If you've ever transferred schools you know the gut-wrenching, butterfly, and nerve-wracking feeling of the first day of school. Transferring from Idaho State University after my second year there I found that in a lot of ways I was a freshman all over again.

You Wander Around Until You Find Things

The biggest issue I've run into since starting at Boise State is that I can't find anything. For the first few weeks of school I literally just wandered around the general area of what I was looking for until I found it. I commonly got stopped and asked if I needed help or directions which I reluctantly would ask for. It's super embarrassing admitting you're a junior who doesn't know where the math building is.

People Try To Recruit You For EVERYTHING

I had totally forgotten what it was like for random strangers to try and recruit you to join their club, greek life, or team. Especially when I was the one recruiting people, I forgot all about how weird it actually is to walk up to some seeming freshman girl and ask her to join a club. I can't make it through the quad without at least five attempts a day asking the "freshman" to join their group.

You Have No Idea Who That Person Is

On the first day of my fall math class, I sat at a table with three other girls who I had seen in some of my previous classes. As I sat there they chatted about professors on campus, the entire time who they all presumed I knew who said professors were. If you're awkward like me, I managed to nod my way through the entire class without finding a way to let them know I had no idea who that person is.

Freshman Classes

The biggest pain about transferring is when you lose a couple of credits and have to retake the good old freshman courses. As I retake geology to fix my transferred credits I sit in a lecture hall predominately filled with freshman. The University Foundation courses are even more awkward when you're the 20-year-old in a sea of barley 18.