Ace Your Freshman Year of College

大学新生成绩

Life Kit

2023-09-21

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Congratulations! You've been accepted into college. Now you've got to find your way around campus, pick out classes, make new friends, and figure out a plan to graduate — on time. Here's how to make it easier. This episode originally published on September 3, 2019. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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  • You're listening to life kit from NPR.

  • Hey, everybody, it's Marielle.

  • This episode goes out to the college kids, especially you first years.

  • If you just started college, you're probably feeling a lot of things, excited by all the options and possibilities ahead of you, overwhelmed by the number of classes in the course catalog, underwhelmed by the food at the dining hall.

  • And if you're living on campus, you might be pumped about the freedom and the distance from your parents, and you might be simultaneously homesick.

  • I get that.

  • When I was a freshman, I used to sit on a bench outside my dorm and cry.

  • The friends I made later called it the sad bench.

  • All of this is normal.

  • All of it is expected.

  • And since this is life Kit, we are here to help.

  • There are things you can do to set yourself up for a better, happier college experience and to make the transition easier.

  • Alyssa Nadworny, an education correspondent at NPR, is going to walk through them with you.

  • Also, if you have a friend or a younger sibling or a grandchild in college, give this episode a listen.

  • It might help you understand what they're going through and maybe share it with them.

  • Oh, and a quick note.

  • This episode originally aired in 2019, so some of the people you hear may have different titles now or be further along in their educations.

  • I'm Alyssa Nadworny.

  • I cover higher education for NPR.

  • And in all my years of reporting on college and college students, I've learned that getting a accepted into a school is really just the first step.