{"id":37079,"date":"2015-07-30T11:05:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T21:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=37079"},"modified":"2021-08-10T09:55:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T19:55:55","slug":"new-manoa-students-prepped-for-college-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/07\/30\/new-manoa-students-prepped-for-college-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"New M\u0101noa students prepped for college experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KHsBkUQ91dc\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s back to school season for <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa<\/a> students, many of whom are new to the M&#257;noa campus. The <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/nso\">New Student Orientation program<\/a> is helping newcomers make the transition.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Today we&#8217;re facilitating new students coming into the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa. We&#8217;re introducing them to college life here and that includes things like academics, how to register for classes, introduction to scholarships, as well as fun things like getting involved and doing the campus tours. We feed them and introduce them to a lot of information in this one day,&rdquo; said New Student Orientation Senior Leader <strong>Ryan Yamada<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Working with our academic advisors really helped us a lot too to see what classes we need and to make sure we graduate on time,&rdquo; said <strong>Amateo Flores<\/strong>, an incoming <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa freshman.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&#8217;m looking forward to actually meeting new people and having the same interests as me,&rdquo; said <strong>Jessica May Juan<\/strong>, also an incoming <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa freshman. &ldquo;We could help each other with homework and stuff and reaching our goal in getting a degree.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>New Student Orientation sessions are held before the beginning of every fall semester and are open to all incoming students as they prepare for the academic journey ahead of them.<\/p>\n<p>Added Yamada, &ldquo;We really care about them and we care about their success especially within the first semester and then beyond.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>For more information on New Student Orientation, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/nso\">www.hawaii.edu\/nso<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Ching<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/manoa-new-student-orientation.jpg\" alt=\"students listening to presenter\" width=\"620\" height=\"347\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37090\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/manoa-new-student-orientation.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/manoa-new-student-orientation-260x146.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa New Student Orientation program is helping newcomers make the transition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[91,9,56],"class_list":["post-37079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-video","tag-student-life","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37079"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146174,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37079\/revisions\/146174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}