By now we are all used to the whole "spend a succession of years in a category" thing. Three years in middle school, four in high school, 12 years as a child, eight as a teenager, six years in an insane asylum, etc. So four years in college seems like the next natural step - except it's not four years.
You need to start thinking about college as eight semesters. This is a key distinction because each semester is independent of the others. This isn't like high school where you sign up for classes four times and your classes are a year long and it's all divided up into four neat little segments. Granted, you will apply for housing four times, and the freshman through senior system works for four years, but pretty much everything else should be considered in terms of semesters.
There are a significant number of greater implications with the whole eight semesters thing, but I am currently eating a banana and it is hard to hold it and type and chew all at the same time so you are just going to have to wait a few posts to find out what they are. You might possible be waiting forever because this post was boring anyway so chances of me revisiting it are slim. Bananas ho!
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