Reply to trouble adjusting to college

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "trouble adjusting to college"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have heard this a lot, including from parents of extroverted kids. I think that phones (texting) has changed the college experience a lot. Kids don’t keep their doors open or hang out in common areas or have the same constant casual in person interactions we had all the time on campus. It makes the friend making process more drawn out. I have heard about a lot of lonely freshman years but those kids all seemed happier as sophomores so I think it just takes time.

[/quote]

My DS said he was told they were not allowed to keep their doors open.  And I noticed when I was there the door would not stay open...you would need a doorstop or something.  My kid also lives on a floor with a mix of freshman and upper class students so not crowd of freshman to hang out with. My kid if doing ok but it seems like meeting friends is harder than I remember and might be les focused on your freshman floor (where most of my friends freshman year were from.)[/quote]

That is a huge fail on the college. They should not have freshman living on same floor as sophomores. It can be intimidating enough for the kids to make new friends but being around sophomores would make it even worse. The RA should be helping form some of these activities. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics