The plight of the freshman male. A full two semesters guaranteed. Now, back to that gender-exclusive point. Our forefathers labeled us freshmen because they understood that male freshmen have it worse than female freshmen. As it is, the word freshman doesn't mean the same thing for a girl as it does a guy.
Freshman is a negative label for a male and a positive label for a female.
That is why the word freshman includes man in it - it is specifically telling us men that we are worthless. So while a female might be a freshman, the word just doesn't hit home for them like it does for me. To allow printing, and to eliminate nasty editing of this article, I won't go into the unsatisfactory remedies of being a single male freshman. Instead, I will wallow in the quagmire of single life and somehow try to be happy and positively think that by being a freshman, I have at least been labeled a man. That in itself should have some sort of consolation.