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I wish someone had told me to avoid taking out loans

That I would have a serious epileptic attack which would disrupt my education.

I wish I had known how easy it was to make friends at UCONN. I was deathly afraid that I was not going to find anyone I liked, especially because I was living in the Honors housing freshman and sophomore year at UCONN. However, all of my best friends now came from the Honors program because everyone is so nice and outgoing at this university.

I honestly wish I had known how different college would be. Everyone always said it would be the best time of my life, but I had to grow up as soon as I got here and it was pretty stressful. I definitely would have wanted to know what the best study method to pass my classes was, know the best places to study on campus, and the best place to eat! A guide to how to succeed in classes would be best, but I also wish I could have told myself not to skip classes or procrastinate.

I wish I had known that college is all about finding yourself. I spent a lot of time as a transferr trying to find a place to "fit in" during my first semester. After struggling that first semeseter I realized that college is about finding myself and if I know who I am and what I care about there will always be people who feel the same way. I got very invovled in my fraternity and my education major and made lots of friends because we had thes ame interests of bolunteering with children.

I wish I had known how much traveling in a sport would interfere with my learning and studying and the proctoring of test at 11:00 p.m. at night after a full day of competition.

I wish I had known how many of the people entering drank alcohol. I remember during accepted students orientation that about 80{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of the people drank and I did not. It was really intimidating. There are non-drinking activities on campus, but as a freshman or sophomore, there is definitely a pressure to drink.

How to apply for housing and registering for classes....what classes I should take for my major. The application process for independent studies and applying for undergraduate research experiences (REU) so I have an upper hand when applying to grad school.

I wish i would have known how much books and tuition really is every semester and how big some lecture halls may be. I

To be perfectly honest, I can't really say there is anything I wish I had known before I came to this school. The University of Connecticut gives its incoming students every opportunity to know what their life at UConn will be like. There is the Husky for a Day program, summer orientaton , a lecture by a psychology professor on how to succeed academically in college, and a lecture at the beginning of each school year that gives freshmen advice for their academic and extracurricular endeavors. UConn has all the resources one needs to succeed.