College, DO's and DON'Ts
DO:
- Use Amazon Prime or another vendor, like Abebooks, to buy your textbooks
- Get enough sleep
- Schedule and plan your time in a logical manner.
- Attend all discussions and review sessions
- Divide up work, especially math problem sets, into even chunks
- Work a steady pace in each class
- Attend office hours when you have questions, not just before a midterm or deadline
- Find a balance and work out a good system for staying on top of things
- Keep up old hobbies. Read a recreational book when you find the time.
DO NOT:
- Spend orientation night playing Megaman X and walk into scheduling session without any backup CRN numbers
- Get the lowest possible meal plan, then wait until after the upgrade deadline to upgrade it
- Buy textbooks from the bookstore without checking prices
- Unplug your fridge to make way for the microwave and forget to plug it back in
- Live a week on ramen and PJs to make up for those meal swipes that you assumed were free
- Cram one or two days before a midterm, even if that shit worked in high school
- Neglect all classes for the sake of one class, then neglect that class for the sake of all other classes
- Spend more time stressing about tests than actually studying for tests
- Wait until after 8PM to finish up a problem set that must be submitted by midnight. Like, seriously. I have a friend who submitted his at 11:59:29. The funny thing is, I don't think any of us would do this in high school.
- Overeat everything under the rationale that everything is amazing and life is short
- Explain to your math professor that you cannot live without calculators
- Spend three days after your midterm doing nothing in a form of celebration
- Try to rely on coffee or energy drinks even though college students can actually get sleep
- Let your bread go stale. Bread goes stale really fast
- Bike really far away at night to some random house and not know how to get back
- Stay up really late and wake up really early for the sake of staying up really late and waking up really early
- Put your clothes into the dryer, then the washer
- Lock yourself out of your room twice on the same day
- Lock your bike to nothing
- Lock your bike to a stranger's bike so that they can't get out
- Try to study for six hours straight, then realize five hours later that you lost concentration and didn't actually study
- Eat almost nothing at breakfast and lunch and an insane amount at dinner
- Buy really cheap food just because it's really cheap
- Spend too much time watching Netflix
- Spend too much time wondering where all your time has gone