High school is known to be a socially hard experience. However, college can be hard as well sometimes. That’s only if you don’t know what to expect.
If you do know what to expect, it will be easier to make friends, succeed in your classes and experience the campus life. So the way to survive with your freshman year is mostly to familiarize with the rules of the school before.
Just be yourself, be outgoing on the first day of class, build a solid homework plan. Don’t skip the freshman orientation. This event will be extremely useful for you: It will make you more comfortable in your new school environment and will give you a chance to make friends even before the start of college. On that day, you can go out with people and meet new friends who you will be found again there at the beginning of the year.
On that note, for that day don’t wear something unusual. Wear your normal clothes maybe your favorite t-shirt or a nice pair of jeans. You only get to make one first impression!
Another trick to surviving the first year of college is to become friend with older students. This way you’ll know all the inside tips and will have someone experienced to advise you. With these tips, you’ll be able to survive your first year successfully!