Moving into college!

[Bayou_Brawler]

study hard party hard.

there is noting wrong with going out and partying 15 hours a week if you are in the library studying 20 hours a week.

remember you are there for an education...someone is paying a lot of money and worked very hard to get you there...even if it is you. so take care of business then get your freak on hardcore.

try and eat healthy.

find a band.

make friends with your professors....or at least go to their offices once a week to ask questions..even if you know the answers....if they know your name and know you are working hard.....it can make a difference between an A and a B.

 

[bluestarbass]

Ive heard this said before but it bears repeating. If you treat college like a job you will pass with a 4.0 in damage. Wake up at 8 and finish at 5. Go to all your classes and in between study and do work. Youll never have work to do outside of those times if you really stick to that.

Did I do that in college, hell no. Do I wish I did? I definately stressed myself out late nights trying to write papers and finish assignments. I spent alot of weekends before finals that people were partying in my room studying. I passed and did pretty well but I definately put undue stress on myself.

College is a blast. I did go to pretty much every one of my classes, took good notes, and studied. This actually let me avoid buying most of my books which saved me thousands of dollars.

 

[tycobb73]

This isn't necessarily true. IMO, it's different for every professor. Sure, you'll run into people like this, but in my sophomore year, I had a history professor that lectured so far off the path of the required reading she actually had us take our books back to the bookstore.

If my instructors weren't going to follow the book, they had printouts of the lecture for you. They really wanted you paying attention to the material and trying to absorb it, not wasting your time writing as fast as you can and not getting anything out of the lecture.

 

[mjolnir]

If my instructors weren't going to follow the book, they had printouts of the lecture for you. They really wanted you paying attention to the material and trying to absorb it, not wasting your time writing as fast as you can and not getting anything out of the lecture.

...Good Lord, which school did you go to?...

Just about all of my professors (except the math ones) left the note taking entirely up to us...

You were one very lucky student, my friend.

 

[tycobb73]

That was at Michigan Tech, so yeah, big long calculus equations everywhere. I remember one time a techer didn't do this, filled up a board with calculus, said, this isn't right, and erased it all. I guess the other professors learned the lesson earlier.

 

[mjolnir]

Now I KNOW it was a mistake to go to Sam...