Tag: first year students
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First-Year Highlights: Food, Friends, and Fun
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As the 2023-’24 school year comes to a close, two of the First-Year students from our “First Impressions of First-Year Gusties” article this past fall reflect on how their experiences and learnings have evolved throughout the year. Chavy Ngov ‘27 Chavy reports that despite the initial shock he felt with the harder curriculum, increase in…
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First-Term Seminars Aren’t Just Academic
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Many colleges offer classes that help their first-year students get comfortable with the unfamiliar pace of higher education. Gustavus supplements this by utilizing the maturity and leadership qualities of our older students to make the first-year acclimation process even more comprehensive and fruitful. All new Gusties take a First-Term Seminar (FTS), small, discussion-based courses that…