Second week of blogs and class

This week in class we talked about what some of the main problems or questions that incoming freshman would have coming into their first semester at college. Going into class I hadn’t even thought about frequent problems that they had. I was only thinking about what I had experienced and what situations I had gone through. It was a big wake up call that I need to start preparing and preparing myself for the coming year.

Something that I think is the most relevant thing to think about is that every student is going to have to find out who they are and who they want to be in college. I think they will have lots of questions about how I handled it and what advice I would have for their situation. But there would be some things that I never had to go through. For example, I never had to deal with homesickness because my home was only 20 minutes away. This would take some preparation and thought on how I would handle that question.

One of the things that the booked did really well was laying out all of the things that people struggle with during their first year at college. For example they talked about how most first year students can have troubles with adjusting to living with someone that they might not get along with first semester or living with integrity even though there is no one watching over your shoulder. 

I was kind of surprised to find that this book actually had some information that would be useful to apply in my time as a peer mentor. In my experience most books that are supposed to be helpful in teaching you things, aren't usually pretty good. But, with the first two chapters of this book it has made really excited for the rest of the semester and to see how it prepares us to be peer mentors!