How Important is 1st Semester?

Weskid
Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:42:50 +0000

I think you would be fine if you went second semester…you’d still make friends through your hall, clubs, etc. A lot of people who make friends in the first month or two end up with different friends by the end of the year anyway (this is not true in all cases, but enough so that you should be able to fit right in anyway). If you’re really worried about coming in a semester late, have you considered taking the whole year off and then going in Fall ’09? That way, you’d be starting out at the same time as everyone else that year.

Either way, I suggest finding something cool to do with your time off, like, as others have said, traveling, an internship, an interesting job, etc.