When you are a rising freshman and you have just decided to attend KSU in the fall, you are probably wondering what it will be like to completely uproot yourself from your parents’ house, where you have possibly grown up, and start a new life on your own.
You may be anticipating living with random roommates. You are probably leaving a thing or two behind and will have them in the back of your mind as you move forward toward your future. These are the first baby steps.
There is the obvious excitement and anticipation of who you might meet there and who you will become because, after all, the first year of
college is determinant of what direction your life will take. Just the thought of handling this immense change used to give me a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach.
You may think you are going to do one thing, and then college changes everything based on the experiences you encounter. These experiences make us who we are and begin forming new personal values as well.
When imagining what freshman year of college will be like, most will immediately picture where they are going to live. Your dorm room is often the place you will spend most of your time. You will invite new friends over, have movie nights with your roommate and endure seemingly endless homework sessions.
The University Village Suites is an all freshman dorm, so everyone there is around the same age and fresh out of high school. There is a kind of camaraderie that forms between you and your hall mates, whether you realize it at the time or not.
Living in the Suites is great because even though the rooms are slightly smaller, it is a great experience living in close quarters with people since you will get closer to them much faster than you would in other dorm buildings. It forces you to interact with other people on campus and have fun from the very first day you move in.
Going out and experiencing the events your RAs plan is encouraged. It makes meeting people easier and most of the people you meet will live in your building. The activities are pretty fun most of the time and sometimes there is free stuff involved!
Try to get as close with your roommate and hall mates as you can. It comes in handy and makes your first year in college a lot more fun! You should also talk to the people in your classes often. Make at least one friend in every class. This way you can ask them to get together and work on homework, lean on each other when one of you missed class and hopefully already have a project partner picked out.
Go outside as much as possible. Walk around campus even if you do not have to go to class yet. Walking outside is a very easy way to meet more people, especially on the Campus Green. Meeting people is what college is all about, is it not? And making good grades, of course.
