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Chronicles of a First Year Student

By: Alex Keshen

It seems that suddenly we wake up one morning, and we’re all adults preparing for a major change in our lives. The switch from high school to post-secondary, be it college or university, it seems to jump out at us from nowhere.

Welcome to what I like to call, “The high-school/university limbo”.

There are about a million and one things running through our heads as we prepare to jump into the post-secondary world as first year students. A seemingly endless list of questions is constantly rolling across our minds.

For those of us who are going to be leaving home for the first time, are we feeling a sense of relief due to the sudden breeze of independence being blown our way? Or do we feel like it’s going to swoop us right off our feet completely?

And for those of us who are staying at home, are we going to lose contact with our fleeing friends? By staying in the same neighborhoods, are we going to be stuck with what feels like another four years of high school?

As for me, I’ll be commencing at Ryerson this fall. After hearing numerous references to “Rye-High”, it truly makes me wonder; is university really that different than high school?

While it is true that we will be in a new setting, with loads of new people, it still raises the question: are our new campus lives going to differ as greatly as we are all anticipating them to?

We will still be in class, and still be gaining an education, but it seems like we will be gaining so much more as well. Only being able to gather this conclusion from others I have seen, it seems that we not only go to university/college to find our education, we go to find ourselves.

Alright, enough with the rhetorical questions.

Going into the first year of university, as scary as it may seem, is a reality for about 80,000 students this year (according to www.ouac.on.ca). It seems like this summer has come and gone before our eyes and we’re about to find ourselves sitting.

Well, fellow first years, class of 2010, this one’s for you. Cheers, to a prosperous year… just try not to party too hard!

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