Advice for freshmen entering college
electronslave: Point: You will be utterly lost.
Counterpoint: So, too, will everyone else be lost.Use your time to maximize your experience as best you are able.  If you are studious, study your brains out.  If you are a doer, find a lab and camp out there until someone asks you for help.  If you're a drug user of any kind, walk around the on-campus/near-campus housing until you hear a party, then crash it.  If you like guys/girls more than anything else previously mentioned, put some ice down your pants and concentrate on school for a few semesters.  When you're confident and familiar, it'll count for a lot more in the long run (plus the available dating pool will have mellowed out by a lot.)  Get off campus eventually, don't be a shut-in, don't think of the campus as your only safe harbor.Point: Younger people at your school are still hormonal, just like high school.
Counterpoint: When everyone's lost, it's good to be found.  Find yourself -- not just within you, but in others.  Independence is not overrated, but it is often ignored.