First-year students arrive with a wonderful feeling of freedom the moment they step onto their new campus. Most students are away from parents for the first time and without the supervision they lived under their entire lives. They are detached from old friends, teachers, coaches, and other important adults and peers. Though this can often bring regret, it more often results in a new sense of autonomy and discovery. First-year students often feel that listening to an adviser or having to put up with an adviser's point of view is, at best, a waste of time and, at worst, a threat to this new freedom.
Advisers are there to suggest and provoke a higher level of thinking about academic choices.
Taking their suggestions seriously will in no way affect a student's freedom. In other words, by someone who is as new as they are. This is silly. Discussing academic choices with an experienced adviser fosters clear thinking about selecting a group of courses from the bewildering array of choices that most college and university course catalogs offer new students. When students have problems or questions, urge them to seek the right kind of help.