First Year Resources
The First Year Experience program takes a holistic approach to supporting students throughout the first year at Queens College. You can read more about our freshman-only courses here, our experiential workshops here, our peer mentorship program here, and our brand-new series FYE Talks with Faculty here.
We’re also building an online archive of resources for first-year students. In 2020-2021, we created a series of mentor videos that show how to solve common first-year questions and offered some asynchronous mentoring advice on topics like choosing your major. Let us know if there’s a topic you’d like to see covered by emailing us at fye@qc.cuny.edu.
We’re proud to unveil our new First Year Simulator Game, a project built with FYE’s Recovery Corps interns over the Summer of 2021. This is a text-based choose-your-own-adventure game that allows you to play through first-year scenarios and solve problems before they occur in real life.
Our First-Year Narrative series, in which upper-level students wrote the stories of their struggles and triumphs during their first year at QC, is coming soon. It’s good to know you’re not alone in your experiences, and it’s even better to know how others grew from them.