Being A First-Year All Over Again
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Being A First-Year All Over Again

A transfer student's perspective on the new school year.

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Being A First-Year All Over Again

Being a transfer student is like being a first year all over again. New buildings, new professors, new people, new clubs, new campus. It's all new. It's exciting and terrifying at the same time. It's a clean slate, a new beginning, and just a chance to try again. It's not as bad as it seems.

Clean Slate

Most schools let a student's GPA start over again when they transfer. It's a great opportunity to start again and fix some mistakes in your academics. It's a clean slate socially too. No one knows anything about you, so you can make the best first impression and start new adventures and relationships.

Getting Lost

It's easy to get lost on a college campus. It's easy to be in the wrong room or building and it's easy to get totally turned around. It's part of the new start. It's like a right of passage to get a little lost on your first day at the new place. But that's what campus maps are for.

New Opportunities

Transferring gives students a new start with new opportunities. Such as, getting a on campus job, joining a club that the old school didn't have, starting a club that the new school doesn't have, new events, and so much more. It's a chance to reinvent yourself to make yourself a better student or a better person and make new friends.

The first few days might not be fun, it might be quite scary. But in the long run, you transferred for a reason and it was a good one. The goods will outweigh the bads and soon you will feel like you've been their the whole time and like you really belong.

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