<p>I also should add that your first semester is stressful enough. You don’t want to be off campus, as it’ll eat your time</p>
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<p>Okay, I’ll keep all that in mind! 
Thanks everyone.</p>
<p>Don’t be afraid to put yourself out there during orientation (and in general). Talk to that random person who sat down next to you at your advising meeting; she’s in the same boat as you are and probably wants to meet as many people as possible, too. You may end up making a good friend, you may end up just having a pleasant conversation, but even so that’s one more person you can smile at when you see them while walking to class a month later.</p>
<p>Your HONS, HP, SAA, etc may be awesome. They may be awful. They’ll probably be somewhere inbetween. Don’t worry too much about it; after orientation you hardly ever have to talk to them if you don’t want to, especially if you’re in a bigger house. Remember that they are not representative of all Smithies or even of your entire house, and seriously, just introduce yourself to other people in the house. It’s kind of weird because you’ve had the house to yourself during orientation and the upperclassmen only come back like the day before classes start so you don’t really have a set time to meet them, but introduce yourself as you pass by them in the hall. They may be indifferent to your existence, but my best friend is a rising junior in my house who I only met by sheer happenstance in a house of 73.</p>
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That extrapolates well all through life, actually. Something I wish I had realized when I was much younger.</p>