City College students recount freshmen experiences

Juan De Anda | Features Editor
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The beginning of a semester brings a fresh wave of students new to the college experience.

And for some students, the first couple of weeks can be, as Charles Dickens says in “A Tale of Two Cities”, “the best of times or the worst of times, the age of wisdom or even the age of foolishness.”

Though Charles Dickens wasn’t talking about community college students in “A Tale of Two Cities,” his most famous line from the old classic seems tailor made for students who are struggling to adapt to a new college environment English major Erin Palecek says she considers her first year of college as the best of times.

“My first semester in college was relatively easy,” says Palecek. “I had a smooth transition into the college atmosphere and I had no major difficulties adapting to the shift of responsibilities and schedule changes.”

Palecek attributes her fluid transition to her willingness to ask for help.

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But for other students, like 21–year-old undecided major Alejandro Gomez, the transition to college was no walk in the park. On his first day of school, Gomez didn’t know there were long lines for parking. And even though his first class didn’t start till 1 p.m., he arrived at 9 a.m. and was stuck waiting to find parking for at least an hour.

“Then I was screwed because I didn’t know in what building the classroom was, and I spent the rest of the morning looking for the classroom which I found 30 minutes after the class had started, at 1:30 p.m.,” says Gomez. “But then I couldn’t add the class because I was number 15 on the wait list and I didn’t know that some classes couldn’t have all students that wanted to get in.”

Overall Gomez says he learned to be better acquainted with the college system before the first day of school.

Business major Kristina Barnyak affirms the lesson of Gomez as she describes her own first semester.

“You should find out as much as possible before starting college and not come to the first day of school assuming that this will be just like high school and everything will be done for you.”

Barnyak says, “My freshman year was easy, only because I tried to ask and investigate college procedures and locations and came with an open mind. If not, then my first semester would have been much more difficult.”