Campus Life

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Outdoor Orientation Experience Eases Transition to College for Honors Students

For a group of incoming UNH honors students, their first days of college won’t be remembered for a feeling of homesickness or anxiety around fitting in but rather for dodging poison ivy while playing capture the flag, attempting to decode unknown animal noises in the middle of the night and... Read More

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