The first day of a new semester for a transfer student can be pretty traumatizing. You are in a completely new environment and you are around a different group of people that you don’t really know. You are basically the “new kid on the block.” The following thoughts are some of a few that ran through my head during my first day as a transfer student:

1. Waking up and realizing you have to go to class.

2. Picking out your outfit.

3. Waiting for at least 10 minutes for the elevator that is always broken but you are too lazy to take those for flights of stairs.

4. Finding your classes without looking like a lost high school kid on a tour, while managing to avoid any eye contact with the human species.

5. Deciding which seat you are going to sit in for the semester.

6. Finding people to sit with at lunch can also been seen as the most difficult obstacle of your day because you are unsure whether or not people will actually want to sit with you or you will end up sitting with a group of serial killers. So, you sit with the few friends that you actually know.

7. Scoping the campus for cute boys throughout your day, hoping that one of them will talk to you.

8. Getting the question, "Why did you transfer?," at least a hundred times.

9. Going back to your dorm and feeling like you just ran a marathon, so you decide to take a nap.

10. At the end of your first day you think, "wow, I am so glad I transferred."