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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- It's moving day for students at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

More than 500 students spent the day carrying boxes and getting comfy in their dormitory digs.

"We needed a TV, a mini-fridge, a microwave and everything, it's just really complicated," Taylor Moore, a UCCS freshman, said.

While the first priority is getting settled in, the education these students will receive is supposed to give them a fresh start.

But is our slow economy getting college students to rethink their majors and their four-year plan?

"I'm facing a job market heavily saturated with people with bachelors degrees, which is all I'm going to have," Catherine Rautenkratz, a UCCS senior, said

Rautenkratz is one of the more than 2,000 graduate students who will enroll at UCCS. She's going to give the market more time to recover.

According to the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment Colorado's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for December 2010 is 8.8 percent.

The number of working Coloradans fell by 2,000 over the month.

While some students think timing is the key to job security, sometimes finding a job comes down to connections.

"I've been doing little jobs, and they said they might pay for my school if i do business, so I could work there," Brandon Vongphackdy, a UCCS freshman, said.

UCCS has been the fastest growing campus in Colorado over the past 10 years. This year's freshman class is expected to be more than 1,100 students.