Renegade: Moving!

[narf poit chez BOOM]

If you don't drink alcohol, it's best to find friends who won't shove drinks in your face.

[Atrocities]

Its ok to have friends who drink but know limits. Those who live to drink have no limits and often are not good friends.

[Will]

Renegade 13 said:
On another note, I hope all days aren't like this day, or I think I will explode from stress and frustration

Well, there's still stress and frustration, only of a different kind

During move-in, things are always pretty bad, because there is just so much happening. For dorms, you can have approximately 500 students moving in to a completely new place, and they'll usually have a "crew" of parents, siblings, relatives, and friends, so there can easily be thousands of people that have no idea what they're doing. And usually only a few people available to help with all the issues that will inevitably come up. Basically, it's a large train wreck.

After that, you're all settled in, and the new environment isn't the source of the stress and frustration. That moves to your assignments, and University red tape. And sometimes, from the people around you being complete ***********, but that isn't guaranteed like the former are.

But, make good friends, get to know professors, and try to balance your workload, and you'll be fine.

[Renegade 13]

Well getting to know my prof's and classmates won't be too hard, since I'm going to a relatively small university (the University of Northern British Columbia - UNBC).

The largest problem about socializing at university that I've found so far is that the socializing is usually focussed around drinking. At least, it has been so far. That sucks the big one, because that's part of the reason why I'm waking up with a hangover. Good thing it's still orientation!

Now I only need to spend another $800 on books, and I'll be set

[Alneyan]

Just wondering, but what is small for you? I know I would call my university small, with 16,000 students downtown, and about as many in other buildings (most of the university isn't on a campus).

Socialising is even less developed here, since we don't really have that drinking part (smoking doesn't compare). It would just be much easier to make friends with the teachers than the students... but perhaps it's simply because students drop like flies.

[Kamog]

Have fun at the university! Hopefully, you'll make some new friends who don't drink too much and have fun doing other things. I went to Simon Fraser University (SFU) and there was some drinking going on there too but I didn't hang out with those kind of people. I don't drink so they thought I wasn't cool. That was OK because there were plenty of other people who didn't drink. The thing I had trouble with was spending too much time playing addictive video games. We had 24-hour access to the computer lab so sometimes we stayed up all night playing games! Ah, the good old days. Good luck!

[Renegade 13]

Thanks Kamog! Oh, and small in this case means roughly 3500 students. So only about 20% the size of yours Alneyan But this makes sense, due to the geographical location of the university. Where I live is sparsely populated, and this is the only university within about 1000 km. It services a large area, but an area with little in the way of population.