Regis Students Bond at the 2023 Connections Retreat

By Josie Weiler, Staff Photographer

The Connections Retreat is an annual weekend activity for freshmen who want an escape from campus to go hangout and meet new people. Organized by the University Ministry this retreat incorporates aspects of spirituality and religion, but does not require participants to be religious. When I attended this retreat, I met so many new freshmen friends and upperclassmen who are involved in UMinn, who taught us how to become more involved.

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Freshman Year of Zoom University

By: Sarah Gomez, Staff Writer

Coming into a new environment all alone, as a teenager, is difficult to say in the least. Starting without any family or friends and having to live on your own for the first time in your life is a terrifying thought. Every new freshman faces this challenge, but eventually, everything works itself out, right? Friends are established from dorm floor movie nights and joining clubs during welcome week. It gets easier when you feel less alone when you have a friend to eat dinner with or even just someone in your class you can study with. Freshman year is hard for everyone, but it gets easier once you have something to look forward to, even if it’s something as silly as watching a movie on the quad. . .

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