MANY OF you who have returned from weekend-long Summer Orientations probably learned the basics of how to navigate from Old Dorms to Alderman and register for classes.
THIRTY-FOUR years ago next month, my parents and I packed the family station wagon (minivans hadn't been invented yet) and headed down I-95 to college.
On the next pages you are going to be bombarded with advice and wisdom from some of the best and brightest at this University.
Recent high school graduates often find themselves bathing in America's great septic tank of advice, but rarely is someone there to answer the truly important questions about starting college -- like "how is all of this getting into the car?" There are two solutions to this problem: either you bring less stuff or more cars.
DURING 4 am study sessions, when words in the textbook begin to melt into the page and the only sound penetrating the silence of the library are panicked keyboard strikes and the snores coming from the adjacent study station, no student could be blamed for wanting an extra boost of energy.
AS AN incoming first-year student, you are being inundated with a tremendous amount of information intended to help you to become acclimated to the special community you are about to join.
THE BEST advice in college is not to take advice. Family, friends, professors and advisors will all have their own opinions on your studies, majors, courses and extracurricular life.
THERE are hundreds of contracted independent organizations (CIOs), or student-run clubs, at the University.
I REMEMBER very distinctly a conversation I had back in Pittsburgh near the close of my senior year of high school with a teacher and fellow liberal.
YOU WILL not get your first choice or your second choice class to take Tuesday/Thursday at ten. To be honest, you probably won't get your third or fourth either. So dig in. Your advisor will not teach in the department in which you plan to major.
LIFE AS a graduate student is not all beer and skittles. Very few people come to graduate school with this notion, and they are soon disabused of their misconceptions.
STUDENT Council in my high school began at 8:30 a.m. when school started and ended 15 minutes later when we had finished announcing the recent sport results, students' birthdays and, of course, the daily lunch menu over the intercom.
AUG. 24, 2005, 10:02 a.m. First day of your college career. You're seated in an auditorium with two hundred students for your first 101 class.
THE 1999 Statistics on Alcohol and Other Drug Use on American campuses concludes that, within the last 30 days, 73.2 percent of students have consumed alcohol.
WE ALL heard the story and followed the media frenzy surrounding the so-called "Runaway Bride." Whether you think that Jennifer Wilbanks is a spoiled southern belle looking for attention or not, one fact, which was not revealed until her interview with Katie Couric, remains: Her decision to do the "running" was between a bus ticket and a bottle of pills, indicative of serious underlying emotional distress.
DO YOU REMEMBER your three Rs? Reduce, Reuse and Recycle: The cornerstone of every elementary school child's environmental science education.
ASK MOST people what they think of hate crimes, and they will say that such acts are obviously bad.
Last week, the University of California announced that it would stop awarding scholarships for National Merit Scholars.
ON SUNDAY, the New York Times printed full color photographs of people who died in the London suicide bombings, held up by devastated family members and friends.
