My First Year As A College Student

The Joe West Hall is one of the residential halls at San Jose State University which hosts approximate 600 freshmen. It is considering the worst building here at SJSU since it is the only building that without air condition. I have chosen to live in a double occupancy room in Joe West under the choices of single, double and triple. When I first entered in my dorm, the spacing is as small as I thought it would be before. Our dorm room is furnished with two twin beds, desks, chairs, dressers, and closets. It is just a single small room which could fairly use by myself. As the only child from home, my parents were worried that I would have trouble sharing living space with someone else for the first time. However, I did manage not to have

One thing students lose when they decide to dorm is privacy. They have to share a bedroom, bathroom, and living space with other students. Some students have no experience sharing a room with another human being, and the transition can be frustrating at times. Studying is difficult

When I started my first semester of college, I was very worried about writing essays and research papers. I felt like my writing skills lacked greatly compared to other students. I knew a few things of which I could improve on right off the bat, such as my vocabulary skills and organizational skills. To say the least I was very nervous about how my writing composition course would be like and did not think it would go very well for me. However, I learned so many techniques that have helped my writing skills grow. It all started with learning how to stay organized, planning what to write in your essay in outline form and sticking to it really helped when writing essays. These techniques helped me become more confident in my essays and allowed writing essays to become a lot easier. The few aspects in which I am strong in while writing essays is my ability to stay organized, focused and be very clear about what I am writing. Nonetheless, there is always room for improvement; a few things that I can think of being grammar and punctuation due to no revising, embedding quotes smoothly, and citing sources correctly.

As an only child, I adore personal space. I grew up never sharing a bedroom or bathroom, never fought with anyone over the remote control nor shotgun in the car. When I received my roommate assignment, I will admit that I cringed. Stuck in a triple, I imagined a dark, cramped room with all three of us living on top of each other. When I arrived at school, the room did not match my nightmares and I thought all was well. The first two nights of school, I slept alone in the room, as one roommate stayed at a hotel with her parents and the other had a horse show out of town. The mini-fridge is right across from my bed and the electronic glow of the clock ruined my

Since the fall semester last year, I have been living in a dorm room during the spring and fall semesters. This has been my first time living somewhere other than my parents’ house. Our room is set up so that my roommate and I have our own bedrooms and share a bathroom. We also share a living room with two other people. One of the most substantial changes is that I feel like I have more privacy. At my parents’ house I didn’t have a lock on my bedroom door, so my parents or my brother could just walk in at any time. Now in my dorm room, I can just lock my door and I do not have to worry about anyone coming in. Another change is my parents used to tell me I need to clean my room or make my bed, but now I can set up my room however I want without having to worry. My parents also used to do most of the cleaning around the house and always had things like cleaning supplies or medicine, but now I take care of that, so it makes it feel more like my own area that I look after. Even though I had my own bedroom, it still always felt like I was living in my parents’ house, but now it really

The freedom that comes with leaving the comfort, safety, and regularity of home life can be a mixture of thrilling and nauseating. Along with a different sense of free rein comes a new set of laws, rules, and norms that can be crucial to succeeding in college.. In order to fit in there’s a certain set of guidelines that one must know and try to follow to a certain degree. The Student Housing laws can be considered the most important to follow in regard to the dorm room. These include but are not limited to- smoking in the dorm room, possession of alcohol (especially crucial if underage), and tampering with or disabling any fire alarms or fire equipment.

Going back to college may seem overwhelming, but you can do a variety of things to stay calm, cool, and organized. The place to start is with your apartment because you will likely spend much time there when you’re going to school. Whether you’re returning to school after a long hiatus, or you’re returning for your second semester, it’s important to create a living space that will accommodate your needs and lifestyle as a college student. From keeping your place organized to making it beautiful and comfortable, you can do a lot of things to make going back to college a snap.

Living in a residence hall is a rite of passage for a college student. Not only can a student gain a hefty amount of culture by encountering different types of people, it provides an outlet for the student to grow into their selves. Away from the social pressures of home, a student develops a separate identity that is the budding seed to adulthood and individuality. Living in a dorm is often the first time a student is on their own. Deciding what to eat, when to take a shower, and something as simplistic as taking out the trash hones real life skills that is neglected in high school curriculum. Being a part of a residence hall improves social skills. Co-habituating with strangers in close corners puts people out of their comfort zones. From

The idea of college is overwhelming, considering that incoming students have to decide where they will live, what they will study, how many hours to take, and especially how they are going to pay for it. Randall S. Hansen, a nationally recognized Entrepreneur, is helping incoming college students everywhere deal with all of those critical ideas about college with his article called “Your First Year of College: 25 Strategies and Tips to Help You Survive and Thrive Your Freshman Year and Beyond” which explains what students should consider doing in their first year of college to make it through. In this article, he emphasizes how much students should think about what they do in their first year when he

place that they need to account for, so, for instance, they can plan out when to organize their

Over that, if you are sharing your room with a student, then you are likely to see dishes which can heap up one after the other and trash bins which may overflow. Moreover, it can be easy for the student roommates to pass on the blame and obligation off on to the other member because they are hardly concerned about the cleaning process and its requirements for the home.

The first year of college comes with many changes and challenges. These changes can include the food in the cafeteria, study habits, time management skills, and much more. Every student has to find their own way to handle the first year and determine what works best for them. For many the most essential change is living away from home. Campus life provides opportunities to become a part of a unique, diversified community. With these opportunities come challenges, such as having a roommate, being away from one’s parents, and determining self-limits.

It’s finally the time. We are leaving our parents’ house, the warm and cozy nest in order to go and face wildlife or commonly called college. The excitement is building up and we’re about to combust as we reach the doors of the university. We’re eager to finally be able to live alone with no rules, no regulations, just ourselves and no one else to command us. We’ve all been through that, and we’ve all dreaded the exact same thing. Who’s the new roommate? How’s he or she going to be like? Clean? Disdainful? It was probably the first question everyone asked, walking up the stairway to hell, his or her new house for the next four months.

The first semester of my college is almost end, I felt confused and helpless when the class begin, there were all kinds of tasks that need me to do at the short time, my life was in a mass and I was just busy with keeping myself don’t left behind the class. At first, I felt so depressed about my expression in university because everything is so strange for me, while during this semester, with the help of people around me, I gradually get used to the new study life and feel more confident for the next semester. Thanks to the WPC101 class that helps me a lot on knowing what the business college need me to do.

Hearing so many good things and bad things about college I didn’t know what to expect and look forward to. That change my junior year knowing different college come every year I didn’t really pay it any mind what college I wanted to go to until ODU, Virginia State University and Virginia Teach came. It was Virginia State first year of visiting out school and I knew I wanted to go there I start getting e excited for college that were talking about their experience at college and what to look for when we graduated if we decided to go to college. Eager to start a new chapter college sound like it could be a little nerve wrecking but I thought I could handle it.