Carleton has a lot of good traditions, but those centered on “New Student Week” are especially good. The best one: upperclass students line up at the formal campus entrance and cheer – loudly and energetically – for the first-year students as they roll onto campus. The noise is joyous and wonderful.
Another good, if more practical, tradition involves putting many of the check-in activities under a huge tent on the campus quad. I’m not involved in that affair, but I do like to see literally all the first-year students (and their hovering parents) lined up and waiting for their life at the college to start…
