I finally move back to Fort Wayne. I had a great summer, but I sure am not ready for it to be over.
Back to school season will be here before you know it. Wal-Mart starts selling notebooks and crayons and summer starts to wind down. I remember my first day of college. I walked in the building (at the University of Northwestern Ohio) with my schedule out looking for the right room number, wondering if I was ever going to know where to go. It wasn’t quite like high school where everything was all in the same place down one or two halls, but in separate buildings, on different floors, and sometimes even a drives length away. You never really realize how easy you had it in high school until its over and bigger and better things start. My first day at IPFW was no different. I actually got turned around backwards and sideways a few times walking through campus the first day. I had to find the art building, and I had no idea how to get there, but by my second day was a cake walk. I was an old pro at it already by day three, and now I could walk it backwards with my eyes closed.
The first day of class isn’t like the first day of high school. In high school you would take the first few days passing out your books, getting to know the teacher, going over what you were going to learn, and taking it easy as you started the materials, but in college, day one is day one. Come prepared to class with a notebook and pen/pencil. It’s not going to be hard but the first day isn’t easy. If you feel lost, that’s because you probably are. Nothing will makes sense unless you take the time to read over your books before class starts, but don’t worry, give yourself a day or too and everything will fall into place. Keep in mind a few things on your first day: 1) Come prepared. A notebook and a pen or pencil is key on the first day. 2) Write down all the contact information that the professor gives you especially if it’s not all in the syllabi. You may not thing it’s important at the beginning, but at finals time you will thank yourself. 3) Make friends with everyone you sit by in class. Don’t be afraid within the first week or so to ask to exchange numbers. It’s a life saver when you forget what your assignments are. (or get names and add your neighbors to facebook) 4) just relax. It will seem like you are lost because you are. Give yourself two or three days and you will feel like you’ve taken the class for a good long time.