Hot Take Tuesday: College students share their opinions on enjoyable and mates

Each week, “Hot Take Tuesday” highlights the unpopular (or standard) opinions of the Views part right here at FSView. Ranging from private dilemmas to ideas on campus life, this weekly column permits writers and visitor options alike to highlight their opinions as school college students.

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Kayra Serpenguzel: Moving in early is the best way to go

It’s at all times greatest to maneuver in early. Having this additional time earlier than lessons start to get accustomed to campus, see the place all your lessons are, and spend time with mates is invaluable. As the semester progresses, everybody’s schedules turn into busier with lessons, extracurriculars, and sudden commitments. This first week is an effective way to ease into this soon-to-be-occupied life. Also, having time to arrange your room and adorn it the way you wish to is essential throughout this week, as that may be your precedence as an alternative of one thing else in your to-do listing. 

Anna Mammarelli: We must take a dip within the pool extra typically

We must swim within the pool extra! As an FSU pupil, chances are high you both reside in an condominium with a pool or reside shut sufficient to 1 that it’s straightforward to entry. Of course, there’s additionally the Leach pool, so you actually haven’t any excuse. While swimming swimming pools are one in every of Tallahassee’s favourite locations to tan, learn, or hang around with mates, there’s a large scarcity of scholars truly swimming.

Not solely is swimming a enjoyable and enjoyable technique to spend a day, nevertheless it additionally comes with loads of advantages. It’s an underrated type of train, it will possibly soothe your muscle groups, and it cools you down.

We get caught up worrying about chlorine, getting our hair moist, or trying a idiot splashing round — however life is brief. Grab a floatie in case you want one, soar in, and really swim! You’ll miss it when winter rolls round. 

Logan Walters: Good issues, resembling greatest mates, are available threes

Best mates are available a bunch of three, not two. Most individuals suppose as a result of it is a “best” good friend that there can solely be one, however a single greatest good friend has too many issues. If they’re busy, you are compelled to compromise with individuals you’d want to not discuss to. If they start making new mates, you must do the identical. With two greatest mates, there’s at all times somebody you are extraordinarily near that you would be able to discuss to, and even when one thing occurs to 1, you at all times have the opposite. So try to discover two greatest mates. 

Alaina Babb: Bored? Board video games!

I’m an individual who’s at all times pro-board recreation, and I feel extra individuals needs to be. Whether hanging out with only one roommate or a big good friend group, nothing brings individuals collectively like a great pleasant recreation of your selecting. The stunning factor about board video games is that there’s something for everybody — I’m a fan of a traditional card recreation during which all you want is a deck of playing cards, one thing compact and simply accessible. Some want extra concerned video games like Clue or Monopoly or, much more intimidating to me, Dungeons and Dragons. No matter who you’re, there’s a board recreation on the market for you, and it’s a great technique to spend a chill night time inside with mates. 

Ryleigh Beller: Moving in solely will get worse

Moving again to highschool will get worse every time you do it. While I’ll solely be a sophomore, transferring into my room this yr was a lot extra work than the primary time, and I can solely see it changing into much more of a chore. Packing grew to become such a last-minute affair that unpacking all my stuff took effectively over three days. From forgetting to purchase half the objects on my packing listing to carrying all my belongings up and down hills after which by means of the halls with different households transferring in on the identical time, it was my very own type of torture. Even although I greater than possible won’t bear in mind my errors from this yr to the subsequent, I do know it can simply be much more of a trouble than it already is.

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