Freshmen stay the course of IU's campus

Though most freshmen have spent a lifetime navigating only one building to go to class, they were given the challenge of navigating an entire campus when classes started yesterday. \nBut many freshmen who might have worried about sitting down in the wrong class on their first day of college were relieved to find out their day was not as bad as anticipated.\n"I was pretty relieved to not go in the wrong room," freshman Leslie Nix said. "I was pretty scared." \nNix, along with several other freshmen, got acquainted with the location of her classes prior to the first day.\nFreshman Nate Meyer said Welcome Week helped him get oriented with campus.\nNot all freshmen had days that went off without a hitch, though.\n"I was fine until I got my first assignment," said freshman Gina Krizman, who was assigned three reading assignments and a short paper by the next class period. "I was kind of surprised we had that big of an assignment for the first day."\nFreshman Dana Brej said one professor talked too quickly for her to understand. \n"I couldn't understand the teacher," she said. "He (talked) really, really fast. How are you supposed to learn?"\nMeyer's first day of classes took an unexpected turn when he found his Russian class meeting on the 10th floor of the Herman B Wells Library.\n"It's back in the middle of nowhere," he said of his experience. "It was so isolated ... I was surprised."\nTo smooth out the day, volunteer IU guides were located throughout campus from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. to help direct confused students to classes, Orientation Services said. The guides will be available at the same times today.\nTerri Crouch of the Office of University Ceremonies said she enjoyed volunteering her time to meet students and help them out. Since she is often in charge of events like freshman induction and graduation, she said she likes to see students in between the two major events in their lives.\nCrouch said students have been friendly and optimistic about their first day and that the first day ran extremely smoothly.\n"I think that speaks well of the University," she said.\nBart Quinet, assistant registrar and manager of record services, said he heard of no problems or things out of the ordinary for the day.\n"It's really more about preparation," he said. "Business as usual today is what it seems like for us"