While I have about two weeks before my college admission, I have heard a lot about university life including an orientation for freshmen. Many teachers told me that I do not have to participate in the orientation. But as time goes by, my worry on this event becomes deeper.

The orientation has both merits and demerits. The merit would be gathering tips about the university I am going to enter. The demerits would be inconvenience about getting along with strangers and stressful events like a freshman talent show. When I talk about participation of the orientation with my friends, I have not seen friends who are willing to go to the orientation. Nonetheless, they end up participating in it. It is because they are afraid of not getting necessary information about school life and fearful that they would make no friends at their universities.
Nowadays, we are able to get information on campus life from Social Network Service and portal sites. Also, I think making friends is determined by personal capability and I can make friends through other school activities after enrollment except the orientation.

Lee Ye-won
Kookmin University, Dept. of Forest Environmental Systems ‘17

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