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(08/19/24 7:15pm)
Change is rarely easy, and the college transition is an extreme case. As a freshman first stepping onto campus, it can take a lot to simply be present. While it’s easy to anticipate the academic challenge that college might bring, it is also easy to overlook how freshman year likely is the furthest you’ve been from all of the people and places you consider home. But, even in that tangle of nerves and excitement, small intentional practices can help ease your transition to college. Here are a few pointers for finding your footing in your first year at Hopkins.
(08/15/24 9:15pm)
No one explanation, summary, advice column, or Reddit rant really captures what freshman year is like. No experience is comparable to your own, and the only thing anyone can count on is that freshman year will be transformative. Here are a few lessons for incoming freshman that I had to learn the hard way.
(08/19/24 7:02pm)
As you're approaching the start of your freshman year, you might feel anxious thinking about your future roommate(s). I’ve been in your shoes — growing anxious whenever I came across a freshman roommate horror story and praying I’d secure a single. Instead, I’ve been blessed with a best friend that made me thank the universe for not answering my prayers. To make this your reality, here are a few things that will help you build a relationship with your roommate.
(08/19/24 7:40pm)
Signing up for classes in college is equal parts thrilling and stressful. On the one hand, this may be your first opportunity to take a class where the title is more than one word (see: AS.040.416. Exploring the Edges of the Earth: How the Ancient World Helped Shape Science Fiction). This may be your first time taking classes that fall outside the realm of the core curriculum (see: AS. 001.244. Death and the Meaning of Life). However, with hundreds of options from departments you probably never knew existed (what is Medicine, Science and the Humanities, really?), it can be hard to sift through the muck.
(08/19/24 7:20pm)
Hello incoming Blue Jays. My name is Joseph Rainbolt, and I recently finished my freshman year as a pre-med student here at Hopkins. I endured my fair share of failures in my first year. Hopkins was new and Hopkins was hard, but looking back, I emerged from my freshman year with a lot of success, and there’s no doubt that with some perseverance you will, too. This article is my very best attempt to transfer everything I learned to you so that you can learn from my mistakes and get off to a great start on your pre-med journey.
(08/19/24 7:24pm)
Hopkins has a gorgeous campus filled with bustling buildings, daily events, world-class professors and enough homework to keep you busy for a lifetime. But what lies beyond the East Gate?
(05/21/24 4:50pm)
I’ve started saying my goodbyes to Homewood Campus.
(05/21/24 4:59pm)
During these last four years, I’ve worked as a tour guide for the admissions office. When we reach the last tour stop at Decker Quad, I always wrap up by answering the question, “Why Hopkins?” For me, the answer is simple: the people.
(05/21/24 4:50pm)
“Copy of Copy of PLAN BUT I DROP PREMED”
(05/21/24 4:52pm)
My time at THE Johns Hopkins University can only be described as hectic, bustling and ever-moving. From signing myself up for as many clubs as possible to taking 18-credit semesters, I would like to think that I have contributed (quite well) to campus — and Baltimore — during my undergrad. Though I have been involved in many things, I would like to take the time to highlight one class, one organization and one experience that meant so much to me.
(05/21/24 4:48pm)
COURTESY OF FRANK MENG
(05/21/24 4:30pm)
COURTESY OF ALIZA LI
(05/21/24 4:44pm)
I joined the Poverty and Inequality Research Lab intending not only to gain research skills but also to become a better listener and advocate. During winter break, we traveled to a small town in Arkansas to map out the decision-making processes of families there. This experience helped us learn more about the voices of marginalized communities.
(05/21/24 4:30pm)
In April 2020, a little over four years ago, I wrote a letter to myself to be opened at the end of college. It was the summer before my freshman year, a few months after I’d discovered I had been accepted at Hopkins and a strange and uncertain time in the middle of the pandemic. Since then, I’ve mostly forgotten the contents of the letter, typed into a Google document with the title “DO NOT OPEN UNTIL MAY 23, 2024!!” However, I do remember inserting photographs of my current obsessions at the time, and I can imagine that I talked quite a bit about finding friends and a partner, things I’ve always been concerned with. So, in honor of the letter I wrote to future me, I’ll now write one to my past self.
(05/21/24 4:48pm)
COURTESY OF ELAINE YANG
(05/21/24 4:45pm)
Everyone comes to college an outsider. New to Baltimore, I remember jangling with the nervous desire to belong. I looked for a way in through writing for The News-Letter, and one of my first stories was about a new restaurant opening in Charles Village called Busboys and Poets. Busboys is gone now, which goes to show how a person and a place can change together in less than four years.
(05/21/24 4:59pm)
Before going into the nitty gritty of my time at Hopkins, I just want to say that I’m grateful for both the hard and good times I’ve had here. These experiences are what have shaped me into the man I am today. I came to Hopkins as a teenager right in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, and I leave a full grown adult ready to swim through the challenges of life.
(05/21/24 4:40pm)
I will never forget the day I was accepted into Hopkins. Not because it was rosy and life-changing. Antithetically, it seemed that everyone thought the world would end that day. It was Friday, March 13, 2020, which became our last day of “normal” school before everything shut down due to the pandemic.
(05/23/24 4:08am)
Dear Freshman Molly,
(05/21/24 4:57pm)
If I had a nickel for every incorrect prediction I made about my college experience, I would have... a lot of nickels.
