<p>It will be interesting to see what all of you CCers can remember. </p>
<p>As for me, I recall thinking that the professors didn't appear or act nearly as strict as I had previously imagined. I also kept waiting for a bell to ring after every class; obviously that didn't happen. </p>
<p>What about the rest of you?</p>
<p>I remember being dropped off more than I remember my first day of class. My entire family and a friend all came down in the huge van we had (5 kids). With so many people, unloading took almost no time. We went out to eat then they left me to finish setting up. I remember standing there surround by stuff, thinking, “What do I do NOW?”</p>
<p>I have no idea what my first day classes were but I do remember the professors seemed to treat us more like peers than kids in need of rules and regulations. I remember waiting for a bell too. I remember it wasn’t as difficult as I’d thought it would be, it was just the next step after high school.</p>
<p>It poured rain and I was soaked through the entire day. My cell phone drowned from inside my purse. My classes were amazing and I was completely starstruck by my university for months. </p>
<p>I don’t think I remember all of my classes… I remember I had politics of civil rights and liberties, and contemporary political issues. Both those professors were two of the best teachers I ever had. I think I must have had at least one more class that day but I don’t remember what it was or what the rest of the day was like anymore.</p>
<p>I had two classes and both of them struck me as way too easy. In one class the professor had passed around an attendance sheet to be used for a lottery; I remember walking up to the professor at the end of the lecture and scratching my name off of the lottery list. </p>
<p>I remember being pleasantly surprised by the vegetarian options in the dining hall. I couldn’t decide between tofu curry and do-it-yourself burritos. </p>
<p>I think I also had my first rugby practice that day. I wanted to do a team sport in college and rugby was the only competitive team sport that didn’t require try-outs. (I did martial arts in high school.) Unfortunately, the only thing I knew about rugby is that it’s somewhat similar to football. I was quite useless on the field that day. 
Spent the rest of the night reading up on rugby rules.</p>
<p>Thanks for your experiences, this was very helpful!</p>
<p>First day of college…</p>
<p>Moving In: I remember texting my roommate and she got there before me. I remember our families interacting and moving in and setting up everything. I also remember her sister taking a nap and staying an extra few hours and being slightly weirded out by that. lol. That night I remember trying to go to First Night Carolina, but it was kind of boring, so we walked down to Five Points (where all the bars were), but no one was down there because I think a lot of upperclassmen just weren’t on campus yet.</p>
<p>First Day of Classes: Wow. I really don’t remember much. I guess it was a Thursday, so I had Stats and French. I walked into my stats class and it was a huge lecture hall of about 200 students. I sat in the very back corner and didn’t say anything while the people around me (a couple of guys) introduced themselves to each other. I didn’t know what to do. I remember going to my French class and sitting somewhere and being super intimidated because it was a 300-level class. I thought for the longest time that I was the only freshman in there. (There were actually 8 freshmen in there and only about 18 students total, so I wasn’t. xD) I also remember one kid coming in late because he went to the Office building instead of the classroom building and the professor asked him if he was a freshman.</p>
<p>I think it all went by pretty quickly and it definitely is an important step of college, but I definitely don’t remember them as clearly as I could have. It’s all really a blur now.</p>
<p>Oh god, so many memories. I actually came early for athletic preseason, but I vividly remember my first day on campus, as well as my first day of classes.</p>
<p>First official day at school, I arrived at the airport in MN by myself. I couldn’t find the bus pick-up area and freaked out that I would miss my bus, but I made it, got to campus, and moved my stuff into temporary housing by noon (we lived with the team for preseason). It was sunny and about 100 degrees, and at promptly 1 PM we met with the coach and then ran a fitness test, which was brutal. Afterwards we did some light practice and went to dinner in the dining hall, and then passed out at like 10 because I’d gotten up super early for my flight and was exhausted, haha.</p>
<p>First day of classes: woke up at 6:55 and couldn’t fall back asleep because I was really nervous about missing my 8:30 am class. Typical. Anyways, I sat with my two teammates in my bio class, then had an hour off and remembered wandering around, wondering what to do, with a girl on my floor who later became my best friend. I went to my philosophy and astronomy classes and was really impressed with the professors, and excited about the classes. Not so much about the work. After my astronomy class I was almost late for practice because I locked myself out of my room. That was the last time me or any of my roommates locked the room.</p>
<p>I don’t remember much from my first class - I think we did some activities to get to know each other (it was a small class). I waited in the room for my second class (discussion section), and the TA never came. There was a sign on the door for my third one stating that class was canceled for that day.</p>
<p>I don’t remember much about the first day except that I left for my first class thinking I had enough time to get there (never went to the building before), got sort of lost and took a longer path then I needed and was about 5 minutes late. </p>
<p>I was the last kid to show up in a class of about 25, and just to make it worse it started pouring about when class started, so I was wet and everybody else was dry. Oops. The class (and spanish after that) went fine though.</p>
<p>I remember the first day of move in quite vividly. My parents and my sister and I drove up to campus and we unloaded everything and pretty much spent the morning and afternoon setting everything up in my room. I moved in a few days after the scheduled move in day for my building so my roommates and other people on the floor had already settled in. I remember I walked my parents back to the car and I started to tear up a bit because I knew I wouldn’t see them for a few months. Then, I kind of just lounged around and also had that “What do I do?” moment for a while. I remember just chilling on my laptop and the guy next door came in to my room and spent the whole night there, because apparently his roommates inadvertently kicked him out because they were drinking and smoking a lot. He ended up sleeping over on the floor and sure enough, he’s now my best friend!</p>
<p>I don’t remember the first day of classes much. My first semester was set up so that I only had one class on Mondays, a 50-minute chemistry lecture. I remember it being a typical introductory course, but I was stricken by how large the room was and how many people there were. As much as people tell you that you’ll be in large classes, it only fully hits you when you walk into class that first day and see massive hordes of people lol.</p>
<p>I remember the long drive and my family helping me move into my dorm and the reality sinking that I was on my own as I said my goodbyes to my family and watched them drive away. The most fresh feeling that I remember from that day though was laying in my dorm bed for the first night and realizing that I was really starting a new part of my life and that even though it was something foreign and new to me, I was surrounded by hundreds of other people in my dorm and on campus in my exact same situation, and I was excited!</p>
<p>As far as the first day of the academic calendar the classes were a blur. The only thing that I remember is running into the girl that became my longtime girlfriend throughout college. :)</p>
<p>I remember how it took me an hour of driving around in the parking lot to find a space. I remember how hot it was and that I was sweating a lot and that I sat under a tree to read one of my “recreational math” books that I’m taking with me to my new college. I was behind the library and it was quiet but you could still hear people in the distance. I was self-conscious and afraid that someone might talk to me. I was heavily invested in doing well.</p>
<p>I think I looked around at me and I just noticed how weird everyone looked in the classroom. Some girls were overdressed, some guys wore those stupid hats with big bills, and then there were just a lot of people who blended in. I didn’t think the teacher was overtly smart, but I knew I was wasting my time in his class and didn’t need it so I dropped that class and chose another.</p>
<p>Moving in: I had my mom, boyfriend, and grandma helping me move in, so it went fast. My roommate had her mom, dad, and two sisters there. Once they left, I was like, now what? I went to dinner with my roommate and then went to a building meeting. I had a friend come over and we watched a movie and went to bed really early.</p>
<p>“Between days”: I had two days between move-in and classes. These were stressful because I was so bored and just wanted to start. I went with two friends to find all my classes and explore to make sure where we were going.</p>
<p>First day: I had phil at 8am and I got up at like 6, went to breakfast at as soon as it opened at 7, ate and rushed to class and got there 30 minutes early. Half the class was already there and we started laughing. My teacher was super nice, we were all freshman and it was all our first class.</p>
<p>First day of class:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>I remember getting up at like 6:00AM for an 8:15 class, haha. I was surprised and annoyed that the food court didn’t open till 7:30.</p></li>
<li><p>It was super hot.</p></li>
<li><p>I got to every class like 30-45 minutes early and enjoyed that awkward silence when everyone’s sitting there because no one wants to talk to anyone else</p></li>
</ul>
<p>I had had an accidental overdose, or possibly several, on my prescription medication, not bad enough to knock me out or kill me or anything but enough that I couldn’t sleep or eat the whole first week and was having a lot of paranoid and borderline suicidal thoughts. My parents didn’t believe anything was actually wrong with me at first and thought I was just homesick- but I had them come bring me home the first weekend and they took me to the ER once they saw that I was at a point where I was barely responsive to things (I hadn’t realized I had overdosed, I just knew that those symptoms didn’t seem like homesickness). I made it back to school in time after the long weekend and was fine from there…but it was a pretty awful first week of college.</p>
<p>Moving in: Like others have mentioned, I remember what it felt like after my parents dropped me off. Even though they lived only 20 minutes away, I felt as if I’d been dumped on another planet! I think I cried a little. But then I ventured out and met a girl who I ended up rooming with my sophomore through senior years.</p>
<p>First day: I remember how much I liked my calculus professor. And then a girl in that class, from my dorm, recognized me somehow and followed me back in order to say hi. We became close friends after that!</p>
<p>It was Fall of 2008, I just pulled into a crowded parking lot at my CC, I started walking the registration hall for my I.D. then I head to my class. Being 18 at the time, I felt completely clueless and confused. I never made any friends during those times and TBH to this day I STILL have a hard time making friends in college.</p>
<p>First day… I left insanely early for each class… like a good 25 minutes or so, but it turned out to be a good thing because I did get lost a few times. Also upon entering the buildings for classes I had to hunt down a floor map posted on the walls and figure out where my classroom was. For my theatre class i remember sitting outside of the theatre with a few others because we couldn’t figure out how to get in- the doors were locked, but we could hear people deep inside. Turns out there was a secret-like passage on a totally different floor to it.
Um. Classes were easy. Just your usual syllabus, meeting the professor… etc. I was also a bit unnerved when there was no longer any bells to signify class was over. Pretty sure I skipped eating at the dining hall because I wasn’t sure where it was or what to do when you got there… but later that night our CA’s from our floor had a floor dinner so I followed their example.
Also that day I remember they finally set a coded lock for the bathroom doors, and I was still too shy to find a CA and ask them the code, or go to the front desk and ask… so I casually made sure to walk to the bathroom when I thought someone else was going there as well, and then watched what numbers they pressed.</p>
<p>I started college off at a CC, so I don’t have any fun moving in stories:/</p>
<p>I remember having to park across the street at the playhouse because there wasn’t any parking. I was terrified all day that I was going to come back to my car having been towed. I mostly just sat on a big stone thing, texting my friends, and waiting for class to start. I recognized a few snotty people from orientation, but obviously didn’t say anything…</p>
<p>I was a little surprised at how friendly my college professors were. Also, I made some kind of mistake when making my general use password and couldn’t remember it. I had to use it in my math class and was the only person who couldn’t log on to my math lab. Everyone was staring while the professor asked if I was sure I was in the right class. Completely embarrassing, but something everybody forgot, thank God:)</p>
<p>I sat in on a bio class at Emory my senior year of high school. I remember being surprised at how many kids were in the class and wondering whether or not the professor actually knew everyone’s names. Some students arrived late, but the professor didn’t seem to be mad at them. It was an 11:45-12:35 class, I think, and the professor had printed out PowerPoint notes for the day, but as 12:35 approached, she wasn’t even half way done with the PowerPoint notes yet. I didn’t want to just get up and leave class, and I knew that colleges didn’t have a bell that just dismissed students. I worried that we would be in that classroom for hours until she finished that day’s lecture notes. I was surprised when 12:35 came around and a lot of the students suddenly got up out of their seats and began to dismiss themselves, and I was really surprised that the professor didn’t seem to be mad that the students were dismissing themselves, lol.</p>
<p>As for my actual first day of classes, perhaps one of the most memorable experiences about that day happened early in the morning. The day before, the freshmen chose their classes, and that was a very memorable(ly stressful) experience in itself. Many freshmen didn’t get all the classes they had wanted and were freaking out, myself included. I knew that Add/Drop/Swap started at 7 the next morning, so I logged on at 6:50, and once A/D/S opened at 7, the chemistry class I had wanted was open. I remembered nervously clicking through the pages and the excitement I felt when the page showed up that said I was enrolled in the class, lol. I liked it so much better in high school when you just wrote down which classes you wanted, and guidance would usually give you what you want if you ask for it. =P</p>