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Author: Amanda Created: 8/21/2009 1:36 PM
Things that I've learned that I can pass on to you-- things you may not have even thought of! Hope this help. Feel free to ask any questions and I will be sure to respond and help out.


Soy puertorriqueña = I’m Puerto Rican.

To be more precise, I’m 75% Puerto Rican and the rest Italian…or to be more precise again, Sicilian.

But in this blog, I don't babble too much about that. Instead, here I offer my own insights and also a resource available to Hispanic students: Se llama, ¿Qué Pasa?, OSU. It's pretty nifty.

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Everywhere I turn someone is reminding me to get my flu shots. I see it as I walk into the grocery stores and drug stores (Flu Shots Offered Here!), it’s all over the news…I even see it at 8 a.m. when my dad decides that 8 a.m. is the opportune moment to text and remind me to get a shot…right dad. Sometimes I wonder if I should have ever taught him how to text.

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Move in day was different for me the first time at my former college my freshman year. I had no idea what was in store for my move-in day at OSU. Turns out, wasn't so bad.

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Move in week is just around the corner and you may be doing some final shopping for school. There are a few things that you want to make sure you have with you that you may not have thought of. I certainly could have done with some of these things when I first moved in.

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Oh the anxiety of getting lost on a large campus can be great, but there are always ways to make it easier and ease your mind.

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By now I’m sure there is more than one home with a pile of stuff people keep tripping over. Dorm items.

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I’ve got two pieces of advice to incoming students.

1) Go to as many orientation events as possible
2) Map out your classes before the first day

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“Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.”
 
-Chinese Proverb

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 Before I got to OSU I wasn’t the biggest football fan—actually I only ever watched when forced.

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Chocolate ice cream with marshmallow and caramel swirls and little schools of fudge fish.

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