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Fitting In as a Transfer Student at Your New College
Advice for adjusting to college is abundant for new incoming freshmen. Articles, pamphlets, blogs, and entire books have been written on the topic. Most colleges and universities even hold week-long orientations every fall to help the students familiarize themselves with the campus and make new friends in the process.
But if you are a college transfer student switching from one school to another or a freshman that is starting college in January rather than August, you may feel like a fish out of water. For transfer students, it often feels like everyone else knows everything and everybody, causing feelings of frustration and loneliness.
Transfer Students Find it Tough to Connect with Others
Even the President of the United States felt out of sorts as a transfer student, claims US News and World Report.
Melissa Rhone+
Melissa Rhone earned her Bachelor of Music in Education from the University of Tampa. She resides in the Tampa Bay area and enjoys writing about college, pop culture, and epilepsy awareness.