<p>What was your first day or first week of college like?</p>
<p>completely different than anything you're used to school wise.</p>
<p>I felt like the first three or so weeks were a lot like being away at camp - you didn't know anyone, there weren't a whole lot of responsibilities yet, and it was a blast. the biggest difference of course was you knew you weren't going to be going home anytime soon.</p>
<p>My first week of college sucked. My college has a 5 day orientation (mixers, diversity classes, sexual assault awareness, all that fun stuff) and it is amazingly boring and tedious. Rather than getting accustomed to college life in your own way, things are forced on you as if everyone was the same. Once classes started and I could be on my own, everything was much better. Contrary to #2, it was the worst college experience I had. It's probably a lot different based on the college and the person.</p>
<p>My suitemates and I were actually just talking about this the other day and, even though it was only a year ago, it actually gets hard to remember.</p>
<p>I guess my first night we were out 'til 5:00 AM at the local bar, drunk beyond all ****, and that's when we all met and became friends.
The second day I remember it had been raining so we had a mud-football game with the girls from the other side of the hall.
The third day there were a bunch of big parties at the fraternity houses so everyone went down there and had a good time.
The fouth day, I believe classes started. That wasn't so much fun.
The rest of the week was sort of a blur between tons of drinking, tons of chicks, and tons of fun. College rules.</p>
<p>Do you mean overall or just this year?</p>
<p>This year (sophomore), the first week basically meant me driving to campus, going to my classes, catching up with people I hadn't seen since May, and working out. And also driving home or going to work at the end of classes (depending on the day).</p>
<p>Mine was really cool. First, my family drove out from norcal to OK in two cars with all my stuff, and we stopped and saw a whole lot of Route 66 stuff and the Grand Canyon. Then when we got here, I moved in, and had orientation and sorority recruitment stuff for a week. I really liked all the stuff we did, because I met a ton of friends, and it started me off knowing a lot of people because of it, even though I'm from 1600 miles away.
When school actually started, it was much more stressfull, because it was also audition week for the first four shows of the year.
But overall, it was a good experience, and I'm glad we did everything the way we did.</p>
<p>My first week sucked...orientation, kill me now...I don't think it was the actual activities that bothered me, but just the fact that everyone was on this mission to become "like the best friends ever" in a total of 5 days and in order to do that they all looked like conforming idiots.</p>
<p>ironically, though, I met my two best friends here on the 3rd night of orientation talking about how much we hated it...that was a great night.</p>
<p>Didn't attend 97% of welcome week events; was too busy situating myself with the area of NYC around my campus. Once class starts and you get into your routine...things improve exponentially.</p>
<p>I had orientation in June, so I was able to do my own thing right off the bat. On move-in day, we got stuck in traffic trying to get to school, and then it took 5 hours to move all my stuff in and get unpacked. After that, my roomie and I hung out for a while, and then I went to see some friends that I had met at orientation who live in the dorm next to mine. The next day I picked up my books and just chilled, and then the next day was the 1st day of classes. It was a little lonely, just going to class with strangers, but after a few weeks I made some cool friends and now everything is great. But the work has been heavy lately, so I'll be glad when I'm home for Thanksgiving 2 weeks from today, and able to catch up with my friends from high school.</p>
<p>haha, heavy workload...frostburg? just kidding :)</p>
<p>for me, it wasn't that fun at all. the entire first week, i know i didn't want to go home, but i wasn't sure i wanted to stay at school either. i had brief (albiet in hindsight, extremely dumb) lapses where i thought maybe i wasn't ready to be away from home. with all the different people around, many of whom already "established" friendships in the first few days, it's hard to find your comfort zone. especially with all those things they had planned to force you into (awkward) social situations. </p>
<p>i completely agree with firewalker...once you make a few good friends and get comfortable with things, everything improves drastically. now, with my experiences, i would have a hard time justifying staying at home for an extended period. in fact...i just couldn't see it. i'm very happy where i am right now.</p>
<p>Yeah, yeah, I know Frostburg isn't exactly on the same level as Harvard, but between now and break, I have 3 tests and a paper to deal with. It's just a lot coming at me all at once.</p>
<p>It seems from talking to people that the #1 thing they say on the first day at orientation is:</p>
<p>"Drugs are bad for you......mmmmmmkay?"</p>
<p>Move in day:</p>
<p>I met hundreds of new people. I forgot hundreds of names. We organized our **** in our rooms and just chilled. No drinking on the first day for us, but I made soo many friends and it was awesome.</p>
<p>First Week:
The university asked us 40000 times not to rape women/men. also told us that drugs are bad and alcohol can kill you. lol.</p>
<p>First month:
best greek parties, you make your own social group. go to subway at 2am drunk and order stuff thats not even on the menu.</p>
<p>Three months:
**** load of work and you still find time to go out once or maybe even twice a week.</p>