{"id":10868,"date":"2011-06-30T09:33:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T14:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=10868"},"modified":"2011-06-30T10:05:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T15:05:59","slug":"smart-start-leads-new-students-through-the-halls-of-brock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/06\/smart-start-leads-new-students-through-the-halls-of-brock\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Start leads new students through the halls of Brock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10893\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10893\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10893 \" title=\"Heather Finn and Cooper Millard\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/smartstart2011-3.jpg\" alt=\"Heather Finn and Cooper Millard\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heather Finn and Cooper Millard help guide students through the halls of Brock.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s that time of year again \u2013 a time when tour guides in red shirts can be seen walking backward through the halls of Brock, giving parents and future students a glimpse of the next year.<\/p>\n<p>About 2,500 students will come through Brock\u2019s halls this summer as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/registrar\/smart-start\" target=\"_blank\">Smart Start<\/a>, a program operated through the Registrar\u2019s office. It gives new students a preview of university life, guides them through the registration process and makes them feel at home.<\/p>\n<p>Many students bring their families to the one-day program. It is meant to make that first day of school in September a little less daunting, said Heather Finn, who with Cooper Millard acts as a Smart Start team leader.<\/p>\n<p>Finn, a fourth-year Recreation and Leisure Studies student, grew up in St. Catharines and still found Smart Start to be helpful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt like I knew a lot about Brock. Then I realized there was so much more I needed to learn,\u201d she said \u201cI knew how to use the pool but not necessarily how to navigate Mackenzie Chown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Millard, a fourth-year Political Science student, found Smart Start so helpful that he asked that day how to join the program staff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe students were so knowledgeable and energetic, it was unreal,\u201d he said. \u201cIt really eased my mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>About 80 per cent of students in Smart Start are entering their first year. They arrive at Brock at 8:40 a.m. to get name tags, packages and program plans. Students and parents take separate campus tours. They gather together again to hear a talk from a professor about academic expectations and lunch at the Guernsey Market.<\/p>\n<p>In the afternoon, students register for courses while parents watch other presentations. There are also tours of residences, which are popular, Millard said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people want to know what they bring and what they can fit in the rooms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smart Start runs from Monday to Friday from June 27 to Aug. 12. It also runs on three Saturdays in July.<\/p>\n<p>To register, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/registrar\/smart-start\" target=\"_blank\">brocku.ca\/registrar\/smart-start<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The orientation program runs until Aug. 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[28,42,83,105,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10868"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10892,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868\/revisions\/10892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}