More advice from other people in my program...

Here's some more advice from another person in my program:

Plan a happy hour and a lot of social functions. There's a place called Hang Over Easy across the street from the college of nursing we go to a lot. (Get one of their buy-12-meals, get-one-free cards.) Also, one of the people in our class had a Halloween party that a lot of people went to. That really got everyone together.

My advice is to just talk to as many people as you can and always ask people if they want to study. If you have someone else around, you can shoot them questions about the topics you're studying and it also keeps you on task.

Finally, become friends with the computer people both in Newton Hall and in Pryor Library.