How Well Is Your Orientation Named? PT 2 — NTU edition

Okay, here’s a filler piece after MSLS. Will write more, but this has just got to get off.MORE STUFF ABOUT ORIENTATION NAMES! NTU edition.

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This is NTU Hall One: The Lost Realm. Or, Lost-Vivor, which is appended at the bottom of the banner. Is it like Survivor, but with greater mindf**k? Or is it like Lost, but with more reality? Only attendance can tell.

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Hall V Orientation Camp nicely acronyms to “HAVOC”.There’s this map behind as well.

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For one Hall that actually has internet presence for their hall orientation, this one doesn’t have a banner up on their website. Its Oneiro, with a dream theme. A little bird tells me there are four clans: Khydra, Phaeton, Azriel, Xaedon. Ooo, more meaningless awesome names. I suppose that Oneiro is derivative of the Oneiros, “the sons of Hypnos, the god of sleep. They were personifications of dreams—black-winged daemons—and they were said to live on the shores of the Ocean in the far West, in a cavern near the border of Hades”.

Here’s another orientation trope then manifested: a dream. I’ve read in TH orientation write-ups that it was like a dream. Even last year TH’s orientation was “reverie”, almost dream-like.

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There’s Hall 9 with Legion. Wonder if its themed like Sparta. Its an army trope, until the boys start bitchin’ about NS.

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Hall 10 is seriously undecipherable. I think its “Heroes of X”. Its this giant poster that goes on and on and on. I can’t tell the title. From this shot you can see a light green smurf and big bird. There’s supposed to be a care bear and a ninja turtle as well. The mind reels. Check it out for yourself.

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Finally, Hall 15 is “Revival: The Story Begins”. They forgot to put in the word “again” to make the revival for real. The story always begins in all orientations. Like “Reverie: the story begins”. There always seems to be some allusion to a new chapter of your life. Like everything else before didn’t matter. Here, have a pheonix down! REVIVE!

For the rest of the halls, I can’t find them online, except that LCC told me in a comment earlier that NTU’s Hall 14 was “WTF”.

If you do have information about other orientation camps in your JC or your hall, I would love to hear from you and about your experiences at orientation.