Coming into college, I really had no expectations for what college classes could be like. I did not have any specific expectations, I only knew it would be very different from high school. Based on the classes I took this semester, I think there is a lot less collaboration between classmates that is required for the class. By that I mean, I did not do many group projects and I was not told to collaborate with my peers during every lecture. The only real opportunities are during discussions, even though I still did not do much collaboration, the few group projects I did, and during labs. Labs probably had the most collaboration as I had to work with at least my one to three other people every week. I feel that the amount of collaboration I do will probably increase as my classes continue to get smaller. Right now, as a freshman, they are pretty large. The structure of all of my classwork was pretty similar to high school. Most of the work was homework assignments and exams. The only difference was that there were way less assignments given to do while in class as compared to high school. One thing that was very unexpected for me was the vast difference in what professors give their students to help prepare for an exam. Like my general chemistry professor gave us no new studying material (like practice exams or study guides) and just told us to review the lecture slides while my math professor gave us two practice exams that were basically the same thing as the actual exam, just with different values. For CPSG100, one of the topics that we covered that I did not expect was logical fallacies. I thought we would mostly talk about the environment in our past, present, and future world. I did not expect that we would talk about faulty science and how to identify it. We did not explore much about possible changes we can make now to slow or prevent the climate crisis but I expect that we will discuss that in the future. The outside-of-classroom activities have been much more fun than I had expected although there were also more than I expected. To be honest I did not enjoy service day much but I am glad that I experienced it. I really liked the New York City trip we took. I liked learning about all the exhibits and then also being able to go enjoy nearby sights of the city. I am excited for future outside-of-classroom activities. I did not really have a solid image of what college life was like when I was in high school but I feel like my experience so far has mostly fit the expectations I had. Something that is different then what I expected is that it is hard to think of fun things to do while living on campus. For example, sometimes on weekends, my friends and I could not think of anything to do. It is hard to find events going on around or near campus. In my high school vision of college life, I thought there would always be something fun to do and it would be easy to find out about it. I probably need to just put myself out there more and become more socially active to solve this issue. I am pretty bad at giving advice but some advice I could give is to manage your time wisely. If you have time to finish your work ahead of time (so any day before the actual day it is due), you should take the time to finish it. It will relieve some of the stress and pressure you have of that assignment looming over you. You will probably also finish that assignment better than you would have if you ended up rushing to get it done and it will prevent you from missing the deadline. I also would give the advice to be as social as you can. Try to make friends in any setting you are in, from your classes to your dorm hall. It will make your college experience much more enjoyable. But as I said before, make sure to still make time to do your work. Do not prioritize your social life over all of your important assignments. One of the highlights of my college experience so far is finding friends. I was really worried about finding friends before coming to college. It was probably the biggest stressor and worry for me before I came here so the fact that I was successful is a huge relief for me. I am also very thankful that I get along with my roommate really well. I was nervous that I would end up with a roommate horror story like so many people described.