<p>1) No overloading.
2) Plan a schedule beforehand.
3) Take summer courses.
4) Find a balance between social life and school, no weekends of nothing but studying.
5) Talk to the person sitting next to me in class. This could lead to a new study buddy or possibly a new friend.
6) Do not diss sleep.
7) Be open to be people.
8) Don’t isolate myself. Sure, people can be crappy but not having social interaction sucks.
9) Take classes I like. I just realized how much easier my senior year is because I’m taking classes that I enjoy.
10) Do homework or assignments on time. Don’t save until the last minute.
11) Party. Everyone says college is the best time of your life, so you best believe I’m gonna enjoy it.
12) Accept my inner nerd in all its screaming fangirl glory
13) Don’t care if people judge me for being a screaming fangirl
14) Find other nerds to be nerdy with instead of finding a group of popular friends that I’m not happy with
15) Set goals early, and push myself so that I achieve them
16) Actually attempt to dress well everyday
17) Get drunk at a party and get burned
18)Buy my books wayy early so I don’t have to wait in those horrendous lines.
19) Learn to count and number things correctly
20) Learn to edit my posts when #19 goes wrong
21) Continue to be outgoing (I’ve been outgoing this year but not years before)
22) Join Clubs
23) Go to a movie Premier
24) Go clubbing until 4 am
25) Take a road trip (long road trip)
26) Start really prioritizing school. Put it first instead of ECs.
27) Say something in the first 15 minutes of every class. Otherwise I just end up shut out of the discussion.
28) Stop procrastinating. For real this time.
29) Stop turning down great guys because I’m too scared of relationships.
30) Brave economics.
31) Confess to my mom all the stupid rules I’ve broken over the years.
32) Stop caring about what people think about you
33) Be yourself more
34) I will get into the habit of regularly reading for fun again
35) Don’t skip class.
36) Party hardcore, unless there is an exam next morning.
37) Stop being obsessive over random posts on the internet
38) Sketch e’ry day
38) Be a more spontaneous person
39) No hookups with strange rando’s
40) Get in regular exercise
41) Cook at least one meal a week instead of eating in dining hall
42) Graduate
43) Don’t get pregnant
44) Stop complaining.
45) Embrace the joys of life.
46) Have fun.
47) Be more optimistic.
48) Have an organized room.
49) Stop comparing yourself to other people.
50) Stop going on College Confidential (unless you find it in yourself to come back and help nice children with their high school struggles.)
51) Spend your vacations with your parents because you’re not going to see them as much.
52) Go outside and meet new places, people, etc.
53) Learn how to love myself.
54) Find someone else to love for the hell of it.
55) Do things you want to do. Things for yourself and not for college.
56) Find a group of people who share the same values as you.
57) Go on an adventure. And get lost. And make it out okay.
58) Do something memorable.
59) Never regret.
60) Pursuit your dreams early.
61) Study harder
62) Branch out and meet more people
63) Discover new interests
64. Be intellectually fearless and take as many different subjects as you can.
65) There are jerks everywhere. Come at me, and I’ll show them what the real world is really like.
66) Learn to copy and paste previous posts so others don’t have to do it for you
67) If someone doesn’t, do it for them because it isn’t that much of a pain.
68) Don’t take a “practical” foreign language if you don’t think you’ll enjoy it and you don’t know you’ll need it. Uzbek or Wolof, if your college offers it, may be a lot more rewarding than Spanish or Mandarin.
69) The fact that your parents aren’t monitoring your grades (probably) doesn’t mean you should neglect them.
70) Don’t drink if you don’t really want to. No one can or should force you to.
71) Go to at least one football game
72) Pull at least one all-nighter… two nights in a row
73) Hallucinate because of all-nighters
74) Actually go to classes.
75) Learn what you really enjoy, not what graduate admissions looks for or what pays the most.
76) Street racing at 3AM when the highways are clear, after studying of course.
77) Go to bed and wake-up at the same time each day, as much as possible. (Seriously, you can get by on less sleep and still feel good as long as you’re regular.)
78) Run every morning.
79) Keep audio books on an mp3 to listen to on walks between class or while waiting for buses.
80) Don’t let #79 get in the way of starting up a conversation with a stranger.
81) Go to Disneyland with all my college buddies
82) Get a job at Disneyland over the summer (College Program anyone?)
83) Fall in love.
84) Realize that the degree of friendship is not always equally balanced for two people.
85) Get a filter for my mouth
86) Understand that language does not always have to be a barrier
87) Take risks by interacting with attractive people on a regular basis
88) Teach my younger siblings what I’ve learned so far in life
89) Learn that our elders are treasure troves of experience
90) Realize that people change…sometimes for the better.
91) Take care of my body because it’s the only thing that is truly mine
92) Perform a daily Random Act of Kindness
93) Notice those whose smiles turn a plain face into something dazzling
94) Erase the grudges which were started in high school.
95) Stop crying because I’m convinced I will never fall in love.
96) Upload more Youtube videos without worrying that colleges will hunt me down and shun me.
97) Learn that moderation is the key to everything
98) Do for the sake of dreaming. Dream for the sake of doing
99) Steady the shaking hand of someone who cannot voice his fears.
100) Have my first kiss.
101) Try not to be self-absorbed. Listen to others. Just watch Girls-HBO and do just the opposite.
102) Remember that beautiful is not always the stick skinny model figures seen in magazines and stop hating on yourself or others because you/they aren’t like that.
103) Befriend the people sitting quietly by themselves, because they might just turn out to be the most interesting people.
104) Even if you have the option not to, live in the dorms for at least one year, because it’s an experience every student should have.
105) Although you will make new friends in college, don’t drop the old ones. Keep in touch with your high school buddies.
106) No partying with alcohol or drugs.
107) Swim up the Mississippi River; hopefully you won’t drown.
108) Stop being lazy! … tomorrow, after procrastination.
109) Devote myself passionately to EVERYTHING I do. If I’m not passionate, it’s not worth it.
110) Don’t let the “Freshman 15” get to me, and hope that if it does a) it’s in muscle mass and b) be damn proud of my body no matter what.
111) Prevent the ills of #111 by making meals for myself at least three meals a week.
112) If my roommate speaks another language, LEARN IT and speak with them.
113) Take courses I’m interested in.
114) Graduate in the amount of time I want to.
115) Sing bravely and proudly, both literally and metaphorically, and always.
116) Study/ volunteer abroad.
117) Climb a freakin’ mountain.
118) Keep procrastination to a minimum <em>cough Reddit cough cough</em>
119) Teach myself another musical instrument.
120) GET LAID
121) Learn Parkour</p>
<p>122) Be responsible. Have fun and enjoy yourself, but drink and act responsibly. You want to be one of the kids that makes it to graduation.</p>
<p>123) Don’t spend all my time in the library studying (even though I’m capable of that).
124) Make one lifelong friend.
125) Join an extracurricular activity that I’ve never tried before.
126) Basically, live those four college years to the fullest. They only come once!</p>