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Caleb:
Don't spread yourself thin by taking too many classes and extra-curricular stuff at the same time.

I tried to be on the swim team, be the executive producer of the Student TV station and carry a part time job all at the same time.  It was too much.

Don't live with other people in a big house unless you REALLY know them.  Just hanging out with them is not a good indicator of what they will be like as house mates.

If your first major doesn't work out don't sweat it.  I started out a Bio Major, changed it to liberal arts, changed it to History and then finally added a communication major and ended up with with a dual Major in History/Broadcast Media.  I still managed to finish it all up in only four years.  (a huge mistake not taking my time though)  So it's not the end of the world.

Don't sign up to be a tour guide for the college.  I tried that once.  It didn't work out...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xk_qdUs7EA

blaha 41:
Probably not the "right" place to say this, but join a frat/final club/eating club/etc if you can at all stomach it. The post-college life is basically modeled after this lifestyle, and it gives you a group of contacts post-college and a bonding group during college.

The get good grades/party/goal-oriented socializing routine really works  well at getting you read for 9-5 life.

Yes, they're filled with douchebags, but douchebags make up the majority of life so you might as well get some advantages from it.

oh, and take as many competitive internships as you can... the point of college is to get a better start to working life than you would have had otherwise.

Plasticity:
Do not join a Fraternity unless you are excited about a culture that glorifies poor treatment of women, and occasionally sexual violence. I am not saying that all members of fraternities do this, but it is part of their party culture, and their power hierarchy.

onewheelwizzard:
Join a social group that has an external reason to exist, optimally a reason that you're deeply interested in.

Make friends with your professors.

If there's anything you want to do but don't want to get in trouble for, do it in college, you'll never have a legal safety net like that again.

Drinking a ton will probably not make college into something great.  Get it out of the way early if you have to.

I joined a frat and it was probably the best decision I made all freshman year, but my frat's a bit different from what you're likely to encounter so that's really not something I'd recommend to anyone who isn't a student at UPenn (or Drexel, or Temple, or UArts ... we don't really care what school you go to.  Or what gender you are.  Or if you're a student at all, in extreme cases.)

Nodaisho:
Times have changed a bit, but my grandfather has told me to join a fraternity, he says that some of his best friends to this day (over 60 years) are people in his former fraternity. I would surmise it depends on the people somewhat.

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