Welcome to Northwestern State University of Louisiana. If you are reading this you most likely have chosen NSU as your home for the next four years, two years or even just as a semester.

Entering college might feel exciting or scary for you. Moving hours or even countries away from your home is not an easy journey to embark on. Even moving one hour away and feeling pulled between your home and your new home can be hard, but now is your chance to flourish into the person you want to be.

Think of college as a way to start fresh. Not new, because you never can really start new, but fresh. A fresh new page for you to find a piece about yourself that you didn’t know existed. This edition was written as a guide for new students. The Current Sauce wrote this edition to introduce what DB and refund checks are, how to read your schedule and introduce you to some of your potential professors. This edition is for you, and we hope your fears may lessen with our words.

I came to college in the Fall of 2021. Scared of leaving my life away from a small town. When I arrived on campus I was able to meet so many people. I met people from different countries than the one I was born in and even got to connect with people whom I share the same birth country with. For a while, I didn’t know how to introduce myself. My small town knew my life story but all these new people did not.

College was really hard at the beginning. The halls of John S. Kyser Hall felt long and endless. The classrooms were the same as high school classrooms, but the professors were more passionate about the lectures. I sat alone at the Dining Hall. I was scared to get out of my shell, but once I did I was able to become someone I never thought I could be.

This is your chance to make memories. Your chance to explore what organizations can help you become the person you want to be. Entering college doesn’t have to be a scary thing, and we’re here to help. Not just The Current Sauce, but professors, staff and administrators.

I never thought I would find my family here. I never thought that I would be able to speak Spanish here or even write this in Spanish. Now, I have the pleasure to meet all of you and continue to write and lead The Current Sauce another year.

I hope you’re nervous or excited. I hope you’re unsure or assertive in the major you choose. All of these things add to the college experience, and if you’re too scared to go to the event by yourself, just do it; you never know who you’ll meet.

Welcome to Northwestern State University of Louisiana. I can’t wait to write your story.