<p>I have an interesting question i never thought to ask anyone:
In the average everyday high school in America, the mentality is usually the upperclassmen are better than the freshmen and therefore, nobody really "likes" any of the freshmen and there is sometimes a rather large deviation between the classes...</p>
<p>Being a freshmen in college do you experience the same general thing? or at this point in our lives has everyone just figured out how to get along??</p>
<p>I get the same thing as in HS, sadly.</p>
<p>I was born just 28 weeks into the pregnancy and have mild cerebral palsy on my life, but aside from a brace on my left leg, I look and act normal. Most people don't see it that way; they think I can't do anything and when I tell them I'm in 17 hours (double majoring in math and history, to graduate in May '09) they think I'm nuts.</p>
<p>I'm also not a party animal. It's a wonder I'm an outcast to most other students...</p>
<p>For the most part, nobody knows eachother's age or what year they are. However, there is some of the mentality for upperclassmen to have superiority over the underclassmen.. primarily freshmen.</p>
<p>For instance, on a rainy day.. if you see someone riding thier bike without a fender, they'll get a "freshman stripe" (mud line up thier back)
... or if my friend or I hear someone talking about 'the dorms' or 'the yummy dc food' , going the wrong way in a traffic circle, or complaining about the difficulty of multiple choice tests.. then we'll say under our breath "Ah, freshmen"</p>
<p>Freshmen are kinda separate I think, if for no other reason that they live in all freshmen housing (at least at my school) and after that if you stay on campus, all the dorms are mixed so nobody knows what age you are. In my experiences, people are treated equally.</p>
<p>Some people will say that anyone under 21 is an outcast. Other people will tell you that it is more about social groups. Everyone will know you are a freshman......unless you live in an off campus apartment.</p>
<p>Noone will really know you're a freshman...everyone is pretty much blended in...well, unless you go to a really small college or make it blantly obvious by wearing your school's name all over your clothes.</p>
<p>so the general feeling is that nobody knows so its pretty much equal.
thats a relief.
i had quite a rude awakening in freshmen high schol year.</p>
<p>Freshmen women get lots of attention. The males are ignored.</p>
<p>when you walk in groups of 10-15 people... it screams "freshmen hall", and other people will laugh to themselves and remember when they were freshmen</p>
<p>Generally it's difficult to distinguish what class a person belongs.</p>
<p>freshmen always get lost on campus, and go to the dining halls, classes, and parties in large groups together</p>
<p>The only thing good about a freshman....is that they eventually become sophomores!!! :)</p>
<p>from what ive heard from my college frosh friends, there really isnt any animosity between college frosh and seniors like the animosity in high school. to the seniors, they're just 'first year students'.</p>
<p>It depends on the situation - you're more likely to be segregated as a freshman during frat/sorority rush, for example. But I also took a class that was supposed to be for upperclassmen only and no one treated me any differently because I was a freshman. I was just another classmate and was invited to their parties and ate lunch with them just like anyone else. It's very different from high school</p>
<p>I am one of two freshman (the other being a friend) in my physics class... Its interesting. But they cannot tell we are freshman...</p>
<p>The ground freshmen walk on is worshipped by the fraternities first term here and then set on fire second term.</p>
<p>what do you mean by set on fire?</p>
<p>literally set of fire duh</p>
<p>It depends on the senior. As a senior in HS last year, I loved the freshmen. They were like my little brothers and sisters--I was the guy who was always there for them, and the one to tell other seniors to back off if they were messing with them.</p>
<p>In college, you go pretty much unnoticed as a freshman unless you're part of a club or sport. There were like no seniors at my old school who knew me, and there aren't so far at my new college. And that's because I am not involved in much of anything except for showing up to class.</p>
<p>Here, freshmen are seen as either a treasure trove of potential or simply ignored. Most of the student leadership actually get extremely excited about Orientation Weekend and moving the freshmen in because it's when we finally meet hundreds of new students. However, I know that students at other colleges have expressed to me their frustration with freshmen, so I honestly it depends on your university/college.
Just enjoy the experience and be flexible no matter what!</p>
<p>Usually the mentality I sense towards the freshmen is more along the lines of "Ahh, look, freshmen, remember way back to last year when we were freshmen, so young and naive?" and not "Haha lame freshmen" or something. I went to a bit of a strangely structured school where the 8th and 9th graders were in one building and 10th-12th were in another building, so I never really dealt with the typical high school freshmen experience, so I really don't have anything to compare it to.</p>
<p>But mostly the freshmen can't be picked out unless they're going places in huge groups, or you see them coming out of the freshmen dorms or freshmen-level classes, and so on. Or here, if they live on campus at all, chances are they're a freshmen because there are only about 400 upperclassmen dorm spaces.</p>