A description of my "freshman experience" nearing the end of my freshman year at UCSB

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<p>Here I am going to pretty much summarize how my experience throughout the year has been so far for me. If you were on this website late last year I posted this thread ( <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-life/1005198-i-feel-like-ive-been-robbed-my-freshman-experience.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-life/1005198-i-feel-like-ive-been-robbed-my-freshman-experience.html&lt;/a> ) describing how my bad luck put me in a bad place to form new friendships and start anew at UCSB. </p>

<p>So, picking up from then and reporting on my "Freshman Experience" </p>

<p>Social Life:
My social life consists of my room mate and a friend who lives across the hall. We usually hang out in my room and do homework, watch movies, and play games. But the problem is this is what my life completely consists of. I rarely find opportunities to get out and feel isolated. Id like to meet new people, but the people dont seem too welcoming around here. And people are way to party centric. I personally hate parties because they are loud, impersonal, and boring. So I really dont fit the stereotype here. </p>

<p>As in the thread beforehand I tried clubs, and was planning to join the ski team, however those students were too hardcore. So I chickened out of that club in fear of my academics failing, due to the 6 hour drive to and from the mountain every weekend they make. As for other clubs, they didnt exist, most clubs were sport based or race based. </p>

<p>Daily life is becoming extremely repetitive and I'm losing my sense of time, weeks have started to feel like days, and months have become weeks. Its slightly good though, because I am looking forward to the summer and being able to hang out with my friends from high school so I want the year to end already. I just hope they are like they used to be, some really did turn out changing quite a bit from what I see on facebook. I'm also planning on going to Japan for a month to study abroad, and travel there for a half of a month after, so I got things to look forward too at least.</p>

<p>I've decided that I'm just going to move home and become a commuter student next year, because i have found that living in the dorms isn't worth the trouble for the very minuscule benefit i get from doing so. I'm just happy I have the rare choice of doing so. My roommate who has had a similar freshman experience to me, and is also a local, is planning on living in an 8 person suite dorm next year just to give one last try to making new friends. Good luck to him, that just sounds like way too big of a sacrifice to make for the chance of meeting new people for me. </p>

<p>Academics:
So far my grades and my aspirations of getting into medical school seem to be working out since I didnt really have many distractions all year. My GPA so far is an outstanding 3.96, as a biochem major taking no electives so far that seems pretty good for medical school. However I really dont feel "satisfied" with my college experience, and daily life has become very very boring. </p>

<p>The classes im taking are challenging, however not in the right way, usually they are challenging because of the professor not being able to teach well. My classmates at a whole are at a much lower level than the ones in high school, so I was quite surprised at how easy the competition is. A tip for incoming freshmen is that your grade isnt based on an absolute scale but a competitive one, so dont over study, also an A- is not a 4.0, its a 3.7. </p>

<p>Tips for new freshmen:</p>

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<p>Most important factors for those schools are GPA, professor recommendations, and test scores. Extracurriculars are much less important for grad school apps than in undergrad apps. So dont waste your time on them if they will harm your academics. </p>

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