What do you remember about your first day of high school or college?

Not much. Considering that my buddies Jude, Dan and Phil came and picked me up, and we smoked maybe 6 or 7 joints. I was soooooo wasted. Not real smart.

High school: I remember being nervous as hell, but excited. Mostly I was worried about the "mean" upperclassmen.....Specifically I remember thinking I was kick ass cool because instead of riding the bus,I got a ride with my neighbor who was a junior.....

College: The day i moved into my freshman dorm it was 99 degrees in the shade and I lived on the 3rd frickin floor in an unairconditioned building.....and despite my nervousness, I couldn't wait for my parents to leave!

I remember the first day of college. I got lost a lot because I didn't know the layout of the campus yet and it was really hot. I remember taking 3 showers a day and it was hard to sleep. (no air conditioning)

High School - I Could not sleep at all the night before school started. Everyone acted like Freshman would get picked on and not like it at all but actually i liked my freshman year. it wasn't bad. Most people were nice to you and talked to you (probably because at first they felt bad for us having no one to talk to lol)

First day at High School was a mixture of terror, (finding the right classrooms, all these new kids from other schools,All with a cast on my leg and a haze caused by pain meds.)Wonder, all these new girls everywhere.Challenging , To get from point a. to point b. with the bad leg.Also hard, I was torn between my Jock friends who seemed to disappear and my party friends...who were easy to find - already 'ditching' classes
they hung-out near a large gate I.E. "The Gate Gang".Angry, with my Choir teacher for putting me in the "Alto section" instead of bass (which I never had been anything but bass or baritone !)Exhausting, from going from 1 end of the school clear to the other,
then back again for class 3 then etc...All day long with two flights of stairs...
Overall - NOT FUN.A Nightmare even.

First day of high school, I had never ridden a school bus before. I'd been a city kid, and had walked to school all my life. I didn't think to get the number off the bus when I got off in the morning. In the afternoon, I waited for an eternity before I thought to ask the principal which bus my bus driver drove. He said the bus had just left. I knew it was seven long miles home, and nobody would be coming to get me, so I took off running, chasing the bus. Fortunately, there was a long line of buses waiting to turn right at the entrance to the school campus, and the other kids on the bus saw me running after them and hollered to the bus driver to wait for me. I never made that mistake again.

First day of college, I remember being completely lost and having no idea what I was supposed to do or where I was supposed to be.

College: There was one good old boy when everyone in class had to introduce themselves and he made the comment of "I hate Yankee's!" He felt smaller than a church mouse after he had found out that 60% of the class was Yankee's.

I went to high school the first year of integration. I remember the boys fighting and thinking I did not want to be there.

HIGHSCHOOL- Making fun of the stupid guy on the morning announcements...not a dam thing said during the entire 10 minute message was understandable except for HOMEROOM.....lol


COLLEGE- Not knowing anyone, but doing well on campus.

My first day at Stuyvesant High School (NYC) was Monday 9/9/74...I remember pretty clearly riding the Lexington Ave. subway from my home in Brooklyn to Union Square and walking east on East 15th St. to school, where I met my fellow members of official class 1K and my homeroom teacher, Sterling Jensen...

I think of 2 first days at Cornell University...Sunday 8/27/78 was dormitory move-in day...I remember very clearly the drive from NYC to Ithaca, NY (about 4 1/2 hours) with my parents and brother - especially exciting for all of us because my mom and brother had also attended Cornell, so I was the 3rd member of my family to go there; my brother had just graduated that spring...I remember moving into my room, 6424 Sperry Hall, and meeting my roommate and others on my hallway, including a guy with whom I later became lifelong best friends...I also remember a big group meeting in Noyes Center (the West Campus student union) to kick off orientation, and partying in the dorm later that evening...

Monday 9/4/78 was the first day of classes, and I mainly remember walking up the hill from my dorm to my first class, Music 141 in Barnes Hall...

It's amazing to me how I remember all these details from 32 and 36 years ago!

I always thought my first day of high school to be all horred and dramatic like the movies, even though i so sooo nervious, it turned out to be a no-brainer.

Both sucked.

Not much..I was a little confused and felt a little lost and helpless in my first days of university....

I remember my first day at primary school, secondary school, university, and every job I have ever done! On all of them, I was a little nervous, but excited, and focussed on remembering every minute of it, because soon it would become so familiar to me, and that it was important to remember how I felt on that first day.

Sitting in the college auditorium, with the teachers "welcoming" us (yelling at us about what we would get punished for doing) and thinking that I really didnt want to be there, despite having my friends there & everything, because it felt like I was starting a jail sentence.
I quit about 4 weeks later, because I couldnt stand it anymore. And thank God I did.

I was going through a lot of problems when i was starting 9th grade, depression, loss of all my friends and anxiety so i never went. I ended up just getting home schooled all though high school.

Well, nothing. Actually I just remember being very lost.

the canteen line

Feeling nervous and excited at the same time. Anxious to become an adult....why was I so anxious?

First day of High School...I remember orientation day a lot better than I do my first full day with classes. I remember being reaally nervous because I knew only 2 people out of almost 3,000 people. I went to a small, private catholic school before which had less 200 students from pre-school to 8th grade.

It was pretty intense and scary to be honest. I was so happy to be home because in a way I felt like I was holding my breath the whole day, if that makes any sense.
It was REALLY HOT too, summer of 2007, the school's air conditioning was broken before 2nd period and all the class rooms had around 30 students each.

I also remember watching King Kong that night and eating popcorn, wondering what the next 4 years would be like. They've turned out okay =] (with quite a few major ups and downs)

First day of high school, I was nervous (but then so was everyone)

I was nervous about the new environment, new people, making new friends, trying to locate the new classrooms that were very unfamiliar.

That kind of thing :o)

got lost once my first day of highschool.....no big deal.

yeah... some pleasant memories, new teachers, new school, new main language.
Slightly nervous. I met a new friend that I really love and care about. I didn't think of it this way, but maybe she was my first and only friend that year.. or one of a very few. Unfortunately, we aren't very close now. Had great memories of the acquaintance. :)
lol, it's like an entry in a journal.

I was excited for a the chance to be a great student for once. However, I didn't know I had a student file that would follow me everywhere and turn some teachers against me. Add to that the shock of finding out all my friends had a different lunch period than me. Akward, shy and alone.....I spent that day crying in the bathroom while 3000 other kids went on with life. It was hard!!

my first day of college was like the first day of high school i was late

I went to what was considered a tough high school in South Philadelphia. I almost got into a fight with a rather large fellow freshman who felt obligated to prove the school's reputation. I was somewhat smaller then he, but managed to talk myself out of the conflict, and even establish a somewhat friendly relationship with my antagonist. I learned an important lesson which has followed me throughout life.
Show no fear but always try to avoid conflict through negotiation.

After all these years being terrified to go back.

about to be a junior and i don't remember much about the first day of HS

+5. That was 1966 and I have trouble remembering what I had for supper last night

I was given an imposition sheet for swinging around a pole on a covered walkway.

Standing in one line, then another, picking up forms to be filled in and get stamped, trying to figure out what room we were supposed to be in, getting told off for being late on our first day.

We had an initiation that all first year students do, the staff removed some of the numbers off the doors and we spent hours going around the college trying to find these rooms...assholes.

I cant remember my first day of senior school, but I can my first day at college. I prefered college.

I don't remember my first day of highschool.

My first day of college was fun though. Two of my profs. were gorgeous.

I remember feeling very little!! I was 13 when I started Grade 9 and the Grade 13 boys seemed massive to me! They were like grownups!

,butterflies on stomach..

,butterflies on my stomach..

High school: very apprehensive and afraid. I didn't know anyone.

College: much happier than my first day in high school because some of my classmates were also my classmates in high school. I was not alone.

Sniff, Sniff..."Man this bathroom smells nice."

Being lost to find my way around.

The first day of my high, I nevours all night ,and I wake up very early to prepare everything. To dress up more beautiful because I have grown up when I go on high school. Therefor you will meet many different friends who come from another villiges.

Didn't like my first day in college, the older boys taunted us and told us that hazing (which was not optional) would start on our very first night, and that it would last three full months. We did not sleep a lot in our dormitory, they were too busy making our lives miserable.

awww I have the same question lol.

I just remember being afraid that I would not fit in , though I did

I remember missing the first 2 classes and coming in way late at the 3th..

I was 5'4" 90 pounds as a Freshman and I got beat up by a 5' 70 pound 7th grader

I remember on the first day of highschool freshman year i triped on the stairs and faceplanted right infront of a bunch of cute junior/senior girls :( they laughed at me but i just got up and took a bow and walked on LOL (iam 19 and iam friends with them now :))

First class: Ex-army science teacher who loved to intimidate a bunch of nervous freshmen, and gave us homework on the first day! Not fun.

1966. Knew my way around the college campus. Was cutting some kind of orientation one evening.

Was sitting on the steps of a closed building when a sophmore girl came by.

Got laid.

Being bloody terrified....

I'm still in highschool and I can't remember anything about my first day..