Into Campus buddy group

There are two ways to get a buddy group:

1. Your study program has buddies, and you will receive a sign-up link.
2. You can join a group with available spots when the buddy week starts.

If your study program has buddies, you will receive an email with a registration form during the summer (after you have signed your study contract).

• There is a deadline to sign up, and it will be stated in the email you receive with the registration form.

If your program does not have buddies or you missed the deadline: see “How to get a group without signing up.”

Registered participants are assigned to buddy groups the week before the Into Campus buddy week. This means you should not expect to receive confirmation that you have been placed in a group immediately after signing up. It also does not help to sign up multiple times.

It is normal to be contacted during the weekend before the buddy week. The buddies will do this via email, chats, or SMS.

The group leaders of the different buddy groups are responsible for assigning registered participants to groups.

If you were not signed up for a buddy group, you will need to wait until you are contacted by a buddy from a group with available spots (see “How to get a group without signing up”). This usually happens during the weekend before the buddy week, as registered participants are assigned to groups first.

This applies to those who are in a program without buddies, or who missed the deadline to sign up for a buddy group.

To get help finding a buddy group with available spots, you should send an email to the buddy committee at ic.oslo@studentunionen.no. The subject line of the email should be “Help finding a group for <name of your study program>”. In the email, you must include:

1. Your name
2. Mobile number (make sure to enter the correct number)
3. Your study program (even if you have written it in the subject line)

When will you receive a reply?

You should not expect to receive a reply until at least the weekend before the buddy week.

If a buddy group has available spots, you will be contacted directly by buddies from that group.

Please note that this depends on whether there are groups with available spots, and these may be groups from a different study program.

There may be several reasons for this. These apply both to those who have signed up for buddy groups and those who have sent an email to get help finding a group.

Here are some of the most common reasons:

• You are expecting a response before the buddy groups have been created, or before the buddy committee has had time to review your email.
• You have registered an incorrect email address or misspelled it.
• You entered the wrong mobile number when signing up for a buddy group, and we are therefore unable to find you in the student lists.
• The email we sent ended up in your spam folder.
• The email you sent ended up in the buddy committee’s spam folder.
• Your inbox is full and you are unable to receive new emails.

For those who have signed up via the form:

The groups are created in the week before Into Campus, and you will be contacted directly by your buddies. There are several thousand students who need to be assigned to groups, and the buddies do their best to have the groups ready as quickly as possible.

It takes time to assign all new students to groups, and you should not expect to receive a response until the buddies have finished assigning all students who signed up before the deadline.

For those who have sent an email to the buddy committee to find an available group:

Requests about available groups that are received before the sign-up deadline will not be answered until after the deadline has passed.

You will receive a response as soon as possible, but you should expect that it may take some time before you are contacted by a group with available spots.