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How to gain the freshman 15 and other unimportant things:
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I won't check myself into Counseling and Psychological Services just yet, but I won't be surprised if I need to come January. I, along with many other juniors studying abroad, should be prepared to go slightly insane upon returning to the University of Richmond. Don't get me wrong — I love Richmond. I love America. I love Panera and Wal-Mart and Dunkin Donuts and baseball. But I don't know that I am fully prepared for what so many juniors have gone through during the past: the reverse culture shock after studying abroad.
The elimination of Expository Writing as a requirement has sparked an e-mail debate among faculty about the future of student writing instruction. Meanwhile, the First-Year Experience (FYE) committee met again last Thursday to develop how the new freshman seminars will assume that task.
Long lines at the Heilman Dining Center and Tyler's Grill have become commonplace this year, but they have primarily resulted from students adjusting to new class schedules, not from the arrival of an unprecedented number of first-year students.
Dear Sorry Senior Self,
The task of accommodating the massive freshman class forced the University of Richmond Housing Department to alter its plans for this semester and, potentially, for the future.
About 40 incoming freshmen athletes took their library skills and alcohol education classes before the semester in an effort by class coordinators to make the first-year requirements more convenient for students and staff.
More than 1,000 Spiders swarmed onto campus early this school year, and more than 100 of them were first- and second-year students eager to get an early start on their college careers through the university's Roadmap to Success program.
First-year students and transfer students gathered for a welcome ceremony at the Robins Center, followed by a picnic at President Edward L. Ayers' home Sunday. After the picnic, some students enjoyed dessert at the Modlin Center.
The University of Richmond welcomed its largest class ever, the Class of 2013, during orientation activities.
For many University of Richmond students, dreams of becoming a rock star may never go beyond the walls of Sine Irish Pub on karaoke Thursdays. But for one freshman, that dream has just begun after the iTunes release of his debut album.
It's true that the recent frat e-mail was disgustingly prejudiced. But more to the point, the images that were so bluntly described are not that far from the true social life of a typical Richmond student.
The University of Richmond is paving the way for a new way to study science, one that breaks down the barriers between biology, chemistry, physics, math and computer science and fuses them into a single science "supercourse" for first-year students.
UR First-Year Student Orientation 2008 from Kimberly Leonard on Vimeo.
Ryan Jobes was good at everything.