A Heart to Heart about Freshman Year.
Entering college can be a traumatic experience to incoming freshmen. The entire fact that you have to fend for yourself is overwhelming. No matter how much you are looking forward to your new found independence, many times it is the case that when you actually get there, you feel that your hopes are unproductive, or that your room resembles a prison, and that your classes are pointless. So, for all the incoming freshmen, here are some survival-tips, which is compiled of my experiences as a freshman at Baylor University.
The first day you spend at college won't seem too hard. You"ll get to move all your belongings into a brand-new, run-down, tinny-tiny room, which not is much different than a refrigerator box. You"ll meet a few of your neighbors; and try to figure out which way to turn when you get off the elevator to get to your room. Not to hard, right? Well, at least not until your parents leave. Suddenly you realize that you are all by yourself. All alone, with a tiny room full of boxes, containing all of your possessions. As your eyes wander around the room, you can't help but notice the strange person whom you have to share the room with for the rest of the year. Now, don't panic, even though I did. The whole fact that you are on your own fending for yourself. Thinking in the back of your mind, I wish I packed extra toilet paper. Well don't worry. In a few hours you will have everything straighten out and would have moved onto much bigger issues.
When you start college, everyone will give you a huge list of things that you should and shouldn't do. By far the quintessential thing you must have at college would have to be quarters. I strongly emphasize for you to save up all the quarters you can get your hands on. From personal experience, the last thing you want to know is that you are out of clean clothes to wear, and there is not a change machine in sight.
It was run by a little old lady that stood about five feet even. ... Throughout my freshman year of high school there was only one person besides my family I could confine to. ... And being that I was a freshman was not helping. ... We began to form a bond once it got to the end of the year. ... After freshman year everything just fell into place. ...
Here's what I want you to think about. ... Freshman year of high school, and everything feels like it's harmful to her future. ... This fifteen-year-old girl falls for a boy on the football team, and you know the story. ... She falls for him, and ultimately, he ends up breaking her heart because he lies to her about something completely predictable. ... You may not realize it after you lie, but once you think about it, you'll realize that lying to someone broke your heart too because you hurt someone who cared about you. ...
Laughing and talking about the current men in our lives, we didn't notice the two boys who were following us. ... Ignorance is bliss to a sixteen year old girl who had no idea how hateful the world we live in truly is. ... Many people in the world have been taught so many things about homosexuality. ... Matthew Shepard was a college freshman who was brutally murdered by a bunch of guys from his school. ... I was consumed with anger and my heart was filled with sadness. ...
When I look back to my freshman and sophomore year, I think of the many times I found myself living in selfishness and disrespect. Over this past year and a half, I have discovered and learned that it is simply not about "I" but about the comradery of the group. ... As Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "To handle yourself, use your head; to encourage others, use your heart." Before becoming a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. ...
"Advertising is an over 100 billion dollar a year industry, and we are exposed to 2,000 ads a day" (Kilbourne 194). ... Which is the purpose of the freshman seminar class according to the syllabus. ... These examples continue to persuade the reader of just how important these issues are and how they change the way we feel about culture. ... A last example of this is talked about in the sexual displays of ads. ... Kilbourne has made many great point about our culture and how we should react to it in "Beauty and the Beast of Advertising." ...
He was named Player of the Year in 1985 as well. ... He may have been in the right place at the right time for staring off at the freshman year in school, but then again, whenever he came to America, he still would have been just as tall as he was when he actually did come, and that was a major advantage over any person on the ball court. ... "He has a heart of a champion. ... When you think about the New York Knicks, you think about one name always, Patrick Ewing. He was the heart and soul of that team, for every year the he was there, and there was no avoiding the spirit he brought to th...
I talked with coaches, players at Cabrillo, Coach Cox and my friends and family before making the decision not to play this year. ... When my high school coach, Louie Walters heard this, he asked me to coach the freshman team at Scotts Valley High School. ... After the first two weeks I became the defensive coordinator responsible for the whole freshman defense. ... Now that I am coaching, I have learned more about the game than I ever imagined. ... I"m not sure they were always right, but I understand and believe they always had my best interest at heart. ...
