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Jimmy the Squid:
Learn to clean the bathroom more than once in two years. I have just done this and my eyes sting from bleach fumes and my back hurts.

Fuck cooking two things, learn to cook stuff that is easy, nice and not terrible for you and learn as many new things as possible, cooking is awesome fun.

Also to add to Fatty's advice, learn to accept that some people will be your friends simply because you are there. When you stop having classes with them don't be surprised if they fall out of your life completely. You don't need to be friends with everyone you ever meet.

Sox:
Buy a communal toothbrush for cleaning the grout between the tiles in the bathroom. You can get away with doing it once a week.
Rice, potatos, frozen vegetables and condiments can go a LONG way. Remember this.
In your first week, don't try too hard to get noticed. Nobody likes an attention grabber. Conversely, for your first week or two, dress nicely, but casually. First impressions are lasting ones. At the very least, you want your first impression on people to be that you know how to dress yourself. Try getting a nice haircut a week or two in advance.
Classes are VERY important, as is striking up a familiarity with your tutors. You're better off if your teachers like you. If they don't know who you are, it could bite you on the ass one day. Show up after class one day with an intelligent question and maybe an interesting hat or piece of jewellery. If they ask about it, even better, because then you can tell them an interesting story about how you acquired it and they're sure to remember the student who inherited a fedora from an illegal immigrant who was shot crossing the border. This technique also works well for job interviews. It'll make you stand  out from the crowd, which is something you desire when it comes to authority figures.

Finally, the best and most important advice...
Budget. Sounds obvious, but so few people do it. Write a plan, plot allowances, stick to them. Time is money, so having a time table on a noticeboard might be a good idea. College is where you learn to stop procrastinating. When something shows up, get it out of the way as fast as possible. Put it on your time table at the earliest date you can. Get it out of the way. Time is the only thing you have, and you need to start acting like free time it the most important thing in the world. Work on having as much free time as you can in case anything else ever shows up.

0bsessions:
Do not overextend yourself.

Figure out your means and what you are able to do without overloading your brain, body and emotions.

My first semester at college, I worked a thirty-five hour job that was forty minutes away while dating a girl who lived over and hour away. This led to a really swift collapse in my overall social life and my ability to function properly in ANY of the multiple things I was trying to do at once (Which snowballed into me having to drop out after about a year). I wasn't a partier, I can't imagine how fucked up I'd have been if I was on top of everything else. Don't do that, Adam.

Budgeting is important as mentioned. Get used to living cheap, because you're a lot better off having very little to your name than overexerting yourself by working too much. It's not just money you need to budget, but time. Obviously, classes should come first in everything. If you've got a job that starts interfering with it, quit. If you run with a crowd who start interfering with it, ditch them. The only thing you'll be doing in college that will likely stick with you past graduation is getting that degree. Everything else is expendable and you can get new ones after you're done.

KickThatBathProf:
Chug it

ampersandwitch:

--- Quote from: Sam on 19 Jun 2008, 06:05 ---party with your professors

--- End quote ---

I know you were being ironic, Sam, but this one actually isn't a bad idea.

Oh wait yes it is.

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