<p>Things to bring:</p>
<p>Shower Caddy, Ear Plugs and Eye Mask (ear plugs for sleeping and studying, eye mask for sleeping), a big jacket for late fall semester and pretty much all of spring semester, GOOD boots that will last four years (not Uggs!). </p>
<p>If you find that you need other things, it’s very easy to get to Target using the bus.</p>
<p>Living - All freshmen live on North Campus. Dorms are different; if I were a freshman, I would have loved being put in a big dorm like Donlon, because there are 90+ (?) people on a floor, so you get to meet a lot of people. </p>
<p>Dining - you will definitely LOVE the dining hall food at first, but after a while you will start noticing that the menu gets recycled, and you will eventually get tired of it. For the dining plan, definitely do not get the unlimited plan, I would suggest 14 meals/week. For the other meals, you can either eat in College Town or use your Big Red Bucks (BRBs) at a la carte places, such as Bear Necessities (Bear Nasties) in RPCC on North Campus. Some places on campus that serve good food:</p>
<p>Statler Hotel - get the salad with sesame ginger dressing</p>
<p>Trillium - good burgers</p>
<p>Manndible’s - good burritos, but you can’t use your Big Red Bucks (BRBs) here
Martha’s (located in the College of Human Ecology Building) - a lot of good stuff, I like the burritos</p>
<p>Johnson School and the cafe in Willard Straight Hall - great sandwiches</p>
<p>I have already given some other advice in the other thread, but just try to start out and finish strong, set and stick to a schedule.</p>
<p>I know in your other thread you said you wanted to graduate in three years, again I would n’t recommend this. For your first semester, no matter what you want to do or what your student advisor says, I would try to take it light the first semester; I would take:</p>
<p>CHEM 2070 (General Chemistry 1) - 4 credits.</p>
<p>A choice bio course - 1350, 1440, or 1610 - since you are thinking about major in Molecular and Cell Biology, 1350 would probably be the most interesting - 3 credits</p>
<p>Freshman Writing Seminar - 3 credits</p>
<p>Math Course - 4 credits</p>
<p>This would be a challenging schedule because Chem, Bio, and Math will take up a lot of your time. </p>
<p>If you are interested in really getting involved with the Bio major early, apply to the Biology Scholars Program early your freshmen year. You’ll make a lot of friends and get some perks (advising stuff) with being in the program.</p>
<p>Freshman year is probably best for meeting people, so definitely hang out with people on Friday and Saturday nights, because you will probably not get too much done, when you hear your dorm mates having fun.</p>