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Climate & Winter Clothing
West Lafayette has a humid continental climate characterized by warm to hot summers, freezing cold winters and highly variable rainfall. You will want to pack for living in a locale that has four distinct seasons. The weather in the Greater Lafayette area can change rapidly and often. Without a doubt, you will hear someone say,…
Book Your Hotel
Booking your hotel is a priority! You don’t want to delay this, as hotels get sold out during BGRi/BGR time. Every year, 10,000 freshmen students and their families descend around the same time in West Lafayette. Of these, half will be out of state and the family will stay in town for at least a…
Book Your Travel
So having chosen the number of days you will be spending at Purdue in my earlier post Plan Your Itinerary, we can move on to thinking about booking your travel dates. However, you need to be careful when choosing your flights. In order to come to the right choice, you need to:
Plan Your Itinerary
American families typically come to drop off their kids on the day of the move-in and leave the same day or the day after. For them, it will seem strange that you would want to spend more than that time for dropping off your kid at college. The typical American kid also has probably been…
Your 1st Semester Course Schedule.
Note to the Parents: When I participated in BGRi as a Parent, I met many parents who had overlooked this critical area. Although I understand the constraints of time, and maybe a lack of experience/ education in the same field as their kid has chosen, I would rate this as the one area that an…
Learning Communities
A Learning Community (LC) is a group of 20-30 first year students who study in the same major (or at the very least, take 2 or 3 of the same courses together) and stay together in the same dorm. This allows them to study together and get involved and make friends. A L/C also goes…
Choose Your Meal Plan
Whichever meal plan you chose, it will be added to your Purdue University billing along with tuition and housing. Also note that during Thanksgiving Break, Winter Break, Spring Break, and other stated University vacations, no meals will be provided. Once you are on campus, review the locations above in detail in my post Explore Dining…
First Year Housing
On-Campus Dorm (and Off-campus) living and finding a community at the West Lafayette campus With the Indianapolis campus being a new addition from the 2024-25 academic year, my experience is limited to to the WL campus. What follows is therefore for the WL main campus only. The housing shortage at Purdue is severe but the…
Complete Pre-Orientation
Connect to your university experience by completing a step by step pre-orientation process! New Boilermakers will need to start orientating to Purdue, whilst still at home, through orientation programs you will get access to after accepting your offer of admission. Before proceeding further, let me remind you to write Thank You notes to your recommenders,…