<p>This question applies to non incoming college students, but it will certainly help many of you by reading this.</p>
<p>Question: What would you have done differently your freshmen year if you could relive it again? (Hanging out with your roommate more, study time, activities, social events, exploration, sleep, time, money, etc)</p>
<p>definately more sex.</p>
<p>^ditto</p>
<p>Also, I wished I went to more parties.</p>
<p>I wish I didnt procrastinate so much.</p>
<p>I would have actually talked to my roommate. We didn't not get along or anything, we just didn't talk ever. It was kind of strange. I think I also would have gone out and found a club to join that wasn't full of people that I already knew. </p>
<p>I also would have transferred at the end of it, but that's an entirely different subject...</p>
<p>More Sex...</p>
<p>More studying
I had a bad roomate situation, though I did try for a roomate switch, but I had to endure the entire semester.
I wish I had made friends with more upperclassmen.</p>
<p>I wish I had gone to professor's office hours. I learned this too late, or maybe not too late, but if you go to office hours, then your professor will remember you. You will most likely get the higher final grade, if you are in between grades or maybe not.</p>
<p>I would've wasted less time, tried to get a part-time job my second semester, and played sports like I did in high school.</p>
<p>At least this is what I intend to do next year.</p>
<p>keep going guys...this could be useful for us freshmen</p>
<p>Less partying. More studying. </p>
<p>Going in with a more cynical outlook, I was too focused on coming off as an intellectual than just being myself.</p>
<p>Agreeing with ICrisis, less partying, less sex (always use protection, kiddos - that's my one bit of advice, I got the scare of my life at the end of the semester when being a daddy was almost a possibility). More studying.</p>
<p>I can't really say I regret anything except for the fact that I ended up with a terrible GPA. The problem is, I really don't care one way or the other, I just feel like I really, really let my parents down (even with the athletic scholarship they're paying a lot of money they can't afford). I truly feel bad about that and I'm going to try to work harder this upcoming semester.</p>
<p>Woah dude, less sex is never an option. Smarter sex, yes but none of this less sex crap. I have needs.</p>
<p>What is JO?</p>
<p>Think about something a guy would need privacy for.</p>
<p>J = Jacking and O = Off</p>
<p>Oh, where to begin with this sad pathetic soul.</p>
<p>If I had to redo freshman year of my college, I would have first and foremost swallowed my pride. I would have gotten tutoring when I wasn't getting the grades I was expecting, instead of just eating it and saying "I'll make up for the next exam/test/paper" when that clearly wasn't working.</p>
<p>I would have been more open with my myself, my parents, and my friends about my issues (and man, did I have issues). I probably sought out counseling before it was too late. I probably would have been more social (more friends, more going to clubs and social thing, more talking to people in class) and less in my (single) room doing you know what (don't fall prey to the powers of the lightening fast internet connection).</p>
<p>I suppose the biggest thing I did wrong my freshman year is the whole year itself. I was clearly too immature to being going off to college alone even though I thought I was. And when things didnt go as planned, I did some ridiculously irresponsible things that screw me over to this day. If I had to do my freshman year over, I would have stayed at home for two years and matured up before going off on my own and tranferred out to a better college than I go to now.</p>
<p>So to recap:
* Don't be too confident in yourself and don't be overly ambitious (Macbeth showed so that)</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Don't get too caught in your newly found "freedom" and remember what you do in college will follow you for a good while.</p></li>
<li><p>Don't be afraid to seek academic, medical, or mental health, but remember what you do in college as consequence of not being all that you can will follow for a good while.</p></li>
<li><p>Do realize that at the top colleges and universities people here go to, everybody can't make A's. Some people make C's, some people flunk out, and that somebody could be YOU.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Macbeth is a liar. Ambition is the greatest asset anybody can have.</p>
<p>I wouldn't have tried so hard to impress others and just been myself more, that's probably the biggest thing. Also, more partying first term, less partying second term - haha</p>
<p>Have sex with guys or girls?</p>
<p>Most people will make you think that you will get laid by a different chick every week you attend to college but that's not right. Majority of the college students in USA (like %80) get sex from no more than 3 girls through their 4 college years.</p>
<p>My first reaction was: "No way that can be true. . ." but then I thought about the bad looking and/or dorky people at my school and I can sort of see that.
Regardless, I'm living in a suite with four football players and two track guys (including myself) so I'll concede with Crisis and say "smarter" sex, not "less" sex :) And if freshman year was that easy. . .I can't imagine what sophomore year will be like with all these freshman girls coming in.</p>