大学体验英语第三版第一册unit-8-passageA自学课件.pptxVIP

Freshman friendshipUNIT 8Almost two years ago , I stood on a dormitory balcony , joined hands with my three most intimate friend and listened to one of them tell a story about four girls with different backgrounds and talents who left home and went to college at a mythical place called Happy Valley.After we left our friend’s apartment that last night of our freshman year ,we ended up on the lawn ,playing frisbee at 3 a.m. and sitting on the dormitory steps talking for hours .Alisa , Karen , Gabrielle and I had spent that day together just being freshman — going to the sandwich shop for the last lunch of the semester , trying on each other’s clothes , watching movies and acting like we would never see each other again . Three Months is a Long Time For freshmen , and especially for us ,saying goodbye at the end of the first year can feel like saying goodbye forever . Three months can seem like a long time when you are leaving friends and acquaintances whom you have only known for a year .Your freshman year moments are irreplaceable. My advice to any freshmen reading this is to cherish those moments .You may grow completely apart from the people you spent your first year with ,or you may find yourself fortunately comparing them to sibling at the end of your junior year as I did.Even if you have almost forgotten your freshman year roommates two years later , and barely recognize them when you encounter them in front of the gymnasium ,you can never replace that year and the brand–new feeling that your first year of college bring .A lot will change after your freshmen year .You will meet new people and do new things .You will do a lot more growing up .At the beginning of our senior year , Karen took her hometown boyfriend Kevin on a tour of campus and downtown .”That’s where grew up ,” she told him ,motioning toward Atherton Hall ,where the four of us spent our first two years at Penn State. We learned more outside the classroom than we learned inside it .That dorm is wh