Welcome to your first year at the University of Oregon. The time you’re about to have will be unlike anything you’ve ever experienced.
Thanks for picking up your introduction to the Oregon Daily Emerald, the campus’ independent student newspaper. Consider this your guide to your University and your campus.
When you’re paying thousands of dollars per year, keeping up on campus events, the administration and the student government should be in your interest. Because the University is like a city within a city, you can only get solely campuscentric, student-related news from the Daily Emerald.
We exist to serve your need to know about everything that matters to you as a student. For now, as you’re getting acquainted with campus for the first time this summer, we want to leave you with some important information about the University and the city.
Eugene and the University of Oregon offer many great opportunities and experiences to grow as a person and define who you are. From living with a roommate to staving off the freshman 15, freshman year offers unique challenges and excitements that will forever shape your life.
Going into my last year at the University, I can look back at my freshman existence and appreciate its effect on my current situation. My experience is rare because this year I moved into a house with my roommate from the dorms. Though living in shoebox-like conditions meant we were in each other’s space constantly, we’re think the housing gods got this one right. Nothing else could explain why we’re living together for round two in an actual house. That’s not to say we didn’t have our difficulties in the dorms, but what I learned from that year was the importance of making the best of my college experience and having a great a time. Many freshman roommates now have polite, but not truly friendly, relationships, but somehow, probably because we have the same sarcastic sense of humor and love looking at lolcats, we’ve remained actual friends.
Freshman year is all about experiences — both academic and social — and growing out of your traditional comfort zone. You begin to learn more about yourself, what you believe and what you want to do with your life.
The Emerald’s Freshman Survival Guide has made freshman year as the ultimate learning experience a focal point because it will be the central element of your time here as a Duck. In addition, we’ve given a sampling of some of the ways to enjoy Eugene and get out of the campus bubble. One thing I’ve learned in year of living off campus is that there’s a whole lot more out there to enjoy in Eugene than just campus.
That said, the Daily Emerald specializes in University of Oregon news, and we provide students a voice on issues that matter. We want to give you what you need to know when you want to know it. We do that by producing a daily publication during the academic year and maintaining a Web site with updates and breaking news.
We at the Emerald hope you’ll continue to pick up the paper when it starts daily publication in September. When you’re back on campus the week before classes begin, look for our Back to the Books edition, which will offer even more information and insight about the University and the city.
Until then, get excited about your first days as a college student. We hope this guide offers you all the inspiration and information you need to successfully become part of unique Eugene.
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