The Skidmore Guide for Freshmen

Dear Freshmen,
We at Her Campus know how you feel. We’ve all been through freshman year and even a month into college, you may still not feel completely settled in. Learn from our mistakes and discoveries and save yourself a little of that inevitable toil that comes with every frosh’s fall.

• The hottest guys have girlfriends—usually still in high school.
• Don’t be that girl holding up the drink line at Dhall: clear cups on clear cups don’t stick together.
• At 1 am, a grilled cheese at the Spa makes it okay that all the parties got busted.
• Everyone wears rain boots on rainy days, even though they’re not at all necessary #coveredwalkways.
• Sign up for an overload of clubs at the club fair just to get the emails of what’s going on.
• The Hunt is a hardcore infamous scavenger hunt.  Only sign up if you’re willing to do almost anything. We don’t exaggerate.
• Get a coffee card from Burgess—it’s well worth it.
• Everyone is sick after the first two weeks of classes. Don’t use it as an excuse; you’re not the only one.
• Plum Dandy’s has buy-one-get-one-free (or BOGO) Tuesday’s.
• Domino’s delivers until 1 am if you want quality. Esperanto’s delivers until 3:00am if you’re past the point of caring.
• Make friends with people who have cars. The bus ride to Wilton Mall is not worth the shopping.
• If you take a class that ends at 5 pm, your stomach will be embarrassingly loud by the end. Bring a snack.
• If it’s sunny and warm, go outside! We can’t emphasize enough how precious this weather is.
• It is ridiculously hard to shave your legs in the showers. We’ll let you figure that one out.
• You will lose your ID if you don’t have a lanyard. Just whatever you do, don’t wear it around your neck.

• The clothes that you thought weren’t cool at home are cool at Skidmore. Don’t get rid of them.
• Take MB107 if you want to be in at least one class where guys out number girls.
• The short walk to the library will eventually become a hike.  At that point it’s just as easy to print in Starbuck.
• Start planning your Halloween costume way in advance.
• Breakfast served until 4 pm on the weekends becomes your new best friend.
• The egg griddle in DHall is not just for eggs. (French toast, Philly cheese steak, stir fry).
• Soft vanilla ice cream in a cup of hot coffee. ‘Nuff said.
• On Falstaff’s: the bodies are sweaty and the B.O. is strong. This can be more easily ignored with some pre-outing preparation (only for us 21+ freshmen, of course!).
• Go for a hockey player if you’re into guys who are five years older than you and five years less mature than you.
• Just because a door is open in Scribner, doesn’t mean you’re welcome.

Now go impress your friends with your upperclassmen knowledge! We may even mistake you for a sophomore.

hcxo,
Her Campus