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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!
|    | 740 | 27.46% | |
Adjusting to a very different social world.
|    | 823 | 30.54% | |
Living with a roommate (or more).
|    | 242 | 8.98% | |
Being away from my home/family.
|    | 403 | 14.95% | |
Being away from my friends.
|    | 113 | 4.19% | |
Being away from a significant other.
|    | 103 | 3.82% | |
The financial challenges.
| | 271 | 10.06% |
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02-20-2008, 01:08 AM
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#151 | | New Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
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| money yup no doubt | 
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02-29-2008, 06:48 AM
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#152 | | New Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
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| Living with a roommate
I would like living with a roommate...
Well I haven't had to live with someone else before other than my relatives so it will definitely be an adjustment.
I am actually looking for a room, or roommate interested 
PS.
I am new here =)
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03-28-2008, 10:17 AM
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#153 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Twin Cities, MN
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| roommates can be really great or really awful. kind of luck of the draw. just be flexible and dont take things too seriously and you should be fine. also speak up if you don't like something your roommate does or doesn't do- right away. when you let stuff build up, if always ends up exploding. | |
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04-07-2008, 09:31 PM
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#154 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: socal Gender: Male
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| one thing i wanna do in college is finally get over my shyness of girls. | |
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04-08-2008, 09:05 PM
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#155 | | New Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
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| I think my biggest challenge is going to be adjusting to the new social and physical environment. I'm from MD and I'll be going to school in Jersey this Fall. I don't know anyone there and I don't know much about the area so it'll take some time to adjust to the people/environment. Hopefully I'll get used to it pretty quick. After that I guess balancing my school work wit my social life. I've been sheltered a lot through highschool so I'll probably be a little wild. The last thing I'm worried about is money. It's gonna be hard not being able to ask my mom for money whenever I need it. The other things don't worry me to much. I just hope I get a good roommate. | |
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05-31-2008, 05:52 PM
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#156 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Alaska-> Michigan State!! Gender: Female
Threads: 45
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| Money, for sure. Being broke all the time stinks.
I'm fairly adaptable...I love my family, but I am not very sentimental. I've lived in the same city all my life; I can't wait to leave. I can make friends fairly easily, and I'm not really worried about having a bad roomie. Academics-I hope I get over the remnants of senioritis, and then I'll be fine. These will just take slight adjustments in lifestyle.
Money, on the other hand...I will go from being able to spend lots of money on snacks and clothes, having a car and driving wherever I want etc. to spending essentially nothing and riding the lowly bus in order to avoid loans. Scrounging for free events on campus. Walking everywhere. Borrowing my friends stuff instead of buying new stuff. Having to look for scholarships again. Agh | |
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06-02-2008, 01:29 AM
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#157 | | New Member
Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Orlando, FL Gender: Female
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| Academics is the most shocking. The proof of this fact is the amount of freshmen who lose their scholarships, get academically suspended or plan old have to go back home to community college when the parents freak on their grades. Also the rise of the 5 Year Plan would account for this as well. | |
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07-05-2008, 12:21 AM
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#158 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: online
Threads: 115
Posts: 2,029
| im split between the academics and the social world but i say academics by a little bit because im kinda nervous to see how my classes will be like and how they compare to how they were in high school | 
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07-12-2008, 05:11 AM
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#159 | | New Member
Join Date: Jul 2008
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| I expect financial requisites to be my toughest challenge. Neither of the rest involve luck on my part, and can be absolved by determination. | |
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07-20-2008, 02:09 PM
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#160 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Lynnwood, WA Gender: Female
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| It was a tough choice, but I picked being away from my boyfriend. I won't be going far, just a couple hours, but I don't drive so I have no idea how often I'll be back home to visit. I wouldn't even be going that far but they have a minor that is exactly perfect for me and their program for my major is WAY better than the one at the college near where I live. Luckily, I'm not transferring for a couple years (have to get my DTA at the CC I'm going to first), so I'll worry about it when it comes up.
Though the idea that I may end up with a roommate despite all the efforts I plan on exerting is pretty terrifying. I don't do roommates. I need my own space, and I would probably drive a potential roommate all the way to an asylum anyway. | |
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08-07-2008, 04:02 PM
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#161 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: GARDEN STATE! Gender: Female
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| i chose family....stuff like social doesn't bother me at all. i'm really excited about that actually | |
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08-21-2008, 12:24 AM
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#162 | | New Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
Threads: 6
Posts: 14
| I'm surprised by the result. But I guess everything is relative. To me, I pretty much know how to be independent since I faced a bunch of hardships in my life. Being asian and not having parents speak English well, i had to do a lot of things without my parents' help. heck, i helped them the same amount as they helped me. Basically I've done everything for myself besides feeding myself. Not to sound conceited but I think I'm very mature for my age. So that narrows it down to living with roommate and financial challenges since my parents are poor. I'm picking financial challenges since getting used to roommate is short-term while the need for money is long-term. | |
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