By Melanie Love SalazarWeb Content Contributor Being a freshman during the first year of college amongst a pandemic was weird. I know there are thousands of more elaborate words I could use but “weird” is what best fits. New student orientation was online, everything felt dangerous for the first few months, and it was difficult to find a balance between having fun my first year and being exceedingly responsible about […]
By Paige GreeneWeb Content Contributor Everyone’s first year at Texas State is full of changes and new experiences, and there are many resources and tips to guide you through the change. Here are a few tips that people often forget to tell freshmen. Course Numbers and Locations One of the main things people forget to tell freshmen is what the numbers and letters associated with their courses mean. These numbers […]
By Piper BlakeWeb Content Manager Peer mentors are great resources for incoming freshmen! As a freshman, you are assigned a peer mentor through your University Seminar class. This is the class where freshmen can explore the Texas State campus and meet students that are going through the same transition period as one another. Each University Seminar class has a Peer Mentor that reaches out to the students in the class […]
By Rachael GerronWeb Content Contributor It's finally August, also known as back to school time! Around this time last year, I was getting ready for my move to Texas State; creating Pinterest boards and planning how I wanted to decorate my dorm. However, this excitement often led to the dread of having to share the room with a complete stranger. Roommates can be the cause of many student’s pre-college anxieties. […]
By Lauren Jurgemeyer Blog Content Contributor Congratulations! If you are reading this, then you have survived the grueling public/private school experience. You have finger-painted, learned your multiplication tables, colored inside the lines and suffered through the prepubescent stages of life. Now, you are here--college. Don’t worry, college isn’t an entrance to the underworld or something else you may have read in the Percy Jackson series; you are not going to […]
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