ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 The University of Central Florida is using multiple move-in locations, staff and volunteers to help about 7,500 students settle into campus housing during move-in, which began Thursday.<\/p>\n
The university said the system is designed to keep the process moving as students and families arrive with furniture, boxes, bags and other dorm room essentials.<\/p>\n
The busiest day so far was Thursday, when about 3,000 students moved in.<\/p>\n
Chris McDonald, UCF\u2019s assistant vice president of student success and well-being, said the move-in process typically takes about two hours from the time a student arrives.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey check in, they unload, and then we move them off so the next round can come in behind them,\u201d McDonald said. \u201cSo it’s never 100% perfect, but we get pretty close every year.\u201d<\/p>\n
UCF staff said the goal is to make move-in as quick and stress-free as possible for students and families.<\/p>\n
Saturday marks the last day of the move-in period, so even if you\u2019re just driving near UCF, you can expect a lot more vehicles in that area.<\/p>\n
UCF faculty and staff are welcoming both new and returning students with a week of celebrations and events called Pegasus Palooza, starting this Monday.<\/p>\n
It all starts inside the Addition Financial Arena for \u201cThe Knighting,\u201d which is the school\u2019s official welcome ceremony for new students.<\/p>\n
There will also be an organization fair after the ceremony to highlight groups that students can join on campus.<\/p>\n
Most students are back in class, including colleges kicking off the fall semester. Classes began for Bethune-Cookman University last Monday, whereas Stetson University had its first day of classes Thursday. Students at UCF and Rollins College will begin the first day of classes on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 The University of Central Florida is using multiple move-in locations, staff and volunteers to help…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4996,9995,274,6507,113,2204,115,1335,139,141,140,278,2032,835],"class_list":["post-378450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-app-education","tag-app-latest-education-stories","tag-app-top-stories","tag-ashley-engle","tag-education","tag-instagram-n13","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-top-stories","tag-trending-topics","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}