How to Prepare for a First Year at College
I cried on my first day too. I still don't know why, because it was a moment I looked forward to for so long. I was out of my parent's home, I was on my own. It started when we were driving there, and my poor then seven year old sister, who was sitting next to me in the car, bent over and wept quietly into her lap. So I started crying too, and I didn't stop...like all day long. Truthfully a lot of the people I met at first were all friendly enough, but I can't say I'm still very close friends with any of them. The dialogue always started with the same set of questions, where are you from, where are you living (because all students lived on campus until they were 21), etc. I made all my long lasting friends in time though. Freshman year, for me, the people I knew were all of the people I lived with and all of the people in my collegium. It was such a tiny school though, that if you got out and talked to people, by the time you were finished with your fourth year chances were you'd know just about everyone, in some way at least.
I wanted to answer your I made friends when I...but none of my answers make any sense really. Be forced to live with someone, how my old roomie and I became friends despite strongly...disliking each other at first. ...Erm, walk into people's dorms unannounced. Weird things like that. Although, some of my favorite days on campus was eating in the caf, because in general my uni always had a welcoming atmosphere, and I could walk up to any table of people and have lunch with a group of acquaintances. Plus all of the best activities happened in the caf...Like we had these large round tables that could seat, comfortable 10-13 people. So of course we'd go to lunch and when people would come in we'd hail them to sit with us, to see just how many people we could cram into sitting at one table. Our record was 24 or something like that. And another tradition was spooning the boys. If a boy managed to sit at those round tables, and all of the other open seats at that table were filled with girls only, everyone in the caf would get up and give the guy a spoon. Ah, college :D
Ember, Jun 23, 2012