10% I wouldnt change a thing! 

1 0.10% I wouldn't change anything because I think most of every went very smooth and helpful. 

1 0.10% I wouldn't change anything. I thought everything was necessary. 

1 0.10% I wouldn't change it 

1 0.10% I wouldn't change it in any way. 

1 0.10% I wouldn't change it. 

1 0.10% I wouldn't have made the commuters be in a group together. I live basically on campus, but since I am not in an university affiliated apartment i 

was labeled a commuter. I would have liked to meet students who lived on campus and not students who lived up to an hour away. That way I 

would've had connections to people who lived within walking distance from myself which would make it much easier to maintain relationships 

with them. 

1 0.10% I wouldn't have so many activities. We are independent now and want to venture off on our own the first few nights here. We can make friends 

by ourselves. Welcome Week seemed a lot like a high school feild trip. 

1 0.10% I wouldn't it was pretty good 

1 0.10% i wouldn't know, i missed three days of it. 

1 0.10% I would've liked a little more free time. 

1 0.10% I would've liked to have toured the campus more in order to know where everything is. 

1 0.10% I'd give more free time and have more opportunities to look at resources in the U and in the surrounding community 

1 0.10% I'd give students more personal free time. 

1 0.10% I'd give the students a little more free time in between sessions. We had a hard time figuring out when we had time to eat or hang out or do 

anything really. 

1 0.10% I'd have more free time. 

1 0.10% I'd like to have more free time for us to rest a little during the days that we have a lot of events. 

1 0.10% I'd make it more convenient for commuters. 

1 0.10% I'd make it more interactive, less of upperclassmen and faculty lecturing and talking at us, more activity and participation. I felt like I was fighting 

to stay awake through many of the sessions, bu that could have been from too little rest and down time. There should be more down time so 

we aren't so burned out everyday. 

1 0.10% I'd make it shorter and less hectic. 

1 0.10% I'd make some of the classes optional. The week got really long and tiring when we had to listen to so many speakers on things we already 

knew about. 

1 0.10% I'd probably change the fact that the upcoming freshmen could be able to dance. Other then that everything was really good. Two thumbs up! 

1 0.10% If I could change Welcome Week I would change the fact that the days are kind of long. Maybe some of the days should start later or not be so 

long. 

1 0.10% If I could change Welcome Week, I would give more free time for the students to do what they like, and less lectures over stuff we had already 

gone over at orientation. 

1 0.10% If we could have more free time, it would be great, cause the whole Welcome Week process was very tiring. 

1 0.10% I'm not entirely sure how I would change it, but I think that it would have been nice to have met all of my hall in some way. 

1 0.10% include more free time for groups to explore campus on their own 

1 0.10% Instead of free time for commuters while residents have residence house meetings, provide activities because many commuters had nothing to

do during this time. 

1 0.10% It could be a 2 or 3 day thing. It was far too long and boring, at the end I just skipped everything that wasn't required or the things you didn't 

need to make up. A week would be fine if there was more down time to get to know people on your own, I didn't get to know hardly anyone in 

my group because all we talked about was how much we hated Welcome Week. I think it could go a lot smoother in the future. 

1 0.10% It could have a little more organization! Most of it was really good though! 

1 0.10% It gone a bit long and repetitive over the week but it was fun. Also elaborate on campus connectors and transporting to campus because that 

was confusing. 

1 0.10% It got to be a bit overwhelming, so maybe allow more free-time, or more time to just get to know your Welcome Week groups rather than having 

to be running around to all different activities. 

1 0.10% it is long and boring but very effective. change the long and boring part 

1 0.10% It seemed like we were always going somewhere with little to no downtime. That was probably the hardest part because we were trying to still 

get settled in. 

1 0.10% It seemed WAY too long. Everything meaningful could have been put into two days. All I wanted to do was to meet new friends and get settled 

for college. Now, I'm completely exhausted for the start of college. 

1 0.10% it should be shorter and not as repetitive. Finding classes is important and we needed more time to do that 

1 0.10% It should only be three days, i felt comfartable after three days. The whole week was tiring and overwhekming. 

1 0.10% It takes up up too much time in a day and therefore makes it hard to wake up the following morning 

1 0.10% It teaches information we already learned during orientation 

1 0.10% It was a little too packed with busy mandatory events. I felt exhausted most of the time, which made it hard to enjoy the actual fun things. 

1 0.10% It was fun and informative. The lines were long for fun events, and sometimes really unorganized; it would be beneficial to have Welcome 

Week leaders assisting/organizing things during fun events. (Example: At Fun Zone, there was a complete mob for Qdoba and I would expect 

somebody to take charge and start organizing a line, however some of the Welcome Week leaders were adding to the chaos.) I enjoyed the 

activities but the first couple days, especially the day where we visited all three campuses, were too busy to the point that they were no longer 

enjoyable. In the first few days we want to get more settled into our dorms and meet the people on our floors, but if we're busy with Welcome 

Week activities 24/7 there's not time to get settled and relax. 

1 0.10% It was pretty good in my opinion. 

1 0.10% It was really awkward with my new group at first so I would include some kind of camping that would break the ice for sure. 

1 0.10% It was really long and tiring so maybe shorten it or make there be less stuff. Get rid of the symposium, it was so boring. 

1 0.10% It was too long and a lot of the information provided we already learned about at orientation so I think just have less things in one day because I 

was exhausted after each day. There was too much in one day. 

1 0.10% It was too long. We easily could have done all of the necessary activities in 3 days. 

1 0.10% It was too rigidly scheduled, with no free time set aside except for optional activities, which were promoted to the point of necessary 

attendance. I would have liked much more time to relax during the week before hectic classwork began. 

1 0.10% It was too structured..I would let the students figure some things out for themselves. 

1 0.10% It went by fast, however, it did seem long. 

1 0.10% It would be great to have a bit more free time. The week was exhausting. One day off was not enough to recover before the start of fall 

semester. 

1 0.10% It would be nice if we had a little more free time. 

1 0.10% It would be nice to not have so many events on the first two days. A suggestion would be to have the events more spread out because most of 

us were extremely tired and had a hard time paying attention.

1 0.10% it would be to have more free time because the days got extremely long and they were very packed 

1 0.10% It would have been time to have a bit more time to relax right before classes started instead of participating in walking/energy-heavy welcome 

week activities. 

1 0.10% its length and would have made it optional 

1 0.10% just a little more free time and follow through if you say people have to go and they don't do something about it 

1 0.10% Just a little more free time because the days are full and you get a little stressed to start with. 

1 0.10% Just downsizing. I think there was too much in too short of time to keep track of. If we had more down time, we could more easily sort through 

all of the information and be relaxed enough to receive more later 

1 0.10% Just make it a day or two shorter... It was good information and a good experience, just a little too long. 

1 0.10% Larger groups, less waiting more buses 

1 0.10% late night activity make it early so commuter can join 

1 0.10% Later start times, I felt expecting us to stay up late then get up in the morning was draining. 

1 0.10% later start to sleep in 

1 0.10% Learn campus better 

1 0.10% Learn more about the area immediately around campus. 

1 0.10% Less "talking to" on first day, more interaction resulting in more active participation. 

1 0.10% Less activities and more downtown. The week was extremely busy and I was exhausted after. I did not meet any good friends through welcome 

week. I've meet more people through my own downtime activities we do on our own. The lines are so long for welcome week activities. Things 

should be broken up into shifts so there are not thousands of kids going to one place at the same time. 

1 0.10% Less activities because it was almost overload with everything we were seeing and hearing. 

1 0.10% Less activities. Too overbearing 

1 0.10% Less busy and more free time to interact with other students in our own ways. 

1 0.10% Less camp-like 

1 0.10% less days because it seemed like the same thing. 

1 0.10% Less free time and shorten Welcome Week to three days. Plus get rid of many pointless activities. 

1 0.10% less free time between activities 

1 0.10% less freshman event requirement intimidation 

1 0.10% less large breaks because a commuter has nowhere to go 

1 0.10% Less late-night stuff. Encourage kids to get sleep and to get into an early-night routine before school starts. Also, free earplugs would be a 

great handout at some point. I have a shelf in my bookshelf totally devoted to free stuff I got and have no use for (flip-flops, a cd, buttons, the 

megaphone we got at the stadium, a slap-bracelet thing...). The Target run was extremely disorganized and frustrating. All it would have taken 

was for someone to stand with a megaphone and tell everyone to get in a line, and things would have gone much smoother. It was scary being 

in the middle of a very tight crowd of impatient students. It highly discouraged students from going to any late-night event where they had to get 

on buses, such as the late night at the mall. 

1 0.10% Less lecturing and more entertaining ways of presenting information. 

1 0.10% Less long, make things not mandatory (except for Convocation) 

1 0.10% less mandatory meetings

1 0.10% less mandatory things. Kids are up til all ours of the night and having to get up and go to things that we don't care about isn't the smartest thing. 

Instead have students sign up for stuff. And make like two things a day mandatory. 

1 0.10% Less planned activities during the day. I feel like I didn't get settled into my room until Memorial Day. 

1 0.10% less pointless and common sense events and more free time at night. We wouldn't get back from the required stuff until late at night and then 

we would want to go out after to meet people and be exhausted in the mornings. 

1 0.10% Less programs on College day 

1 0.10% Less repetative material during the duration of Welcome Week, and more free time/ spread out activies to make the experience more 

enjoyable. 

1 0.10% Less repetition and drilling of the same ideas over and over. 

1 0.10% less required 

1 0.10% Less Required events, more Free time 

1 0.10% less requirements 

1 0.10% less scheduled and more free time to get used to living on campus 

1 0.10% Less scheduled events and walking. These two things were very tiring, and by the end of the week I was extremely tired. 

1 0.10% LESS STRUCTURE Why must we play follow the leader around campus. We must explore it for ourselves to get a feel for it. We need more 

time and more full days of exploring the campus and transportation for ourselves. 

1 0.10% Less structure, and more choose where you want to go and what you want to learn more about. 

1 0.10% less structured, more opportunities to meet people and less time spent having people tell you what you need to do at the university 

1 0.10% Less time just listening to people talk. More interaction with other welcome week groups. 

1 0.10% Less time sitting listening to things 

1 0.10% less touring of campus- did a lot of pointless walking around, especially at the st paul campus 

1 0.10% Less walking and more time to relax! I felt guilty missing one night, and it shouldn't be that way. 

1 0.10% Less walking around and sitting through lectures all day. Everyone I talked to was exhausted and a lot of people skipped activities because of 

that. They should give us saturday and sunday to relax and do our own thing before class starts 

1 0.10% Less walking if possible and perhaps more free time to just relax 

1 0.10% Less walking, my feet hurt. 

1 0.10% Let students control their own schedule more. 

1 0.10% Let the commuters be more integrated with the students living in the dorms 

1 0.10% Let us meet people in our own way besides little games that force us to interact. 

1 0.10% Let us sleep in later, I was so tired. 

1 0.10% Longer and give more free time 

1 0.10% Loosen the scheduling, to make it less like a rigourous routine; add a little more free time 

1 0.10% Make activities more interesting, improve Target night busing. 

1 0.10% Make evening events earlier. 

1 0.10% Make groups from same college. More free time. 

1 0.10% Make it a day or so shorter and have more time to explore the twin cities area

1 0.10% Make it a little bit shorter or less walking. it seemed to go on forever and my legs were done by Thursday 

1 0.10% make it a little more organized and give us more time to settle into our new homes 

1 0.10% Make it a welcome weekend. 

1 0.10% make it all optional 

1 0.10% Make it all optional 

1 0.10% Make it almost entirely free time for students to relax, get settled, and prepare for classes. Make nothing mandatory except Convocation and 

Pride and Spirit. 

1 0.10% make it easier for commuter students. we had to be there early and stay very late and it just wasn't very convenient 

1 0.10% make it either shorter days or less days with long hours. 

1 0.10% make it have less free time because a lot of the time we just sat around and I would also have more group oriented stuff. For example, the 

community exploration, I would have the group stay together and show favorite spots so kids aren't confused. 

1 0.10% Make it less boring and repetitive and more helpful. 

1 0.10% make it less busy, because by the end, i was just worn out and kind of annoyed. i need time to adjust to my dorm. i didn't get much of that at all. 

1 0.10% Make it less busy. It's stressful having something to do at all times of the day when we just got here. 

1 0.10% Make it less structured, there were too many similar activities where we listened to the same advice over and over. 

1 0.10% make it longer!!! it was so much fun 

1 0.10% Make it more commuter friendly. It was difficult coming to everything as a commuter - and the long spaces in time were frustrating because 

there weren't any activities to do during that time. All of the suggested things to do for free time were not appealing after a long day of walking 

and information overload. After Welcome Week, I just feel burnt out - which frustrates me because we start classes tomorrow! 

1 0.10% make it more condense, some days were too long, then the next day came too soon. people just want to get to know one another the first few 

nights on campus. i recommend the 1st night of just relaxation. 

1 0.10% Make it more early so things don't end at 1:00am, have it end like at 10:00pm. 

1 0.10% Make it more entertaining and start the days later when there are late events the night before. 

1 0.10% Make it more realistic and meaningful. 

1 0.10% Make it not the whole day. 

1 0.10% make it only one day long, a week is wayy to long 

1 0.10% Make it optional for commuters, I live 45 min away and it was hard trying to get there on time and I can't stay as late as I would like to on the 

late activities. 

1 0.10% Make it optional for students who have been in the PSEO program at the U of M for the last two years. It turned out that I have been going to 

the U of M longer than either of my welcome week leaders. 

1 0.10% make it short and even out all the progam time. 

1 0.10% make it short and more focused. 

1 0.10% Make it shorter and have more free time 

1 0.10% make it shorter and less repetitive because it was exhausting before the first week of classes. 

1 0.10% make it shorter and start later in the day 

1 0.10% Make it shorter because after so many hours I became disinterested and the program lost all beneficial results that it was intended to achieve. 

1 0.10% Make it shorter because it took so much time right before the class starts

1 0.10% Make it shorter because towards the end I started getting bored with it and lossing attention. 

1 0.10% Make it shorter by at least a day- it seemed repetitive after a while and I stopped getting much out of it by the last day. 

1 0.10% Make it shorter days and more fun because we all got really tired and wanted to skip 

1 0.10% Make it shorter so we are not so tired. 

1 0.10% Make it shorter with less getting to know you activities because I felt I made friends without them/ 

1 0.10% Make it shorter, have more time in the community exploration, have more time to interact with people, have more time to learn about social 

interactive groups 

1 0.10% Make it shorter, to long, gets boring. There is not enough time for us as students to just hang out and get to know the campus ourselves. 

2 0.20% Make it shorter. 

1 0.10% Make it shorter. There was way too much walking. 

1 0.10% Make it so the freshmen don't feel like 5 year olds. The games and activities played were childish, and I wish there had been other ways to get 

to know people. There is also too much going on and more free time would be nice. It would be better if it was a welcome day, not week. The 

backpacks and nametags were also ugly and made it so obvious that we were freshmen, something that not everyone wants. As a student who 

did PSEO for two years, I know how to act at college and was really annoyed going through things like "make sure you study" and 

"act appropriately". 

1 0.10% Make it three days long and don't have the freshmen arrive to everything an hour early. There was way to much sitting around and waiting for 

things to begin. I could have been something productive instead of sitting around. 

1 0.10% make it way less boring and stop just drilling us with information i felt like it was the 1st day of school over and over i couldn't take it. i had 

nothing in common with anyone in my group not that i had any real time to connect with any of them. also i have a lot more important things to 

do then go see an inspirational speaker or listen to whoever talk for hours. i wanted more activities that just allowed me to meet people that is 

all i wanted from welcome week but instead after half a day i couldn't stand going anymore and from what i hear it was a good decision to stop 

going. 

1 0.10% Make less of it required and more free time. I'd rather have spent time just hanging out with my welcome week group than all thos eevents. 

1 0.10% Make less things mandatory 

1 0.10% Make less things mandatory. Have options throughout the day but have enough free time for us to get situated. An example would be the day 

after the Target Run. My roomate and I bought things that had us changing the layout of our room and we had to stay up really late because 

the next morning we did not have time to do it. 

1 0.10% Make marching band members not have to go to College day. It was the worst day I had during my first two weeks at the U. 

1 0.10% Make more free time 

1 0.10% Make more free time so you are able to meet more people. 

1 0.10% Make more things optional and make it shrorter. After the second day, I was exhausted from being welcomed by everyone and walking around 

so much. Much of the information was the same that we received at Orientation and Nature of Life, so it felt a little repetitive. Certain things, like 

Convocation, Pride & Spirit, and College Day should be mandatory, but many of the other sessions were the either the same information 

over again or things that we could have done on our own. If these sessions were optional, then just the people who want to and feel that they 

need to attend can attend and there will be a more receptive audience. By making more things optional, Welcome Week could be shortened to, 

say, Welcome Five Days. Catchy, right :-) 

1 0.10% Make seminars more fun, my body now thinks that lecture hall chairs are for sleeping. That's not good. 

1 0.10% Make some of the lecture events shorter (such as college day and university day) and make the activity events longer, such as the community 

exploration. Also, plan events with free food and activities in shifts, so all 5,000 freshman are not lined up to get free nachos or for the target 

trip. The long lines made the activites less enjoyable. 

1 0.10% make sure welcome week leaders are prepared and interested in helping incoming freshmen. I want to be a welcome week leader so I can do 

a better job.

1 0.10% Make target run easier 

1 0.10% make the days shorter 

1 0.10% Make the days shorter, because there was not enough time to sleep and I am now sick for the first week of classes. Also, have different 

schedules for the groups lines for food, activities, and showers were very long. Also, not have Welcome Week be a full week, and not have it 

over a holiday weekend. 

1 0.10% Make the days shorter, since it is a little bit tiring. 

1 0.10% Make the days shorter. 

1 0.10% Make the important night time things like pride and spirit and Jermaine Davis earlier in the day so that more commuter students would be able 

to attend. 

1 0.10% Make the lines for events go faster so we did not have to wait as long. Also, there were lots of downtime between events. 

1 0.10% make the meetings shorter and allow more time for just talking to your leaders 

1 0.10% Make the schedules more clear and known. A lot of times, students would ask each other "what are we doing today" and the 

common answer would be "I don't know". 

1 0.10% make the tours more interesting 

1 0.10% Make there be more fun activities 

1 0.10% Making events convinent to commuter students. 

1 0.10% Making it easier to get around because lines where too long and places were really crowed. Like getting on the buses to MOA they should have 

people scanning the cards by at least three to four buses. It'd be more efficient and maybe cutting short some speeches. 

1 0.10% making the target run more organized. 

1 0.10% Many of the programs we attended seemed to be purely for "fun." If we are going to be required to go to sessions, I would prefer to 

hear about what we need to know (i.e. transportation via shuttles & Metro Transit, dining services/FlexDine, tunnels, etc.). I feel that 

Welcome Week overall did not help me meet a lot of new people because I was in the same small group of people all week. I also do not feel 

comforted by what I learned during the week as I begin class, only ready for Welcome Week to be over and get on with what college is actually 

about. 

1 0.10% Maybe compress most of the activities down, a couple of activities were a little repetitive about what we already knew. 

1 0.10% Maybe fit it into fewer days and have it run during the week instead of through Labor Day. 

1 0.10% maybe have a day in the middle where we can do what we want (sleep, organize, get books, plan classes, and/or just comprehend what we 

have started to experience during welcome week) 

1 0.10% Maybe have more free time. I feel like I didn't have a chance to relax or get settled into my room. Also I was exhausted by the end of the week. 

1 0.10% Maybe have the marching band participate in a few more of the activities, or at least encourage more people to go to the evening activities as 

many marching band members did not know about them 

1 0.10% maybe make it a little shorter or only make some things mandatory 

1 0.10% Maybe more time for free exploration. 

1 0.10% Maybe not make it way to hectic for the first two days or so. 

1 0.10% Maybe spread it out over one more day so that the first couple days aren't so packed full of activities. 

1 0.10% Maybe spread the events over a longer period of time, and no film festival. 

1 0.10% Meet people that are in my own major to see what it's really like 

1 0.10% More breaks and free time during the days.

1 0.10% More breaks because the week was quite exhausted. 

1 0.10% More breaks during the day because it would have been useful.. 

1 0.10% More buses to events. 

1 0.10% More buses to target; I had to wait 1 1/2 hrs for a bus 

1 0.10% more closed caption, because I'm Deaf. 

1 0.10% More communication. Also, more time to ourselves to get settled in and just take a break from all the activities planned out for us. 

1 0.10% more down time because I felt exhausted and school hasn't even started yet. 

1 0.10% More down time that doesn't require late night events and early rising. 

1 0.10% More down time to get used to college life and interact with people on my floor/building. 

1 0.10% more down time to relax. make our groups from people on our floor, not our entire building. it was too long 

1 0.10% More down time, more options to attend or not attend certain events. 

1 0.10% More down time. Not so many speakers....it got to be very long and boring. 

1 0.10% More down time. On College Day, there was way too much scheduled, and I was burned out by the end of it. 

1 0.10% more easy ways to meet people! 

1 0.10% More Energy 

1 0.10% more food for commuters and more commuter friendly 

1 0.10% More free stuff. 

13 1.28% more free time 

7 0.69% More free time 

1 0.10% More Free Time 

1 0.10% MORE FREE TIME 

1 0.10% More free time - was too tired by the end of it 

1 0.10% More free time = less exhausting 

1 0.10% More free time and breaks to relax 

1 0.10% More free time and changing the lengths of some other things 

1 0.10% More free time and less walking. 

1 0.10% More free time and let freshmen find their own group members. 

1 0.10% More free time and make it shorter, like only 3 days 

1 0.10% more free time and more decision making and freedom. were in college, not grade school. 

1 0.10% More free time and more time to go to bed earlier, less sleep took a toll on my body and my sickness 

1 0.10% More free time and no pointless games or activities 

1 0.10% more free time and not having the target run late one night and then the next morning having us get up early for convocation. I was very tired 

and my shower was super cold because everyone was taking showers at the same time. Not a pleasant morning 

1 0.10% MORE FREE TIME and starting the programs a bit later in the day so there is time to sleep in.

1 0.10% More free time and time to become aclimated to the living areas, also i would cut out some of the seminars that are more repetative such as 

getting involved (we heard a lot of the same stuff over and over again). 

1 0.10% more FREE TIME and time to explore on our own. My favorite day was the one before welcome week started when it was a relaxed opportunity 

to meet people in my dorm and to explore the campus. Keeping us in our welcome week groups severely limited the number and variety of 

people we got to meet. 

1 0.10% More free time and time to explore the community/campus. The days got to be a bit long and overwhelming, so fewer sessions that were more 

informative and with larger groups would help--like the 'Do What Matters' one. 

1 0.10% More free time and time to move into dorms. I disliked the attendance system and how we were forced to go to several of the activities that I 

found to be unnecessary. At times I felt like I was in high school. 

1 0.10% more free time away from activities 

1 0.10% More free time because during some activities I was very tired and it was hard to concentrate. 

1 0.10% More free time because I was always very tired. 

1 0.10% More free time because i was tired a lot. 

1 0.10% More free time because we didn't have enough time to get our dorm situated and we were always worn out. 

1 0.10% More free time during day Wake up later/ some evening events too late. 

1 0.10% more free time during the day when businesses are open to get necessary stuff taken care of. 

1 0.10% more free time in the residence hall. time to meet with a counselor or adviser 

1 0.10% More free time just so I could of felt more settled in before I started classes. Too busy. 

1 0.10% More free time- less talks 

1 0.10% More free time so we have time to buy our books and figure out where our classes are. 

1 0.10% More free time to get settle in my dorm. 

1 0.10% More free time to get settle into the residence hall and meet people. Most days activities were not done until 9 or 10pm and that was the only 

time you had to hang out with and get to know people you met. This caused most people to stay up quite late and then we had to get up really 

early and where exhausted for the first day of classes. 

1 0.10% more free time to get settled in to rooms 

1 0.10% More free time to get things accomplished before classes start. Student's need more time to use the campus resources, such as the bookstore 

to get textbooks before classes start. They also need more time to visit one stop, for instance, to straighten out things such as financial aid. 

1 0.10% More free time to get to know other students. 

1 0.10% More free time to just explore on our own. 

1 0.10% More free time to let us get to know people in our dorm and explore by ourselves. 

1 0.10% more free time to meet other students in you house. 

1 0.10% more free time to meet people 

1 0.10% More free time to relax - many of us were falling asleep during presentations. We cannot help it; we are being asked to do a lot. In addition, I 

was not able to make Pep Band auditions because of the amount of Welcome Week activities going on. 

1 0.10% More free time to relax and really settle into our rooms (unpack, decorate, etc) 

1 0.10% More free time to relax, and set up my room. It was hard to keep walking and go-go-go all day every day. 

1 0.10% More free time to self-adjust, there was a lot of unnecessary meetings and events

1 0.10% more free time! 

1 0.10% More free time! 

1 0.10% More Free Time! 

1 0.10% More free time! I appreciated all the opportunities for us to engage in, but so many were "required" that I had very little time to 

REALLY get to know people. I felt like most of my social interactions for the first few days were a bit superficial, because all we had time to do 

was ask for names, majors, and where that person was from. That was basically it. I also felt like they had us going all the time, and I was 

worried about getting sick during the week because I had no time to really relax for long. 

1 0.10% More free time, and less events. Some events were very beneficial, but the days were long and exhausting. I could have used more downtime 

to interact with people on my floor, stay in contact with my family, or to rest. 

1 0.10% More free time, and more organized. I often felt rushed and confused on when and where I should be. 

1 0.10% more free time, because we were way too busy. It would have been cool to have some time to hang out with people we met. 

1 0.10% More free time, better busing organizations, more chance to move in and get situated, and not as much repetitive information that we heard 

about 20 other times, such as at orientation. 

1 0.10% More free time, everyone was super tired. 

1 0.10% more free time, felt like there wasnt enough 

1 0.10% more free time, i was exahusted all the time 

1 0.10% More free time, less ice-breakers. 

1 0.10% More free time, less lectures, especially about getting involved 

1 0.10% More free time, less repetitive activities, make more events optional 

1 0.10% More free time, less touring of campus 

1 0.10% More free time, less waiting in line ALL THE TIME and more ways to meet new people. 

1 0.10% More free time, meeting more groups of people. 

1 0.10% more free time, more group icebreaker thingys 

1 0.10% More free time, people felt it was an obligation to meet with the welcome week group all the time 

1 0.10% More free time, please! Also, when the student panel is selected, it should be more diverse. The student panel we were able to ask questions 

to consisted of all girls, in engineers with out boarders. They all had the same perspective on our questions. 

7 0.69% More free time. 

3 0.30% more free time. 

1 0.10% More free time. I felt if I was being rushed. 

1 0.10% More free time. I'm pretty sure I developed a cold for the first week of classes because Welcome Week was so taxing. 

1 0.10% More free time. A lot of the stuff we did was the same as what we did at orientation. 

1 0.10% More free time. Campus tour. Explain buses more. 

1 0.10% More free time. General interaction time. 

1 0.10% more free time. I felt like I met more people in free time than in any structured event 

1 0.10% More free time. I got exhausted right away and wanted more time just to get situated in my room and with my community 

1 0.10% More free time. I spent the day before classes moving my room around because we didn't have any time during welcome week. One good 

thing is that now that classes have started, I don't even know what to do with all my free time!

1 0.10% More Free Time. I was so tired the entire time, especially since we had to walk from Middlebrook to Mariucci Arena and back almost everyday. 

1 0.10% MORE FREE TIME. it was too stressful and I was late a lot. 

1 0.10% More free time. less like orientation. treat us more like college students and not like kids. less required sessions. more info on student 

organizations right away (provide a physical list of them all). 

1 0.10% More free time. Less meetings that are the same information giving during orientation. 

1 0.10% More free time. Too much stuff made all the students hate Welcome Week 

1 0.10% More free time. We were so busy we didn't get very much time to meet people in our Res. hall. I feel like that is pretty important for those of us 

in Bailey. 

1 0.10% More free time/ evenly distribute activities throughout the week, the first few days were jam-packed and exhausting and then the last few 

seemed to be lacking in activities. 

1 0.10% more free time; too busy 

1 0.10% more free time;not enough time to get settled in and rest 

1 0.10% more free, relaxing time. 

1 0.10% More freedom. The welcome week is too structured and doesn't give much time to relax. At least that's what I hear from the people who 

actually went to it. I missed most of it for marching band. 

1 0.10% More free-time to relax and hang out with the WW group. 

1 0.10% More freetime. 

1 0.10% More free-time. 

1 0.10% more fun 

1 0.10% more get to know other students from different colleges 

1 0.10% more individual time to get moved in! less scheduled time! free time at nights! better bus explanation! Actually get to ride campus and city 

buses 

1 0.10% More information about class load, maybe a mock class set up. 

1 0.10% More information about the Campus Connector buses and Transit System is necessary. 

1 0.10% More information from Welcome Week leaders, more coordinated times for meals 

1 0.10% More informative about when events will be held and the location of each event. 

1 0.10% More interactive speeches and not just being talked at all the time 

1 0.10% More opportunities to do something during free time for commuters who have no where to go waiting for the late night events (and thus go 

home early). 

1 0.10% More optional activities instead of making them mandatory. Some people need more time to get settled and mentally prepare. 

1 0.10% more options 

1 0.10% More organized but more free time too, it was hard to find time to sleep because we had to socailize really late at night. 

1 0.10% More organized logistics: busing, etc. 

1 0.10% more organized time but more people in small welcome week groups 

1 0.10% More relaxing breaks inbetween. 

1 0.10% more rest time and or less walking

1 0.10% More sessions with question and answer possibility like we had with our adademic advisor. Also more info for on campus jobs. 

1 0.10% More sleep or free time to allow better focus during welcome week activities. 

1 0.10% MORE SLEEP, 

1 0.10% More sporadic free time, no large blocks (leaves opportunities for homesickness!!) but definitely more, and have off campus/fun activities end 

earlier so we can sleeeep (later start times in the morning) 

1 0.10% More structured. Details given up front about meeting times and places 

1 0.10% more target runs and shopping trips 

1 0.10% more time for commuters to chill with residents 

1 0.10% More time for independent exploration. 

1 0.10% More time on the first day to move-in and get settled before having to do structured things. 

1 0.10% More time to get adjusted to campus life. 

1 0.10% more time to get settled 

1 0.10% More time to get settled in before starting Welcome Week. 

1 0.10% more time to get settled in more free time 

1 0.10% More time to get settled in. I felt rushed and unprepared individually for my personal courses. 

1 0.10% more time to get to know the people on my floor 

1 0.10% more time to meet people in your college 

1 0.10% more time to move in and get settled 

1 0.10% More time to ourselves and not having to constantly do activities all day and night. 

1 0.10% more time to relax and let it soak in. 

1 0.10% More time to relax, and also an alloted time period for one on one contact with my advisor. 

1 0.10% More time to rest at the end of the day. Each day i got back to my dorm later and later and got less and less sleep. 

1 0.10% More time to rest. 

1 0.10% More time to rest/prepare. 

1 0.10% MORE TIME TO SLEEP AND UNPACK THE FIRST 2 DAYS!! 

1 0.10% more time to sleep because everyone stays up late 

1 0.10% More time to sleep in some days. Welcome Week created long days and it was hard to get up the next day ready to learn new things. 

1 0.10% more time to sleep! 

1 0.10% more time with new groups of people and less time wandering around because some people didn't really make friends right of way and I would 

see some students sitting or eating by themselves for like the first 2 days when there was free time. 

1 0.10% More tours. 

1 0.10% more unscheduled time. I was extremely sleep deprived during welcome week. 

1 0.10% More upperclassemen and people on my level, less juvenile and mundane things. We're adults. 

1 0.10% More utilization of the campus connectors.

1 0.10% my leaders didnt know what was going on most of the time 

2 0.20% n/a 

5 0.49% N/A 

1 0.10% N/A. 

1 0.10% na 

1 0.10% NA 

1 0.10% nada 

2 0.20% no 

1 0.10% No comment 

1 0.10% no free time and 2-3 days 

1 0.10% No genocide symposium right away in the morning. 

1 0.10% No genocide symposium. 

1 0.10% no i wouldn't change it was very nice and students feel very good welcoming on that 

1 0.10% No information Sessions because I feel like all the information I got I feel like I already knew 


5 0.49% none 

4 0.39% None 

1 0.10% none. 

1 0.10% None. 

1 0.10% not as early 

1 0.10% not as long 

1 0.10% Not as long and drawn out, because we need time to relax and adjust to are new living situations 

1 0.10% Not as long, or not going as late or starting as early. We got worn out by the end of the second night and didn't want to do any more activities. 

1 0.10% Not as long. 

1 0.10% Not as many late night/early morning combinations. 

1 0.10% Not as many speakers because they got too long and sometimes boring. 

1 0.10% Not as rigorous. There is a lot of energy necessary for Welcome Week, but I'd prefer to put energy into getting aquanted with new people and 

the new living space. 

1 0.10% Not as structured, or more optional stuff. 

1 0.10% Not by much, maybe a more thorough and less formal tour of the campus. 

1 0.10% not early in the morning. not that many days long 

1 0.10% Not getting up so early and then keeping us out all night. 

1 0.10% Not have all the event required during the day. Let the students pick which events they feel are important to them and let them attend what 

would be beneficial to them.

1 0.10% Not have it be mandatory. Or at least say it is mandatory, but don't have some make up work that you have to do if you do not attend. This isn't 

high school. I think that is quite ridiculous. 

1 0.10% Not have so many things for us to do everyday. I was always exhausted by the end of the day and made the experience not as enjoyable. 

1 0.10% Not have such a huge gap of free time between the required events. It gets very boring and inconvienient for commuter student, we have to sit 

around doing nothing for hours. Most people just left because they didnt want to stay doing nothing, so you could get more people to stay if you 

made everything required right away for commuter students. 

1 0.10% Not make it mandatory because it wasted a lot of my time 

1 0.10% Not so long of days 

1 0.10% Not so structured with sessions we have to go to, more free time to get settled in. It's stressful to try and get situated and settled in when the 

only day we really had to work on it was Monday. It's nice to feel relaxed right before school starts. 

1 0.10% Not such long days, or time wasted sitting around waiting for activities/presentations to start. Don't separate commuters from residence halls 

because we want to meet people in residence halls. 

1 0.10% Not to be so long. 

1 0.10% Not wake up so early would be nice. 

1 0.10% nothing. 

1 0.10% On September 1st we moved into college. We want to be treated as college students, and we aren't during welcome week. I would keep the 

same amount of activities, but start them later. Starting at 8 or meeting at 830 is ridiculous, we don't want to get up that early. Start things at 

like 10. 

1 0.10% On the college day i would split up students who are living together. This would help them build relations with potential study groups. 

1 0.10% only things I would change were the things I said in the last page that could be covered more as well as the community exploration and evening 

entertainment events I suggested, mainly because of my opinion and what I think would have made my welcome week experience even better 

and more valuable. 

1 0.10% Overall, the program was good. I didn't feel confident in the times that my activities were scheduled, though. 

1 0.10% Please give us more free time! It was fun and all but it was difficult because we had no time to relax and that was very tiring. It's also hard to 

meet new people in HUGE group activities. (like Explore U! and Target Run) So having smaller groups would be nice. 

1 0.10% Please have less scheduled. It was too much. I feel drained and exhausted, and I have all week long. 

1 0.10% Please improve the Targen Run bus schedule. It was mass chaos and I felt discouraged when attempting to get onto the buses. It took away 

from the whole experience. Also please move the games and free items area to the exit; I didn't feel that I had enough time to enjoy the free 

things and so missed out on many of them in order to quickly grab and pay for the few items I needed, which took over an hour. 

1 0.10% Please, keep commuters in mind when you have incredibly long amounts of free time. We can't go back to a dorm to relax like everyone else. 

1 0.10% possibly more free time. 

1 0.10% Possibly not have activities run as late because it seemed to make me and many of my classmates progressively more and more tired. 

1 0.10% probably just more interaction with people outside our groups. I got to know my group really well but no one else which sucked. Also i dont like 

how they split up commuters and residence. That just made me feel like an outcast. 

1 0.10% Probably to make it shorter. A lot of what we did was important, but there was a lot of down time early in the week. 

1 0.10% Provide additional free time and breaks. 

1 0.10% Provide more free time, especially in the first couple days. 

1 0.10% Provide more opportunities to interact with other groups besides just our welcome week groups 

1 0.10% Read my other responses. They touched on the major issues.

1 0.10% Reduce the amount of activities about getting involved; it just seems like the same information many times over. 

1 0.10% Reduce the number of days 

1 0.10% Reduce the number of seminars and increase the time at MOA, etc. Make it Welcome Weekend instead of Welcome Week. 

1 0.10% Remove the need of the freshman in the Marching Band to participate in that one day, Spat Camp, and being with all the veteran marching 

band members, helped me to learn about the campus a lot more than that one day. 

1 0.10% Removing, or at least shortening, the U of M day rotations because they were not helpful in any way, and took up a day of doing basically 

nothing except wandering around. 

1 0.10% sbvsgfd 

1 0.10% schedule less late night activities the night before morning activities, or schedule the morning activities to start later, and don't make the 

activities so repeative 

1 0.10% see previous answer (about the move-in experience) 

1 0.10% Set more definite meeting locations and try to keep a more regulated schedule for all groups. The meeting times varied and often confused 

much of our group, leading to absences for events. 

1 0.10% Shorten and condense it. 

1 0.10% Shorten it and make it a little more organized because there were times on friday where our group sat around and did nothing for about an hour 

and a half at a time. 

1 0.10% Shorten it and make more things optional. I wish we had the chance to tour more of the campus rather than some of the informational 

meetings. 

1 0.10% Shorten it and take out repetitive events. 

1 0.10% Shorten it, it was a lot of the same information 

1 0.10% Shorten it. It's exhausting and I think a lot of the little things are unnecessary. More down time would make the new college experience less 

overwhelming. 

1 0.10% Shorten it. It was far too drawn out and parts were redundant. The CSE faculty and student boards for example both provided us with the same 

information. The student board also didn't seem to really know what they were supposed to be telling us. 

1 0.10% Shorten it. People are paying thousands of dollars to learn, not be babysat. 

1 0.10% shorten the convocation speeches because it is important for us to get to know the important figures at the U of M but I would much rather go to 

a faculty classroom experience for longer. 

1 0.10% Shorten the program somewhat. There were several events that were very unnecessary and not very helpful. Also, work on planning to avoid 

large groups, such as at Explore U. 

1 0.10% Shorten the required activities 

1 0.10% Shorter 

1 0.10% Shorter because a week seems too long and draining. 

1 0.10% Shorter days or shorter sessions. I was always excited at the beginning of speeches or lectures or even activities but the longer they went on 

the less excited I was. 

1 0.10% Shorter days. or less days. 

1 0.10% Shorter!! More fun activities 

1 0.10% Shorter, because it was a waste of time 

1 0.10% Shorter, less busy.

1 0.10% Shorter, with more free time. I feel that it would be easier to make friends by just letting us mingle in our dorms. 

1 0.10% Shorter. It was too long. 

1 0.10% Show students how to use the bus system. 

1 0.10% Simply have enough time to relax and hang out with people because when we finally got time it was at least 11:00 pm and by then all you want 

to do is go to sleep because you have to be up semi early. 

1 0.10% sleep more, because we need sleep 

1 0.10% Slightly less time spent on structured activity. 

1 0.10% Slightly more free time! 

1 0.10% Slightly shorter because by the end of the week, I was exhausted! 

1 0.10% Slow it down a little bit. The week went by very fast and it is hard to remember a lot of what was said. 

1 0.10% Small groups should spend more time together. 

1 0.10% Smaller groups on College Day 

1 0.10% Some of the days were very long and boring. Also, welcome week was a little tedious toward the end, I feel that 3 or 4 days is really all thats 

needed. 

1 0.10% Some of the sessions were very boring, as in the discussion after the Art Wisman tour in STSS. Some of the days got way too long, it was 

exhausting for alot of us. For the first few days I would recommend having less activities stretching throughout the day so students can 

transition easier into citylife/college/friends without being completely exhausted, and then increasing the activities the more the week 

progrosses. This way the free Monday we have before classes would be more efficient so we can rest from the last couple days that were very 

busy. 

1 0.10% Somehow control the lines and mass groups of people in one area but I'm not sure how because of the huge class. 

1 0.10% Somehow have it so there's not so much time wasted waiting in lines. 

1 0.10% Somethings were very repetitive so it could be shortened. Days were very long. It made use of more time and was very tiring. 

1 0.10% Space it out more so that there are not as many lines 

1 0.10% Space out the days more so there's more free time 

1 0.10% Space the free time out. At the beginning of the week it is go, go, go, with no time to rest so everyone is exhausted by the second day; and at 

the end of the week we would do one thing and have the rest of the day off. 

1 0.10% Spaced out events so there would be more free time. 

1 0.10% Spend a lot more time not scheduled. It seemed a lot like high school. Give a lot more opportunites to meet a wide variety of people in a 

nonforced manner. 

1 0.10% Spend more time having fun activities earlier on in the day for commuters because many have to leave before the late night activities, and we 

want to be a part of the fun at school too. 

1 0.10% Spread out all of the information sessions more. 

1 0.10% spread out the free time to more than one big chunk. Not going so late, it's really hard for commuter students. 

1 0.10% Spread out the number of sessions and symposiums 

1 0.10% Start a little later every day 

1 0.10% start a little later in the morning, have a few breaks 

1 0.10% Start at a later time to provide more time to sleep. Have more engaging activities to meet people

1 0.10% Start later in the day because waking up a 7 wasnt fun. 

1 0.10% start later in the day, we had to get up too early 

1 0.10% Start later in the morning and have less of a break between night activities and the end of morning activities. It became very tiring to stay up 

until 1-2 and get up at 7. 

1 0.10% Start stuff later in the day. It was very difficult going for a long time on very little sleep a later start would make the whole program so much 

better. 

1 0.10% Still give us more free time. It was an overwhelming week 

1 0.10% Still provide a few programs, but provide much more free time. I feel the perfect balance would be to have programs only in the afternoons 

each day. 

1 0.10% Stop repeating information. Once is enough. If we have questions, we will ask them. 

1 0.10% Students need time off during the day other than monday to get settled into their rooms and get used to the whole experience. It's 

overwhelming having to wake up early just to walk around the entire campus everyday seeing new things. 

1 0.10% Target Run, make buses more efficient or assign group times to shop. 

1 0.10% Teach us what we actually need to know! Like where classes are, how the dining halls work, (when are they open, how to i get into other halls if 

my u card won't get me in) the bus system!, metro transit, what actually goes on in coffman where the events there. I saw so many 

powerpoints this week with website resources on slides. How am I supposed to remember individual websites The VAST majority of Welcome 

Week did not make me feel more prepared for college. The things that possibly would have been helpful or fun were too crowded to meet their 

intended purpose. Need more free time to meet people and get settled. The days were so long and there was so much walking it was 

exhausting. Overall I was not satisfied with my Welcome Week experience. It could have been condensed into a couple of days. Not five. You 

could get rid of Saturday and Sunday and their events they were the least effective for me. I am most concerned about being late the first day 

of class. I tried today (monday) to find my classes but the busses aren't running regular schedules. So I don't know how long it will actually take 

to get there. Also, all the buildings were locked so I don't know where the actual room is. Don't leave Monday for us to find our classes if none 

of the buildings are open. I was also going to buy my art kit for interior design on Monday. I checked in Minneapolis bookstore on Wednesday. 

but they were still making it the first time I stopped. I stopped back Thursday and they didn't have it so they said check St. Paul. I planned on 

buying it Monday when I found my classes but the St. Paul union was locked. 

1 0.10% Tell everyone to wear comfortable walking shoes! 

1 0.10% That there would be more free time to get to know ppl in your group. Because the days got very long. 

1 0.10% The amount of activities was good, but more options could be included. 

1 0.10% The back to back seminars that we were required to attend. 

1 0.10% The biggest thing was just more freetime to unwind and process everything we were going through. Some time to unpack the dorm so we can 

come back to a space that's more like home than a room full of boxes. 

1 0.10% The capacity issues at UDS should be addressed for Welcome Week. 

1 0.10% The commuters had a lot of downtime between the day events and the night events. 

1 0.10% The days should be shortened so that students have time to relax afterwords. 

1 0.10% The days were very long. I got extremely tired and worn out during welcome week. Shorter days would be much better, even if an extra day 

needs to be added on to accomidate for that. 

1 0.10% The Engagement Symposium should be more organized. I felt like the groups were just messing around and not getting anything out of it. 

1 0.10% The free time that you do not know what do. 

1 0.10% The handbook was confusing. I also wish there were blocks of free time in between the activities on the longer days of Welcome Week. 

1 0.10% The information sessions lasted a long time. I feel that if the sessions were that long that the information should have more depth. I think that 

giving students a greater opportunity to connect with their classmates inside and outside of their Welcome Week groups would help kids to 

adjust to the campus better because they would have more people who they can talk to about their transition to college life. I feel that making

1 0.10% The length, it was WAY to long. 

these bonds during welcome week and before classes is of major importance. 

1 0.10% The only thing I was concerned about was that commuter students had too much time in between events where they had nothing to do. It might 

be easier for us if you didnt have so much free time between activities. Other than that, it was awesome! 

1 0.10% The only thing I would change would be the Welcome Week custom schedule, this schedule was rarely followed 

1 0.10% The program is perfect for out of state students and students unfamiliar with the campus, but I and quite a few of my friends from Minneapolis 

have been on the campus pretty regularly since freshman year of high school. I don't think that ANYTHING on the Welcome Week schedule 

should be mandatory for anyone to attend. I disliked most things because I already knew what most of the presenters were going to say before 

I got to the session. I don't feel like my time was used efficiently because I was hearing things that I've heard I don't even know how many 

times before. 

1 0.10% The program was informative and helpful; I wish I could have participated in more activities outside of the band schedule. Most activities 

conflicted times. 

1 0.10% The programs should start later in the day to allow a sufficient amount of sleep. 

1 0.10% The symposiums should be changed into service projects because not one person that I talked to from mine got anything out of it, while 

community service is very rewarding and fulfilling. Also, the Target Run needs to be much more organized in terms of bus service at the 

superblock. 

1 0.10% The Target run was impossible to attend. Creating organized lines would of been helpful. Buses also idled for 30 minutes or so after they were 

full. 

1 0.10% The three hour long symposium on sunday was way too long. 

1 0.10% The time. It was very tiring and exhausting. It was hard to wake up so early when going to events that went late into the late. 

1 0.10% The Welcome Week should start on Monday and end on Friday so that students can have the weekend off to relax. 

1 0.10% There are many little things concerned with Welcome Week. One is the organization - I know we're adults, but many of the kids in my group 

were nervous about where to go and how to get places and needed more leadership. 

1 0.10% There is altogether too much going on! We need more down time! 

1 0.10% There is so much time taken up being shuttled around in a small group, where it seems like we're not supposed to notice how many other 

people are there. It would be nicer to do smaller group activities more, and less moving around campus. I chose not to do some trips partially 

because the buses left from Mariucci, on the other side of campus. 

1 0.10% There is too much information that comes at us in all of the sessions. I don't know how to get the same point across, and still do it in the same 

amount of time, but we were bombarded with information that was hard to take in that fast. Also.... I know that the sports teams are really 

important to you, but there are other events other than sports. I didn't like how every where I went I had to listen to some one blabber about 

sports and how important it is to go to games. I am a music major and would like the same respect shown for the musicians who work just as 

hard as the sport teams, but we get no recognition. I know this will probably never change, but it is worth putting my thoughts in. The arts are 

just as important as sports. Look at childhood development and it will show. 

1 0.10% There needs to be more downtime to just relax and do nothing. This is a good way for people to meet others as well; the way it is now there is 

no time to do anything but follow the Welcome Week program. All the information got repetitive after awhile so that is why I think Welcome 

Week should be shorter. 

1 0.10% There needs to be more free time. I was so busy during the whole time that I ended up getting sick and all of the events were required, so I 

ended up getting sicker as the week went on. I started school sick and tired. 

1 0.10% There needs to be more free time. I was way too exhausted after just the first day. 

1 0.10% There needs to be more time to relax and move in. Also more time to explore on our own. 

1 0.10% There was a lot of sitting and being talked at. I know that that was similar to the lectures we'll be experiencing, but more involvement would 

have been nice. I also would have liked to have met more people from other Welcome Week groups, perhaps by intentionally combining them 

for certain activities.

1 0.10% There was too much talking at the students during College Day. It became too long and repetitive. 

1 0.10% There were a lot of activities and seminars to keep us busy, which was a good thing, but it also made the week seem to go by too fast, which 

heightened my anxieties about the upcoming first day of classes. The extra day of rest before classes started definitely helped to alleviate 

these anxieties somewhat, but I also think it would have helped to have a current student share his or her Welcome Week and first semester 

experiences as a sort of assurance that others have gone through this experience and experienced these anxieties before, and lived to tell the 

tale. 

1 0.10% There were a lot of lectures and talking so at times I was really bored. There were times I felt like a kid again instead of feeling like a college 

student. I felt like I was in a position where I had to be at welcome week and couldn't leave. There were some good things too, like U of M Day. 

That was a really fun day. I actually felt more independent that day than any of the other days, maybe it was because I was on my own instead 

of with my group. 

1 0.10% There would be less of the same information over and over, and there would be more opportunities to just take a nap! 

1 0.10% There's too much stuff going on. I never had any time to settle down during the day. 

1 0.10% they over do everything. this is too long. the week is too long. the sessions are too long. 

1 0.10% Thursday and Friday got really long after a while. It would be nice to have a little more time off those days like Saturday and Sunday. 

1 0.10% times, because it was hard to work around 

1 0.10% To have a little more free time. 

1 0.10% To have it not be required. 

1 0.10% To not have the fun things go so late because I could not attend any without only getting like 3 hours of sleep because i'm a commuter. 

1 0.10% To not have to attend every event because it was very overwhelming to me. 

1 0.10% TOO LONG WINDED... It was just too much... I love the U but welcome week was so redundant it was infuriating, and we didnt focus 

whatsoever on classroom success which I believe should be considered just as important as everything else we learned, if not more 

1 0.10% Too long. I would make it shorter with more free time. 

1 0.10% too many free time 

1 0.10% Too much empty time between sessions... take away 2 days of welcome week 

1 0.10% Tours of the tunnels, and more buses available for the Target run. 

1 0.10% Try to make sure everyone in the group is involved and having fun in order to make the group weel tight-knit; make everyone steep out of their 

comfort zones to unite as one group 

1 0.10% Try to reduce crowds and chaos and PLEASE don't waste our time by forcing us to do cheers. The fireworks at Pride and Spirit were excesses, 

our football team is NOT THAT GOOD and doesn't deserve such praise and attention - lets focus on a good sport like our Volleyball or 

Wrestling team! However, the CDes college day activities were very good, and so was the marching band! 

1 0.10% U of M day was long and killed me. Events start too early. 

1 0.10% Utilize campus connectors more often, establish greater choices in food and have more floor interaction. 

1 0.10% Waiting in line for the Target run took 2 hours, so I would have more buses for that. I also feel like there should have been some more free time 

on college day. Also, I really like a lot of the people on my floor so I would add one or 2 floor activities and take away an interest session and 

shortened (or got rid of) the symposium. 

1 0.10% Way more free time and more optional events. 

1 0.10% Ways to meet more people. We were with our Welcome Week groups most of the time, so I was unable to meet a greater amount of people. 

1 0.10% We need a little more free time and less presentations which become dull and redudant, because in essence they are all conveying pretty 

much the same message. 

1 0.10% We need more free time

1 0.10% We need more free time during the average day to process information we have been given. It took until Sunday for me to start to feel like I had 

any time to understand what had been presented. I felt overwhelmed, and frankly I still do, because I still haven't really figured out what is even 

going on in a couple of areas (like the research program, group involvement, and the importance of planning my classes years in advance). 

1 0.10% We really did not get enough free time to be with the people who we met through welcome week on the first few days of Welcome Week. It was 

really hard to get up early and stay out late all while having countless amounts of people talking AT you. 

1 0.10% We were kept up late and had to get up early. It tires people out right before beginning classes. More downtime would have been nice. 

1 0.10% Welcome Week could be a bit shorter. 

1 0.10% welcome week had many boring seminars, but they were necessary. overall, it was a good experience 

1 0.10% Welcome Week is a great way to transition into the U of M student lifestyle, but it was far too long and if I never have to hear the phrase 

"get involved" or anything related to it over and over again I may be one of the happiest freshman ever. It's one thing to emphasize 

a point, but overemphasizing only makes people negatively respond to what is being told. It should have been condensed into a few days 

versus six. However, moving in a week early to adjust to living here was very nice. 

1 0.10% Welcome week should give us more time on our own during the day so we can meet new people and interact with the people in our halls and 

dorm. 

1 0.10% Welcome week tried to fit too many things in a small amount of time. Half of the sessions and things we attended could be taken away because 

a lot of the same things were being said from session to session. Also, a week is a really long time, especially over labor day weekend. I feel a 

little stressed out going into my first day of college because Welcome Week wore me out. After even three days, I felt I had a real grasp on 

what it means to be a U of M student and I felt I had a good understanding of the campus and how to get involved. 

1 0.10% Welcome Week was both fun and effective and it was planned very well. I enjoyed every minute of Welcome Week. 

1 0.10% Welcome week was great except for the most part, but I felt that some of the lectures needed to be shortened & some of them were very 

repetitious, there was too much time sitting around waiting for the next event to start, and the nighttime events needed to start earlier so people 

can get to sleep at a reasonable hour. 

1 0.10% Well the worst day was college day so maybe I would shorten that up a little bit and have a meeting with the usual welcome week groups on 

that day as well. 

1 0.10% While I understand the importance of each required Welcome Week event, I think it would be more effective to make some Welcome Week 

activities optional. On the first and second days, too many things were required, and I found myself burnt out and unreceptive to the information 

being provided at times. It was the general consensus of my group in the closing meeting that more free time was needed on those two days. 

Also, it would be nice not to be required to attend activities do not apply to you; this happened to me several times as I have already been a 

full-time PSEO student at the University for two years. Perhaps this could be remedies with more "interest session" formatted 

activities throughout Welcome Week. 

2 0.20% would not change it 

1 0.10% wouldnt change anything 

1 0.10% would'nt change it at all, besides possibly shortening this survey. 

1 0.10% Yes more free time and to be treated more like adults 

1 0.10% Yes, I would like more time to sleep and relax 

1 0.10% Yes, more down time would have been nice. 

1 0.10% you could pick more of your own events 

1 0.10% You have a special welcome week for commuter students, a special welcome week for international students, a special welcome week for 

transfer students. You should have a special welcome week for PSEO students. The majority of welcome week is a waste of our time. To save 

time and make sure we still get the important information out of welcome week, why not put them into separate categories. I am a junior with 

more credits and experience than my actual welcome week leader. I could have used the time I wasted going to this generalized program for 

many other more useful ventures. 

1 0.10% You want people to interact with other students so that they will have a much easier transition to college. Well, stop separating them so much 

from those that they have started to grow a good relationship with and let them be. Not everyone in one group is going to get along and there

are always going to be students finding people in other groups that they will rather hang out with. Don't cause so many split ups, it makes 

people want to not join in on other events. 


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Q147. Please provide any overall comments or suggestions: 

Count 

Percent 

389 100.00% 

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Percent 

1 0.26% 

3 0.77% - 

1 0.26% .

1 0.26% ... 

1 0.26% A LOT of crossover between Orientation and Welcome Week. I also felt that a lot of the information given was common sense. There is only so 

much information a student can receive to be prepped for college without actually attending classes, etc. I feel like Welcome Week went a little 

overboard with the amount of information given. 

1 0.26% A lot of the later night activities did not fit well for commuters. 

1 0.26% After the first Welcome Week group meeting, the week seemed very overwhelming at first. However, it got easier as the week went on and our 

group became more tight-knit. The campus became more comfortable to be on after several days and the programs from Welcome Week were 

for the most part very helpful and fun. 

1 0.26% Again, more free time is needed. Maybe the events should be optional. 

1 0.26% Although it was long and tiring, my welcome week leaders were great and I was able to make the best of it. 

1 0.26% Are people forced to become WW leaders as a form of punishment My leaders were not into it at all and didn't seem to care about anything or 

know anything at all. Also, give us more free time. I was exhausted in the middle of each day! 

1 0.26% At the moment things were happening, I felt that they weret too long and frustrating, but all in all it really helped. It might be long, but I feel more 

confident. I feel like a college student now, instead of a high school student pretending to be in college. It made me feel better about my 

abilities. 

1 0.26% At was fun helpful and good transition to college. 

1 0.26% Because of the way our group's schedule was set up we only had enough time to go to one of the seminar things. I wanted to go to more than 

just "Let's talk about sex," but we didn't have time. 

1 0.26% better activities for commuters 

1 0.26% But I really enjoyed it 

1 0.26% Campus connectors should run longer for St Paul students. We are at the biggest disadvantage here. 

1 0.26% convocation was great - keep it up 

1 0.26% Even though the program could use some work, it is very important that it keeps happening. This year, I found it moderately useful, but next 

year's freshman may find it critical. 

1 0.26% Even though welcome week was sometimes very busy, I thought overall it was very helpful to have and made me become more knowledgeable 

with campus. 

1 0.26% Every night there are late night activities and I think there should be an earlier release from them. I ended up walking back to the dorms after 

midnight and going to bed at 2:00. Then to wake up the next day for an 8:00 am meeting. It also sets up bad sleeping habits. 

1 0.26% Football tickets are outrageous. We're already paying for the stadium. Combine that with the fact that I don't watch football very much and you 

will NOT be seeing me at any games. So much for standing in bleachers for an hour and a half to learn these cheers. 

1 0.26% For the service project, working with kids or people one on one would be a much better idea than working with items. While I was happy to 

help, I think people would have connected better to what they were doing. 

1 0.26% Fun still wish it was longer 

1 0.26% Fun at times, exhausting at all times, and a weird mix of pointless and important. 

1 0.26% Get rid of the structure. I felt like a middle schooler. 

1 0.26% get to the point alot faster on your presentations all of them had alot of extra stuff that makes people fall asleep 

1 0.26% Go Gophers 

1 0.26% good 

1 0.26% Good experience.

1 0.26% good food 

1 0.26% Good job preparing everything! The food was good! I had more fun than I thought I would. 

1 0.26% Good job! 

1 0.26% Good job, good job! 

1 0.26% Good job, thanks for the experience and awesome WWL's! 

1 0.26% Good stuff! 

1 0.26% Great experience 

1 0.26% Great experience! Thank you so much! 

1 0.26% Great Job overall. 

1 0.26% Group 17 was amazing. Special thanks to Allison and Karan! 

1 0.26% Have events that are in different locaitons be more streamline in accordance with a time instead of going from one end of campus to the other 

and back again. 

1 0.26% Have upperclassmen be the leaders, organize the students activites into shifts to avoid long lines, and make the individual group schedules 

clearer. 

1 0.26% Having great Welcome Week Leaders makes the whole experience much better. 

1 0.26% Helped ease the transition. 

1 0.26% I am glad that welcome week provided a way to get to know the campus and to get settled in before classes started. 

1 0.26% I am interested, but I'm not quite sure if I'm cut out for it yet (130). I feel much more prepared and ready for college after going through 

Welcome Week. It was definitely a great experience for me. 

1 0.26% I am not impressed by my Welcome Week experience. I feel as though I was deprived of sleep which made it hard to be positive about the 

activites. The week also did not help my homesickness at all. This is the first time I have been away from loved ones for an extended period of 

time, and the activities and the length of Welcome Week made my transition even harder. I ended up going home on Sunday evening and 

spending the night there because I could not deal with being on campus and away from my loved ones any longer. I am leaving Welcome 

Week feeling discouraged about my career here at the University of Minnesota. 

1 0.26% I am so ready for school to start! Thank you so much for an amazing week!!!! :) 

1 0.26% I believe I have gained the characteristics and knowledge it takes to lead others. Welcome Week is one great start in introducing new students 

to the University of Minnesota and developing the ability to succeed on higher level, it would be an great experience to lead my peers into it. 

1 0.26% I definitely feel I have a better understanding of how to find my way around campus and don't think I'll look like the lost freshman on the first 

day of classes. 

1 0.26% I didnt have much time to check out a good church/youth group before sunday 

1 0.26% I do feel more connected to the campus, my peers, and faculty. I just wish there was less stuff happening. 

1 0.26% I dont think welcome week needs to be as long as it it you could probably have it me a day or two shorter. 

1 0.26% I ended up having more fun than I expected and met some great friends, thanks! 

1 0.26% I enjoyed my experience and think it will be an assest to my first year here. 

1 0.26% I enjoyed the week. 

1 0.26% I enjoyed welcome week overall. I feel like it really helped me adjust & a lot of the activities were fun. 

1 0.26% I felt flustered and was annoyed with always being herded.

1 0.26% I get what you are going for, but it was too much. the gopher pride was really cool and the presentations were in general very cool but the 

schedule was too strict and tight with too much redundance. 

1 0.26% I had a blast and feel very fortunate to have been put in such an awesome group and hall. 

1 0.26% I had a good time getting to know everyone in my group. 

1 0.26% I had a good time. I'm glad the U of M has Welcome Week. 

1 0.26% I had a great time :) 

1 0.26% I had a lot of fun at welcome week and it made me feel more comfortable here after moving from Montana. 

1 0.26% i had fun 

1 0.26% I had fun and met many friends over the welcome week. 

1 0.26% I had fun with my new friends but we hated being segregated from the people living on campus. 

1 0.26% I had fun. 

1 0.26% I have no additional comments 

1 0.26% i just thought it was way to long, it doesnt need to be a week, maybe one day or two 

1 0.26% I just wanted to sleep for 90% of it. It was difficult to pay attention to something I had heard before when I was exhausted. For the record, I did 

not stay out partying or anything like that either. I don't know how those that did were able to make it through the week. 

1 0.26% I liked it and it helped me get used to the campus. 

1 0.26% I liked it! 

1 0.26% I liked most of welcome week but I had a hard time connecting with the people in my group because we were so different. We generally had 

nothing in common. 

1 0.26% I liked taking time to get to know/hang out with my roommate, time to set up the room, and time BEFORE monday to find classes. 

1 0.26% i liked welcome week. :) 

1 0.26% I love the hydration stations in the cafe in Middlebrook! Someone told me that they stop after Welcome Week, and I wish they didn't!!! I would 

love the healthy liquid options to be there all year round for students. 

1 0.26% I loved convocation and pride and spirit day!!! Those were the best. 

1 0.26% I loved welcome week, I am really glad we do have it! It's so nice to meet people, almost all the people I know now is from welcome week! It 

was a great way to feel welcomed into the campus. Suggestion: Maybe a little more free time to get settled into the dorm. 

1 0.26% I missed most of Welcome Week for Marching band, but I wish I could have seen some other cool events. 

1 0.26% I really appreciate how the U of M puts on Welcome Week. Most colleges just throw their freshman into the mix without any guidance and 

Welcome Week made me much more comfortable with the university and all it has to offer. 

1 0.26% I really enjoyed it 

1 0.26% I really enjoyed welcome week and I think it's a great idea for incoming freshman to really become comfortable with the university before school 

starts. 

1 0.26% I really liked the progressive freedom we were given throughout the week. I liked that we had more time to hang out with new people as the 

week progressed. 

1 0.26% I really liked Welcome Week. I feel more connected to my campus and my classmates. I am not nervous at all anymore and though it was long, 

it was worth it to make the U my new home. 

1 0.26% I really liked welcome week. It made me feel less nervous about college and I really liked the welcome week leaders. They made me want to be 

a welcome week leader too.

1 0.26% I really thought that Welcome Week was a great experience. 

1 0.26% I think 110 should take care of all my suggestions. Just make sure its not so busy next year 

1 0.26% I think that about covers it. 

1 0.26% I think that it is important to make sure that a lot of time is spent with the welcome week group and the residence hall group. 

1 0.26% I think that my WW experience was as great as it was because my WWL treated us as adults and didn't micromanage our free time. Coming to 

college many students are very excited about their new freedom and aren't interested in being bussed around to different events. Keeping WW 

relaxed and filled with ample free-time for socializing in a natural way (such as playing frisbee instead of awkward "get to know your 

neighbor" games) will help keep WW a great welcome to the U of M. 

1 0.26% I think that the interest sessions were kind of obvious, things that we had already heard before at orientation and in high school. The instructors 

were well informed but I think there was just too much jammed into the week. 

1 0.26% I think that Welcome Week was helpful overall. I think that it could maybe be shortened some, but maybe it was just trying to get new students 

used to the super busy schedule of college life. I thought that there could have been more time for rest and preparation for classes, especially 

for commuters because they couldn't just go back to their dorm room and relax. 

1 0.26% I think the idea behind Welcome Week is good, but the organization needs to be adjusted and much more concrete. 

1 0.26% I think the WW leaders should have first aid stuff, because no one had a band aid when I needed one. 

1 0.26% I think we needed more academics incorporated into the week as well and fun things because after welcome week ended everybody has to 

start school, yet most are still unprepared and are lost. 

1 0.26% I think we should have done more game type things as a Welcome Week Group. Even though people say they don't like them, they really don't 

care that much and would probably want to do them. 

1 0.26% I thought that welcome week was an amazing experience. I thoroughly enjoyed it and i think that what i learned will help me during the school 

year. 

1 0.26% I thought the overall week was beneficial but it was really busy. 

1 0.26% I thought the program was very helpful and informative. 

1 0.26% I thought Welcome Week was a great transitional piece. I did learn about some of the places I can go for help and such around campus. I've 

got a small understanding of where things are, if not I think i was provided with enough of a variety of maps. The leaders were friendly and very 

into what they were doing. Very enjoyable. 

1 0.26% I thought welcome week was a little chaotic at first, but as the week went on, it smoothed out a lot more and I learned all I needed to know. 

1 0.26% I thought Welcome Week was overall an amazing experience and it was super helpful. 

1 0.26% I was expected Welcome Week to be a drag, but I actually enjoyed it and understand the value of it. 

1 0.26% I was not pleased with Welcome Week. 

1 0.26% I went into Welcome Week thinking that I wouldn't have fun and that I would be so ready for classes to start by the time it was over. However, I 

had so much fun, way more than I ever could have imagined. A lot of that was due to my WW leaders and my WW group. I think grouping us 

for the WW program is extremely important in making friends because I have a friend who isn't in a group for her WW and she is having a hard 

time meeting people. WW will always be a positive memory for me. 

1 0.26% I wish there was a little more information related on how to thrive in the classroom and a tiny bit more off time to explore on your own. 

1 0.26% I would also like information about becoming a CA. 

1 0.26% I would also suggest maybe having two full days to prepare for classes rather than one, to further the chance to make connections and get 

settled and understand what all is going on here at the university, but Sunday was pretty open too so that isn't a huge concern. 

1 0.26% I would have liked more time with small college groups. 

1 0.26% I would liked to have more free time during welcome week

1 0.26% I would love to be a welcome leader and also an orientation leader! I love the MOA so much and overall I got to know a few people and I really 

loved my welcome leaders! 

1 0.26% I would say that I am satisfied with Welcome Week in general. The long days of walking tired me out, but I enjoyed the exercise. The early 

mornings and late evenings made it difficult to get sufficient sleep though. 

1 0.26% I'll miss my group!!! 

1 0.26% I'm disappointed with the U of M's outlook on minor's drinking alcohol on campus. I came to the U of M with the understanding that it is a dry 

campus and I was very excited about that. However, it was not long before we started hearing horror stories about things happening at parties, 

whether is was at a frat house, or even a residence hall here on the east bank. I'm not sure if anyone knows what is really going on, however, I 

suggest you address the issue of alcohol on campus. 

1 0.26% I'm going to see if this first year of school works out and if I still want to do it then I will contact the right people. 

1 0.26% I'm not big on pride, either. It's really just me, though. 

1 0.26% Inform the students more about whats going on because many of us were confused when and where to meet most days. 

1 0.26% It helped me integrate into college life 

1 0.26% It taught me a lot of things that I never knew before. 

1 0.26% It was a fun and worthwhile week. Overall, good job on the hard work. 

1 0.26% It was a fun experience and helped me switch over to the University, but I would of liked more free time to meet kids not just their name through 

a game! 

1 0.26% It was a fun week! 

1 0.26% it was a good experience overall. 

1 0.26% It was a good program to help adjust to college. It was a little busy, so a little down time would have been nice. 

1 0.26% It was a good week, just like I said before, a little overwhelming. 

1 0.26% It was a great experience but it could do with some changes. 

1 0.26% It was a great experience, but some things weren't so helpful and repetitive 

1 0.26% It was a little exhausting; maybe cut back on some of the unnecessary elements. Also many of the interests sessions couldn't go in depth into 

the questions I wanted answered; the symposium sessions had a greater impact on me because of the length. 

1 0.26% It was a lot to take in for only a few days, it's hard to let information sink in when so much is being thrown at you. 

1 0.26% It was a pretty enjoyable experience. Some of the events were a little bland, but our Welcome Week leader made most of the things enjoyable. 

The activities were all practical and fun, for the most part. Overall: 8/10. Pride and Spirit ceremony was my favorite event by far. 

1 0.26% It was a pretty well run program, but slightly long. I wish the groups were more divided by colleges so that we might meet people we would be 

more likely to see again in the future and in classes. 

1 0.26% It was a really fun week! 

1 0.26% It was amazing experience. 

1 0.26% It was an integral part to beginning my college career, thanks. 

1 0.26% It was awesome! Thank you! 

1 0.26% It was better than I thought it would be but it was very tiring due to all the walking. 

1 0.26% It was cool. The fact that my Welcome Week leaders were extra cool made it cool, otherwise it would have sucked. 

1 0.26% It was fun

1 0.26% It was fun and a learning experience. 

1 0.26% It was fun but could have taken into more consideration the commuters. 

2 0.51% It was fun! 

1 0.26% it was good 

1 0.26% it was good overall because our welcome week group leaders made us attend all the madatory meetings and even when it was boring it helped 

us to meet an become friends with my welcome week group 

1 0.26% It was Okay 

1 0.26% It was overall fun 

1 0.26% It was overall very helpful!! 

1 0.26% it was really planned 

1 0.26% it was too long 

1 0.26% It would be useful if we were taught how to ride the city buses. 

1 0.26% It's exciting 

1 0.26% James Lager and Tatiana Hakanson were excellent leaders! They had a relaxing sense of humor and really bonded with myself and the other 

people in my group. 

1 0.26% Just by chance, the person to check me in for Welcome Week had been my Orientation leader June 9th-10th (Domingo Coto). He remembered 

me and it was great to see his familiar face in an entirely new surrounding. 

1 0.26% Less rigid activities. 

1 0.26% Less structure more relaxation. Maybe have multiple activities options and have each group decide which one they want to do. 

1 0.26% Like I said, it's what you make it. I had fun. 

1 0.26% Like I said, not so structured, more free time 

1 0.26% long and boring but effective 

1 0.26% look above on everything i would change. 

1 0.26% Loved it! 

1 0.26% Loved it! and my leaders! 

1 0.26% loved welcome week!! 

1 0.26% Megan Ruff (I don't know her x500 or e-mail) would also like to be a WWL next year, if possible. 

1 0.26% more free time 

1 0.26% More free time 

1 0.26% MORE FREE TIME 

1 0.26% more free time would be appreciated. not necessarily requiring students to attend all events might make the people who do attend them to be 

more enthusiastic about them. 

1 0.26% More free time would be my only complaint. 

1 0.26% More Free Time. 

1 0.26% More than anything this was a great way to meet new people and begin developing relationships.

1 0.26% My experience was not horrible but, for me, it was not great either. 

1 0.26% My group leaders really helped make the experience. They were great! 

1 0.26% My welcome week leaders were amazing in showing me around and getting me involved. Plus they had fun and i can see myself doing this in 

the future. 

1 0.26% My welcome week leaders were bomb 

8 2.06% N/A 

1 0.26% N/A 

1 0.26% N/A. 

1 0.26% na 

1 0.26% Nah im good. 

1 0.26% Need more sleeping time during Welcome Week 

1 0.26% next year there should be specific printed times in each of the guidbooks 

1 0.26% nice idea...thank you for doing this...it has helped me and my fellow freshman students become comfortable and familiar with this campus and 

going to class tomorrow should not be as big of a deal as it once was prior to the welcome week 

1 0.26% no 

1 0.26% no comment. 

1 0.26% No comments. 


1 0.26% No overall comments or suggestions. 

1 0.26% No two hour long programs on AIDS, an hour is enough 

13 3.34% none 

6 1.54% None 

1 0.26% None at the moment. 

2 0.51% none. 

1 0.26% None. 

1 0.26% Not bad, not great. 

1 0.26% Not enough free time 

1 0.26% Not too bad, at least we weren't in classes... 


1 0.26% NOthing. 

1 0.26% On the whole, I like the WW very much. I've made many new friends and got new information about our campus. It's very useful and helpful for 

freshman. 

1 0.26% Once again, Missy and Nate were great welcome week group leaders. They helped me to decide to want to be a leader next year because they 

really helped me with getting used to campus life and I want to help other first year students feel accepted and welcome as well. They definitely 

deserve recognition for doing a great job. 

1 0.26% One other thing, and this is totally unrelated, but MORE DRINKS!! There were a lot of times where there would be free food, which was

obviously fantastic, but then there were no drinks to wash the food down! It was kind of torture. At the Explore-U, for instance, I got free chips 

and salsa, and all I wanted was something to cool my mouth off, but the Vitamin Water tent had run out and I couldn't find any drinking 

fountains. And at the Underwater Adventures at MOA, they gave out free meatball sandwiches, but nothing to drink. I now know that you do not 

want to eat a meatball sandwich if you have nothing to wash it down with. The lingering taste is...pretty gross. 

1 0.26% One thing I did enjoy about welcome week was seeing people from my old high school. 

1 0.26% Our Welcome Week leaders were really fun and knew what they were talking about. Group 197, Adrianne and Allison. 

1 0.26% Our welcome week leaders, Logan Moorse and Sarah Bouchard, were awesome. They definitely should get some credit for putting up with 

some of the people they had to, and being positive throughout the entire week (as well as informative). 

1 0.26% overall a decent experience 

1 0.26% Overall great, but as a past PSEO student at the UofM-TC I found many of the sessions tedious such as the tours. Maybe have certain 

activities optional for past UofM PSEO students. 

1 0.26% Overall i enjoyed my experience in Welcome Week. I got to meet a lot of new people, whether they were in my group, my neighbors in the 

dorm, or from other halls and met at late night activities. My Welcome Week leaders were very helpful and laid back which made it easier to 

ask them questions and to talk to them. I enjoyed meeting with four of the teachers. They really opened my eyes to things related to getting 

extra help, UROP, and things like that. The late night activites were fun but they were always really crowded which was rather annoying. I think 

Welcome Week is a very good idea for new students and have definitely learned a lot from going. I know can navigate the campus better and 

have many people I can talk to that I didn't know all too well prior to Welcome Week, 

1 0.26% Overall I enjoyed the experience. 

1 0.26% Overall I enjoyed welcome week. 

1 0.26% Overall I felt it was a very helpful experience but some of the meetings were boring 

1 0.26% Overall I liked it the Welcome week it is helpful 

1 0.26% Overall I would give Welcome Week an average rating. It didn't really jump out as a stellar program that really got me engaged with the U. 

1 0.26% Overall it was a great week! 

1 0.26% Overall it was a really good program, though I felt like some days it was too jam packed and everyone was just sick of doing stuff. I felt like I got 

a lot of useful information and it was pretty fun. 

1 0.26% Overall it was a very good experience and it helped me meet new people. 

1 0.26% overall its too long 

1 0.26% Overall my welcome week experience was a positive one. Welcome week made me more confident in starting classes and becoming involved 

on campus. 

1 0.26% Overall the experience definitely was a help to me. 

1 0.26% Overall the experience was good because i met a lot of people i regularily would not have through my welcome week group and now have 

familiar faces to see in my residence hall. 

1 0.26% overall the experience was great and even though I got very little sleep through the whole process I still enjoyed meeting lots of new people. 

1 0.26% Overall the experience was helpful and neccessary. 

1 0.26% Overall very happy I attended welcome week. 

1 0.26% Overall welcome week was very helpful and allowed me to finally feel welcomed into college. 

1 0.26% overall, a good experience and helpful 

1 0.26% Overall, a surprisingly good experience, if maybe a bit long. 

1 0.26% Overall, a very good Welcome Weed experience!

1 0.26% Overall, I do feel like I know the campus a lot better 

1 0.26% Overall, I give welcom week a thumbs up! 

1 0.26% Overall, I had a wonderful experience. Activities such as Convocation and Pride and Spirit made me feel like a part of the Class of 2014 and of 

the U as a whole. I was able to meet new people through my Welcome Week group as well as in the residence hall which was a big concern for 

me since I didn't know anyone coming to the University of Minnesota. I also enjoyed that we had free time during the day to get accostomed to 

our new surroundings. My only complaint besides the engagement symposium would be that many of the events were held at TCF Bank 

Stadium or Mariucci Arena. I live in Middlebrook Hall so having to walk all the way to those locations multiple times a day was extremely 

inconvenient. I would urge you to consider having more events in Wiley Hall or somewhere closer to West Bank. 

1 0.26% Overall, I liked Welcome Week, even though it did get a little tiring. I miss it especially now since starting classes! 

1 0.26% Overall, i thought everyone did a great job. 

1 0.26% Overall, it was a good experience. 

1 0.26% Overall, it was a very good experience for me. 

1 0.26% Overall, it was great but it was a little long and repetitive. Had a blast and needed for a successful transition. 

1 0.26% Overall, the experience definitely has made me more comfortable with the campus and the U in general. I hope the program continues to help 

future freshmen transition. 

1 0.26% Overall, the program was very helpful in almost every way. I really appreciate how much it taught me about campus life and how to navigate 

and use the bus system. 

1 0.26% Overall, this program was helpful for my transition to the University. I feel like I'm way more prepared for the start of classes than if I hadn't 

experienced this event. I just wish that it was slightly less busy and boot-camp-like. 

1 0.26% Overall, Welcome Week has been a positive experience. This is a lot better than what most Universities do (where classes start immediately 

after move in). Welcome Week gives time to adjust. 

1 0.26% Overall, Welcome Week is a good program for freshmen who are new to the university, thereby should be held each year. Necessary 

improvements should be made each year. If possible, there should also be a Welcome Week for transfer students. 

1 0.26% Overall, Welcome Week was a fun and rewarding experience. I do feel that it eased my transition to the U alot. My WWL's were very good as 

well. 

1 0.26% Overall, welcome week was a solid experience presented with the professionalism I have come to expect from the U. The only rough patches 

were the attempt to teach all of the U of M cheers at once, ensuring that none would be remembered, and the engagement symposium about 

HIV/AIDS which was much too long and provided a great deal of redundant information. 

1 0.26% Overall, Welcome Week was a useful and important event for me to learn about what is expected of me and of campus life. 

1 0.26% Overall, Welcome Week was fun but I think needed some more time for students to find their classes, buy school supplies, and other personal 

activities. 

1 0.26% Overall, welcome week was helpful for me to become more comfortable with the campus and meeting new people. 

1 0.26% Parts were fun, other parts where boring. 

1 0.26% Pretty good week. Be more efficient in busing us to the Target Run. 

1 0.26% Pride and Spirit was my favorite part, Friday (touring the different campuses) was my least favorite part 

1 0.26% Really, it was too much. 

1 0.26% see above 

1 0.26% See above 

1 0.26% See question 120. 

1 0.26% shorten everything. use discression in length. we are college kids, our attention cannot be held all that long, i feel you would get a better result

1 0.26% shorten quiz 

if you prioritize and shorten everything 

1 0.26% Shorten welcome week. 

1 0.26% Some of the stuff was really boring but some stuff was really cool which made the week better. Thanks for everything! 

1 0.26% stop welcome week 

1 0.26% Target run needs a lot more buses!! 

1 0.26% Target run should be better planned for next year. Definitely not enough bussing 

1 0.26% thank you 

1 0.26% Thank you for all the time you spent putting this together. it is overall a very successful program and I really can't imagine attending anywhere 

else that doesn't have this program. Thank you. 

1 0.26% Thank you for this opportunity! 

1 0.26% Thank you so much for this great experience! 

1 0.26% thank you! 

1 0.26% THANK YOU!!! 

1 0.26% Thank you. I think I will be more successful at the university because of welcome week. 

1 0.26% Thanks for a great and helpful week! 

1 0.26% Thanks to the Welcome Week Leaders who put so much effort into making this a success 

2 0.51% Thanks! 

1 0.26% The breaks the commuter students had were long at times. It was also tiring at the end of the day, but the overall experience was positive and 

memorable. 

1 0.26% The days were too long and the Pride and Spirit event was too long and pointless. Commuters should have a shorter day. 

1 0.26% The events that I did attend were great. Target was fun, Explore-U was good as well. 

1 0.26% The experience was excellent. 

1 0.26% The fun/late night activities shouldn't be so late because it makes it harder for commuters. 

1 0.26% The late night events keep students up late, and while this is fine with some students, others would like to be able to get to sleep earlier without 

missing events. Residence hall meetings should be at the begining of the week, not the end. They should also explain the residence hall 

resources and polices (things like game room equipment, mailboxes, launry rooms, music rooms, student kitchens, where the garbage bags 

go, when the weekly meal plans reset). 

1 0.26% The night activities were overall very fun and should definitely come back next year. College day was unnecessary and too much time spent 

sitting and listening to people talk 

1 0.26% The night time activities made up for the day time activities which were generally less interesting. Maybe a state fair activity would be fun 

1 0.26% The overall Welcome Week experience was very positive. It helped me get adjusted to the campus and meet new people. 

1 0.26% The program was extremely beneficial in introducing me to the U and what it means to be a student. I enjoyed being on campus before all of 

the other students arrived and getting to know the people from my groups. There were times when I wish we had been given more 

independence and time, but I'm glad I was able to participate in it and hope to come back as a Leader so I can use my experiences to help 

other students transition. 

1 0.26% The schedule was pretty tight and everyone got pretty run down from going going going constantly.

1 0.26% The Target run need to be more efficient as far as busing goes. It seemed very unorganized and I believe that some people got somewhat hurt 

while trying to get on the buses. 

1 0.26% The Target Run was a mess in a way, People rushed just to get on the bus. Many who wanted to go ended up not going. Many of my peers 

was unhappy about the event. 

1 0.26% the test is too long 

1 0.26% The week, although long, was overall enjoyable despite the sometimes unwanted activities. It did cause me to reflect on my outlook of the U 

and made me consider what I am going to do at the U more. 

1 0.26% The whole process was pretty good. 

1 0.26% The, "welcome week happens, rain or shine" seemed a little silly. 

1 0.26% There is never enough fun to be had, so in saying that, Welcome Week can be a lot more entertaining with more interactive events that are 

filled with fun and laughter. However, overall, Welcome Week was perfect. 

1 0.26% Things could be more efficient. For example, our WW Leaders seemed to have directions to get off of a bus at Coffman, when we were going 

to the Field House, regardless of the fact that we stopped at a stop that was much closer. 

1 0.26% This post test is way too long! 

1 0.26% this survey was wayyyyy tooooo long and if you want feed back, making it shorter would give students more of an incentive to complete it. I 

almost gave up, it took up too much of my time. Welcome week was too long in general. gave us no free time. make things more convenient for 

Bailey Hall students, like not making us go to Minneapolis for a closure meeting. Also, Grand Ave is a bad idea. As college students, we can't 

afford anything offered there. Just depressing. I understand the importance of giving freshman direction in their transition, but it was way too 

long and too much like orientation. The leaders were helpful though and understanding. 

1 0.26% this test is too long 

1 0.26% This was a fantastic idea for welcoming freshman, and I feel so much more confident entering college. Thank you volunteers, etc for making 

this happen. 

1 0.26% This was a great program overall! 

1 0.26% Though parts of welcome week were frustrating, in the end I'm really appreciative of all the work that goes into planning such a big event and 

I'm glad that the U offers this unique opportunity to its incoming freshman. I'm really glad I was a part of welcome week. 

1 0.26% to many activities. 

1 0.26% Too long. Orientation can be cut into one day and welcome week was unnecessarily long. 

1 0.26% too much stuff to do 

1 0.26% Tyler, the welcome week leader of group 213, should get a bonus he did a great job. 

1 0.26% very good experience overall. 

1 0.26% Very good overall experience, glad it was a part of my introduction to the university! 

1 0.26% Very informative and pretty fun. A success. 

1 0.26% Was not as enjoyable as I thought it was going to be, and I'm disappointed I have to say this, but it's true. 

1 0.26% Welcome Week was a great experience and I will never forget it! 

1 0.26% Welcome week as a whole was fun, I got to meet a group of people who I will be around for my next year at the University and establish 

relationships with most of them. It also provided me with answers to my questions and helped make the adjustment from my small town life to 

city living. However, I do believe too many things were packed into a small amount of time with plenty of them repeating information. It did give 

me wonderful opportunities no other college could provide and I am happy that it was offered to us. 

1 0.26% Welcome week can very easily be condensed into Welcome Weekend. I bet more people would like it too. 

1 0.26% Welcome Week could easily be shortened to three days or so instead of a week.

1 0.26% welcome week give an oppurtunity to meet with 2014 students and it helped me to develop realionship among each other. 

1 0.26% Welcome Week got to be really long, but it was helpful. 

1 0.26% Welcome week has made me feel super confident and comfortable and I am ready for the first day of school!! 

1 0.26% welcome week has overal very helpful, but i would have liked it to have expressed more about note-taking and what to study for in classes 

1 0.26% Welcome Week helped me to establish a strong sense of pride and school spirit. I'm super pumped to be a Gopher! 

1 0.26% Welcome Week is a great way for us freshman students to attend and explore the many outcomes at the University of Minnesota. It made me 

felt confidence and welcome because everyone was so nice and helping each other out. I did make me feel the transition to the U too. A very 

great experience. 

1 0.26% Welcome Week is an excellent transitional tool for freshmen that I was proud to participate in. 

1 0.26% Welcome Week is definitely worth the time and effort to attend. Thanks so so much! I had a blast. 

1 0.26% Welcome week is great overall, you guys did the best job possible with what you had to work with 

1 0.26% Welcome week is very good for meeting people. I recognize people nearly everywhere I go. 

1 0.26% Welcome Week really helped me to feel more confident in my college experience. 

1 0.26% Welcome Week seemed to be focused on those living on campus and it was sometimes difficult to do things I was interested in because I was 

a commuter. 

1 0.26% Welcome week should not be required. 

1 0.26% Welcome Week was a big help just that walking all day is very tiring. Welcome Week events ends pretty late which is hard for some commuters 

when they have to attend the events later at night. 

1 0.26% Welcome week was a good overall experience :) 

1 0.26% Welcome Week was a good way to start off the year, but it did get a little lengthy at times. 

1 0.26% Welcome Week was a great event to get to know the campus and meet new people. It really helped me feel acquainted with the people around 

me and my surroundings. Welcome Week has made me feel like I know what is expected of me. It was a great experience!! 

1 0.26% Welcome week was a great experience and i love being down at the university of minnesota! 

1 0.26% Welcome Week was a great experience because it prepared me for the semester and allowed me to make new friends, but some of the events 

seemed a bit unnecessary because we received similar information in other events. 

1 0.26% Welcome Week was a great experience that helped me make many great friends. Many thanks to the people who volunteered their time to 

make it run smoothly and efficiently. 

1 0.26% welcome week was a great experience! Thank you! :) 

1 0.26% Welcome Week was a great experience, and a lot of time and effort was put forth to make this a wonderful experience. I feel a lot more 

prepared for classes to begin. 

1 0.26% Welcome Week was a great experience. I was glad to have been a part of it. It is very true: you must make the best out of Welcome Week or it 

will not be enjoyable. 

1 0.26% Welcome Week was a great way to get in touch with people on campus. I really started to connect with people and feeling more comfortable on 

campus. 

1 0.26% welcome week was a positive experience that was helpful in making friends before classes started and getting to know the campus 

1 0.26% welcome week was alright. It would be nice to start a little later in the day and have slightly less free time between like 12 and 7 so we get more 

important stuff done in a shorter period of time during the middle of the day, and still have time to have fun with new friends later on in the day 

as well. 

1 0.26% Welcome week was amazing!

1 0.26% Welcome week was an easy way to make friends! 

1 0.26% Welcome Week was awesome! 

1 0.26% Welcome Week was effective, but sometimes overwhelming; though overall, it was a good experience. 

1 0.26% Welcome Week was extremely helpful. 

1 0.26% Welcome week was fun and also very informative. 

1 0.26% Welcome week was fun but had too many required sessions. 

1 0.26% welcome week was fun but some days were a little too loaded 

1 0.26% Welcome week was fun. I had a great time and met new friends. 

1 0.26% Welcome Week was fun; I enjoyed the group activies and became more familiar with the campus. It was definitely worthwhile. 

1 0.26% Welcome Week was great! Don't stop doing this! 

1 0.26% Welcome week was helpful but got lengthy in terms of having so much packed into each day. 

1 0.26% Welcome week was nice, but a bit long at times. 

1 0.26% Welcome week was overall a good experience. 

1 0.26% Welcome Week was overall a good experience. I just wish it felt more recreational than strict and required. I saw Welcome Week Leaders that 

were more approachable, fun, and laid back than mine. Although, this experience was fun and has inspired me to become a Welcome Week 

Leader in the future. 

1 0.26% Welcome Week was quite effective in adjusting students to college life. However, small changes should be made based on student comments. 

1 0.26% welcome week was really cool 

1 0.26% Welcome week was successful in my oppnion 

1 0.26% Welcome Week was very helpful as far as helping me meet new people that live right here in my dorm. It also helped me get more comfortable 

with the campus connector. 

1 0.26% Welcome Week was very helpful in learning about my campus and helped me feel more confident as a freshman. 

1 0.26% Welcome week was very long, and didn't really get me excited for school. I'm excited for school because welcome week is over. 

1 0.26% Welcome Week went well. 

1 0.26% Welcome Week, I believe went very smoothly. 

1 0.26% Well done. Thank you for providing this program to help me feel more integrated into my college experience. I enjoyed myself this week and I 

now feel prepared for college. 

1 0.26% Well done; the work put into this showed, thank you all for a great Welcome Week. 

1 0.26% What a fun and exciting start to such a fun and exciting new life. This University has it goin' on! 

1 0.26% When the student panel is selected, it should be more diverse. The student panel we were able to ask questions to consisted of all girls, in 

engineers with out boarders. They all had the same perspective on our questions. I did get to know campus very well, though. 

1 0.26% While exhausting, welcome week was overall a helpful experience. 

1 0.26% Why was there a number included along with the descriptions on questions (including and like) 102-112. 

1 0.26% WW should not segregate the commuter students from the resident hall students. They should find a method in which both groups could mingle 

and get to know each other. My idea of having commuter students stay for Welcome Week is a plausible idea that needs refurnishing but is still 

a good idea. I've always felt.. disconnected from the U just because I do not live on campus. WW just made it worse because WW segregated 

the commuter students from the resident hall students.

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