The most common thing that all the first years have is writing their assignment the night before it is due. And this is sometimes not good because you don’t have enough time to go through all your readings and at the end of the day you end up submitting something that is not finished and that will results in having low marks, I am writing this because I myself do it and have noticed that I am not alone, majority of us first years do it. We have the tendency of relaxing and during the last minutes that is when we rush to the labs to go find information and we end up with the wrong information and were just write for the sake of submitting in time, we most of the times again rely on the information that we get on the net.

The other common thing that first years have is the consumption alcohol, first years love alcohol, they drink it as in like there is no tomorrow, some of the first years came to Rhodes not drinking alcohol and when they got here they started adapting to the lifestyle of the Rhodiants. But not all the students did that, some are still they way they where before they came to Rhodes, and the other thing is clubbing, that is the most common thing they all have , Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays are the days to go out, and normally when they went out on Wednesday they do not attend lectures they following day, Friday is worse because not many people go to lectures because they are in the mood for Friday, partying is all in their heads and they wont concentrate during lectures, so they find it unnecessary to go to lectures and chill at the kaif instead.

The kaif is also the most tempting place to be at, most first years like sitting there, especially on Fridays and not attend lectures. Adapting to Rhodes lifestyle was quite easy for most students, going to lectures with your clothes wrinkled, walking out of lectures during the middle of a lecture and all that.

Rhodes is renowned for its wild partying scene and drunken behavior, many people told me that I am going to become an alcoholic when I come to Rhodes, even though this is something that most first years turn to, I do not think that all the students are alcoholic. The percentage of alcohol is too high not meaning that all the students drink. Rhodes have small percentage of students, there are not many students in this campus, so those who drink alcohol drink sit at a very high percentage and that makes Rhodes to have the reputation of alcoholism.
But I still stand with the fact that majority of first years have turned into alcoholics ever since they came to this school, there are some of the students that I know that are now drinking and they never used to drink before they came to Rhodes.