What was it like?? So far, mine is awesome
I get into details later...

it was both really awesome and incredibly shitty.

Loved it.

It was a cornucopia of new and interesting vaginas.

evenstar3 said:

Bingo.

Good times, good times...

omg I flipped out and became a social animal so much so that I was on probation by the end of the year

GREAT time of life, but I was so irresponsible and out of control. Staying up until 4-5am every night. It was almost IMPOSSIBLE to get my butt to morning class.

It was a blast. A real letdown came sophmore year when everyone around me got serious.

heartbeatocean said:

That, in a nutshell, summerizes the typical arc-path of the species known as, The Student

heartbeatocean said:

Yeah. It was basically the same for me. I think about about that time and think about how irritated my parents must have been at me. I look at 18/19 year olds in my classes (I'm back in school) and I just cringe...

Stressful....

I was married....three kids.....real estate appraisal apprentice....coach....full time job...extremely sexually deprived....

Great times.....

Mine was kind of lackluster, since I lived at home. It wasn't until my sophomore year that things started to pop.

sammij said:

Yep.

It made my ass hurt

it was redefining. it was the first time in my life that i didn't live under the same roof with parents, so i finally had a chance to figure out who i was and how i preferred to live my life. i became a vegetarian and came out of the closet within the first two months of my freshman year.

I couldn't stand one of my roommates. She questioned everything I did as if I was an alien. She also talked about everyone like a dog....even people she considered to be her friend. I never considered a friend though. My classes were actually fun. Classes start off easy.....not too much stress.

i'm thinking i'm enjoying my fourth year far more than my first.
i'm that much closer to my degree, i feel more established and i think i enjoy that feeling more than the partying every day and night antics that constitutes the freshman year.

my first year was my only year...I had a real problem with that whole going to class thing....however, the rest of the experience was fantastic...I may have even been sober once or twice...

AnckSuNamun said:

Oh. Not me. Mine started off way hard. I took 18 hours and they were mostly science and chemistry and labs.

I hate labs! Once I was in organic chem. lab and those things last 3 hours...I did my experiment and I was supposed to filter something and one of the pieces of the apparatus was not hooked tightly and I watched my black crystalized A+ drain off onto the table and turn into an F.

Mine was a combination of all the above.

Stressful, but fun at the same time.

My first semester was the following:

Calculus I
Experience in Literature
Perceptions of Science
Chem I
Chem I lab

Chem really wasn't all that bad, but I'm more mathematically inclined than most. Now Organic Chem lab (Chem II), that was hell, but that came a year later.

Calculus I was a nightmare because it was hard to pick up. Then we had these "projects" to do every week where we'd divide into groups and meet to solve a number of related calc problems.
Long story short: after one of my group dropped out of the class in early November, the other guys just gave up on it and I had to do ALL the work myself. I confessed that to my professor nearing the end of the semester and along with my perfect attendance record, I managed an A (when my grade would have been a B-).

The only social life I had, other than spending a little time every now and then with my wonderful roommate who I'm still good friends with and love to death... was animé club where I could hang out with my fellow geeks/nerds at somewhat of a study break. Where we just watch 2 hours of animé every Wednesday night good times

And that's just my first semester

senik said:

hokie said:

I'm ashamed really. I managed to get into a very elite school, my parents were shelling out $$$$ to put me there, and I frittered it all away gaining 20 pounds eating pizza and ice cream, worming my way out of deadlines, writing stream-of-consciousness papers and constantly pleading for extensions.

Get this -- I got an M in French class (that's M for Missing because the teacher didn't know who I was because I only showed up to class about two times.) My mom kept questioning me about it. "What's this "M" grade? Go get that M grade fixed!!!" Luckily I managed to ignore the situation until the M vanished from my record.

heartbeatocean said:

I don't want to talk about my first year shenanigans.

Geez, that was my first year of tasting freedom...I had a blast ...I also had 7 roommates to begin with (room shortage...they put us in a converted recreation room on bunk beds). Met my best friend my freshman year...overall, it was excellent.

hokie said:

I miss high school

Confusing. I'm in my third year now so I finally got it down pat.

My first year of college was fun!! Memories.

hopefully next yr 4 me!!!!!

i don't like it. the professors, really make you feel bad sometimes.
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I went shopping between classes or on the computer, I liked the lifestyle of being on my own more than studying in first year, cause though I liked what I studied, it was too hard and stressful. I was on probation by the end of the year, but improved in second year and it got better since.