2008 Woodie Awards
Freshman Orientation
The Cardinal Points Edition
Colleen Sheehy
Issue date: 9/21/07 Section: FUSE
Originally published: 9/20/07 at 6:33 PM EST
Last update: 9/20/07 at 11:47 PM EST
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I can write all about how much fun you're going to have.
I can write all about how many new people you're going to meet.
I can write all about how your freshman year of college can be one of the best years of your life.
But you don't know that yet.
Just a few short months ago, there you were, in your high school cap and gown feeling on top of the world.
Now suddenly, you're at the very bottom of something they call higher education.
It happens, we've all been there.
Peter Luguri, director of first year programs, feels that getting involved is the best way for freshmen to best adapt to their new environment.
"It's like going on a journey - try new things, even if you fail, you learn something about yourself," he said.
Connecting outside the classroom is another point Luguri made - and just because you go to a professor's office hours doesn't mean you're messing up.
Office hours are a good thing.
Yet your freshman year of college is about more than academics, a lot more.
Collegehumor.com surveyed 22,289 post-freshmen students on their freshman year experiences.
Questions ranged from alcohol consumption to skipping classes and how it effects your GPA.
A press release from Collegehumor.com says that "most college guidebooks can tell you where the library is, but they fail to answer the incoming freshman's most pressing questions about sex, drugs, drinking and dorm life."
Some of your "learning" freshman year will come from a different source than what you may be used to.
"You can learn as much from other students as you can from the faculty," said Luguri. "You just have to interact to do so."
As that may hold true academically, it's also the foundation of your new social life.
Senior Ryan Johnston still holds memories from his freshman year.
"I miss the good friends I made from living on campus," he said.
Tim Claro, also a senior, has seen a change since his first year at PSUC.
I can write all about how many new people you're going to meet.
I can write all about how your freshman year of college can be one of the best years of your life.
But you don't know that yet.
Just a few short months ago, there you were, in your high school cap and gown feeling on top of the world.
Now suddenly, you're at the very bottom of something they call higher education.
It happens, we've all been there.
Peter Luguri, director of first year programs, feels that getting involved is the best way for freshmen to best adapt to their new environment.
"It's like going on a journey - try new things, even if you fail, you learn something about yourself," he said.
Connecting outside the classroom is another point Luguri made - and just because you go to a professor's office hours doesn't mean you're messing up.
Office hours are a good thing.
Yet your freshman year of college is about more than academics, a lot more.
Collegehumor.com surveyed 22,289 post-freshmen students on their freshman year experiences.
Questions ranged from alcohol consumption to skipping classes and how it effects your GPA.
A press release from Collegehumor.com says that "most college guidebooks can tell you where the library is, but they fail to answer the incoming freshman's most pressing questions about sex, drugs, drinking and dorm life."
Some of your "learning" freshman year will come from a different source than what you may be used to.
"You can learn as much from other students as you can from the faculty," said Luguri. "You just have to interact to do so."
As that may hold true academically, it's also the foundation of your new social life.
Senior Ryan Johnston still holds memories from his freshman year.
"I miss the good friends I made from living on campus," he said.
Tim Claro, also a senior, has seen a change since his first year at PSUC.
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