FIRST SEMESTER
NAME: RAGGIE, AHMED
This past week back at the NJIT, I've been noticing how college freshmen are so obviously college freshmen. They wear lanyards, spend hours picking out their first day of school outfit, and cheer out wrong names of players at football games. While I find all this amusing, I also totally remember the excitement, anxiousness and remarkable amount of cluelessness that comes with being a brand spanking new college freshman.
My first semester of college was certainly an experience. And I use the word experience BECAUSE Experience is what I get when I didn't get what I wanted. The first semester of my freshman year of college was a whole bunch of not getting what I wanted. Not getting things that I applied for. Not fitting into the group of people that I wanted to be friends with. Not having any of the guys that I was interested in be interested back. Not achieving the grades I wanted. That's just a whole lot of experience right there. Experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer. I was able to learn from my first semester of frosh year, and have a very successful and enjoyable semester and I'm hoping to keep using my experiences to improve and grow as a student and person.
And since experience is probably the most valuable thing to offer college freshmen, here are some things I learned I would have realized during my first semester of college.
Yeah, that group of people that I met at just seems super awesome and cool! But give it a couple of weeks, and you'll see that you don't have much to relate to them over. Yet I still trying so hard to be a part of the group. I feel left out when I saw events that they had that I wasn’t invited to. I tried to make conversation with them, but I realized that I don't have too much in common except for loving One Direction. And as impossible as it seems, talking all day and every day gets old. Instead of being hell bent on being BFFs with the first people you meet, try to branch out to new
This past week back at the NJIT, I've been noticing how college freshmen are so obviously college freshmen. They wear lanyards, spend hours picking out their first day of school outfit, and cheer out wrong names of players at football games. While I find all this amusing, I also totally remember the excitement, anxiousness and remarkable amount of cluelessness that comes with being a brand spanking new college freshman.
My first semester of college was certainly an experience. And I use the word experience BECAUSE Experience is what I get when I didn't get what I wanted. The first semester of my freshman year of college was a whole bunch of not getting what I wanted. Not getting things that I applied for. Not fitting into the group of people that I wanted to be friends with. Not having any of the guys that I was interested in be interested back. Not achieving the grades I wanted. That's just a whole lot of experience right there. Experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer. I was able to learn from my first semester of frosh year, and have a very successful and enjoyable semester and I'm hoping to keep using my experiences to improve and grow as a student and person.
And since experience is probably the most valuable thing to offer college freshmen, here are some things I learned I would have realized during my first semester of college.
Yeah, that group of people that I met at just seems super awesome and cool! But give it a couple of weeks, and you'll see that you don't have much to relate to them over. Yet I still trying so hard to be a part of the group. I feel left out when I saw events that they had that I wasn’t invited to. I tried to make conversation with them, but I realized that I don't have too much in common except for loving One Direction. And as impossible as it seems, talking all day and every day gets old. Instead of being hell bent on being BFFs with the first people you meet, try to branch out to new