Q:

      Many young people find their first day at high school or college difficult, because they feel very alone. What do you think are the other difficulties they face on their first day? What can schools and colleges do to make them feel more comfortable?

A:

      Generally speaking, everybody who comes to a brand new place must feel very lonely before they make new friends there. Unfortunately, not only this little issue but many others questions and problems will come after that.

      Besides the lonely feeling that freshmen face, there are a plenty of difficulties to resolve and settle. I think the first one is that financial problem. Because of many young people have never managed budgets themselves in their early years of lives, they need to carry on themselves as adults. Certain money will be given to the teenagers and they need to defend themselves from the temptations of spending the accommodations fees in whatever they want, just as beautiful clothing or delicious dishes. The second thing they need to pay attention to is how to get along with their roommates. It’s about their four-year or even six-year’s harmony in the living place. First impression is a very crucial work to take care of in the first day. But the very last thing they need to care about is that learning to know how to use the facilities of the colleges.
      Based on the mentioned difficulties, schools and colleges shall take many actions to solve them. First of all, psychologists should be sent to the freshmen and guide them out of the lonely and worrying predicament. Secondly, Administrators of the schools need to give students more course and resident tutorship for everything is new to them. Thirdly, upperclassmen should be forwardly organized to help them by teaching some uses of the school or giving advisements for course choosing.

      Eventually, schools and colleges are playing a very crucial part of the teenagers. They shall give more humanism considerations in helping and loving the students. The actions I noted are very basic but not enough if nothing else was taken to them. What’s more, students are schools’ treasure just as customers to the shops that they deserving good services. But meanwhile, they need to live for themselves.