As my first year of college comes to an end, it is good to reflect back on how I have grown and what I have learned. It was a year of firsts. My first frat parties, my first 300-student lectures, and my first experience of communal bathrooms. The people I met, the clubs I joined, and the classes I (barely) finished made my freshman year unforgettable. Here are some of my freshman struggles, memories and firsts -- as told by Disney.
1. Being lost during the first week of classes
You end up wandering around campus with your eyes glued to your phone, where you strategically saved a photo of the campus map, hoping no one thinks you're a freshman. (In reality, everyone knows.)
2. When you pull your first all-nighter and feel like a champ for turning in that 10-page essay on time
Then you proceed to take a 12-hour nap.
3. The first time it rained on campus and everything flooded
Literally could have to take a canoe through the freshman quad that day.
4. When everybody wants to go out to dinner three times a week
Everyone falls in love with the Inner Harbor and its restaurants.
5. Walking into your first frat party like...
We would stroll up with our list of brothers we knew, a good ratio, and prayers that we'd get in.
6. Your first time at Sterling Brunch (God bless the FFC)
If you wake up early, you can go for breakfast and lunch!
7. Remembering that the rec center exists after said Sterling Brunch
8. Going to HellWell for a sinus infection, and instead being told you are making it up.
Who doesn't love the professionals over there?
9. When you waste a meal swipe on Late Night and they don't have chicken tenders or tater tots
Why else do you even go?
10. The moment when you haven't done laundry in three weeks, and you are beginning to wear whatever you can find
Some people get really creative just to avoid laundry...
11. Finding out you failed an exam, and then remembering what a curve is
Are you really a Hopkins student if you haven't had a meltdown over a test?
12. When classes were canceled after the snow storm (not quite Disney, but who doesn't enjoy seeing Channing Tatum dressed as Elsa?)
Let it snow!
13. Hearing about Spring Fair for the first time
And yes, the weekend exceeded all your expectations.
14. Finishing your first year of college and realizing you still have three more to go
But I wouldn't want to spend them anywhere else!
