The nature of my classes in college was kind of different from what I expected. I took four classes aside from SGC: CMSC132, MATH240, COMM107, and ENES200. CMSC 132 was basically exactly as I expected it to be. It took place in a large lecture hall, with occasional exams, and projects every 2 weeks or so. Nothing in CMSC132 really surprised me. MATH240 was slightly surprising, but in a good way. I didn’t expect it to be taught so well in a lecture setting, so it was a pleasant surprise really enjoying that course. COMM107 was slightly surprising as well, but I think that has more to do with the specific section I chose. My COMM107 section had only 18 people, so it was a lot more tight knit of an experience than I might have expected from a course on public speaking. ENES200 was basically exactly as I expected: a standard course on ethics with a heavy focus on engineering. I think in general, the most jarring change from high school to college was how much more important exams were. Exams were obviously already important in high school, but having my 2 classes with exams (MATH240 and CMSC132) have exams worth more than half the grade (midterms + finals) is hard to get used to, even if I knew it was going to happen. I think another thing I realized early on was that attendance is really low in some classes. Some classes will have less than 50% attendance, which didn’t really happen too much in high school. It didn’t really affect me since I still mostly showed up unless something extreme happened, but still something surprising I guess, even if I kind of knew it was going to happen. I think most of the topics we covered in CPSG100 were pretty much what I expected. The main thing that I didn’t really expect to cover were some of those core tenets of science, but it wasn’t hugely shocking. I think a lot of the focus on environmental changes were something that I expected going into the program. I was kind of surprised about the logical fallacy section that we had too, but it wasn’t that shocking considering we had just come from a section kind of dedicated to the logic behind science. I lived on campus at Centerville. I think my experience with college life is pretty much how I expected it to be. I met a couple people who I’m pretty good friends with, like my roommate, and stayed friends with a couple of people from high school. I also met a couple people I knew from middle school and reconnected with them, so that was pretty cool and an unexpected surprise.I generally do pretty much what I thought I was going to do, which was do my work, and then do things for entertainment. I think I realized that the dorms are not actually as terrible as I expected them to be, although they are a little cramped. I think I also realized that the lack of privacy wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be. I’m pretty close with my roommate, so maybe that helps, but in general, I don’t really feel like I’m always wanting privacy. In addition, I think walking is actually really good for me. I didn’t realize how much more I was going to exercise between walking for classes and swimming on my own, and I do think I like that I am exercising more. I think that, in general, my lifestyle in college has been at least comparable, if not better than my lifestyle at home. I also feel a lot less stressed in college than I did in high school. I feel like the workload is smaller than it was, and it lets me relax a little more. I think there isn’t really any good advice I can give to a general college student. A lot of things I really liked only really work for me personally because I know myself. I guess my best piece for classes would be to start working early on large projects. For classes like CMSC132, I think the main reason I did so well on projects was because I started them so early. If you scramble to do them on the last day, it’s pretty rough trying to get all of the work done. I think my best piece of advice for exams is to study for a couple days at least. I usually studied for at least 5 days before the exam by doing practice problems, and I think I generally did pretty well, so I think that studying early pays off. I don’t think I can really give good advice on social aspects of college, because that’s more up to personal preference as to how much you’re introverted or extraverted, but if you do want to meet people, it’s definitely possible. And if you do want privacy, that’s also definitely possible (to an extent). In general, I think most people do fine, so as long as you feel you’re doing fine, you’re probably fine.