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How much more intense college is than high school. I though that I knew that but when I got here I realized that I was way off. I had to learn how to study because college didn't come easy to me like high school did. Having to work hard at school was a big change for me. I would have liked to have known more realistically what my workload would be.

I felt prepared for classes and my living arrangement and the general size of campus so everything seemed to be covered before I got to campus.

One of the things I wish I had known before I attended Ohio State was about the alumni programs and the benefits gained from networking with various community leaders. In my fourth year of undergrad I learned that Ohio State has a very strong relationship with alumni and a majority of the alumni sponsor networking activities and other social events to help students get involved and network with alumni from various programs. I wish I had known that the alumni are very supportive because I would have most definitely attended events where I could socialize and network with alumni.

I felt very prepared going into college, however I wish I had known how to separate myself from wanting to spend time socializing and making new friends in order to focus on studying. There have been many nights where I sit and get to know the people I live with because I was afraid if I didn't right then, they would be gone. I wish I had known they are always there, and that it is okay to take the weeknights as time to focus on studying rather than making new friends.

I wish I had known the the importance of diversty before coming to this school. The Ohio State University shows great interest in diversity and the way that the students react with each other.

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I wish I would have known how to be better prepared for my classes. Going from high school to college was a very difficult transition. The courses weren't necessarily harder, but the exams were more elaborate. It's as if high school didn't prepare me at all for the caliber of the exams.

Looking back, I wish I had known more about the on-campus housing at Ohio State. I moved into a freshman dormitory without really knowing what to expect. On campus tours and at orientation, they show you a "typical" dorm room. However, I was assigned a triple rather than a double; meaning that I had not had the chance to view an example of my room before move-in day. Also, I had chosen to buy a bedloft but had missed the deadline so I had to arrange the delivery after my two roommates and I had already moved in.

College: “the best years of your life” (my parents). College: “partying, clubbing, and drinking” (my friends). I wish someone had told me before my arrival at OSU that the two definitions do not have to be synonymous, that there are others who enjoy themselves and remember it the next morning. I wish I had known that you can have just as much fun stomping in puddles, gelling the boys’ hair, furiously baking fruit pizza, skipping in leaf piles, slinging food at each other, and watching “Modern Family.” I wish I had known that it’s okay to still be goofy.

Before I came to Ohio State University, I wish I had known more about how the university's grading system works. When I received my grades after my first midterms, I was extremely upset. In high school, I barely ever got anything less than an 85{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} on a test, so receiving less than a 50{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} on my Chemistry 121 midterm shook the very foundation of my academic confidence. I worked very hard the rest of the quarter because I was terrified of receving a poor grade, and to my surprise I ended with an A for the quarter.