A Three Hour Tour!?

Today was day #1 in the long list of three (or 2.5 hours or less) classes we have ahead of ourselves. I was one of the first to enter the classroom. Immediately found a few people I knew from previous classes such as Accounting 201 & 202, B 220 (although I knew her from a mutual friend). We got settled and then were told to take down the tables... that's always frightening to think that we won't be needing desks and ease of movement.
Oh well, the next thing is we went over our thoughts of the IBC program. What we had heard. No one really wanted to say anything about the horrific things they heard. Next we played a game. It was a great get to know you game. BINGO! Well it was a bit different. The object was to fill in the grid of 25 with people you were meeting. Then after everyone gathered the desired amount of names we sat back down in our seats then they proceeded to call out names off the role. Once you had five in a row you would "enthusiastically" yell BINGO! and come to the front and point out the five you got. Well it seemed harder that it sounded. Most people didn't yell out Bingo because they knew they didn't know everyone they got names for. I had done the smart thing and written down things like, "light yellow shirt", "grey hoodie", "curly hair" (it was a guy), etc.
After that embarrassment, we got to hear from the individual teachers. Remember this is four classes in one and plus some. It appears all of our teachers seem to be a bit dysfunctional. They went in turn and explained a bit about their background and how they got there. Pretty interesting... sort of. I know it will get better with the time of the classes. I think they were rushed or weren't too prepared.
We finally got our first break. I didn't even check the time to see where we were in the 3 hours. At this point we got a journal, which I'm sure they will describe better later. From what I understand at this point, the notebook is to be used to journalize our experience and then we will need to "write a paper using your notes". Here I am ahead of the curve using digital. We also got a chance to purchase a BYU-I book bag. I didn't even think to see if my behemoth of a laptop could fit in it. I have a 17" monitor. It barely does, but not in the cushy part it's supposed to fit in.
With break over we now moved the seats to the sides of the room and played IBC Olympics. I'm not going to go into each of the tasks assigned to us, but suffice it to say it had a bunch of silly things and we all had to break out and get involved. Now I think we were supposed to stay with our group as much as possible, but I have to admit, I found myself going wherever people needed someone to fulfill what I had already accomplished. Overall I think my group was the first one done and so helping others was always more fun than just sitting on the sides and waiting.Here's some of the fun. The first is a quick pic, so not something I would put in a yearbook, but good enough to see a bit of fun. Second was our group making a human pyramid.
Next we got in a big circle and were separated by our major and emphasis. As it turned out there was only one guy that was an accounting major in the whole of the IBC. To be in a company with him was to be coveted for sure. We then got broken into 2 teams... our companies. Then broken into our own teams. I was one to be in a team with the ACCOUNTANT! But our group had 7 people and we were only to have 6. So I sacrificed myself to go with another group. I hope I made the right choice.
After that it was getting to know when your team could meet and so we sat around swapping info... sort of. Here's my group:

Picture #1 Colette Brown and Stephen Madsen and Rachel Huey. Picture #2 Stephen Madsen and Rachel Huey. Picture #3 Chris Meyer and Shane Ririe.