Monday, October 26, 2026
Student Blog: Sophomore Year 'Ins' and 'Outs' - Moving Past the Comfort Zone in College
BroadwayWorld: I spent most of my freshman year of college adjusting to a completely new lifestyle: navigating dorm life with a roommate, figuring out meals according to the dining halls, and taking classes just to fulfill my gen-ed requirements.
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I think rethinking and reviewing our past year and how we lived and making goals for ourselves is a really important thing. If we never look back at what worked and what did not we will never know how to improve, we will just be stuck in the same place over and over. Often when I experience things I often like to look back at what could be changed to improve someone else's experience, what could make this process easier to understand for someone new. There should be a constant desire in ourselves to improve our own lifestyles and improve the places around us. Freshman year is getting thrown off a cliff and learning to fly, everything is new and fresh and the structure of college is entirely different from high school. Sophomore year we have more opportunity to adjust and know what to expect.
This in general seems like good advice---take the thing you wanted and remove the things you don't want from your life after you reset from a break, be it winter or summer. But the advice that really stood out to me from this article is about one of the "outs": not just auditioning for roles that you feel like fit you, but opening yourself up for auditioning for many things, because you don't know what you will get out of it unless you try. I think this is not only great advice for people on the MT or acting tracks, but also for design and production students. For example, Playground is a great time when students can and should do that---try out a role they have never given thought or serious consideration to, because you never know where that is going to get you. On a smaller scale, that is also true with things like USITT conferences, visiting guest events, or just what classes and electives you take.
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