The First-Year Experience Program
The First-Year Experience Program provides opportunities for you to better get to know Smith and yourself through events and happenings. We ease the transition to college life by helping you find the support you need to adjust to life at Smith and to make connections with classmates, faculty and staff. Events also help you foster friendships with students from other houses and throughout the Five College community. We aim to make your first year enriching and fun, promoting your overall success at Smith.
First-Year Experience Program Schedule
The First-Year Experience program for Fall 2023 runs from September 7 to October 12, 2023. The schedule for this program will be available here by September 1, 2023.
Start Your Smith Story
About a First-Year
“About a First-Year” follows Aditi, Adrianna and Gwen, Smith students from the class of 2019, as they navigate their first year of college life—living away from home, making new friends and juggling hectic schedules and rigorous academics. From their first days on campus in September 2015 to May 2016, the end of the academic year, they learn to find their way, make Smith their own and grow in amazing and unexpected ways.
