Your Freshmen Year...Sucked or was Awesome?
 

This summer I have taken time out from my partying and frolicking to evaluated my first year of college..... I've come to the conclusion that it coulda been better. And I do blame myself for allowing myself for making it suck:)

I'm glad I took this time to learn my lessons and push ahead:)

I assure you that I am not a negative person, but some of the crap I went through my Freshmen year....I do not wish on anyone else. This includes stupid relationships with boys, destructive friendships, and other things that I should not mention:)

Although it was pretty rough, I did meet awesome folks (including my sisters!!) and had a LOT of fun.

SO, my question is...how was your Freshmen year? What life's lessons did you learn?

Ivory

I learned GREAT study habits from my freshman year. I tended to party a little excessivly, but once I saw my grades, wow! I studied like it was my job, needless to say my grades have skyrocketed and my dean has noticed the change.

One key thing I learned about life is, to love myself. If I can't even manage to love me, who else can?

I went to a community college for my freshman year of school. It sucked :(

Oh man, my freshman year was AWESOME! Made some great friends who are still with me today. To be honest, though, I partied a little to much, and studied a little to...uh...little. When all was said and done, I think the two lessons I walked away with were:

1) Guys are still immature at 18, 19, 20 (now that I'm 26, this seems obvious, but it was a revalation at 18!)

2) Don't bite off more than you can chew when it comes to your courseload. You don't get an A for trying to be a hero.

My freshman year was awesome. Probably my favorite year so far (my senior year might be better). I think what made it fun was that I was so naive and innocent. I don't think I would've done the things I did back then if I knew what I now know. But, I think that's what made it so much fun...the fact that I didn't know any better. I stayed out until 4am every night and was somehow able to make it to my 10am class the next day without a hang over. I thought that guys really meant it when they told you that they really want to take you out on a date. :D Lessons I learned:

1) Beer before liquor, never been sicker. This is an important lesson.

2) Walls in college apartments tend to be very thin. If your roommate brings a guy home, make sure to spend the night out of the apartment or you might hear some things you wish you never heard.

3) The best way to keep a guy interested: don't be so quick to hook-up with him (I'm talking about hooking up...not sleeping with!).

4) One bad grade will ruin your GPA for all eternity.

5) Many professors do not care about you (notice I did not say all professors). They have a research grant and that is the only reason why they are teaching you.

6) Do not spend all the food money your parents give you on beer. I had a friend who didn't eat but drank lots of beer. She got very sick (obviously).

7) The walk-of-shame is very shameful.

8) If you come to college still dating your high school sweetheart, there is a 98% chance that you won't last until March. (just some of my well-observed statistics)

9) Do not call your parents when you are drunk. They will remind you of this at the next family reunion and it will be very embarrassing.

10) Do not call guys you have a crush on when you are drunk. They probably won't remind you of your drunkeness because they probably won't ever speak to you again (sheer awkwardness).

My freshman year at the time sucked because I was really unhappy where I choose to go to school. But when I look back on how it all changed me and the experience of it all it was awesome. And it just makes me more gratefull for where I am now.
*When the cops show up to bust a party, do NOT laugh at them and try to be friendly
*Liquor before beer, have no fear...yeah it really works
*Your family is one of your most valuable resources. WHen you're away you'll realize how much the mean to you
* DO NOT..whatever you do....go away to college with a boyfriend from high school...espeically if you're going to different states!!!!!
*Make friends with everyone on your hall
*STUDY
*Go to classs...something I'm still catching on to
*STUDY
*It's ok to admit that you made the wrong decision as long as you're prepared to fix it

Mine was about half and half.

I came to college still with my homet0wn boyfriend, and therefore wanted to be home every weekend, but didn't have a car.

Because of this, I had no interest in making friends at school (I planned to drop out of school after the first year anyway... I didn't really have any interest in college at that point)... but when he and I broke up about halfway through first semester, I realized that I had no friends, and it sucked, so I had to catch up and start meeting people, when everyone else already had.

Second semester was totally different. I had made quite a few friends, was over the guy from home, and was happy to be in school. I started pledging DO and made the greatest friends I'll ever meet, found a new boyfriend (though it didn't last), and started enjoying my independence!

My best year over all was definitely my sophomore year, though!

Well, actually my loss of sanity happened the first TWO years, not just my freshman year. My freshman year was probably the lowest point in my life and my sophomore year was probably the highest, still I was equally as insane. ;)

*Never choose to attend a school that you don't know a lot about. You can't judge from looking on the campus and the college's website.

*Save up your money BEFORE you reach college, so you can attend out of state/city.

*Your social life should NEVER come first or even second.

*Do NOT spin over $500 of your "student credit card" on FOOD in one semester. :D

*Walk away from a friend/group of friends/organization/boyfriend when it gets too bad, you can't make anyone like you, or forgive you for something that you didn't even do. The more you stick around the more damage it will do.

*Evening classe are cool!

*Cliques are bad. It's better to have your friends and allies scattered. Never put all of your trust in one group or single friend.

*If you were sheltered, never reveal your naiveness.

*PEER PRESSURE CAN EFFECT YOU AFTER HIGH SCHOOL. Why did my HS teachers and parents tell me the opposite?

*When someone gets violent at a party, don't stick around to see what happens or you may decked with a chair and beer bottle. :rolleyes:

*Get fed and drugged (caffiened) before your classes and study sessions.

*Never study w/ your friends, it turns into a gossip session instead and you get no work done.

*In any organization, Greek or non, chap./org. listserves are the DOWNFALL of communication. You know, don't send out a email the same day or night before of an event.

*Don't fight on your listserve or you may lose four members including your advisor. :D
Things go a lot smoother when you "talk things out" in person.

*Possibly related to the above one. Don't hold in your frustrations, you will snap some day.

*Two dates for Homecoming=baaaadddd idea!

My freshman year was fun. While I didn't know as much as I now know, I still had alot of fun. I did get mixed up in A LOT of things but evenutally it all panned out and things got better. I made some awesome friends and became a member of the best fraternity at our school. Even though I was a freshman I still got laid when I wanted to. My freshman year was like one big party for me. I would go to bed at 5 or 6 am and wake up at 9am for a 9:50 am class. The only class I have ever been kicked out of was in my freshman term. I came in late to my Latin course and I hadn't slept all night, I rinked of the smell of alcohol. I had a hot freshman girl drive me to class and she waited out in the car for me. I stumbled in and my prof was like " I didn't think we were going to be blessed with your presence today." I was already in a pissy mood and so I relpied with the class's attention, " I've been up all night drinking and I havent slept, I have a hot chick in the car waiting on me and your acting like a Vaginous Maximous, (Latin for Great Vagina) what do you want me to do?" He told me to go and don't come back.


I think my freshman term was very fun but each year following it has been even better. I did some crazy things and learned alot of things from them. As in some of the other posts, I too wish i had known then what I now know.

Sucked..but it was awesome....
 

Sucked because i wasnt ready for it. I had no preperation for what to expect, and I hated the first school I was at. I was 14 hours from home, and didnt go to see my friends and family from August to Christmas break. So i made the break, clean, and had to be on my own.

It was awesome tho, because I learned more there in those 9 months than I had learned in the previous 18, and wouldnt trade any part of the experience. It made me who I am today. I grew about 5 years emotionally that year. I can truely say thats when I became an adult.

My freshman year was awesome...maybe the best year as I am entering my last year in college this fall. I loved meeting everyone on my dorm floor and going out every night, though this had repercussions when you had mostly 9am classes. However, I must say that my grades have definitely gone up since my first year. I think freshman year was the best for the one reason that everything was new and different from what I had ever experienced before. I treasure the friends that I am still close with since freshman year and love reminiscing with them about all the parties we went to and how much we've changed since then, i.e. the different fraternities we hung out at freshman year compared to now. Hmm...I think most people have said what I was going to say about what I learned during freshman year, but I must include these two:

Procrastination is evil, evil, evil...and I think it's some type of disorder because I have had it since high school and I cannot stop it!

Beware of jungle juice...it will hit you later that night and it won't be pretty. I'm speaking from personal experience. :(

I wish that I had not been so shy when I first arrived at college. I had a great roommate, and we got along great. I lived on a floor of mostly sophomores. I was shy, and they weren't very welcoming or friendly so I didn't get to know many of them. I regret that. I moved for my sophomore year. The best move I ever made. :D

Interestingly enough, a few years after college, a woman who lived on my floor wound up working at my mother's law firm. My mother asked her if she knew me since we went to the same school. She said no. I told my mom of course she didn't know me, we lived on the same floor. :rolleyes:

Except for my floor, my freshman year was great until I got mono and had to go home early. :(

My freshman year was pretty good. I was pretty shy going into college so it was initially hard to meet people. I was involved on campus from day 1 though, so eventually I became more confident and outgoing. The spring of my freshman year was the best...that was when I really met and bonded with the people I was closest to throughout college (and even now after graduation). I look back though and think about how naive I was in regards to some things and it's pretty funny. Like someone else mentioned, I can't believe the crazy hours I used to keep. I have no idea how I pulled it together taking a very time consuming courseload, routinely surviving on almost no sleep, staying out all the time...Thankfully I was one of the lucky few who managed to keep my grades up....no way would my parents have let me come back to school (where they were paying out of state tuition) if I hadn't. As far as ranking my freshman year against the other years of school....I really think each year got better and better....:) :)

My freshman year was both - it sucked and it was awesome. The bad part was my freshman year roomate who was incredibly evil. I found out a little too late that she was trying to drive me out. She'd met a girl at orientation who was originally slated to be her roomate and they'd gotten along wonderfully. Then, that girl changed her mind and heard that Sewall was THE dorm to live in and switched her request. Then, after school started she decided she wanted to back in our dorm where she was originally supposed to be. Apparently my darling roomie thought she could get me out and original girl back in if she just excluded me enough, lost enough phone messages, cursed out enough of my friends, etc. Why I didn't demand a transfer I'll never know. I think I was being stubborn and decided if she was evil and all she wanted was for me to move then I wasn't going to give her the pleasure. Sigh... if I had it all to do again knowing what I know now... C'est la vie.

On the bright side I had my sorority sisters to see me through. I couldn't hang out in my dorm so I had to do all my studying in the library or at study hours. I was also looking for excuses to stay busy so I signed up for Powder Puff football, Songfest, a little singing group we had going, you name it I was there.

In the end I still had a lot of fun and learned a lot about myself, my limits, weaknesses and strengths. I can't say I'd do it all the same but I can say I tried and I've grown tremdously as a person. I'm trying to learn not to look back and question too much, you just drive yourself crazy. Plus, everything I've done has helped make me the person I am today.

My freshman year was mixed. Had a great time meeting lots of new people, experiencing live without parents for the first time, and of course joining Chi Omega, but other aspects were not so great. I had the roommate from HELL!!!! Literally. She was evil. We had zilch in common..I swear the housing staff never even read our living preferences survey we filled out when applying. So anyways, my roomie was the biggest stoner I have ever met...she got high 24/7 and would go to class drunk all the time as well. She was a VERY loud drunk...you could hear her from like 10 mins away before she even entered the hall, so it made it really hard to sleep/study. And I think I only saw her crack open a textbook like 2 times the entire year! She never had class before 2pm so she would stay up all night and sleep in really late while my schedule of classes was the opposite...early morning and done by 3. Oh and of course she was anti-greek so she had many wonderful things to say about sororities and fraternities. :( But, I have tons of great memories from my first year and for the most part had a great time. This first year of college helped me to grow a lot as a person and I feel that I changed in many ways since HS. I have become a lot more outgoing and have tried/experienced many wonderful new things this past year. (EX: I saw snow for the first time and attempted to go snowboarding; went to my first concert EVER, etc). I learned many important things about life, love, myself, getting along with others, the "real world," etc.

~"Don't Cry because it's over, Smile because it happened."

MY FROSH YEAR! God How well I remember it!

We wore Bennies! Sucked!

Went to a drive-in movie and No FU&k9ng beenie!

Well, they always shaved a guys head! it was always a jock who agreed! Fun in front of the ADM Building!

I was called up and put on my Knees and Had Half of head shaved!

Many more stories to go about that day but after that the Frosh Hazing was not allowed! The Alfa Romeo and the Pond!

1960 was the year!

The fit hit the shan!

Kicked out in 1964! Blamed me for things I did not do! Never caught me for things I did!:) :D :cool:

Life was really good!

But remember shit runs down hill, and you do not want to be at the bottom of the food chain!:eek:

I will never give up the memories!

Oh Hell forgot about scaling the girls dorm !

Got the a damn wrong window! DA ME!

What I remeber of mine was fantastic.

I say that because:

a) It was 1965.

b) Well, you can figure that one out yourself.

So many girls...

My freshman year was THE best school year I have ever had in my life. It may sound corny but some of my best memories of my life come from that year.

What did I learn???

1)It's NOT wise to try to raise your GPA during the last 3 weeks of the semester! (Good news, I kept the scholarship though)

2)It's better if I have a single room. Me and the two roomies I've had did NOT mix well.

3)Internet relationships don't work out(for me anyways). I had dated a guy online for a year, and he went to the same college as me. We broke up soon after school started because he was different than he was online.

4)If you suck at History, it's PROBABLY not wise to take Honors World Civilization to 1660. :D

This past year was my sophomore year. It really sucked...maybe this year will be better. :D

My freshman year was a mixed bag. I started at Tulane and I was miserable from day 1. ALL of my friends and my boyfriend were at LSU. Plus, I just didn't really click with anyone. I hated my classes, my major, everything. There was major roomate drama and I eventually moved home and commuted for part of the semester. I was miserable. The worst $5K I ever spent.

The second semester, I transferred to LSU. It was totally amazing. I was more comfortable being around people I knew, and just other Louisiana people in general. I found the Yankees at Tulane to be MOST unfriendly and condescending to southerners.

I did learn a few lessons:
1.) No matter how much you think you want something, you won't know until you get it. Tulane was my dream school. It turned into a NIGHTMARE. Why? Because when I visited, I saw what I WANTED to see, not what was there.

2.) You can go to college and stay with your HS sweetheart. You can stay with him/her all throughout college, if its meant to be. My guy and I will celebrate our 5th anniversary on Sept. 7 :D

3.) Its a lot easier to deal with a school being crappy if its free, like LSU was. I felt like I was being raped at Tulane - it was crazy expensive (even with massive scholarshp money) and everyone treated me like crap. At LSU, I could always say "well, you get what you pay for!" And overall, it was a pretty good school :)

Well, let's see...1st night of living at college I had a date, but unfortunately the guy ended up being a big old skeez. A week later I went out w/ a HOT ex-marine (8 years my senior). But then things started to slide. A week after, I got massive food poisoning and ended up crawling to my car in my jammies in the afternoon and driving myself (how?!) to the student health center. There I drifted in and out of consciousness w/ a couple liters of IV fluid in my arm. Then a week after that my mom called me w/ news that one of the closest teachers I had died of cancer. Then a week later....oh....I had a car wreck w/ a campus delivery truck that nearly totalled out my car and left me car-less for over a month on a seriously non-walking campus. And a concussion to boot! I started dating a guy that next weekend who turned out to be a psycho. I left him on New Years Eve and started redating this guy that I had been dating a few weeks after school started (neither skeez nor soldier boy). I was in lust for a while, but then started carrying on a way dramatic affair w/ a brooding guitar player type. Did some waaaaay freaky and stupid things that I never imagined that yours truly would do. Went days w/o sleep, thought Waffle House trips at 3 am were cool and generally explored my slacker side, yet somehow managed to become a good musician and keep my scholarships. My soph year sucked like a White House intern. I'm praying praying praying that this year will be fun, and so much more productive.

ROFLMAO! Good one, swissmiss!

All I need to know in life, I learned in my freshman year of college...
~ As the one commercial says, Life Sucks Without a Car. True! But now, sometimes (when I'm DD for the zillionth night in a row) I wish I didn't have one!
~ Don't judge a book by it's cover. My roomate and I are 2 totally different people, and even look complete opposites, but we became and still are best friends. She said the first time she saw me (coming home from Prefs, gabbing about rush), she thought she was going to hate me because I "looked like a sorority girl." (Now she loves me and my sisters.)
~ Getting involved in an organization is the key to meeting people and making friends. I happened to join a sorority, other people may join SG or Ceramics Club, but all are great ways to make contacts throughout campus.
~ Buffets are disgusting. I will never step foot in another salad bar restaurant/cafeteria type place. Now I know why my father (22 years in the Army) hates them too, after eating in mess halls the first few years of his career!
~ Partying like it's 1999 won't cut it in 2000, or any other year for that matter! In college, unlike high school, you actually have to study to pass...what a novel concept.
~ Beer then liquor, never sicker. Liquor then beer, in the clear!
~ Technology is your friend, thank God for email, the internet, and cell phones!
~ Be grateful for what you have, and work hard to keep it. Not everyone has the privilege of going out of town to go to a 4 year school. Don't mess up a scholarship that you've been awarded, do what you need to do to keep it every year.
~ To everything there is a season...there's a time to study, and a time to party. Knowing the right time: PRICELESS!
~ Keep drama to a minimum, college is not a soap opera.
~ "Boys=genetic garbage" (quote from my little) OK, not really :p
I've found that in college, one's life is in a constant state of change, and that is not the ideal environment for finding the person he/she wants to spend the rest of their life with. Congratulations to everyone lucky enough to have found true love in college, but for me, I want to be in a more stable environment before that happens.
~ Don't try too hard to grow up. "Act your shoe size" once in a while, because college is the last time you'll be able to do it without getting serious flack.
~ Life's short, skip dinner and eat dessert, because it's the best part of the meal.

My frosh year...
Oh well, it was ok. I had a GREAT first quarter. I went out and partied, met lots of new people, got good grades, liked my classes, talked to my professors and generally kicked butt. :D

Then I got a boyfriend. Oh boy things went downhill. Not that he was bad, in fact he was VERY nice and very smart and would do anything I told him to do, but it kept me from meetimg more people, seeking out friendships and getting involved in things I was interesed in. I discovered that I didn't like that many people in my dorm, and instead of going and finding new friends I latched myslef firmly onto my boyfriend. Since I didn't make an effort to go out and fix my problems myself things it started to go downhill.
I did not have as much fun as I did fall quarter. I took Organic Chem and did not do so well. I had always wanted to go to Medical School and I started to doubt that decision. Spring quarter I decided to rush, but it was just as bad. I was pretty lost and actually kinda depressed.

So, what did I learn?
**You need to love what you are doing and have a goal in mind when you do it.
**You can not latch yourself onto your boyfriend even if he would jump off a bridge for you.
**Getting good grades and liking your classes is important!
**Find friends that love you and give you a place to belong.

The end of the story? It got better my sophomore year, and then I crashed again my junior year. I went abroad to Spain for a semester with 0 goals, violating the first lesson I learned. I also hated my program (Hamilton College Study Abroad, a huge waste of 14 grand!) and host family, and I made friends with some girls who ended up NOT being nice.

I guess it's nice to see that we all have had our ups and downs and I am not alone!

I probably had a little *too* much fun freshman year, as was evidenced by the 1.99 GPA I walked away from it with... hmm. So what did I learn?

*Don't force fun! If you feel like watching a movie and eating easy mac, don't force yourself to hit the frats, cause you won't have fun anyway. Having said that...

*You can retake a class, but you can never retake a party!

*Your best friends and worst enemies for life will be made on your freshman hall.

*There's always at least one girl who pledge undying love to her high school boyfriend and then wind up spending more time at frat parties than in class, doing things that "Don't count as cheating cause it's not in the same area code."

*Don't be that dorm couple that decideds to hook up in all of the hall showers, cause everyone will find out and be REALLY grossed out by it. (This is not from personal experience, mind you ;p)

*That "random" hook up will soon become the least random thing in the world, as that guy you only have a fuzzy recollection of and just want to forget will inevitably wind up sitting behind you in class. (This one IS from personal experience! uugh!)

*No one makes it to class in time, especially not in your cute strappy sandals.

*Take all advice you get with a grain of salt... and, if possible, a lemon and a shot of tequila :D

This is depressing me, I only have one year left! All you underclassmen, I hope you're enjoying your time! It goes fast :(

*C*

More things I learned my freshman year....


1)Don't eat out a lot, and watch what you eat, or you won't gain the "Freshman 15", but the "Freshman 30", and then the "Sophomore 20". (Yes, I really did gain that much weight...finally lost most of it though)

2)Don't wear flip flops to marching band practice.

3)Being carless SUCKS!!!!

4)learn to improvise. If you're car-less, walk to Wal-Mart. If you don't have a disk handy, cut and paste your paper in your e-mail and send it to yourself. If you're broke and starving, hunt up all your penny rolls, order a pizza, and pay for it with all pennies. Yes, I really did that once when a big ice storm hit and I couldn't get out. :D

lol, I swore I was the only one who did this! hahahah! what a riot!

OMG, I did this too....how funny.

Hahaha..yup this one sucks big time!!! Except for me, the guy was in 2 of my classes and 1 discussion group!

Oh I had to do this all the time!! Most of the papers or lab write ups were too large to fit on a disk so being able to send an email to yourself was a saving grace. Also people always broke the disk drives in the lab (how hard is it to use a disk drive?!?!) or the lab computers were notorious for corupting disks that emailing yourself a file was a common practice.

Freshman yr sucked! I was miserable. I hated my school. I thought everyone was stuck up! I was homesick--even though my parents lived an hour away. I didn't have a car. I didn't get dates. My first roommate was in band and really weird. She sit and stare at me. One day she crapped her pants. I saw her get up and I said," Um there is something on your pants" She was like," Oh it's probably the sap from the trees." Ugh ! She changed and her pants stuck up the room-- she left for class- i closed the door bc I didn't want anyone to think that stench was from me. I never kept my door open bc i was so humiliated by my roomie and she always wore the overalls with nasty stains(ie the ones she crapped in). It grossed me out and being a little bitchy when she was gone I brought those overalls to the dumpster across the street.
My second roommate was always having sex and never left a note, but she was nice.
Sophomore yr was much better than freshman yr, but still sucked.
This yr should be great bc i am moving to Florida and i got into the 2 bedroom villa apts. Hopefully my roomie will like me!!!

Why couldn't they grow-up?
 

My freshman year was unique. Academically, I did awesome (3.75) but friendship wise not so great. I lived this ghetto dorm (Gamma) and the girls I had the wonderful joy of sharing the bathroom with were absolute pigs. We had two girls actually get into fist fights about twice a week until one was kicked out. I had a girl that just did not like me. She was of course best friends with my roomate (sp?) and thought it fun to prank call me at odd times.
It's all good though because as I was getting off the field after a halftime show, I hear this girl screaming "BITCH" repeadetly at the top of her lungs. I look and loh and behold it's my ex-roomates best friend. I look at her, say her name and wave. That was the best :D :D :D :D
That made my freshman year worthwhile

It was the best. Almost everyone I went to high school went ended up going to the same school so it was like my senior year in high school but with much more freedom ! I did party a bit to much but it was all worth it. I also made really good friendships.
My step sister and I were roomates and everyone on my floor was soo cool we would terroize the girls that lived on another floor- put tootpaste on their doors etcc..
:D
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Stocks Game

I found this comment kinda offensive. I'm in band...in fact I'm a music education major. Your roommate DID sound weird, but don't make comments about people in band. We're not all "weirdos" and "geeks". We don't like the stereotypes.

BTW I'm sure you wouldn't like it if someone said to you, "Sorority girls are all stuck up, rich bitches." Now would you? Because it's not true; it's a stereotype.

That's my 2 cents.

Ah, freshman year....

I had a blast freshman year - I ended up having a halfway decent floor, and a really good roommate. My grades were pretty good (I had my best GPA first semester), and I ended up pledging second semester.

All in all, not a bad year - it's gotten better every year since.

Collin

I loved my freshman year of college! It was a chance to make a clean break from high school, which I didn't really like because I never felt like I really fit in. I joined Phi Sig, which obviously kicked ass, and I learned a few important lessons:


1. Keystone Ice tastes really, really bad

2. Partying till 5 in the morning night after night does not do the body good :)

3. If you meet a good looking girl, don't get so drunk that you can't remember her the next day

4. Running away from the RA's generally is not a good idea

These are a couple of the things that I can think of off the top of my head, I'll probably come up with a few more later. Hopefully this next year (my junior year) will be the best ever!

It was very good for the most part. Although I got a B in one class and I had been a straight A student in high school.

During the first semester of my freshman year, I felt kind of lost. I had a couple friends and a boyfriend at the same school, but it wasn't like high school where I was involved with everything under the sun and felt at home. The second semester though, after getting involved with a campus group and joining Alpha Gam, everything changed and I hated to leave when summer came. It just took a semester to get to know things, adjust to living away and find my niche on campus!