Sophomore this fall - what will you do differently from freshmen year?

<p>1) I had a lazy roommate, and his laziness was really contagious. I'd tend to wake up late and miss morning classes (10AM ones that is), miss breakfast a lot, etc. This fall, I will do my best to wake up early. I know this is probably the biggest challenge for many college students, but I'm down for challenging myself on this one (btw, new roommate/friend this fall)</p>

<p>2) Join more clubs - I only went to this Christian club that meets every Friday. It was a small but tight club and I've really enjoyed finding my own little family far away from home. I relied too much on this club that I never looked beyond to join other clubs. I want to try to join new clubs this fall. Some of them include the Salsa and Outing Club :)</p>

<p>3) Exercise - I always made the "I'm too busy to exercise" excuse. Not anymore this fall.</p>

<p>Do you have any plans to enrich your sophomore year and hopefully make it more meaningful than freshmen year?</p>

<p>I definitely gained the Freshman 15 last year but I thought if I came home for the summer and ate how I was eating before I went to college that I would lose the weight (haha I know stupid)</p>

<p>Anyways, so this upcoming year my goals are to:</p>

<p>1] Lose all that I gained freshman year and get back to my normal weight or even lower. (Work out in the gym a lot more, stay away from the late night eateries and stocking up on crap food, no soda)</p>

<p>2] Switch up a lot of my EC’s. I want to try a lot of things and unlike HS where it was advised to stick with one thing for an attractive resume, I’m going to switch up mostly everything, just for the hell of it (except for the things that I was really passionate about of course)</p>

<p>3] Try to interact with people who I live with more. I wasn’t anti-social at all last year, but I just thought the people who lived with me were annoying as hell! I met my roommate for next year on my floor though. All my friends lived in other buildings but next year I’ll hopefully get into a new building so I’ll definitely make an effort to not get irritated (people you think are cool in class or outside of the dorms are SO different when you live with them, ugh, annoying)</p>

<p>4] Get better grades. I did okay first year and I don’t regret my grades especially since I had senioritis the year before and slacked off a lot. I only got one C within the 11 classes I took and that’s decent for me. Next year though, I want no C’s and no B-'s. </p>

<p>This year is going to be siiiiick, but I still have two months to go.</p>

<p>Yeah, I forgot about so many other things. Thanks for bringing those up.</p>

<p>Definitely agree on the late night foods - chicken fingers, sodas, other crap food late at night. I also experienced the same thing with interaction with other people. I am not anti-social at all, but didn’t make the effort to go to the common room and meet my floor mates. Will definitely try get to know everybody on my floor this fall.</p>

<p>1) Not miss breakfast (I probably had breakfast on 10% of the days). I had 10 am classes for the most part so I slept in.
2) Not lose weight
3) Get (more) involved</p>

<p>Eat breakfast, especially on weekdays; overall, try eating healthier, cutting back on junk and fast foods</p>

<p>Try to get to bed NLT 2:00 AM since I have early classes (8 or 9AM) every day this Fall Semester</p>

<p>Participate in several club or intramural sports throughout the year</p>

<p>if your roommate decides to wake up every morning at like 6 to go on a morning jog, would you be annoyed? or would you be like, “hey! can i join you?”</p>

<p>because i plan to keep fit in college, but i don’t know how my roommate will react to that, when her classes are at least four hours later.</p>

<p>1) work-out harder
2) wake up earlier
3) avoid drinking for every party
4) eliminate junk food/red meat/milk from diet
5) study more diligently
6) dress sharper</p>

<p>pretty much what i did freshman year, although hopefully ill be doing it on a consistent basis as a sophomore.</p>

<p>1) Eat healthier
2) Study wisely
3) Work out diligently
4) Join a few more organizations
5) Be nicer to everyone :)</p>

<p>ahaha, agreed on #5. i know so many people on campus, but i’ve burned some bridges by being distant at times.</p>

<p>I’ll definitely put more effort into my health - exercise isn’t so much a problem, but I also ate too much junk food late at night just because it was there, and I wound up pretty badly ill from not sleeping enough. Think I’m going to stock my dorm with healthy snack foods, and plan my days better so I can always get some sleep. No more going three days on nothing.</p>

<p>I’m also going to rework my organizational system. By the end of the year, I could rarely find the notes I needed when I needed them.</p>

<p>1.Work out more. I actually didn’t gain weight somehow… but I would like to add muscle/lose fat this year
2.Not drink as much on Thursdays. Don’t know how many Friday classes I missed because of this but it was too many. I’ll still drink, but not get absolutely wasted every Thursday. Luckily I only have one Friday class but it is at 9 am.
3.Study more for easy classes. Last year I focused on my harder classes so much more than the easier ones, but when it comes down to gpa, they all count the same. I took too many b’s when they should have easily been a’s.
4.Join more clubs/intramurals. I only joined one club and didn’t participate in an intramural sport except as an extra one time. I plan to change that.</p>

<ol>
<li>Gain weight.</li>
<li>Join the comic enthusiasts club.</li>
<li>Sneak to NYC for spring break with my bff.</li>
</ol>

<p>1.) not work as many hours. Part of me doesn’t want to have a job at all this semester, but I know I need to be saving up and it’s really not going to be that many hours this time around.</p>

<p>2.) work harder in math so that I don’t realize I’m almost failing a few weeks before the semester’s over like I did in my last math class</p>

<p>3.) be more careful with my car!</p>

<ol>
<li><p>Party alot, alot more. </p></li>
<li><p>Work harder.</p></li>
<li><p>Don’t be a gump and don’t let frivolous things hold you back from enjoying your time. </p></li>
<li><p>Get closer to people. </p></li>
<li><p>Straighten out old feelings.</p></li>
</ol>

<p>Gained Freshman 15, lost 6lbs trying to undo the damage done by free food in college.</p>

<p>What to do differently? </p>

<p>Talk to the professors more.
Take more advantage of the resources given to me.
Take advantage of the professor’s office hours.
NO MORE CRAMMING!
Develop better eating/exercising/sleeping habits.
Other than that, I’m just skippy.
Oh yeah, get a job.</p>

<p>party as much as last year yet mix in academics and clubs</p>

<p>I’m going to be a senior, but I’ll still try to do the following things:

  1. Stop waiting until the last minute to do my lab reports and assignments.
  2. Go to class more often (I must have missed at least half of my classes during junior year).
  3. Get more sleep.
  4. Work out.</p>

<p>I’ve been telling myself those things for the past three years though… so I’m not too confident I’ll turn it around this year.</p>

<ol>
<li><p>Good sleeping habit (sleep early, wake up early)
I had a horrible sleeping habit last semester. On average weekday, I went to bed at around 3 AM and woke up well beyond 10 AM. Thats an issue, and I will change it.</p></li>
<li><p>Good eating habit (not skipping breakfast)
This ties with good sleeping habit. Because of my messed up sleeping schedule, I pretty much didn’t eat breakfast last semester, which means that I ate 2 meals a day, so what was supposed to be a Freshman 15 turn into a Freshman -15 for me (well, more like -5), but my parents were like “OMG your so skinny now!!!”</p></li>
<li><p>Putting myself in an environment where I can do work when I need to.
Basically, I can’t do homework in my room. So I knew I had to go to the library to get work done, but I didn’t…</p></li>
</ol>

<p>1) Do more community-service related activities and actually make friends with the people I see in clubs. That way I might also show up to the meetings more often too.</p>

<p>2) Be more successful with my job search…hopefully.</p>

<p>3) Make friends with my roomies. Last roommate I had was not too social and we barely talked but hopefully having 3 somewhat talkative ones will be an improvement.</p>

<p>4) Go to 1 party at least. Last year was still fun without them but I’d like to try it out once, a small one with a handful of friends with me hopefully.</p>

<p>5) Exercise. I live closer to the rec center now so I have no excuse not to. Not so much that I lose even more weight in college though, lol.</p>

<p>6) Show up to class for everything except maybe 1 math lecture a week. Do the homework and studying by schedule, not the day before the test. Talk to the professors after, but preferably the ones I’m actually interested in hearing from.</p>

<p>7) Dress up a bit. I go to a big public and I’m not really as confident/excited about putting in the effort to meet people when I look ehhh.</p>

<p>Good to have this on here so I remember all these goals and actually accomplish some of them :).</p>

<p>1) Participate more wholeheartedly in clubs/community service activities. I went to a few 1st semester, but got completely lazy 2nd semester (partly due to getting a job, partly due to partying more).<br>
2) Celebrate my friends birthdays with more of a bang. Be more organized - plan trips to Canada, cedar point a spring break trip? etc.<br>
3) Sleep earlier than 3am mostly every night (and don’t have any 8am classes).
4) Cut out late-night snacking. BAD.<br>
5) Don’t waste money. End of story.<br>
6) Stop slacking in my major classes. Actually act like I am an enthusiastic student who wants to learn. Talk more with my professors in and out of classes.
7) Party harder but smarter.
8) Hang out with older friends, but befriend freshmen too</p>