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View Poll Results: What is the number one challenge in going off to college going to be? | |
Adjusting to academics: more work!
|    | 685 | 27.33% | |
Adjusting to a very different social world.
|    | 767 | 30.61% | |
Living with a roommate (or more).
|    | 235 | 9.38% | |
Being away from my home/family.
|    | 373 | 14.88% | |
Being away from my friends.
|    | 110 | 4.39% | |
Being away from a significant other.
|    | 94 | 3.75% | |
The financial challenges.
| | 242 | 9.66% |
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03-16-2005, 09:39 PM
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#31 | | Senior Member
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| I agree with rockettgerl.
I have always been able to do these things myself (although she knows what they mean). I do my homework when I feel like it (although I still procrastinate my ass off) and I think that next year it will be a good thing that I learned to do it without forced motivation. | 
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04-04-2005, 07:49 PM
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#32 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2005
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| I agree with El 1 Jah--I've grown up in a very small, culturally...uh..unique town in Hawaii. Having grown up in a rural area surrounded by primarily Hawaiians and Asians, it will be quite a cultural shock to move to the Philadelphia 'burbs. | |
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04-06-2005, 01:20 AM
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#33 | | New Member
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: NY
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| being away from home for me--i'm very close with my family and it'll be soo weird to be away from them --i guess i'll adjust to it hopefuly | |
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04-12-2005, 11:59 AM
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#34 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: House of the risin' sun (Rom)
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| definetly the "significant other" factor
i mean... 60 km is much. but 6000km?? That is gonna be tough.
With the academics factor on number two
The rest... well. I do live with my parents for the moment. But i travel a lot and often spend long periods without them. Last year, i counted a total of 20 out of 52 weeks spent away from home. -trips, camps, olympiads, preparation camps for physics and so on.... So living without parents and with roomies will be no chalenges. Neither will the social environment. | |
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04-14-2005, 02:09 AM
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#35 | | Junior Member
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| i would say not exactly one or the other....but more.......balancing good grades with a healthy social life. | |
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05-08-2005, 06:55 PM
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#36 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: NYC
Threads: 36
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| def adjusting to academics. i live in jersey 40 min from nyu so i don't think ill have any trouble adjusting to the social life there. im also rooming with one of my good friends from high school and i don't think ill miss my friends/family too much because i can just cross the hudson and i'd be home. | |
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05-10-2005, 09:20 PM
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#37 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2005 Location: Arizona
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| not being poor!
all I got out of the FAFSA was loans, which provides money for sure, but I don't want to graduate from a *state university* being insanely in debt | |
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05-10-2005, 09:43 PM
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#38 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2004
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| i'm transitioning from suburban southern california to new york city, so i'll have to say the weather and social scene will be my biggest challenge. | |
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05-11-2005, 10:12 AM
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#39 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2005
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| Most of you are very wrong haha. I just finished freshman year and believe me adjusting to roommates is very difficult. All people are different and everybody has bad habits. As the year progresses towards the end and finals, your roommates habits will annoy and aggravate you to the point of insanity. At my college, most roommates didn't really get along, I dunno about others. | |
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05-28-2005, 11:09 AM
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#40 | | Junior Member
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| I'm pretty worried about the academics. My high school is, umm...not challenging, and I suspect my college will be. I've done roughly 10 minutes of homework my whole senior year-and I honestly wasn't trying to slack off. The one class that I actually had to work for, I did fine and had no problem doing assignments and putting in the time, after a couple weeks of figuring out I needed to. My parents have never been strict, and I haven't had any rules to follow in longer than I can remember, so that shouldn't be a problem.
My friends...I will miss some people a lot, but I've never fit in socially or culturally, and I think that will be better in college. I'll make friends. Hopefully one of those friends will be my roommate *cross fingers* That's my second choice of "biggest adjustment" | |
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05-28-2005, 08:31 PM
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#41 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: illannoy and maryland
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| Staying in shape and a hectic workload. Plus being around so many people who I consider are better than me. | |
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06-30-2005, 10:05 PM
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#42 | | Member
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: U-Dub
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| ...ditto... | |
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07-02-2005, 10:38 PM
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#43 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Florida
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| For me, Adjusting to the academic situation is easier than adjusting to the social environment. | |
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07-05-2005, 07:03 PM
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#44 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004
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| I'm going to miss my boyfriend and some of my friends from high school. also, its going to be hard not having my parents buy me things anymore, or giving me cash here and there (I hope they still do!)...I have enough in my college fund for "college expenses" but for things like movies, beverages, and other stuff I want, I am on my own. I guess I need a job... | |
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07-08-2005, 01:18 AM
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#45 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2004
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| like many others said before....DISCIPLINE will be a challenge!! time management, socializing at the right time and studying at the right time ! | |
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