College Life Questions

chuy
Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:05:10 +0000

I graduated and have a job and all that.

1) Go to all of your classes for the first couple months; really the first semester. Eventually you’ll get a gage on which classes you can skip occasionally, but you’re better erring on the side of caution in the beginning.
2) That you’ll actually be happy there. If you don’t like the atmosphere of a college (when it comes to size, location, student body make up, etc.) you won’t be successful there. You’re better off being involved and happy at a less prestigious college than being miserable at a very prestigious one.
3) Much different; you’ll actually have to do it. You’re only in the classroom for a couple hours a week and you go over far more content than you did in highschool, so things go quick. You will absolutely want to form study groups with people; it helps you learn and helps you socially. So yeah, be prepared to study, a lot.
4) You can do anything you want. You can go out and party almost every night. You can stay up till 4am and skip your classes and nobody is going to tell you not to. So basically the biggest distraction in college is the best thing about college: Freedom.
5) Well some guy got shot so classes got cancelled. Hope yours goes better!
6) Something between annoying and terrible, generally, although annoying isn’t as bad as it sounds. If you get along with the person and have mutual respect with them it won’t be bad. Don’t go in expecting them to be your best friend or anything, but sometimes it does work out that way.
7) They were the only decent college that offered me in-state tuition in the program I wanted to study. Also I liked the campus and felt like I’d fit in there. I was right.
8) It was random. There is no way to guess whether you’ll get along with a roommate freshman year. You and the other person will change more in the first few months of college (or at least your perception of yourself will change) than any other time so don’t stress out over it too much because there’s nothing you can do about it anyway.
9) I did Junior and Senior year. It’s hard and kind of sucks but a lot of people do it and having money is nice.
10) I went to Virginia Tech, and that is way too broad of a question, although I’ll answer pretty much any specific question you have.
11) Intro to quantum mechanics, because it was intro to quantum mechanics.