<p>We'll be at a new school. We'll make new friends and adjust to a new campus. It's reminiscent of freshman year, though we all have a year or more of college under our belts. So with this experience, at a school you think will suit you better, what will you do to adjust? what will you do differently than what you did previously at your last campus?</p>
<p>Me, I think I will try to make a wide variety of friends. I will try interact more with my professors and with other professors in the university. I will really try to pursue activities that challenge myself and that truly interest me. I can't wait to start! change motherfrickin rules.</p>
<p>I wish more people would reply to this b'c im transfering from a community college which i hear is nothing like a university. My college didnt have any on campus housing, and was pretty much 13th grade. Ive been there 1 1/2 years and have made 1 friend who I actually hang out w/ bc i didnt go to the connector high schools. It has been hard to make friends, which is very werid for me. Hopefully, I will be going to UCSB in January and the situation will be very different. I don't think I would do anything different when I get there. If I could change one thing about my college experience, I wouldnt have gone to a community college. Good luck to all the transfers!</p>
<p>I'm going to a jc in Orange County for 1 semester and transferring to an East Coast school, hopefully Fordham, Pace, or Northeastern. Peope have been telling me I have a great chance... so hopefully I can get out of this JC asap and have more time at the actual university... hopefully your transferring situations go smoothly =)</p>
<p>I echo everything littleeviltwin said. I'm also transferring from a community college to UC Santa Barbara. I go to a community college in the middle of a large metropolis, and that means most people are quickly in and out, and there are a lot of working adults trying to get professional degrees.</p>
<p>There's absolutely no school atmosphere here. Zero. In fact, I go to San Francisco State University to join clubs there, and it is always embarrising for me to tell people I don't even go to the school (although they've all been very nice). </p>
<p>In about a month, I'll be at UCSB, one of the most social schools in the country, so I'm really hoping for a change. I'm not planning to do anything specific, I'll just go there and try to take advantage of many of the new opportunities there.</p>
<p>I'm transferring from a 'cc so basically, the major factor that will differ is that I'll be living like a true college student. I made a few friends at my community college, but because the atmosphere was so 'drive to class, take notes, and return to your own life', there was little unity between students. Now that I'll be going to a university where the majority of the students live on or around campus, the act of going to class will feel more like a lifestyle, and not just a daily chore. I'm kinda younge compared to the average transfer, so I think I will be able to relate to the other freshmen/sophmores who are having trouble adjusting to living the college lifestyle (away from home, on your own, etc). </p>
<p>I plan to join a few clubs and organizations. My 'cc had some clubs, but I never felt a drive to join any, because it didn't feel like 'real college' to me. I will attend sports events, I will eat in the dining commons, I will make friends with people in my building. It's going to be really different, but I'm excited.</p>
<p>this makes me feel good that im not the only person who hates their CC! I'm also going to be a young transfer. I'm 19 and will be a junior transfer. But yeah, its def hard to make friends at my CC b/c it seems everyone is married, has kids, is pregnant, or works full-time. Is there anyone here that is from another state that now attends CC in CA? I'm from texas and found that people in CA arent really that social (its prob just at my school)Where i'm from in TX, everyone says hi to one another even if you dont know them. I'm so jealous of yall who are starting at a university this semester.. i have one more of CC :(</p>
<p>I went to a CC out here and will be heading to UCLA in the Fall. I think the biggest thing I hope to change is the social life. As everybody else has said, there was no social life whatsoever at my CC. I had a few people who'd I talk to, but very few who I'd even really consider hanging out with.</p>
<p>Well, there's nothing wrong with older students going back to school to receive an education. Some people aren't as fortunate as others financially speaking, and have to work for a few years before they are able to fund their academics, even if they are going the affordable 'cc route. I understand the social barriers that many younger junior college students have to deal with. The age gap itself isn't too difficult to handle, but when several of your fellow students have spouses, children, and house payments, it's hard to construct friendships that can really last outside the classroom. At least that is what I found. Although I did happen to make good friends with a 40 year old re-entry student who was also a wife and mother, heh. It just really depends. But for the most part, it's hard.</p>
<p>I'm actually going into my freshmen year at a smaller university (FAU) that I'll be commuting to, but I have every intention of transferring for Fall '06 for various reasons. It's hard to say what I'll do differently, because I do want to get involved with school and be apart of programs, but I know that when I do transfer, I want to live on campus. The school I'm attending now has such limited undergraduate housing, and since it's so close to home, in many ways, would have just been a waste of money had I gotten in. But I think I'm looking for more of a traditional, well-rounded college experience, and I believe you miss out on that but going to school just to take classes. </p>
<p>I'm also looking forward to a bigger city (Boston or D.C.). I've had the opportunity to travel a lot because I was on a competative debate team in high school, so while I know living somewhere is completely different than travelling there, I've always felt drawn to smaller schools in more thriving areas. I think I'll learn a lot just from living in a different area with so many different people (I've lived in the same house in a small town my whole life).</p>
<p>I'm actually stuck right now as to what I should do with my academic life. I started out applying/enrolling to a JC. I finally got the chance to visit the campus and it was nothing like a real university. I visited a real 4 year and it was like night and day. JC to me seems like purgatory. I'm planning to wait this semester out after reading your posts. Maybe I'll apply to a 4 year come Spring semester. It's really frustrating since application deadlines are over...</p>
<p>Anyway sorry to hijack this thread. For thsoe of you who've gone to JC. Would you do it again given the chance?</p>
<p>I agree littleeviltwin.....even though I'm doing much better at CC than I did in HS, and I can be admitted to universities that I couldn't before...I definitely wouldn't go again if I had the chance. The atmosphere of CC is just draining....but of course it will all be well worth it, eventually.</p>