There are definitely some things I could have known beforehand to prepare me for what I would eventually learn the hard way, especially about the social scene at the University of California Santa Cruz.
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Freshman Year at Wake Forest
Students recount their biggest mistakes and best decisions made during their freshman year at Wake Forest.
My Best and Worst Decisions of Freshman Year at UVM
UVM upper-classmen share faux pas during their first taste of freedom
Best and Worst Freshman Year Decisions at Vassar
Freshman year: new classes, new atmospheres, new social networks, new mores—it can be taxing. And, of course, along the way, there will be new decisions. Decisions that can be incredible, eye opening, and life changing. And then there are others—decisions that can certainly be described as aforementioned, but maybe not in such a positive light.
Freshman Year at UVM: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Many of decisions I made that first year came to follow me throughout my career as an undergrad. It is a year with the potential to tip the scales—whether they tip in your favor is up to you.
Freshman Year Biggest Mistakes and Best Decisions at UCSC
I am about to enter my third year at UC Santa Cruz, and although I like to think that I am still morphing into the high school image of my college self, I can attribute a lot of my growing up to the choices, both good and bad, I made freshman year.
Freshman Year: Triumphs and trip-ups at UW-Madison
All college students seem to love their schools, but their ultimate happiness is found by taking a lot of chances; some chances proving themselves to be as mistakes, and others as successes. These successes are just a small part of what makes college the incredible experience that it is. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, there are many open doors in which both missteps and triumphs are found.
Middlebury Freshman Year
Upper-classmen recount best and worst decisions made at the beginning of their college careers
Freshman Year Worst Mistakes and Best Decisions at FSU
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Freshman Year Biggest Mistakes and Best Decisions at Bryn Mawr
We joke that a Bryn Mawr girl never does anything but homework, and sometimes it is more reality than a joke. My biggest mistake of my freshman year was not getting involved in the community, both at Bryn Mawr the local area.