I had my first Freshers' Day today at my university. Got to be one of the most independant things I've ever done.

Walking down to the station, catching the train into the city and then walking to my campus. It's still cheaper than living in uni accomodation though

What it does mean is that me and my boyfriend are now at separate universities.:(

Is anyone else new to uni, or has left their college recently and looking for work/further education?

I'm going to school in Houston right now, but I'll be leaving Houston come next fall to go to University of Texas @ San Antonio :D
What it does mean, though, is that Michelle and I will be going to separate schools too :(

Ah well, only 2 years to go through :D

I'm in my second month of college now, so I'm new too. I'm not at my ideal school, but the adjustment has been fine. Freshman are required to live on campus, but I would anyway, so that's okay. My dorm is much nicer than most of the other freshman dorms. Strangely, I've also had much less work to do than I did most of the time in high school, though I think that can be largely attributed to not having a math or an English class right now.

I'm not in college right now, so yeah flame me for posting here but I'm kinda scared to do the college thing, I'm not going to lie. I plan on going out of state, which means I'll be 100% on my own, and I don't want to live in a dorm.

To you guys new to college and living on campus, how do they chose who you end up with?

The dorms are fine; it'd be a lot harder to meet people if you didn't live in one. When you say you're planning on going out of state, are you talking public or private? Because meeting people is harder at a public school, because so many people are there with high school friends.

I know here the roommate assignments, if you didn't request someone, were 100% random. But at some schools, like GA Tech, there's a short survey to fill out, and they might actually take your answers into consideration. Theirs was only four questions long, though, so I don't know how much that helped. However, a lot of schools have websites where you can fill out a more detailed questionnaire and try to arrange to find a roommate online that way. There's a lot of facebook groups like that too; I found the UGA facebook "Dawg House" group to be a lot more helpful than the actualy "Dawg House" thing to find people you'd want to room with, because since it's not a school sanctioned thing, they can ask if you drink, etc. The questions in that survey were better in general, really. That's how I found my roommate. I guess it worked pretty well...at first I thought it didn't because I went through all that trouble and we weren't really hanging out at all, but we're talking more and getting along better now. At least our living habits are pretty compatible, which is the most important thing. It's have sucked to live with some ultra-conservative Christian girl who goes to bed at 10 every night (I know a couple of people who have roommates like that), or worse some clone of a sorority girl, but a lot of my friends get along really well with their random roommates. It's not something you should worry about too much, because most things can be worked out, and if they can't, you can probably request a change. I know some people doing that right now too, but their roommates weren't even completely random (long story as to how that's working out so badly).

^ Thanks (um, I don't know your name). I've had a few friends who have gone off to college and some of them have told me how horrible their roommates are so I was just wondering about that.

Suz, I don't have anyone else to really ask college questions to. Haha, my family is a bunch-o-losers.

First year at Columbia.

It's amazing. I'm still semi-relying on my parents (you know... tuition, etc), but still, being independent and in NYC is incredible.

Now see, that is one of the reasons I so desperately didn't want to go to UGA. My mom begs me to come home on weekends when she needs help on something, and my dad is giving me all this shit about he's disappointed that I won't go see him and that I didn't manage to visit him for very long when he came up for a football game. But it's not like he even came for me, so he has to understand that I'm at college, and that he's lucky I stayed close enough for visits at all. It isn't fair, and I'm annoyed.

Also, rant aside, my classes are getting harder and I'm not pleased (though of course not surprised). Not that that isn't a rant..

Classes are boring and dull. and my roommate talks on the phone too much.

^ is your roommate hot?