A class that was pretty interesting to me was astronomy100. Looking back, I was never really interested in astronomy or space things, but I took this class because it was one of the supporting courses for scholars. If it weren't for it being on the list of classes, I probably wouldn't have taken it or even known it existed. A way I would go about finding an experience like this is to ask other people you know about classes that are different and intruiging. Taking classes that you wouldn't originally think of taking can spark unknown interests and potential. Honestly, I haven't had much success with developing mentoring relationships like teachers, but I feel like I've been able to develop positive relationships with other resources such as counselors and people in similar positions. I was provided a lot of resources that acan help me get the things I need to be successful, but those were handed to me in a way. I feel like the best way for incoming students to get good relationships with faculty is to communicate and be a good student in general. By communicating you are starting interaction with faculty and they might find you a nice student worth of helping and having a positive relationship with. As someone who came into university during the pandemic, it obviously wasn't the same experience as my upperclassmen peers had. During my time here it was harder to create relationships with other students because we were always separated and didn't have in person interaction. By using my peers, I got more of a sense of how university would be in a normal situation, so I think that has helped me get a better understanding of what's coming in the following years. One thing that I was not prepared for was the amount of students that can be in one class. Coming from highschool where each class has around 30 people, it was a big change when there were over 100 people in my class. Another thing is that classes can be really small. In my comm107 class this semester we had under 20 people in the zoom calls on average. I wouldn't necessarily say it's an issue, but be prepared to be less focused on in larger classes.