Your Freshmen Year...Sucked or was Awesome? - Page 2

Tom Earp · #16 08-06-2002, 06:32 PM

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!

Life was really good!

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

I will never give up the memories!

Oh Hell forgot about scaling the girls dorm !

Got the a damn wrong window! DA ME!

DeltAlum · #17 08-06-2002, 10:40 PM

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...

sairose · #18 08-06-2002, 11:02 PM

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.

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

juniorgrrl · #19 08-07-2002, 01:33 AM

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

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

swissmiss04 · #20 08-07-2002, 03:15 AM

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.

RedRoseSAI · #21 08-07-2002, 09:30 AM

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Originally posted by swissmiss04
My soph year sucked like a White House intern.

ROFLMAO! Good one, swissmiss!

ShaedyKD · #22 08-07-2002, 12:30 PM

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

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.

XOMichelle · #23 08-07-2002, 02:47 PM

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.

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!

MVP4GPB · #24 08-07-2002, 03:30 PM

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

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

*C*

sairose · #25 08-07-2002, 06:37 PM

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.

lifesaver · #26 08-07-2002, 09:58 PM

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Originally posted by sairose
If you don't have a disk handy, cut and paste your paper in your e-mail and send it to yourself

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

chioangel83 · #27 08-08-2002, 08:08 AM

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Originally posted by sairose
If you don't have a disk handy, cut and paste your paper in your e-mail and send it to yourself.

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

chioangel83 · #28 08-08-2002, 08:13 AM

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Originally posted by MVP4GPB

*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. *C*

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

Angelic · #29 08-08-2002, 11:07 AM

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Originally posted by sairose
If you don't have a disk handy, cut and paste your paper in your e-mail and send it to yourself.

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.

AlphaSigLana · #30 08-08-2002, 11:29 AM

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!!!