So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen!
My junior year has come to a close, I have moved across campus and into my new room where I’ll be for 8 weeks for Orientation.
I really enjoyed blogging this year and sharing my experiences with everyone (or no one…depends on how many people actually read this). This year was pretty challenging, and this blog was definitely an accurate representation of my challenges and struggles as well as my plethora of activities during my first year in the UConn School of Pharmacy. I can’t believe how fast this year, or my first three years for that matter have gone by.
My Pharmacy Family among the Pharmacy Student Government, taken at Dean McCarthy’s House during the PSG Holiday Party!
My Orientation Family for Summer 2008…
I have this gorgeous view now from my room in Shippee Hall, where I can overlook Mirror Lake and see Gampel Pavilion and many of the academic buildings on campus. When I’m getting ready for Orientation training in the morning, I often find myself just lost in a trance out the window. This campus is absolutely gorgeous. Each year, with each new experience, and each new and exciting person that I meet here, just solidifies that I made the right decision in coming here. I’m in a great program that I love and that makes me enjoy learning.
I don’t really want to stop typing, because I know when I do, this experience will be over.
I wish all New and Incoming Huskies “Good Luck” in their future endeavours and I hope to see you and your parents at Orientation.
To all current high school students, I wish you the best of luck in your college search, and if you have any questions, you can e-mail me at justine.dickson@uconn.edu and I’ll be happy to answer them!
And to the future bloggers, may you be inspired to help the incoming and prospective students in as many ways as possible, and I hope you can be entertaining, because they’re a tough crowd…tough crowd
but I’ll be watching and commenting…don’t worry!
My best advice to future students at UConn, is to come with an open mind and a positive attitude. College is where you are able to have more academic freedom and are able to take classes that you interest you. You are also able to start over as a new person. Be yourself. You don’t have to be the same person that you were in high school. If you weren’t yourself in high school, then this is the time to be YOU. Or this is the time to re-define yourself if you want to change things up. Keep an open mind to new experiences and new people. You will be met with interesting opportunities that you have probably never encountered before, but don’t shy away from them just because they aren’t what you’re used to. Experience!
GOOD LUCK FUTURE HUSKIES!
A final “Until Later…”
-Justine