I had 2 responses from my blog about College Tips for Freshmen(Click Here to Read the Blog), and I thought I’d give some more advice in response to this comment:

Hey my name is stephanie and I randomly found your site. Even though it was really rude and harsh. Its probablly the truth. One thing I do want to hear is if kids are really as imature in college as in High School. And Im scared about making friends give me some advice!

Stephanie,

Sorry to be “rude and harsh”, but if you’re headed for higher education “rude and harsh” will begin to mean something completely different. I’ll just put it this way, professors aren’t known for their stellar people skills, at the same rate, neither am I. (Ironically, my major is people…LOL)

Are kids really as immature in college as they are in High School?

Yes!!!! While, most of us would like to think the summer between High School and College people transform into Collegiate types–suddenly able to discuss more important theories about philosophy– most of us haven’t gotten past our Cow farts and Global warming in North Korea conversations. I’d even dare to say some of us are more immature in college than we ever were in High school. Here are some examples: two months ago we covered my best friend’s car in cellophane, the week before that we covered her car in post-it notes, and before that we broke into her apartment and moved all of her furniture. Of course no one can forget our drunken friend stealing a shopping cart from H.E.B and riding it down 5th street in the middle of the night. This guy I know ran through a 6 floor girl’s dorm in a man-thong. People glue change to the floor in front of vending machines. They chalk in front of the art building that one of the contemporary art pieces looks like a penis. One of the dorm’s fire alarms went off because the boys decided to flood the toilets. And, I met a guy who broke into the cafeteria late at night to steal the Bluebell ice cream sign. In college you don’t have to answer to your parents about your whereabouts so you can make use of all of your dumb ideas really easily.

(And yes…you’d think all those years your parents spent teaching you how to eat would come in handy. They don’t)

In general the aforementioned paragraph ought to explain some of my annoyance towards freshmen who take themselves too seriously. In college, you’re going to work really hard on some obscure topic, and no matter how much you’re in love with your major you will NEED to take a break from it. So as the saying goes We work hard and we play hard. Of course, we can hold our own in a collegiate level conversation when the time arises (and every now and then it does), but wouldn’t it be boring if every conversation you had was based on lecture? Believe me, their are people out their who think they need to be more mature and discuss philosophy every chance they get, and let me be the first to tell you those people are Joy killers. They are BORING. Yes. Every now and then,when we aren’t doing something involving school, we need to be excessively immature.

Making Friends.

The good thing about college is somehow it manages to embrace every type of person from highschool. The jocks are still around, the preppy types are DEFINATELY still around, the indie kids still where eyeliner, and the only thing different about college from high school is that most people have some inner-level of nerd. You may find someone you’re sure is a dumb-ass, but ask them to tell you about Linear Algebra and their smart as hell. College is going to be full of freshmen– and if you go to my school THE LARGEST EFFIN FRESHMEN CLASS EVER (for the 2nd time in a row) — who don’t have any friends and are just about as clueless as you to the name of the college game. Its going to be full of freshmen just as nervous about everything. You’ll make friends, if you don’t hide out in your dorm room like you’re apart of that Doomsday cult in Russia. The best way to make friends is to go to the retarded mixers. I met some of my greatest friends because me and my roommate went to those mixers where you make friends. Trust me, your college is going to socialize you because the more they socialize you the more money they’ll probably get. To make friends, don’t be afraid to strike up a random conversation about how dumb lecture is, or that you’re roommate is the anti-christ. Sure their will be the snobs who think you’re an idiot, but forget about them, you’re just one snob away from another potential friend. Join a club in one of your interests. (Guess what if their isn’t anything to talk about, you can talk about the club). In worse case scenario I guess you could join a sorority (jk…) If you’re into sororities you should join one. General advice, during the first week every freshman is eager to meet new people and make friends, even the upper-classmen are eager to meet new people. Use the first couple of weeks to your advantage, because people aren’t so open about meeting friends as the semester progresses. You’ll probably clique up with 4 to 10 friends who you do everything with, and as time progresses you and your friends will probably fizzle out to the few who are your greatest friends in college.

These were all of my great Friends Freshmen year:

Alot of things happened, as they probably will in your group of friends. (People fought, people  left the school, and some just drifted away.) Don’t be too sad if it happens, because through it all you’ll have your AWESOME friends.

These are my BEST friends leftover from my freshmen friends now:

Anyways, if you need anymore advice. Or you’re someone new and need advice…Don’t be afraid to comment