Word: freshmen
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...yore, when college kids spent evenings analyzing poetry in professors' quarters. Research indicates that students are more likely to be satisfied with school and become campus leaders if they spend time with faculty. Which is why the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville created Core Connections, which lets mostly freshmen opt to live in two dorms where attendance at faculty-planned events is required. The University of Maine now makes all frosh live together in dorms with new support networks. Ditto for Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., where first-years are also encouraged to go on hikes with the profs...
...adult attention and said they were less homesick than their friends at other schools. A few were grateful to be able to take baby steps into college. "We're all here in one place so we can be cheesy and lame together," says first-year Meryem Dede. Some freshmen, though, complain they're being deprived of role models closer to their age. "I feel disconnected from upperclassmen," says Cole Garrett...
Even though tensions are caused by inevitable disputes for the same talented freshmen, most agree that this only reflects the high quality of the pool and actually improves the entire a cappella scene. “If you make it to Final Night, you’re pretty good and they just want to see you somewhere,” Wyatt says...
...Belkin Family Working Farm One of the oldest continuously working farms in the country, the Belkin working was established in 1651 and charges $14 to get in and $2.50 per pound of fruit. Pony rides, burlap mazes, hay pyramids and train rides are available for children and freshmen...
When I ask Simons about winning a college tournament at Vanderbilt while still in high school, he dwells on the limited size of the field. When I ask why he neglected to tell me that he recently finished first in a scrimmage between the freshmen from MIT and Harvard, he smiles and says nothing. His Straus dorm room is a shrine to the understated...