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Transitions

Patrick Stack, D.Min., LMFT, LPC, NCC, CASAC
Director of Counseling and Life Development
Clinical Status and Approved Supervisor: AAMFT

 All freshmen experience transitions at the beginning of the school year. Not all freshmen react to these transitions the same way. Transitions are associated with change. The changes may be due to meeting new people, making new friends, managing one’s time, living off a budget, negotiating romantic relationships, dating, working part-time or in some cases a full-time job and meeting the academic expectations of each instructor. Freshmen commuters must deal with the drive to and from the university and living at home with siblings who do not understand the complexities of the university experience. Freshman residents must adjust to living away from home, homesickness and roommate problems. If this is not enough to juggle, most university freshmen have not completed the gigantic life development transition known as adolescence....

Roommate Troubles

By Karen Rasure Coordinator of Housing and Residential Life
If you have heard complaints about your son or daughter’s roommate in the past few weeks, you are not alone. At this time of year, we begin to see a lot of roommate conflicts in the residence halls and apartments. It is completely normal for two students sharing a small space to not see eye to eye at times. This article takes a closer look at roommate relationships, and will hopefully give you a better idea of how you can help your son or daughter through this transition....


Leaves Aren’t the Only Things That Change in the Fall


John Buck
Assistant Dean of Students
 “We were standing in line to check in with a couple of hundred other incoming freshmen from 38 states, seven foreign countries and, it looked like, one or two distant solar systems.” - a parent of a college student


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