1. Getting a fresh start.
It's a new semester, and a chance to start fresh when it comes to grades, study habits, and relationships with teachers and classmates. Strive to make each semester better that the last.
2. Making the important class seat decision.
It's an unspoken rule in college. Where you chose to sit on the first day of class determines your fate. Get to class late, and you're not so lucky. But you damn sure better not take someone's seat after they claimed it, or you'll be sorry. And that goes for anyone who tries to take your seat as well. Choose carefully.
3. Scoping out your classmates.
The first week of classes gives you the perfect opportunity to find the three types of categories within your classmates: the hot classmates, the funny classmates, and the smart classmates. Each serve a purpose so utilize wisely. Avoid the negative and ignorant students. (You also get to briefly see all the students who will drop or stop showing up after the first week, so that's fun.)
4. Prejudging your teachers.
After looking up all your teachers on ratemyprofessor.com, syllabus week is the time to see which reviews were true, and which ones were bitter students angry about their grade. It also gives you time to make your own prejudgment about your teachers and try to prepare for what the semester has in store.
5. Watching all the newbies get lost.
It was you once, and now you get to watch and chuckle at all the new students wearing lanyards, getting lost, and looking at their campus maps the wrong way. If you're a kind soul, you'll help these students; if you're everyone else, you'll just sit back and laugh quietly inside.
6. Finding the class teacher's pet.
In other words, the class Minkus. This is the person who never stops talking and answering every question, and is always right and better than everyone at everything. Avoid sitting next to this person at all costs, and never ask this person for help.
7. Getting a bunch of free shit, most of which you don't need.
Booths and tables are everywhere full of people and companies that want you to become a member or volunteer at their specific organization. In other words free stuff in exchange for listening to someone talk for five minutes. Free T-shirts, cups, pens, food, coupons, and random items you will probably find no use for or throw away. Seems like a fair trade.
Hope everyone had a great syllabus week, and good luck with this upcoming semester!
