Thousands of students, and many for the first time, will be pouring into local universities and colleges over the next days and weeks for an orientation season that one administrator says “never gets old.”
“At the start of the school year, there’s always tremendous excitement, in part because we’re always welcoming a crop of new students who have never been here before,” said University of Manitoba president Michael Benarroch.
“You’re in high school. You’re in a small setting, your teachers are on top of you, they’re asking for assignments — and you come to university and you’re one of now 30,000 students.
“In the next week, you’re going to see a lot of activity on campus, ways in which we’re trying to connect with students to make sure that they have the resources they need, to make sure they understand how universities work.”
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