first year's guide to making friends in campus

The elections are done and as the expected ensuing drama continues, life must go on. September is fast approaching and the next big thing on the education calendar is the intakes in many universities across the country for both self-sponsored and JAB students, as the application processes go on.

As a first year student, you may have been in boarding school in high school, so you have an idea about living away from home. As you will find out campus is very different. In high school you were still a child and you were under the supervision of matrons, school prefects and at least half a dozen other school staff. Now you are an adult, and you are (mostly) on you own. There are many things to stress you as you navigate the jungle that is a Kenyan university campus.