Weekend With Mom, Check-In, and More!

My last post was only a few days ago and I feel like I've done so much since then, so this may be a long post!

Last time I posted it was about my mom and I's first day in Florida - Friday. On Saturday we spent all day at Downtown Disney and met up with two of my roommates for dinner that night! After dinner, my mom, one of my roommates and her nana, and I tried to catch a bus to the Polynesian to watch Wishes on the beach, but just as we got to the Poly, the fireworks ended. Oh well!

On Sunday my mom and I spent the day going all over the place. We went to the Boardwalk, so that was exciting!

Monday morning was check-in! My arrival time was scheduled to start at nine, but my mom decided we should leave early because we both thought there would be a lot of traffic considering the first check-in time starts at 7. We left at around 8 and got there at 8:20 with no problem, oops. I felt bad going earlier than I was supposed to, but I wasn't going to have my mom make another trip. Check-in was about an hour long, I was done around 9:30 and had Casting at 10, so I waited for a bus. Casting was about an hour/hour and a half long. After Casting I was done for the day so we got to drive to my apartment. My group got our top choice of a Chatham 3 bedroom! It's really nice, however, it was pretty gross when we moved in. The carpets were barely cleaned and my roommate and I's shower and bathroom was pretty dirty.

After checking in, a group of four of us went to take my mom to the airport. It was sad to see her go, but I know I'll be okay. After that, we went to Walmart. It was quite the adventure getting there! We spent almost three hours in Walmart with all of our groceries and a few hiccups, but we got a lot of stuff that was necessary!

Today at 13:00 my roommate and I had our housing meeting. I've heard that it was awful and boring, but ours wasn't too bad! The beginning was easy to listen to, but towards the end I think we all got a little bored sitting there. It was about an hour long.

So now I'm still getting settled. My roommate and I are going to head to Walmart for round two because we need some little stuff. After that, my apartment is going to have a little family dinner and we're all going to help cook and sit down and eat together; I'm so excited! And after eating it sounds like we're going to head to City Walk!

I absolutely love the girls I live with and I love our apartment! I can't wait until we decorate some!

Disney College Program: DORMS

I JUST finished filling out everything on the DORMS website! I am so so so excited now! As promised, I will go into detail about DORMS.

DORMS is how the participants of the DCP pick their housing and flatmates. You may choose to go random or you may pick who you live with (although nothing is 100% guaranteed). To link with your roommates, you must get their roommate ID numbers that are enclosed in the two emails provided. ONE person must go into DORMS before the others. After the said leader fills out DORMS, an email will be sent to each flatmate asking to confirm the rooming arrangement. After everyone fills out their DORMS, the process is complete! It was a very simple procedure!

These lovely emails came through this morning:

The second email came in less than two seconds after the first email, however, in the email it states the second email may take several hours to arrive.

 This is what the first email looks like, it just goes over some important points about filling out DORMS. You may see "you are eligible to link with up to 5 other participants" in that third bullet point. Either there are no 4 bedroom options for our arrival date, or if you're put into a 4 bedroom, Disney may put you with randoms. I'm not sure. Usually you can link with up to 7 other people.

 

 Yay, finally linked!

This time around, DORMS is a little different. The rooming preferences now look like this:

 

These were the preferences we picked!

You rank your preferences from the top (being first choice) to the bottom (being last choice).

Each arrival date may have different housing options. These were the options available for my arrival date and they cannot be expected to be the exact same for the other arrival dates.

After finishing up everything in DORMS, you'll receive your boarding pass! PRINT THIS OUT YOU NEED IT FOR CHECK-IN!

 

So, overall, DORMS was very easy to fill out. All but one of our flatmates received our emails, but after a quick call to recruiting, she was able to get her roommate ID to link with the rest of us! 

If I hadn't made this obvious already: I'M SO EXCITED! I can say I leave for Florida NEXT WEEK. That's awesome and crazy! Check-in is in 13 days and I leave in 10 days! I'm almost in the single digits!

"See Ya' Real Soon!"

I don't have much to update on, but I received this lovely email earlier today!!!

A few short days...more like 13! Wow, that's CRAZY. 13 days until I start this wild ride. I saw an old picture I had that said 123 days, I swear, it seems like yesterday when it was that far away! I'm still really nervous, but I think my excitement has finally taken over the nerves. I began packing about a week ago, but only filled one Ziploc Space Bag (these will save your life, especially if you're flying like I am). Yesterday I did a lot more packing and a lot of planning. I made a little calendar for the next 13 days of what outfit I'm going to wear what day so I know what I can pack and what I have to leave out until last minute. I already have my outfit planned for check-in day, is that weird? Considering we can't wear tank tops for our ID photos and I don't want to change, I picked a shirt I absolutely love and always seems to photograph well. It's a little silly to care about something like that, but it just gives me more to plan out until I leave.

I'm expecting to get the DORMS emails tomorrow since the August 4th arrivals received theirs last Tuesday. Fingers crossed! I've been waiting for those emails with bated breath. It turns out DORMS is a little different this time around. There's a list of all the available rooming options and you have to pick the ones you're interested in. You're not guaranteed those, but they try their best. I'm terrified our group's options won't be available. I'll be sure to update when I finish the process!

Until then, au revoir!

Meetup and More Waiting

This past Monday I met another girl who is doing the DCP! We've been talking for months now and a few weeks ago we realized we only live three hours away from each other. So we picked a town halfway between the two of us and we got to hangout for a few hours! We had a really random day but it was so fun and I'm so glad I got to meet her! She was super nice and funny and I'll definitely be hanging out with her in Florida!

More waiting. It seems like most of this program consists of waiting! The August 4th arrivals received their DORMS emails a couple of days ago and I am now anxiously awaiting mine! DORMS is the system Disney uses to pick roommates and apartment complex preferences. You're not guaranteed anything, but they certainly try their best. I'll try to remember to screenshot some things and give more info. on DORMS once I get the email. I'm the designated team leader for our group of six, so I'll be going into the system first and sending the other five girls their request. Hopefully nothing goes funky and there won't be any problems!