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UConn Professor Pens Open Letter to 'Student Who Didn’t Like His First Year of College'

Regina Barreca gives advice on how students can take advantage of their academic career in a post for The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Not satisfied with your first-year college experience?

Regina Barreca, a professor of English at the , gives students advice on "how to make [the] second year at college better than [the] first" in a recent post on The Chronicle of Higher Education Web site.

"I’m delighted to help you determine what’s best for you at UConn–and UConn has a great deal to offer–but I’m not going to coddle you or let you off the hook," Barreca writes.

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