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Call Your Friends

The College Survival Guide - Part Two

Call Your Friends

Madison and Lauren Orlando

Fashion & Beauty, Arts, Society & Culture

4.8837 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Hi, we're back for part two! In this episode, we cover roommate dynamics, what to pack for your first day of college, balancing partying and socializing with actually doing your homework, the infamous "freshman 15", choosing classes and much more. Lauren also shares a special announcement about her college plans. Call us and leave your college questions on our voicemail line. 213-539-5966. Talk to you next Friday.

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0:00.0

Hi everyone. Welcome or welcome back to Call Your Friends. We're your friends, Lauren and

0:09.8

Maddie. And you're listening to Part 2 of our university episode. It was so long, we had so much to

0:15.5

say we had to break it up into two episodes. So yeah, we hope you enjoy. So let's get into our notes. I'm just going to run through

0:24.4

this and then Lauren you can ask any questions that come up. All right. So first thing to discuss is

0:29.7

choosing a roommate. This is something that, you know, I did before I went to school. I chose a roommate.

0:35.7

I think we connected in like a Facebook group, which, you know, that really dates me.

0:40.0

But now you could connect like on Instagram or TikTok, I don't know.

0:45.0

But then I had a tragic story.

0:47.4

Basically what happened is my mom didn't pay my residence payment on time, so I got kicked out of residence.

0:52.3

So my roommate situation totally was foiled or my plan I

0:57.2

guess you could say so I got put in this residence at a different university or like college

1:03.6

that's part of my university it's like a different campus yeah it's a different campus but it's just

1:10.0

like across the street so So it wasn't that

1:11.4

dramatic. But at the time, I was truly devastated because I had planned to live with this girl.

1:16.3

And I was really upset. I'm like, oh my God, I'm going to be put with someone I don't know,

1:20.4

like my worst nightmare. But then, you know what? It actually worked out perfectly fine because

1:26.1

she was really cool. But if I was

1:28.6

giving advice, I would say live with someone that you kind of know that you like have heard good

1:35.1

things about or know like on a surface level, but you're not best friends with. Because if you live

1:40.9

with your best friend, you will feel like you need to do everything together.

1:44.5

And you might find out that you're like a little bit limited by them.

1:48.0

And also I think that living with someone is really hard, especially in like a 200 square foot dorm room.

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