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Freshman Class is Making Progress
With a significant portion of their first semester already gone, one of the JTC Department’s largest-ever groups of freshmen prepared to register for second-semester classes. At this point in their academic careers, there are still hundreds of choices to make about courses, schedules and concentrations of study.
Each student is required to meet with a faculty adviser to help sort through the choices and begin making decisions. Since the options, requirements and registration process can sometimes get in the way of attending to students’ individual needs, the Department asked the entire class to get together for a mini-course designed to clarify important procedures, and to look at the many alternatives.
More than half of the freshman class attended, so we had a chance to snap the group picture you see above. We also had a chance to get some answers about the students’ impressions of their first couple of months at CSU. The group was asked to answer five questions about the university, their dorms, interesting people they’ve met and to rate their level of homesickness. Click on individual questions below to get the full lists of their answers.
- What are your first impressions of CSU?
- What do you like most about CSU?
- What’s the most interesting thing that has happened so far in your dorm?
- Who is the most interesting person you have met on campus?
- Are you homesick? Rate on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being most homesick, and 1 being least homesick.
What are your first impressions of CSU?
- I really enjoy it. It’s easy to get around and the people are helpful and a joy to talk to.
- I love it. I’m finally really adjusting to college life, too.
- Very nice campus. Friendly people and a strong sense of school pride. Many activities to participate in and excellent staff.
- I love most of my classes and I am enjoying the dorm life as well. Overall, good impressions.
- I like it so far, the teachers are pretty good and the campus is nice and open. The other students here are really cool people.
- Really pretty, laid- back atmosphere, friendly people.
- Everyone is very friendly, and professors have been very approachable.
- I really enjoy CSU so far – the environment is very energetic and there’s a lot of variety!
- I like the campus and most of my teachers/professors.
- It is a welcoming, friendly campus with helpful staff, many academic opportunities, and chances to explore an array of interests.
- Love it.
- Better dorms and food than CU! Classes are okay, but it’s hard to meet people and form friendships.
- Good, clean campus. Great student involvement.
- I love CSU. It is a great school!
- I love the campus/atmosphere but the classes are a huge adjustment!
- Fun, having a great time.
- I love CSU! Everyone is extremely helpful and friendly.
- Beautiful campus; interesting classes.
- It’s big, but a fun campus to live on.
- I love the campus and the people are nice.
- I like it so far- - now that the year has really started I like getting involved and having a busy schedule.
- It’s large, fun, and we (expletive deleted) at football.
- I really like it. I feel like I certainly made the right choice.
- I love it so far. It feels like such a great fit for me.
- I think I made the right choice.
- I love it here! It’s so beautiful, and I’m really excited about the journalism department and classes.
- So far it’s great! I am loving it.
- Impressive – the academic help on campus is amazing.
- I love it here. The classes are great and I’m meeting lots of great people.
- The environment. I just love how everyone is open to everyone’s opinions, no one really judges you.
- I like it, it’s nice.
- I find it a very involved school that is very impressionable.
- Big community of students and faculty that actually care about what you are doing.
- Awesome.
- Big, clean, kind of intimidating, fun.
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What do you like most about CSU?
- The interesting people.
- CSU lacrosse is the only thing to like most about CSU… and Durrell Express.
- I enjoy the sense of unity and support that is shown throughout the campus.
- My classes.
- The people are the best.
- The friends I have met and the campus.
- All of my classes have been interesting and most days I leave the rooms feeling confident that I’ve learned something.
- The variety of people.
- The location. CSU is close to home for me and I love the mountains.
- How beautiful it looks in autumn!
- Social aspect.
- Fort Collins rules. Great small businesses and town in general.
- CTV and video production program/opportunities. Campus.
- I like my classes and the campus.
- The view of the mountains and the campus in general.
- All the sports always going on at the intramural fields.
- I like the amount of school spirit and availability of assistance with courses.
- The classes.
- My hall mates.
- The community at CSU and in Fort Collins.
- The green and gold colors. I look good in green.
- The options that I have and the variety of teaching styles.
- The campus feel is so great. And everyone is so nice here.
- The campus is beautiful and the classes are good.
- The weather and campus.
- The atmosphere. So far everyone is motivated and nice. I also love all the involvement.
- The people (I graduated from a public high school with 8). I love meeting so many new people.
- The environment. I just love how everyone is open to everyone’s opinions, no one really judges you.
- I like the people here.
- I like the various opportunities that CSU offers for student involvement.
- The friendly, laid- back atmosphere.
- CTV/KCSU
- Free newspapers.
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What’s the most interesting thing that has happened so far in your dorm?
- A few guys from my hall and I, because we’re so mature, bought NERF guns and now we have Saturday night NERF wars outside. I also played Frisbee at 3:00 in the morning and had an 8:00 o’clock class that very day.
- Can’t tell.
- We had a hall party.
- A mouse in a girl’s dorm room was an exciting/interesting event.
- We silly- stringed our RA on his birthday.
- My closet door and curtain broke and I have become friends with a fly named Buzz. He resides with me and sleeps on my finger at night time.
- Everything that my roommate and I bought individually has matched.
- My roommate and I have learned it’s the best (aka safest) place to learn how to long board.
- I don’t live in the dorms.
- A random “party train” runs through the hall occasionally, coming into open rooms, blasting music on a portable stereo and dancing.
- There have been a lot of bugs!
- People on my floor are blatant vandals and have trashed everything on my door so I had to take down my posters and whiteboard.
- Students playing golf and making the hallway a driving range. I can duck fast so I made it out okay.
- Life in the dorms is a whole new experience! I can’t pinpoint one thing.
- Oh jeez, catching our RA in a rather compromising position.
- Rockies World Series!
- Just the transition in general! Living with someone in that close of quarters is bound to be interesting.
- I almost fell out of my lofted bed; instead I kicked the ceiling.
- Not much…probably just having movie nights and celebrating people’s birthdays in my hall.
- Watching America’s Next Top Model with the whole floor in my room!
- Nothing- my dorm is a really boring place! But it’s okay, I like it mellow.
- Nothing, really. Summit Hall is pretty dull.
- So many things. The fire alarm was accidentally pulled. My own smoke detector has decided to go off for no reason.
- I’m never in my hall, but in a friend’s hall and have become very close to about 20 of them in my friend’s hall. We have duct tape wars (who can put the most colorful pattern on the other’s doors.)
- Too many things to name!
- Not really much of anything has happened.
- I live on the first floor, so many of the rooms in our hall have been infested with mice.
- Moving out every piece of furniture from my room with my roommate so we could rearrange everything.
- Watching the Rockies- it’s crazy.
- Our hall meetings, more specifically, the second one.
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Who is the most interesting person you have met on campus?
- One of my professors, Dennis Phillips, is a character. He’s pretty funny and makes class fun and entertaining.
- Kevin Wolff – a.k.a. Teen Wolf (find him and talk to him.)
- A girl named Malory in my hall. She is interesting to hang out with.
- One of my instructors who teaches my POLS101 class is an interesting guy.
- My neighbor in the dorm; he is from Indiana and his story as to why he came is pretty awesome.
- Kate. She is from Ohio and has a cute accent and she has weird sayings like “death in a hand basket.”
- Jessica from Texas; she reminds me of my friends back home and says “ya’ll” frequently.
- The guy in the elevator with dreadlocks who knew what was in the girl’s lunch bag – she didn’t know him!
- My Spanish teacher Patricia Nunez. She’s an excellent teacher. She’s a native speaker and I love her personality!
- Bernie Rollin, a really inspiring philosophy professor I met by chance.
- My philosophy teacher.
- Someone I met at Orientation who lives in Westfall.
- My psychology teacher.
- I have met a lot of interesting people.
- This kid named “Moss.” I don’t think he’s been fully conscious since the day we met.
- The news panel in my JTC100 course was very interesting.
- A boy in my social work class.
- Shaundra
- Lexi
- Julia Sandidge
- Nick S. That guy is crazy.
- Shelly – she thinks she is a vampire!
- My government teacher is a pretty interesting guy.
- This kid named Travis who’s in my art class. He always has an opinion, but he is really cool. He scared me at first because he has his ears gauged really big.
- My Key Service Community mentor Dave. He’s very random and really has a way of finding trouble, but also looks at the bright side of it.
- There are a few people I have found that I really get along with.
- I’m not sure. There are a lot of interesting people on campus.
- I have met many interesting people on campus, so I’m not sure who the MOST interesting person is.
- The bandanna man who laid on the sidewalk last week.
- Myself.
- My political science 101 teacher, Mr. Koelling.
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Are you homesick? Rate on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being most homesick, and 1 being least homesick.
Note: The average homesick rating was a 3.5 out of 10, with 10 representing the highest level of homesickness. Some students provided only a numerical rating, but a few made comments, which are listed here next to that students’ numerical rating.
5 A little bit.
3 I miss the food.
3 Just because my family is really close and I do miss them.
5 I don’t necessarily miss Texas, just family and friends are hard to be away from.
2 I miss a few friends, but my family is the process of moving here.
3 I get homesick every once in a while.
1 I still live at home with my parents.
7 I miss my kitty.
3 I’d go home every now and then but I don’t have a car.
2 Not really at all. Just miss my parents doing laundry.
4 Sometimes!
5 I miss my huge closet.
4 I miss my friends and my mom a bit, but other than that, I am good.
5 It comes and goes depending on my moon. Right now, not so much.
2 I only live an hour from home. I’m too busy to be homesick.
4 At first it was a 10 but not it’s like a 4!
3 I get homesick now and then, but home isn’t very far, and I talk to my family a lot.
2 There are thing I miss, but this is pretty much home.
2 Probably. I mean, it’s always nice to go home, but I love it here.
5 I am, because I just went home this weekend and it made me miss it a lot more.
3 I just miss my family and friends mostly, but I love it here and I am very comfortable.
1 Heck no!
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