Living in a hostel is fraught with a certain flavor that will make your student years unforgettable. Well, the difficulties that you will definitely have to face, you can easily overcome if you carefully read this article. Today we will tell you how to adapt to the new conditions of life and give you some universal tips, thanks to which you will quickly get used to the new status of a student.
First time after admission to the institute yesterday's schoolchildren are jumping for happiness. But as the first of September approaches, they begin to be seized by an unsettling excitement. After all, a university is not a school, and for poor progress, parents are not called here, but simply expelled. Frightens young people and the upcoming "saturation" of tapes. It seems that they have to spend the day and night at the institute.
And if you can still somehow cope with the intensity of the study schedule (well, in fact, there were also busy days at school when you had only a couple of hours of sleep a day), then many first-year students perceive moving to an unfamiliar city and the prospect of living in a hostel with horror. However, do not rush to panic. Living in a hostel is fraught with a certain flavor that will make your student years unforgettable.
Well, the difficulties that you will definitely have to face, you can easily overcome if you carefully read this article. Today we will tell you how to adapt to the new conditions of life and give you some universal tips, thanks to which you will quickly get used to the new status of a student.
What freshmen need to know
Let's start with a few universal tips to help you get through first year university with minimal losses.
Now, let's burn about living in a student hostel.
Virtual expedition to the hostel
After so many spent nerves, efforts, maybe even tears, exams and admission are left behind, I want to relax and enjoy the well-deserved and long-awaited summer vacation. And this can be done if you study in your hometown, and live in the familiar environment of your home. If you have to move to another city and have a fun life in a hostel, then it's time to learn more about your future temporary home. And for this it is not at all necessary to personally go to the hostel.
Almost all modern universities have their own website, where information is necessarily indicated for those who need a hostel. In the relevant sections, as a rule, you can find not only "business" information: important names and questions about orders, certificates and lists. Photos are posted quite often. hostels, their interior rooms and corridors. Therefore, you can find out exactly how your new home will look like without leaving your home, and thus not become a victim of deceived expectations.
In addition, to find out about the real state of things, you can try to contact the current tenants through social media. Talk to them closer, and they will be happy to answer all questions about the settlement and internal regulations, tell you more about the situation. If you are lucky, you can even find neighbors in advance.
Basket, box, carton...
What should be brought from home, what is best to buy on the spot, and what is generally better to say goodbye to better times?
First of all, a lot depends on the distance. If you need to travel about 700 km by train, then a lot of luggage, of course. You won't take it with you. If you have to cover only 150 km and even in your car, then you can certainly afford a lot more. But do not forget that you will live with your neighbors, and there is not so much space in the room.
Take only the essentials, it is foolish to carry in advance what is sold in a nearby store. A minimum of dishes, linen, clothes and books, ideally everything should fit in one travel suitcase. It is better to grab a small first aid kit as well. For study, you can purchase a convenient portable gadget: a tablet or laptop.
The "base" (mattress, pillow, blanket), as a rule, is given out on the spot. With rare exceptions, you will also receive a kettle and bed linen already in the hostel. Do not worry about heavy equipment like a refrigerator and a microwave oven either: perhaps you will be accommodated in students senior courses, where everything will already be there or, most likely, a “legacy” will be waiting for you in the room. In the most extreme case, you can buy equipment in pool (sharing the purchase price with your neighbors) - both cheaper and more reasonable.
Clearly prioritize
When you go to a hostel, it is advisable to know in advance exactly what you want. You go there to make friends, or study hard, or become independent, or just relax and walk - depending on your priorities, look for solidarity neighbors. Thus, it will be easier for you to furnish the room in your own way, and then avoid scandals.
But in any case, remember, the hostel is a noisy place, so you will have to put up with some things that you cannot change. Get used to night vigils behind the wall, fun parties and a little litter around. The ability to get along with people and patience is what will be most useful to you.
Arrange your world!
You come to the hostel not for one day and not for one week. From now on, this is your home. Keep your new home clean, because independence implies not only independence from parents, but also increased responsibility. Create coziness around you: hang hooks under clothes, arrange your favorite photos and toys on the shelves. Everything can be arranged simply, but tastefully. Love your new home and be ready to improve it day by day. Then and studying at the university will not seem so difficult, and the absence of caring parents who are ready to support in any difficult situation will not be perceived so catastrophically.
So, the experiences associated with the choice of a profession and the procedure for entering a university are left behind. The applicant turns into a full-fledged first-year student who begins a completely new stage in his life. But, along with this joyful event, new anxieties, new worries and expectations appear, which we will talk about today.
So, the first time on the first course. What to expect from the first year of university? What are the surprises and disappointments of the first year of study?
University and school
The first thought that must be grasped without fail is that university is not a school. Many will take this statement for granted and banal, but even more applicants underestimate the differences in the very system of secondary and higher education. But what are they?
At the university, the student is completely and completely left to himself. In the vast majority of cases, no one controls him, no one calls his parents and, in fact, does not force him to visit couples. Moreover, most teachers demonstrate an indifference to the fate of individual students that is simply unimaginable in a school.
For some newly minted students, such changes cause a feeling of relaxation, because if no one particularly demands anything, then you can study carelessly. All the more stress will be for such students in the first session, when the true essence of studying at the university will be revealed to them. Nothing so successfully describes education at an institute or university as the proverb "from session to session, students live happily."
Thus, special importance in the first year begins to play self-discipline and self-organization. These qualities will help you achieve the desired success in your studies. But even if a young person does not strive for special achievements in this field, he can make his life much easier if he forces himself to fulfill the necessary minimum without pressure from outside.
Education and self-education
From the previous thought, another one comes: at the university, significantly more importance is given to self-education. In essence, the task of an institute, academy or university is not to give the student all the skills and knowledge in the chosen specialty. It is much more important to teach him to find this knowledge and work on his own professional development in the chosen field.
For example, in universities, homework is much less important: some teachers do not practice this form of education at all. But a much more important role is played by the lecturer's recommendations, advice on choosing literature, and independent research in a particular topic.
In fact, you can graduate from a university without any self-education, using only notes and cheat sheets. But it is self-education that is the first step towards professional self-development. After all, later, at the place of work, no one will dictate lectures to a beginner and give out "correct" literature.
The first course is the most difficult (the easiest)
Both beliefs are equally wrong. After all, in fact, the first course for a student is a period of adaptation to a new reality and a new model of learning. Many things will be difficult and unusual, but, on the other hand, knowledge in the first year is usually of a general nature, and somewhere in common with what each of us learned at school.
The importance of the first course lies, rather, in create a certain reputation from teachers and classmates. The great thing is that this reputation can be created literally from scratch, forgetting about the grievances, conflicts and disappointments of the school. In addition, in the first year, it is important not to initially derail the learning process, because it will be very difficult to restore lost knowledge and reputation!
The preparations for studies were over, the first of September passed, in my soul a strange feeling of annoyance from the incomprehensible procedure of initiation into students, which took place somewhere on the steps of the most beautiful building of the university or even in a huge conference room. By the way, write in the comments your impressions of initiation into students. What's next? Let's try to give some advice to freshmen on what to do in the first days of study and what to get used to.
1 . Start with a schedule right now. Very often it can be not only rewritten, but also downloaded from some site that all undergraduates know about. Find out from one of the undergraduates - print. But remember, the schedule can change, especially for the first week of school.
2. Remember all your bosses: the head of the group (find out the mobile phone number), the curator of the group (write down the last name and first name, patronymic), remember the patronymic name of the deputy dean as something holy, try to remember the dean himself - God forbid where to run into some kind of booze.
3 . Write down the phone number of the dean's office - it may come in handy when you need to find out something urgent or warn that you will not be able to come to class.
4 . You should be given two documents - a student card and a record book. Try not to lose them in the first troubled days of classes. Restore long and disgusting.
5 . Sign up for the library and try to get there as early as possible so that the best textbooks are not sorted out.
6. Join a student union. It is necessary to pay dues, but you never know what - all of a sudden when they intercede, if you fill up the session.
7. Carefully write down in a notebook - full name. teachers and write your last name and group number on the title page. You can even write them on every page - there is less chance that your abstract will be stolen.
9 . Find out where there is free Wi-Fi in the university buildings.
eleven . Meet the laboratory assistants at the department (you can get exam questions, solved control or drawings from them). Make friends with the methodologist from the dean's office. This, too, can be useful.
12 . Become an activist. There are a lot of positions in the student council where you can only be listed without doing anything.
13 . Always say hello to everyone - you never know. Be polite to the point of disgust.
14 . Find out all the student traditions of your university, faculty. Follow them - there will be something to remember later. Don't drink burnt vodka.
15 . Keep your cell phone muted in class. Do not run into the teacher's wrath. Don't show up late. They will quickly remember - you will excuse yourself for a long time.
16 . Always remember - in the student canteen they want to poison you. And dreamed about it all my life. Exactly you. And this is a hobby for canteen workers.
17 . Believe in omens. This will save your nerves. Read carefully everything that is written on the desks. There is a lot of valuable information there.
18 . Do not sit on the last desk. The teacher will remember you and the stereotype will work - you will be an idler in his eyes.
19 . Immediately after the class, approach the teacher and ask something you do not understand from the lecture. You want five points on the exam, don't you?
20 . Never lose your sense of humor. Take the opportunity to laugh more. It relieves stress. Once you get your degree, you won't be laughing. Don't let yourself be fooled, sleep whenever and wherever you can.
First time for the first course. Boys and girls who have finished school discover the real world of "adults" for the first time. There are no kind teachers here who raised you from the first grade, there are no friends with whom you ate more than one pood of salt, here you will not be "pulled" - you need to achieve everything on your own. Journalists learned how not to drown in a sea of new knowledge, acquaintances and circumstances.
Artem Tretyakov, environmentalist from NSU
"You never get a second chance to make a first impression" - be sure to remember this proverb. And the second, which will come in handy for you - "Meet by clothes, see off by mind." From the very first day at the university, teachers and classmates will look at you, and here you need not to miss the chance to show yourself, because there are still 5 years of teaching side by side ahead.
I changed three specialties and, accordingly, three groups. In the first there were only guys, some of them after the army and technical school. In such groups, it is important to immediately show that you are a "normal man", and not a "nerd" and a nerd, otherwise you can easily become an object of ridicule and harassment for the next couple of years. Remember that in almost every team there is such a "black sheep" - you don't want to take this place, do you?
Meet by clothes. Photo: metroszexualis.hu
In no case should one be cunning and hypocritical - such "slippery types", as a rule, are quickly figured out and stop communicating with them, or simply "smear". More respect is given to those who are truthful and frank in relationships - do not be afraid to say if you do not like something, or provoke a conflict - it is better to resolve all possible issues in the first months and live happily for the remaining 5 years.
In the second group, I did not stay long, but in the third there were 30 girls and 3 guys. But that's a completely different story...
Denis Minin, computer engineer from DNU
When I studied at the university, I did not perceive some subjects because I simply did not need them in the future, and that is why I did not pay attention to studying them and did not spend precious time preparing for exams. But here it is important to VISIT them and be constantly in the eye of the lecturer - this is the most important thing for him. Teachers will never fail you in exams if they see your respect for them.
The student is sleeping - the lecture is on. Photo: foto.rambler.ru
And in terms of communication with the team - do not drink, do not smoke, play sports! This is what is the most important factor in order to be accepted by people. Now those who smoke, drink, and, moreover, do it while studying, are perceived as children who have not taken place in this life (teenagers who imagine themselves to be adults) and at the same time look ridiculous.
This is especially true for girls who smoke near the body on the tape! They don’t even suspect that young guys look at them like walking ashtrays…
Andrey Logvinenko, labor protection engineer from DIIT
I studied at DIIT - you yourself understand what it says. Studying at this university is one of the most difficult in Dnepropetrovsk.
From the first day of my stay at the university, I realized that it would not be easy. Two huge buildings with many classrooms, strict teachers and a Spartan class schedule. And punched cards, PCs and MK - few students from other universities in the city know what they are. The main thing that you need to understand right away when entering such universities is that either you go to tapes and devote maximum time to studying (since it will be in abundance with each new semester), or you do not pass the session (money and connections practically do not solve academic performance issues) and you will not be settled in a hostel on the next course. Here is the motivation!
Clarification of the relationship may well end in a fight. Photo: youngtv.ru
The hostel is a different story. It's no secret that between the faculties of the university there is a certain spirit of rivalry, sometimes growing into real enmity. There were cases of a kind of "hazing" within the walls of the hostel. Engineers are guys with a steel rod! Based on the foregoing, a few tips for recruits: 1. Study in the system and not miss - you will pass everything and on time, as in DIIT. like nowhere else, it is knowledge that is valued! 2. Immediately find friends and unite, as mutual assistance and friendly shoulder is support both in studies and in communication with undergraduates. But in general - everything is real and without any problems for those young people who are determined to get higher education. Forward, friends, forward without stopping - not without reason they call us DIIT!
Igor Bozhchenko, journalist from DNU
There are three options, three strategies of behavior, each with its own pluses and minuses.
1. Find your people. Within a couple of weeks, you will understand with whom (usually 2-3 people from the entire faceless crowd that make up your group) you can have fun drinking and skipping couples, and then frantically prepare for the session and help each other out. Or there, go to the horizontal bars, to the rocking chair and ride a bike. Or watch art-house movies in "free spaces" and share your impressions of a freshly read book by Slavoj Zizek. These people will probably become your family for the next 5 years, stick to them, cover your rear and everything will be cool, you will have something to remember when sciatica catches. Studies? No, you haven't heard!
2. Public path. In each university there are various kinds of student councils, young parliaments and cells of the "Young Re..nov", by order of the rector's office, always ready to gather a hundred or two cretins from rural areas for a rally, Saturday work or lecture by Leonid Danilovich Kuchma. To advance and become an important figure in this kind of formations, you need to be able to: a) flatter; b) bend; c) laugh at the boss's stupid jokes. First of all, you need to become the head of the group through intrigue and maneuvering, and then everything will go like clockwork. Pluses: free trips to sanatoriums, the rector shakes your hand, classmates run after you and ask you to "decide". Cons: everyone hates you, and the social circle is limited to the same zombies from other faculties.
3. Learn. Learning is sad, boring and uninteresting.
Psychologist's opinion
Elena Beletskaya, psychologist. Photo from personal archive
- The first course is always stressful. Around everything is new and frightens with its unknown. Even the bravest and most daring have disturbing thoughts - how will relations with classmates and teachers develop, what will happen if I am late for a lecture by this terrible professor, but have I made the right choice at all ?! And what can we say about those students who, even in familiar situations, are not distinguished by courage and emancipation?
The first thing to understand is that your anxiety is completely natural and normal. By allowing ourselves to be afraid, we automatically reduce the degree of danger by at least half.
To feel more confident in an unfamiliar environment, it is advisable to enlist the support of one of the undergraduates. Useful acquaintances can be made in the cafeteria, the gym or at the smoking room. And in general, it is necessary to find out as soon as possible where strategically important objects are located - educational buildings, a canteen, a library, a trade union, a dean's office. And don't be afraid to ask if you don't know something.
Helping you get into student life faster Active participation in the student life. Find out what volunteer programs are supported by your university and take an active part in them. This can be planting trees in parks, helping orphanages or homeless animals. In any case, you will feel your involvement and need. After all, students are not only studying, but also rest, dating, parties.
Still, I would like to warn the first-year students a little. Changing school status to student status brings freedom and independence. But this is just the same medal, reverse side which is the responsibility. Of course, sometimes you can skip classes and not prepare for the seminar, but instead go to a coffee shop with friends. The main thing is that this does not enter the system, because winter, and with it the session, will come very quickly.
And now rejoice - you did it! Ahead of 5 years of fun, eventful student life. So stop being afraid - relax and have fun!
Living in a hostel is fraught with a certain flavor that will make your student years unforgettable. Well, the difficulties that you will definitely have to face, you can easily overcome if you carefully read this article. Today we will tell you how to adapt to the new conditions of life and give you some universal tips, thanks to which you will quickly get used to the new status of a student.
First time after admission to the institute yesterday's schoolchildren are jumping for happiness. But as the first of September approaches, they begin to be seized by an unsettling excitement. After all, a university is not a school, and for poor progress, parents are not called here, but simply expelled. Frightens young people and the upcoming "saturation" of tapes. It seems that they have to spend the day and night at the institute.
And if you can still somehow cope with the intensity of the study schedule (well, in fact, there were also busy days at school when you had only a couple of hours of sleep a day), then many first-year students perceive moving to an unfamiliar city and the prospect of living in a hostel with horror. However, do not rush to panic. Living in a hostel is fraught with a certain flavor that will make your student years unforgettable.
Well, the difficulties that you will definitely have to face, you can easily overcome if you carefully read this article. Today we will tell you how to adapt to the new conditions of life and give you some universal tips, thanks to which you will quickly get used to the new status of a student.
What freshmen need to know
Let's start with a few universal tips to help you get through first year university with minimal losses.
Now, let's burn about living in a student hostel.
Virtual expedition to the hostel
After so many spent nerves, efforts, maybe even tears, exams and admission are left behind, I want to relax and enjoy a well-deserved and long-awaited summer vacation. And this can be done if you study in your hometown, and live in the familiar environment of your home. If you have to move to another city and have a fun life in a hostel, then it's time to learn more about your future temporary home. And for this it is not at all necessary to personally go to the hostel.
Almost all modern universities have their own website, where information is necessarily indicated for those who need a hostel. In the relevant sections, as a rule, you can find not only "business" information: important names and questions about orders, certificates and lists. Photos are posted quite often. hostels, their interior rooms and corridors. Therefore, you can find out exactly how your new home will look like without leaving your home, and thus not become a victim of deceived expectations.
In addition, to find out about the real state of things, you can try to contact current residents through social networks. Talk to them closer, and they will be happy to answer all questions about the settlement and internal regulations, tell you more about the situation. If you are lucky, you can even find neighbors in advance.
Basket, box, carton...
What should be brought from home, what is best to buy on the spot, and what is generally better to say goodbye to better times?
First of all, a lot depends on the distance. If you need to travel about 700 km by train, then a lot of luggage, of course. You won't take it with you. If you have to cover only 150 km and even in your car, then you can certainly afford a lot more. But do not forget that you will live with your neighbors, and there is not so much space in the room.
Take only the essentials, it is foolish to carry in advance what is sold in a nearby store. A minimum of dishes, linen, clothes and books, ideally everything should fit in one travel suitcase. It is better to grab a small first aid kit as well. For study, you can purchase a convenient portable gadget: a tablet or laptop.
The "base" (mattress, pillow, blanket), as a rule, is given out on the spot. With rare exceptions, you will also receive a kettle and bed linen already in the hostel. Do not worry about heavy equipment like a refrigerator and a microwave oven either: perhaps you will be accommodated in students senior courses, where everything will already be there or, most likely, a “legacy” will be waiting for you in the room. In the most extreme case, you can buy equipment in pool (sharing the purchase price with your neighbors) - both cheaper and more reasonable.
Clearly prioritize
When you go to a hostel, it is advisable to know in advance exactly what you want. You go there to make friends, or study hard, or become independent, or just relax and walk - depending on your priorities, look for solidarity neighbors. Thus, it will be easier for you to furnish the room in your own way, and then avoid scandals.
But in any case, remember, the hostel is a noisy place, so you will have to put up with some things that you cannot change. Get used to night vigils behind the wall, fun parties and a little litter around. The ability to get along with people and patience is what will be most useful to you.
Arrange your world!
You come to the hostel not for one day and not for one week. From now on, this is your home. Keep your new home clean, because independence implies not only independence from parents, but also increased responsibility. Create coziness around you: hang hooks under clothes, arrange your favorite photos and toys on the shelves. Everything can be arranged simply, but tastefully. Love your new home and be ready to improve it day by day. Then and studying at the university will not seem so difficult, and the absence of caring parents who are ready to support in any difficult situation will not be perceived so catastrophically.
