What a year you have had – surviving Covid your senior year of high school, quarantines, social distancing, last games/sports events, senior prom, exams, graduation, open houses, packing, planning, good-byes, moving out, and finally –
You’ve Arrived!
What a year you are about to have – freshmen orientation, new friends, new living quarters, rush week and Greek life, clubs, collegiate sports, filled lecture halls, enormous textbooks, syllabus’, majors, minors, advisory professors, and tuition.
This is an exciting time in your life – one you have been waiting for and planning for a long time!
If being a senior in your hometown had its advantages, being a freshman in a school often larger than many student’s hometowns has its disadvantages! After being on top of the world in your high school, you now find yourself navigating a world of uncertainties, terms you’d never heard of before, intimidating professors, and loneliness in a sea of people. If you haven’t yet, you may begin to feel panic-stricken, nervous, overwhelmed, lonely, and probably even a little homesick.
This is the time to take a deep breath and launch into the deep. Remember, you didn’t learn to swim in a day. These feelings will soon be replaced with feelings of confidence as you learn your surroundings and connect with new friends, as well as feelings of accomplishment and pride as you embrace new terms, study habits, and higher-level instruction.
Take each day in stride, pace yourself, be kind to yourself. Choose friends wisely and make good choices while enjoying your newfound freedom!
You may feel like you’re gulping water sometimes, or even sinking, but you’re going to make it! Before you know it, you’ll be swimming around that big campus pond getting ready to initiate the new freshmen class.
Make it a Great Year!!
-The Editor, August 26, 2021