Heading off to college? There are a lot of changes in store for you – and your college of choice not only understands – they want to help you through the process! Colleges want your transition to be as pain-free as possible — which is one of the many reasons behind “Welcome Week.”
IndieNate / Nate Buchman
Welcome week is a week-long period filled with events for new freshmen students – and sometimes even their families. It’s a way for a college or university to get their new freshmen class to interact, get to know one another, create a few friendships, and receive a healthy dose of that good old school spirit!
Sure, some incoming students may have connected early to college classmates via Facebook or Twitter but you can be sure that there are plenty of others who don’t know a soul: and that’s okay too. Everyone who is there actually wants to be there!
Everyone chose that particular college for a reason and everyone is just as excited and nervous about moving away from home as you are — which is why colleges created Welcome Week – a great way to get comfortable and settled in at college (before the rush of class begins)!
Sikachu! / Prem Sichanugrist
There’s a lot of ground to cover before you trudge bleary-eyed to your very first college class. You need a student id, to buy college textbooks, register your car (if any) or even your cat, and move in to your dorm or off-campus housing! You need to learn your way around campus, where to go and what to expect (part of which you may already know if you read My College Guide at all – and you should!).
There will be a lot of activities, free food, and plenty of ways to get involved! Some of the activities may seem a little silly but that’s part of the fun! College isn’t all philosophical talks and deep class discussions.
Relax, participate, and get to know these people around you – you will be sharing classes, the cafeteria, library, and dormitory with them, you might as well get to know them (and maybe even befriend a few) sooner rather than later.
