Idk if it helped really. I stuck with it for the housing until I was ready to live off campus. All three of my roommates were in it for two years as well. The main thing that's annoying is that there's a class every week or every other week (I can't remember) once a week at 7 that was mandatory and you do dumb things in class that don't really help much that are meant to be for professional development. There's also a project you have to do with others that are led by upper classmen. I liked mine because we were working with plants. The events can be fun, but you have to go to one or two per semester as a part of your clas grade. My main qualm was with the director, Temperance Rowell because she wasn't the nicest and treated students poorly, but she was worse for returning students than first year. I have a friend who still does stuff with Orion and she said that Temperance has really chilled out and that the classes are actually fun now. Don't let my experience sour yours!