Reality Check: University is a major learning experience, and part of your first year is realizing the difference between home and university. Below is a list of some of the things you’ll learn first year at NSAC:

Realizing that Mom and Dad aren’t so bad...
Trying to figure out about 800 different abbreviations...
Drinking ten million cups of coffee...
Trying to tell the registrar your problem when you don’t know...
Getting 5 eight o’ clocks and not knowing what they are until you get there...
Finding out labs are only fun on the first day...
Being asked a question in your first tutorial...
Missing a class thinking you will get the notes later...
Getting your first loan...
Learning profs aren’t all that smart...
Forgetting all your books then trying to convince your parents you’ve finished all of your work before you came home...
Figuring out at eight o’ clock that all of the people came to class disguised as empty chairs...
Never washing your bed sheets from September to December and January to May...
Having everyone ask, “What are you in?” and you don’t even know...
Saying you’ll catch up on Sundays...
Wishing you’d spent your money on a car stereo instead of clothes because you only wear jeans anyway...
Finding out what an “all-nighter” is and wishing you hadn’t...
Counting the words in your first essay...
Finding out that it doesn’t really matter...
Meeting lots of great people...
Actually learning something...
Walking into the wrong class and have everyone stare at you...
Having your mother visit you on a weekend when you’ve asked a friend to stay over...
Learning to knock on doors before you enter...
Being broke at Christmas...
Not having any gloves in the winter...
Finding out you really didn’t love the person you left back home...
Finding your bed flipped...
Meeting the porcelain roe...
Being introduced to “The BARN”