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Students discover that fun and games help make
their adjustment to campus life easier.
EASING INTO THE
SWING THINGS
motions run high for a midnight madness. A rain-soaked
freshman. Feelings of Labor Day picnic rounded out the
excitement, week.
apprehension, There is no better way to meet
nervousness, and sadness new friends on campus than to
can make the first week attend the off-campus activities.
on campus a trying time. There is always an easy casualness
Finding your way around campus, and relaxed atmosphere during the
getting to know your roommates, events. Karie Hunter, a freshmen
and adjusting to a new lifestyle from Santa Maria, California, says,
present all types of problems. Missing “It was enjoyable because the
home and friends and worrying upperclassmen went and got involved
about what classes will be like can as well as the freshmen. I was
make mole hills seem like mountains. impressed with the friendliness of
While upperclassmen are busy everyone.” Amy Wolgamott, another
greeting old friends and discussing freshman from Jacksonville, Florida,
their summer vacations, freshmen adds, “It was nice just to be able to
can feel lost in the shuffle of activity. get off campus. I enjoyed the later
How does one meet people, find activities the most because I already
something to do, and discover fun knew some people by then.”
places to go? Opening week activities Just by attending the activities, new
help solve the perplexities of a new students learned their way around
life in a strange place. Clearwater. Many students returned
The activities, held in the evenings to the different locales later in the
after the supper hour, offered year for their own gatherings with
something for everyone. The office their new friends. Whatever their
of student affairs planned fun-filled reasons for attending the activities,
hours of ice skating, bowling, people enjoyed themselves
miniature golf, a boat cruise, and immensely. -Dan Olachea
10 STUDENT LIFE
