MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — For my money, there are few weekends to better experience as a college student than the weekend before classes start for the fall semester.
Of course, all the usual holiday weekends, MLK Day, Labor Day, Memorial Day, they get their due at all points in your life. But that weekend before classes start? It's all of the social benefits of college, without the challenges of the classroom to that might get in the way.
For freshmen and transfer students, it's a weekend of making new friends, trying new things and hopefully walking your class schedule so you're not lost on Monday.