Wednesday August 22nd Schedule of Events Time
Location
8:00 am-2:00 pm
Schedule
Individual Residential Student Move-In Residence Halls
8:30 am-2:00 pm
Student Center
11:00 am-2:00 pm
Student Center
Commuter Student Check-In
11:00 am-2:00 pm
Student Center
Lunch and Vendor Fair Join us at the 921 (Main Dining Hall in the Student Center)
International Student Immigration Registration Residential Students Check in at Residence Halls First
1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Lower Campus New Falcon Welcome Reception
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Bentley Arena
Convocation
4:30 pm-5:00 pm
Athletic Fields
Orientation Group Welcome
5:00 pm-7:00 pm
Forest/Kresge
Student BBQ Shopping Trip for Exchange Students 6:30 pm-8 pm
7:15 pm-8:45 pm
Various Locations
First Year Student Building/Floor Meetings
7:30 pm- 8:30 pm
La Cava Center
First Year Commuter Social (La Cava 305 AB) Transfer Social (La Cava 325 ABC)
8:55 pm-9:20 pm
Bentley Arena
Orientation Staff Welcome
9:30 pm-10:30 pm
Bentley Arena
Hypnotist
If you forgot any of your essentials, there will be a shuttle to a Target store leaving at 10:30 pm.
BENTLEY ORIENTATION AND NEW STUDENT PROGRAMS
Thursday August 23rd Schedule of Events Time
Location
Schedule
7:00 am-9:00 am
921
Breakfast
7:00 am-8:45 am
Various locations
9:00 am-9:35 am 9:50 am-10:10 am 10:15 am-11:30 am
Athletic Fields Bentley Arena Bentley Arena
11:45 am-2:00 pm
Classrooms & 921
1:00 pm-4:30 pm
Various Locations
5:00 pm-6:00 pm
Classrooms
Wellness Opportunities Meditation: Sacred Space Group Gym Workout: Dana Center Orientation Group Meeting Bentley Beliefs You Can B! Orientation Group Meeting/Lunch Rotations Groups 1-20: (Group Meeting--11:45-12:15/ Lunch—12:30-1:15) Groups 21-40: (Lunch—11:45-12:30/ Group Meeting—1:15-1:45) Groups 41-62 :(Group Meeting—12:30- 1/ Lunch 1:15-2:00) You Can B Photos/ Socials Photo Session: Student Center Socials: Please check yapp app for full list Orientation Group Meeting (56-62 meet over dinner) Dinner Groups 56-62, 5:00-5:45 pm Groups 1-27, 6:00 pm-6:45 pm Groups 28-55, 7:00 pm-7:45 pm
5:00 pm-7:45 pm
921
5:45 pm-7:00 pm
Backbay Rooms
International Student Visa Session (Mandatory for F-1 students) Dinner will follow this session at 7 pm
8:00 pm-Midnight
Bentley Arena
Lowering Our Shields
BENTLEY ORIENTATION AND NEW STUDENT PROGRAMS
Friday August 24th Schedule of Events Time
Location
Schedule
6:30 am-8:15 am
921
7:00 am-8:00 am
Various locations
8:30 am- 8:50 am
Athletic Fields
Orientation Group Meeting
9:00 am-10:15 am
Bentley Arena
Making the Most of Your Academic Experience
10:00 am-11:30 am
Backbay Rooms
11:00 am & 4:15 pm
Various Locations
11:00 am-1:15 pm 11:00 am-7:00 pm
921 Smith Classrooms
Breakfast Wellness Opportunities Meditative Nature Walk: Meet at Sacred Space Early Morning Swim: Dana Center
Exchange Student Visa Session Academic Overview (Rotation with Orientation Groups) Transfer Student Session at 10:30 am in the Arena Lunch (Rotation with Orientation Groups) Computer Distribution (Rotation with Orientation Groups)
11:30 am-1:00 pm
AAC 161
Exchange Student Advising Hours (Optional)
1:00 pm-4:00 pm
Various Locations
4:15 pm-5:45 pm
Backbay Rooms
4:45 pm-7:00 pm
921
7:15 pm-9:00 pm
Bentley Arena
Community Expectations & Safety
9:00 pm-Midnight
Student Center
Falcons After Dark
Academic Resources Expo (Rotation with Orientation Groups) Healthy Relationships (Transfer & Exchange students ) Dinner (Rotation with Orientation Groups)
BENTLEY ORIENTATION AND NEW STUDENT PROGRAMS
Saturday August 25th Schedule of Events Time
Location
Schedule Wellness Opportunities All-Levels Yoga: Greenspace (Rain Location: Student Center) Morning Run: Lower Track
8:00 am-9:00 am
Various locations
9:00 am-9:50 am
921
Breakfast
Bentley Arena
Ed Gerety
10:00 am-11:00 am
Strengths in Action and Lunch Strengths in Action: Groups 31-62 (Arena) Lunch: Groups 1-30 (Student Center, 921)
11:15 am-12:30 pm
Various Locations
12:45 pm-2:00 pm
Various Locations
1:30 pm-6:00 pm
Collins Hall
2:15 pm-3:30 pm
Various Locations
Strengths in Action and Getting Involved Strengths in Action: Groups 1-30 (Arena) Getting Involved: Groups 31-59 (Student Center)
3:30 pm-4:15 pm
Various Locations
Real Talk
4:15 pm-8:15 pm
Various Locations
Speak About It/ Dinner (Rotation with Orientation Groups)
8:00 pm-Midnight
Greenspace
Getting Involved and Lunch Getting Involved: Groups 1-30 (Student Center) Lunch: Groups 31-62 (Student Center, 921) Exchange Student Excursion *Pick up bus at Collins Hall
The Bentley Block Party
BENTLEY ORIENTATION AND NEW STUDENT PROGRAMS
Sunday August 26th Schedule of Events Time
Location
Schedule
9:00 am-11:00 am
921
9:00 am-2:30 pm
Wilder Pavilion
11:00 am- 1:00 pm
Continental Breakfast Deans’ Case Competition
921
Lunch
Optional Activities 11:00 am-4:00 pm
Various Locations
Pool Tournament: Living Room (11:00 am-12:30 pm) Volleyball: Forest/Kresge Volleyball Pit (12:30-2:00 pm) “Craft”ernoon Project: Student Center, Pub (1:00-2:30 pm) Basketball: Copley North Basketball Court (2:00-3:30 pm) Ping Pong : Student Center, Living Room (2:30-4:00 pm)
12:30 pm
Shuttle Stops
Explore our local community! Harvard Square (Check Schedule on Yapp App)
2:00 pm
Wilder Pavilion
Deans’ Case Competition Final Presentations All community members invited
3:00 pm
Pub
Giving Back: Community Service at Bentley
5:00 pm-8:00 pm
921
Dinner
Please note that the Spiritual Life Team will be hosting the following services: August 26 Catholic Mass 7 pm
August 27 Protestant Christian Fellowship 5 pm
August 29 Mindfulness Meditation 2 pm
August 31 Muslim Jum’ah Prayer 1pm
September 7 Jewish Shabbat Dinner 5:30 pm
BENTLEY ORIENTATION AND NEW STUDENT PROGRAMS