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" As the school year draws to a close, it&amp;#039;s not uncommon for me to have flashbacks to what my life was like before starting college here at UNC, especially since I&amp;#039;ve seen prospective student tour groups everywhere I go. While the vast majority of my college experience has been amazing, there was one particular moment that I really did not care for at all: freshman orientation. Enter what was the most stressful and annoying two days of my life \u2013 ever. It consisted entirely of waking up early, going to boring presentations all day about information you already know, getting lost around campus, and repeating it all the next day. The most stressful experience was signing up for classes. It was funny because prior to my course registration time, my orientation leader warned all of us that she didn&amp;#039;t want to see anyone &amp;quot;scream, cry, throw-up, or faint&amp;quot;. Apparently she wasn&amp;#039;t kidding because she had witnessed it all before. How could it be that bad?! Of course, I knew I wasn&amp;#039;t going to resort to that sort of behavior, but I came close to it when I couldn&amp;#039;t get any of the classes I wanted to whatsoever and my computer crashed on me. It was such a nightmare. The whole social aspect of orientation was also annoying. You were predominately forced to hang out with the same people and had to play those getting-to-know-you games that you thought you left behind in elementary school. Unless you arrived with someone you already knew, you were paired with an entirely random roommate for the evening based upon when you arrived. Most people didn&amp;#039;t even learn their roommates&amp;#039; names. Thankfully, I can say this was the only positive aspect for me personally of the whole orientation experience because my orientation roommate, unlike my friends&amp;#039;, turned out to be one of the sweetest people on the face of the planet, and we&amp;#039;re still friends today. Overall, I think that unless orientation is integrated into the first week when you actually start college, it&amp;#039;s meant to be universally terrible. However, on the upside, the actual college experience turned out to be the most wonderful thing ever. Better to have two terrible days followed by a year of sheer bliss as opposed to the reverse of that, right?! Case and point, to those of you nervous about heading off to one of the first orientation sessions of the summer over the next few weeks, don&amp;#039;t base your entire perception of college on those measly two days there. Just make the best of it and realize that college is going to be phenomenal!  &amp;quot;Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.&amp;quot; -George Bernard Shaw No worry beef curry, XOs, and all that other jazz, Katie :) "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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