Category: Freshman Fireside
Freshman Fireside: Surviving finals
Plan, eat and sleep. Let me explain.
If you’re anything like me, you probably have found yourself wondering how in the world it is already time for final exams. How do I prepare? Should I pull an all-nighter the night before? When will I sleep? Will I have time to eat? What’s the lowest grade I [...]
Freshman Fireside: Sink or swim?
Have you ever heard the saying, “when it rains, it pours?” For UNC Charlotte students, it seems to be more like, “when it’s due, it’s all due.”
It’s inevitable that every time I have a big assignment due in one class, every other professor feels the need to make all of their assigned work due at [...]
Freshman Fireside: Should you stay or should you go now?
Moving from Cleveland, Ohio to Charlotte, N.C., I was forced to make one of the most crucial decisions about college before I even stepped foot on UNC Charlotte’s campus as a freshman.
Do I have to share a bathroom? How much walking will I be doing? How much money should I spend? How many roommates should [...]
Freshman Fireside: Homerun? Not so easy
It is inevitable that in this life we will be thrown a few curveballs. The difficulty lies within the ability to get to home. And when you are an out-of-state student, sometimes our only choice is to go wait in the dugout until we can get another chance.
There really is nothing better than being hundreds [...]
Freshmen fireside: Bathroom Etiquette
Freshmen year is full of adjustments. New roommates present a great challenge, and when it comes to the bathroom’s here in the freshmen high-rises, some people are lacking a degree of etiquette.
Each hall has two stalls and two showers. Let’s not pretend that these accommodations are at any luxurious level, but we can agree that [...]
Freshmen Fireside: Elevators
Should I take the stairs or use the elevator? Considering there is a total of 11 floors in the high rises on campus, I think most of us would choose to use the elevator.
However, throughout the week there were problems with many of the elevators. It was quite the struggle for all of us who [...]
Freshman Fireside: First week of school
What a week it has been. As a freshman at UNC Charlotte, we not only survived move in day, but we also carried on through a lot of new challenges in our first week as college students.
Let’s start off by agreeing that the so called “professional movers” during move-in may have needed a little more [...]
Freshman Fireside: Procrastination
Procrastination sucks and it would be a bold faced lie if I said I never did it. I procrastinated writing this article that you’re reading. Granted I had no idea what to write about until I realized I was procrastinating but it still counts.
The worst part about this time of the year is that summer [...]
Freshman Fireside: Census scare
Earlier this week in one of my LBST classes, we discussed the changing value of a college degree. Over the weekend, Yahoo! shared an article which compared information from the 1940 U.S. Census to the 2010 Census. In this comparison it was really shocking to see how many more people, on average, have a college [...]
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