<p>^So how hard or easy is it to make friends in college? I’m definitely going to become a transfer so I’m sooo worried if I’ll be able to make friends b/c most ppl already had freshman year for that. I plan on joining clubs & orgs if that would help…? I’m super nice, friendly and outgoing so maybe that wouldnt be a problem? not sure.</p>
<p>I was afraid we’d get hijacked. Oh well…It’s not that difficult to make friends in college. Much like in high school, for me, my group of friends is different now going into my senior year than it was in my freshman year. And yes, clubs help.</p>
<p>@eastafrobeauty: Well, if you are super nice, friendly, and outgoing you shouldn’t have any problems :)</p>
<p>See, I’m nice and friendly, but I have a hard time being social (trust issues). But you shouldn’t have a hard time. Joining a club or organization will help you if you are outgoing.</p>
<p>And just because you weren’t there freshman year doesn’t mean you missed out! Every year I always find a new friend. I really only talk to 3 people that I knew from freshman year. Few people may have their “cliques” already, but I’m sure you’ll find people who are more than welcomed to let you hang out.</p>
<p>edit: it’ll go back on topic. Let’s see. Hmm… I really look forward to living on my new campus dorm. I’m supposed to be living in an all girls dorm since I’m on the campus for the women residential college at my school. And I look forward to studying abroad, which I said already, but I’m that excited!</p>
<p>Sorry for the thread hijack :/</p>
<p>no it’s just that in HS people aren’t as nice and they’re very clique-y so they tend to stick with the same group of friends they’ve had since elementary school or middle school.</p>
<p>@Mushaboom & XU2011: thank you so much for answering my questions! I feel much better about it now.</p>
<p><em>Last question</em></p>
<p>would you say it’s the same if you want to date?</p>
<p>Hmmm… dating? I fail at this area. I’m no expert… hehehehe.</p>
<p>But, if you hang out and go out a lot, you might find that “one” guy (or girl – whatever your preference is). Although, I find that the people who are preoccupied with wanting to have a boyfriend or girlfriend are the ones that get no one or they get just about anybody, no matter how much of a loser he is. When the time comes, it will come. Usually these things happen when you least expect it!</p>
<p>Yeah, note my previous comment about my lack of ability to hold onto a relationship, haha. Just have a good time though, focus on you. I spent so much of my freshman and sophomore year focused on my h.s. sweetheart and then he cheated on me, left me, and has a fiance…so…yeah. Do what’s good for you, and what’s fun for you, or you might regret it someday.</p>
<p>@Mushaboom, “Usually these things happen when you least expect it!” <– so cliche, and not that I don’t see the truth in it, but after hearing it so many years from so many people, I kind of hate that saying. =P</p>
<p>Oh and I was joking (sort of) about the hijack…you seem like a nice person; better a nice person than an idiot to hijack.</p>
<p>When I actively tried to date tended to be when I ended up with losers. Literally the moment I gave up was when I met my fiance, which was my freshman year of college. I thought he was gross at first. lol. You never know what’s going to happen.</p>
<p>I just found out my dorm might not have a closet and am trying to figure out how to fix this if that’s the case. I’ve seen like little portable wardrobes at target but I have almost no room in my room, and I have to be able to hang shirts up. Hopefully this is the worst snag of senior year. What kind of idiot builds an all girls dorm with rooms that don’t have closets?!</p>
<p>Ugh…that sucks. Probably the same idiot that builds an apartment complex in which, as you go around, it goes down a hill, and so there are increasing number of stairs leading up to the apartments further down the hill…</p>
<p>(outdoor corridors…apparently it used to be a bunch of office buildings they converted into apartments)</p>
<p>p.s. maybe we should add biggest challenges of the year as a topic too.</p>
<p>I am 95% sure I do not have a real closet, from looking at the floor plan, so I am just hoping I have some kind of organizer. When I walk through my door there is a tiny corridor and then another door (wth?) so I am hoping that has some shelves in it or something to use as a closet.</p>
<p>It’s weird to think this is the last dorm I’ll ever live in. There is no “well next year will be better.” This is it!</p>
<p>It’s so weird for me that you’re in a dorm. Our dorms are just for freshmen and sophomores, and we have university owned apartments for sophomores, juniors, and seniors (though most seniors are in off-campus apartments).</p>
<p>Anyways, at least after this it’s off on our own and in an apartment (granted, this will be while working or going to grad school, but still), so it will be better. =)</p>
<p>Anyone else working non-stop to off-set after graduation debt? I have two jobs, and today I have to go straight from this one that I’m at now to my other job. It wears me out somedays, and makes me soo ready for classes to start back up!</p>
<p>I looked at off campus apartments, but in order to live as close to campus as I need to it would have been out of my price range, and since I lived at home for two years I haven’t had time to get sick of dorming yet. At my school anyone can live in the dorms, but it seems most upperclassmen do move off campus. </p>
<p>I have not taken a semester off from school since my freshman year, and at the moment the class I am taking is too strenuous to work. I am in the car three hours a day to commute and then my class is two hours, and then I have three to five hours of homework a night. I’d probably fail if I balanced that with work. But I am practicing for my transcription certification, so hopefully by christmas time I’ll be able to earn a few hundred dollars a week from my dorm.</p>
<p>Well, not going to the other job now. I was covering someone else’s shift (I work at a government office by day, and a Cold Stone Creamery by night/weekends) but she didn’t need it covered anymore, since whatever she needed it covered for got cancelled. I was kind of stoked for the extra hours, but she is quitting in a couple weeks before school starts for her (she’s going to be a freshman in college this year) so I figured, since I’m keping the job this winter (though amazingly, ice cream doesn’t sell too great in the winter in Cincy, go figure) I might as well let her have all the hours she can get. =)</p>
<p>p.s. Ema, where do you go to school?</p>
<p>I go to umich. I think I eat ice cream more in winter than I do in summer. :P</p>
<p>Haha, nice. Unfortunately the location I work at is a “tourist location” so…less tourists from other states and countries, less people here to buy ice cream, less hours for me. Not that it’s not gonna be tough to balance 18 credit hours plus 2 hours volunteering each week, club meetings, and 5-10 hours of work, but I need the money. =P</p>
<p>woooo a thread for me!
I’m going into my junior year. </p>
<p>Most excited about:
-Seeing my best friends again!
-Turning 21. Barely more than 3 months left!
-Classes starting.
-My cultural aide position
-Finding a job so I can get income again
-Football season! MSU football and basketball</p>
<p>Biggest Challenges:
-Being dirt broke (whereas before I had savings, now I have loans! wooo).<br>
-Being a cultural aide (similar to resident mentor/assistant position, except less disciplinary stuff and more cultural/academic transitions-focused). This is my first year doing the job and I don’t have any idea how it is going to turn out.
-Finding a job (so I can have spending money).
-Getting my grades up (they’ve been mediocre for my standards, I know I can do better)
-Balancing work and my cultural aide job with classes and clubs and friends and a social life. (a good night’s sleep is going to be out of the picture)
-Applying for summer internships in public/international policy. Hoping I can find something paid/related to my interests???</p>
<p>Things I fear:
-pretty much all of the above, what happens if it doesn’t work out…etc. And also just failure in general. </p>
<p>Plans:
-Find a school job.
-Find a summer internship.
-Start looking at grad schools.
-Start studying for GREs.
etc. etc.</p>
<p>I just turned 21 in July and it was highly anticlimactic. I went to my grandparents’ for dinner yesterday and when they offered me a beer I’d totally forgotten I was old enough now and was all shocked. lol. It’ll be nice to not have to worry about whether or not I am old enough to go someplace, though.</p>
<p>Sometime around Christmas I am going to start panicking about not having any idea what to do when I graduate, I suspect.</p>
<p>I’ve already reached the panic point…perhaps why I’ve procrastinated packing even though a month ago I couldn’t wait to be back at school. =P</p>
<p>I turned 21 in May (end of my Junior year)…in the middle of finals week. Yay. It was ok, but only a couple of my friends could celebrate because of age and/or finals to study for. =( [there’s a god out there somewhere who loves me though cause I had no exams on the day after we went out to celebrate and ended up hung over til about 5pm…] The downside is that I still have to pay attention to age limits when going out with my friends who are in younger classes and aren’t 21 yet. =/</p>
<p>As to the GREs, ugh. My dad wants me to take them now so everything’s “fresh in my mind” even though I don’t know for sure when I’ll be going back for grad school. It’s driving me nuts.</p>
<p>That probably is a good idea. Though I am having a hell of a time cramming LSAT study in with all my other subjects.</p>
<p>Hm…is it just me or are the younger members on here like…putting more pressure on themselves than necessary? They’re all “How can I get a 4.0, how can I get a 2400 SAT, should I apply to more than the twenty schools I’ve already applied do, how good of chances do I have at Princeton, Haaavard, Yale, darling?” Seriously lol, I feel almost like an underacheiver, though at least I’m not quite as stressed out. Like…I applied for two colleges, period. That was it. Nothing overly special, just University of Dayton and Xavier University, Ohio. Got into both. On scholarship. I mean, yeah, I put pressure on myself to get a 1300 on my SAT (out of 1600) so I could get a dual program for Med School admission, but I didn’t get the 1300…I was 30 points short. Which was good because once I explored other areas I decided med school wasn’t what I really wanted after all, and I wasn’t locked into something I was going to hate.</p>