{"id":16622,"date":"2018-10-24T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=16622"},"modified":"2018-10-21T21:47:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T04:47:45","slug":"first-things-first-college-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2018\/10\/24\/first-things-first-college-101\/","title":{"rendered":"First Things First<\/em>: College 101"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First things First<\/em> is a column about issues pertaining to first-year students; it appears in every issue of Nexus<\/em> (illustration by Tiegan Suddaby).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So, you\u2019ve started your first year of college, and everything is priority number one to you. Assignments, quizzes, group work, book buying, and all the awful little details you forgot are at the top of your list. You need to knock these off one by one before you can tackle socializing, sleeping, eating, or even feeling like a regular human being, right?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Wrong. How dare you suggest that starting college means starting in the middle? That\u2019s almost as ridiculous as starting a column dedicated to first-years when midterms are already starting. What you need to do, even before jumping into this wild world of academia, is recognize that you\u2019re starting something completely new. That means forgiving yourself for things you\u2019ve got wrong. When you\u2019re starting college, you might feel like a lost baby surrounded by cool busy people who have no time for lost babies like you, but that\u2019s absolutely not true. Everyone has been that college newcomer who spilled coffee down their shirt or nearly fainted in the middle of the hallway. Hey, I once left my mug on my teacher\u2019s desk after an exam.<\/p>\n

Education and outside pressures demand you to finish all the work with utter grace, but that\u2019s impossible, especially for someone as new to college life as you. Take your first baby steps into the messiness of college, slip on the wet floor, pass out in class, cry over some stupid thing.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard, but once you accept the mentality that you\u2019re there to live and study, your fears of screwing up will slink away into the depths of your mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, you\u2019ve started your first year of college, and everything is priority number one to you. Assignments, quizzes, group work, book buying, and all the awful little details you forgot are at the top of your list. You need to knock these off one by one before you can tackle socializing, sleeping, eating, or even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-october-24-2018"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t