Video: College Freshmen Life

COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI)—Making the transition from High School to a College or University can be difficult.

Especially when most freshmen graduate high school a few months before starting college.

For a lot of these kids a year ago their biggest concern was senior prom or homecoming. Now being away from home, Keeping up with grades, and learning the campus is their main focus.

MUW student O’shia Cobb says,”I was just so overwhelmed because this is all so new to me.”

The feelings most college students feel starting a new chapter in their lives.

” I was doing my hair and putting on my make up and I was like I’m going to throw up. Like this is just a new experience and it’s a new chapter in my life and it’s just hard to believe,”says Cobb

That book can have a happy ending or be a tragedy. That’s where the Center for Student success at the W steps in.

Center for Student Success Director David Brookings says, “It’s really like stepping on to a uh into a different country because you don’t speak the language you don’t, understand the geography and so we’re here to really help acclimate those students to what it’s like to be a university student.”

The Center offers students a variety of services.

“We have tutoring, academic aides, disability services career services.”

For first time college student O’shia Cobb the center also provides a sense of comfort.

” I talked to one of the advisers here and she was just encouraging me and I felt so down this morning because I felt like college was going to be terrible for me a little. I think they’re here to encourage you but also help you become a better student.”

final freshmen enrollment numbers have not been released.