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Welcome to Bear’s Declassified: School Survival Guide! I think Ned would be proud to see us all grown up and tackling life in college on our own. After all, he prepared us well, didn’t he?
Amazon is the perfect place to find all of your college necessities, and I’ve narrowed down my top 10.
For many students, college is the first time where they are away from their parents and living with other students. College is designed to be a bridge between fun and the real world and one of the only things that can make this experience bad is unpleasant roommates.
Students from other classifications share what they did back in their first summer of college.
“What I loved about Baylor — that I think we have retained even though we’ve grown larger — is it felt like a community,” Ford said. “When I walked across campus, I saw people I knew. I was able to get to know my professors. I felt like I got to know everybody in my classes.”
Finals season is upon us, which brings a swarm of students to Moody Memorial Library at all hours of the day armed with cold brew and AirPods. From shoes to backpacks to technology, the Baylor “starter pack” is an aspect of the culture on campus that’s hard to miss.
Baylor is full of countless resources for students to get ahead on their writing, research and assignments. The university has several research libraries, institutes and centers. Moody Memorial Library and Jesse H. Jones Library — the main research complex and libraries on campus — provide over 3.5 million physical resources and over 1.3 million electronic resources to students.
With the variety of classes students have to take, the material can easily blend together. Study apps are personal to the user and can make life so much easier.
According to nationwide statistics, Baylor’s freshman retention rates, four-year graduation rates and six-year graduation rates are well above the national average, showing how Baylor students perform better than average. The university also consistently ranks among the top academic schools in the country.
Understanding campus norms is a vital part of getting the true experience that university has to offer. Baylor is no exception. The university has its own expectations and norms that not every student may be aware of. To aid with this, students shared their advice on what to do and what not to do when roaming the streets of Baylor’s campus.