O-Week

[kauac]

Hey guys!

I'm heading to USYD this year, and was just curious about what actually happens on O-week? All I seem to know about it is that you can find out about clubs & societies and there are quite often parties as well.

And as someone who lives 1.5 hrs away from the uni, is it worth going everyday to O-week? Or can I make the most out of just going in for 1 day or something?

Keen to hear what your experiences of O-Week were (regardless of which uni  ).

[owidjaja]

Hey guys!

I'm heading to USYD this year, and was just curious about what actually happens on O-week? All I seem to know about it is that you can find out about clubs & societies and there are quite often parties as well.

And as someone who lives 1.5 hrs away from the uni, is it worth going everyday to O-week? Or can I make the most out of just going in for 1 day or something?

Keen to hear what your experiences of O-Week were (regardless of which uni  ).

Hey there,

Great to see you back on the forums!

Honestly, once you've gone once, you've experienced it all. O-week is great for signing up to societies and clubs, and also doing some admin stuff (e.g. getting student IDs) but honestly, the main reason people go is for the free merch lmao. At least at UNSW, there are so many companies like Officeworks and Commonwealth Bank giving you free stuff but with really long lines. There are also some talks and seminars that they do (like faculty seminar or soft skills talk) but I didn't really go to them.

Last year, I only went for one day to fix my student ID and go to our mini AN meet up and didn't do anything else except for hanging out in air-conditioned buildings because it was so freaking hot lol.

Hope this helps!

Edit: For context, I live around 1 hr away from uni

[Sine]

Hey guys!

I'm heading to USYD this year, and was just curious about what actually happens on O-week? All I seem to know about it is that you can find out about clubs & societies and there are quite often parties as well.

And as someone who lives 1.5 hrs away from the uni, is it worth going everyday to O-week? Or can I make the most out of just going in for 1 day or something?

Keen to hear what your experiences of O-Week were (regardless of which uni  ).

Can't speak for Usyd but o-weeks can be somewhat course dependent. Some courses will have you come in for orientation sessions which can be nice in first year but once you get further into your degree becomes less and less important as you now what to expect. There will also be a bunch of clubs/societies to join in. Most first years go crazy with this and join anything that they are tangentially intersted in- my advice would be to join a small number that you are super intersted in so that you will have time to attend events/socialise.

With regards whether to go everyday - from my experience most people don't do this. The most attendance is on the first and second day of 0-week and then by the mid and late portions of the week most people have had enough.

[RuiAce]

O-week is really just a bludge week. It's meant to be a fun week before the despair JOY that is university hits.

Joining clubs and societies is usually the main thing. But many first years also like to:
- go around and snatch as many freebies as they can (as mentioned above)
- actually ask the clubs and societies what's in it for them and what upcoming events they have
- go to some of the late night events, for examples karaokes/partying

A select few students also go to seminars during O-week. Not harmful, but usually a bit ceebs (given that it's fun outside).

Typically, people go to O-week for another day when they find out another event is being run another day, and they genuinely want to go to it. No obligation to though usually. (Going on 1 or 2 days tends to be the more dominating option. But some students who really want to go to many events do come in for a third.)

(I think I rocked up 3 days purely because I was bored at home. Only really needed to come for 2 days.)

It usually dims down during the week as well. Mon-Tues tend to be much busier compared to Thur-Fri. (Wed lies somewhere in the middle I think.)

Can't speak for Usyd but o-weeks can be somewhat course dependent. Some courses will have you come in for orientation sessions

Admittedly, orientation sessions are pretty much useless at UNSW.

[kauac]

Thanks all! So I think I'll plan to just head in for one day, since it sounds like I'll be able to see/do everything all in the one go.

Someone I know who works at the uni actually promised to shout me and some friends lunch on O-week, so I'll definitely have to be there at some point