University of Arizona Top Questions

Don't stress so much. This is the time for mistakes. There isn't a better time for you to mess up and learn from it. Taking care of yourself means having fun too.

The whole notion that freshmen year is necessarily a "special" year is absurd. It can be, but this isn't necessarily the case. There's no magic moment. Just do your best.

I wish someone had told me to avoid working full time while being a full time student. My grades really suffered that first semester because of it.

I wish that someone told me that it's okay to be afraid to go up to professors, but that I should push through the anxiety and go to office hours.

One thing I wish someone had told me about freshman year is how much different attending a university is compared to high school.

That it was so much of a party school and it would be hard to find friends that don't party all the time.

That financial aid would not cover the total cost of tuition let alone books, parking, and additional fees.

I was very informed about the U of A, however I wish someone would have told me to buy rainboots because the campus floods when it rains!

I wish I had none about the grants that were available to me.

"College is way different than high school." That's the one thing teachers continuously tell students. What they do not tell students, however, is exactly how. And by how, I mean emotional-wise. I wish I had known that for the first few weeks, college was going to be a depressive and life-sucking experience. Nobody warned me that I would be extremely overwhelmed by the vast environment and experiences. The immensity of my college struck me hard in the guts, and I felt I was completely alone. The truth, however, is that almost every freshman feels the same way.