Thinking about my first job, and how I constantly needed to lean on my coworkers for help for the first month or two. In a work from home setting, where I'd need to instant message them, constantly requesting a video chat or whatever, I'd definitely feel like a burden (compared to just walking over to their desk and starting a conversation). This feeling of being a burden doesn't make a whole lot of sense logically... but human psychology does what it does.

Depends on the freshmen, some of us were coding on open source projects of sorts fully remote long before we decided to study CS in college.

Well maybe they are better off not knowing. Or that they see it as the new normal. Could go either way.