I hate how cumbersome it is to put on shoes every time I want to get off my bed and pace around the room or whatnot, and taking my shoes on/off indicates to my brain that i'm moving in/out of "home" mode. but then again dorm carpet isn't exactly renowned for cleanliness. what do you guys do?
I'm in bradley if anyone has specific advice for that.
Currently a pre-frosh and taking in advice for my freshman year, and one of the top pieces of advice I hear is to learn from upperclassmen. Makes sense—they save you from learning professors' quirks the hard way, you can inherit study resources, maybe get referrals to internships, clubs, and even parties. But how do you meet them?????
I'll be taking only 200 level classes (maybe a 300, AP scores permitting) so the upperclassmen with the wisdom for those classes probably wont be there. Do I ask professors for referrals to students who've done well? Ask ask to tag along on a TA or peer tutor's social outing? Approach everyone I see leave upperclassmen housing? I cant do that, you lost my socially anxious brain at "approach"
Best I can rationally figure is finding clubs that attract others of my major (project clubs ex. FSAE, discipline societies, rock climbing and billiards for some reason?).
I'm between BME and MechE at a large state flagship btw
Currently a pre-frosh and taking in advice for my freshman year, and one of the top pieces of advice I hear is to learn from upperclassmen. Makes sense—they save you from learning professors' quirks the hard way, you can inherit study resources, maybe get referrals to internships, clubs, and even parties. But how do you meet them?????
I'll be taking only 200 level classes (maybe a 300, AP scores permitting) so the upperclassmen with the wisdom for those classes probably wont be there. Do I ask professors for referrals to students who've done well? Ask ask to tag along on a TA or peer tutor's social outing? Approach everyone I see leave upperclassmen housing? I cant do that, you lost my socially anxious brain at "approach"
Best I can rationally figure is finding clubs that attract others of my major (project clubs ex. FSAE, discipline societies, rock climbing and billiards for some reason?).
I'm between BME and MechE btw
Currently a pre-frosh and taking in advice for my freshman year, and one of the top pieces of advice I hear is to learn from upperclassmen. Makes sense—they save you from learning professors' quirks the hard way, you can inherit study resources, maybe get referrals to internships, clubs, and even parties. But how do you meet them?????
I'll be taking only 200 level classes (maybe a 300, AP scores permitting) so the upperclassmen with the wisdom for those classes probably wont be there. Do I ask professors for referrals to students who've done well? Ask ask to tag along on a TA or peer tutor's social outing? Approach everyone I see leave upperclassmen housing? I cant do that, you lost my socially anxious brain at "approach"
Best I can rationally figure is finding clubs that attract others of my major (project clubs ex. FSAE, discipline societies, rock climbing and billiards for some reason?).
I'm between BME and MechE at a large state flagship btw
Thought it would be fun to try to find the class at UW with the highest percent of people getting A's (and overall gpa) using madgrades, but there is no way I, and engineering major, wouldnt miss some obscure layup L&S elective. So far my best pull is Gen Bus 112: Exploring Business with an ABSURD 91.7% A's and 3.93 GPA. As a proud business slandering engineer, theory checks out XD
I committed to a nice state flagship—love the campus, strong for my major, got their top oos aid program—but digging into the student demographics has me feeling insecure even though I know I shouldn't. I'm top quartile SAT for the school, commendable ec's, niche major, you know the drill, but I'm also from a state that hardly ever applies to that third of the country (standout colleges exempt). It's BAD; like in my school of 30k+ undergrads, the number of kids from my state are in the SINGLE DIGITS. Also there are only like, 40-60 students in my degree program at a time. I know I have no real reasons to complain besides the fact that going to a school dominated by in-state and the immediate region isn't great for the global/nationally minded education/early 20's experience I want, but still the fact that my scholarship is basically ea only, and I still got it rd plus me writing and submitting my app between 1-3am AFTER the deadline has me very insecure about whether they want me, the learner, or the diversity statistic. And its got me worried if I made a mistake in committing by forgoing too much diversity and global mindedness (which I even withdrew complete applications over not enough of). Going to a school with not just racial, but strong geographic diversity was a strong factor in my original college list, so being a diversity admit would mean that my school is way weaker in that aspect. The affect of this is I'm left wondering if I should have taken another school where I wouldn't have been as much of a minority pick, worried about how bad my first year experience might be, and just overall insecure about my results since my other best schools are around peer schools. Also I'm on the wait list for a private peer school, so if I get off of that list, would I attend? Should I try to transfer out sophmore year? I should be locked in for APs, but im eating myself up in emotion and feel like I cant enjoy the last of senior year. atp, i might just leave out the ice cream to melt so I can cry in the bowl...