The Unknown of Sophomore Year
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The Unknown of Sophomore Year

Now where are the advice articles for sophomores?

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The Unknown of Sophomore Year
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There are articles all over the internet about advice to incoming freshman which is great. Freshman (speaking from the perspective of recently having been a freshman) have a lot coming for them, most of which, no matter how prepared a person's, will hit you like a dump truck. Personally I feel like I had a mob of angry dump trucks who were out to get me at some points during my freshman year but I got out, survived and moved on from freshman year.

So here I am packing for sophomore year. Now where are the advice articles for sophomores? Does everyone think that just because we have a year under our belts that we have it all figured out? Granted we do have a lot of it figured out. We know where things are on campus, we know what food in the cafeteria is good and what food to avoid at all costs. We know how to navigate the weight room, athletic training room and locker rooms and for the most part we have the whole living in the dorm thing figured out. It may seem like we should be good on our own and maybe most people are. Yay good for you! But I am probably not the only person who feels a little unsure about her second year of college.

In college athletics, there is an experience called the sophomore slump. Which, without having yet experienced it sounds like complacency, frustration, and feeling without fulfillment of entitlement. Well how is this supposed to be avoided? Does it happen in school as well? What else changes from freshman year to sophomore year that nobody tells you? Is it still ok if I bring my fish Kevin? Cuz he’s pretty cool and I like him. Is it going to be less exciting to come back to campus? Will it lose it’s sense of new and exciting and a fresh start? Well I guess I will just have to go and find out.

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