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Originally Posted by Stargirl  In the spirit of Steve's entry "10 Tips for College Students", what would college students/graduates advise us incoming freshman/future college students?
Some general areas for advise
1) choosing classes and major
2) dorm life
3) time management
4) how to get to know the profs
5) getting a job?
6) realizations after graduating
7) tips for getting good recs, getting into grad school, getting a good job
Any advise would be appreciated  . |
1) Take what you're interested in and could potentially make you some money or give you a helpful skill. Try to explore avenues that you think you could do really well in and love at the same time.
2) LIVE IN A DORM, its a life changing experience for some, a long party for others, and hell for the purely academically inclined who hate fun.
3) do time management.
4) Go up and say Hi, ask about office hours and what kind of questions they'd be willing to help you with. Usually they're amazed at your initiative and happy to help you along.
5) Only if you think you can handle it. Money is great, and necessary for dorm fun sometimes. Clothes don't wash themselves, it takes a few quarters to make them do that...
6&7) I'm so far from graduation its depressing.
My piece of advice is find your Balance. Some students party all week and avoid studying at all costs. However the failure and dropout rate with these guys are really high. There are very few people who can party all the time and still pull A's on their finals. I knew a couple guys who did this. They got drunk every other night, went out to all the clubs and never seemed to study. Although they did great on their own, their friends who followed them ended up failing miserably and dropping out. Those two guys are still getting wasted and I hate them for it
Other students avoid all kinds of indulgence and just study all the time. Their GPA is stellar, but they've lost out on the college experience and have little real world abilities and can't land jobs.
Find your own place in the middle and have fun.