Snow College

Be aware of where you are rooming. The on-campus housing is amazing from my experience, but I did have a kitchen. I did go with a kitchen because I do know how to cook. I was not eating out, so my problem there was I had a crockpot and it didn't have an automatic off, so that wasn't allowed to come. So you're not allowed to have extension cords, anything without an on-off switch really, kind of annoying. Also, the fire alarms in these poor old buildings go off at anything. Steam will set them off and you have to get your building counselor to turn it off. Super fun, super embarrassing. Glad I didn't do it.

I wasn't local to the Sanpete area. For the first two weeks I made sure that I didn't go home. I felt, I felt homesick and uh and I stayed on campus and that was a really good thing to do so that that might be some advice. If you're feeling a little lonely, particularly if you're feeling homesick, just give it a few weeks and get out there. Go to the activities, go to the dances, do club day, say hi to your classmates. It's a really open, friendly place, but sometimes it takes a little bit.

Be willing to help others and reach out. And don't be afraid to ask teachers for help. Teachers are there to help and support you. And even if you don't want to, they want to. And they believe in you no matter what kind of thing is going on. They'll stay even after hours to help you if you are willing to reach out and ask for their support.

Talk to both the counselors there to help you find out what classes you need to take and your general's advisor. What I ended up running into is that I wasn't able to graduate in two years. I had to do a third because my counselor was not fully aware of my major requirements. As such, I didn't do enough of them my first year that it wasn't possible short of working myself into the ground to do it in my second year. So, make sure, check, double check, everything you need to do to graduate.

The biggest thing I would recommend is just get involved. A lot of people, the biggest complaint with my friend, he went down before and interviewed a lot of people. They said that there just wasn't a lot to do in Ephraim, which is true if you're coming from like Salt Lake or a big city where things are just given to you to do. But as you get involved and make friends, I think that's like the biggest thing that I would recommend as a freshman is just get out of the comfort zone, get out of your apartment every once in a while and just get to know people. And like you'll have fun. Like we had people do waffle nights every Wednesday. We would do game nights like every Thursday at a different apartment and you just get into trouble all over the place. And so it was a lot of fun. And I felt like that was probably my favorite memories of snow is just getting involved in meeting people.

Some of my advice for new freshmen would be to stay curious, go to class every class every day, students who struggle in school and have problems and then eventually figure it out. If you ask them, you know, when did things start to go wrong, they'll almost always tell you when they stopped going to class regularly. Similarly, know the difference between homework and studying and make sure that you do both all the time. Find a place to study that's other than the place where you relax so that you don't fall into bad relaxing habits when you're studying. Go to the tutoring center, learn to relate your subjects to each other in general education so that they're not operating in isolation so that you understand how they all relate to each other and then develop the kind of habits that you know will be expected of you when you get a job.