<p>Anything you'd recommend doing before college? Obviously I am going to enjoy my last part of senior year and summer like crazy and have fun like none other, but anything else that you would recommend?</p>
<p>Go on a few road trips. Have plenty of bonfires and BBQs with your homies. Build up your alcohol tolerance.</p>
<p>Did you visit your college yet? I would do that</p>
<p>Great thread idea.</p>
<p>My summer is going to be 3 months long this year (as compared to 2 usually), so I will have plenty of time. I want to go camping a lot, beach, shows (music), and all that summer stuff. I can’t wait…</p>
<p>Make sure come back alive and don’t go overboard on the “fun” department. Life has just started…</p>
<p>Get a summer job and save up some money. Trust me, there will be days that you will wish you had if you don’t.</p>
<p>Spend a lot of time just hanging out with friends and making good memories.</p>
<p>If you have time visit your college and get to know the surrounding area.</p>
<p>I second saving up some money. My roommate was a freshman last year and she blew through her 2k savings within a couple of months. It’s easy to do if you’re not careful-- but you do want to have enough change in your pocket to have a little fun without worrying about scrimping and saving. </p>
<p>I went on a road trip with my best childhood friend, and that was definitely something I’ll remember forever.</p>
<p>If you’re leaving your area, explore it before you leave it. Go to little art museums, etc that you’ve never been to with your friends. Have bonfires & camping trips.<br>
It’s kind of your last summer of freedom. Once you get into college, you’re expected to have a job, internship, or summer classes.</p>
<p>I took two summer classes at the local community college just for fun before my freshman year started. If you choose classes that are related to the classes that you will take in the fall, then that’ll make it easier. For example, I took Biological Anthropology in the Summer and Evolutionary Biology in the fall. That class was a breeze. I didn’t have to do any reading for it because it covered a lot of the same concepts.</p>
<p>I also highly recommend you decide on your major as early as possible, and put a lot of research into it so that you’ll be less likely to change your mind later. That’ll save you a lot of time and money. I personally found the Focus Assessment very helpful. After I noticed a pattern among the careers that it recommended for me, that led me to decide on my major, and I’m very happy with it so far.</p>
<p>Get laid (if you haven’t already). Freshman year=primetime booty time.</p>
<p>Eurotrip!!</p>
<p>Drink so much it becomes boring</p>
<p>I have a friend who deferred her admission and spent her first semester in Mexico. Seemed like a good idea.</p>
<p>Enjoy the last summer you’ll have with ALL your friends.
Later on, a few will move on to do internships, or stay at college over the summer, or go on long vacations, and you’ll never get the whole gang back again.</p>
<p>I’m getting a nose job and going on a road trip with my boyfriend. LOL.</p>
<p>Im going backpacking like every weekend with my buds.
And getting s**tfaced if im not backpacking.</p>
<p>Start taking birth control (if female). …You never know.</p>
<p>Spend some time learning your way around every corner of the campus and around the town. Learn bus routes, etc.</p>
<p>If taking a language, refresh your memory of it.</p>
<p>Get your laptop in order before you start school and learn the software.</p>
<p>Research the best profs (such as on ratemyprofessors . com)</p>
<p>Coordinate with your roommate over who will bring what (so you don’t end up with 2 fridges, etc).</p>
<p>Buy extra long sheets for the bed.</p>
<p>Besides what I said in my first post: Buy yourself a nice suit. There are many events where you’ll need one.</p>
<p>Also, I feel the need to stress again that you should save up some money anyway you can. </p>
<p>And like others have said spend as MUCH time with your friends as possible. You’ll see them all again, but after this you won’t be able to get the entire gang together as easily. I’m nearing the end of my freshman year and out of say 2 groups of friends only 1 group has managed to get everyone together AND that was an accident. The other group some of the people go to school in other states and some are busy with work.</p>
<p>Its probably a little late to get a job now, but if you can get one or already have one, definitely make as much money as you can. Unless your parents will continue to pay for everything you want into college, then you should be set anyway ;). </p>
<p>But on top of that, you also absolutely have to spend as much time with your friends and do as much stuff as you can. Even if it means getting 5 hours of sleep a night, go out every night and do something or hang out with someone. Even the people who aren’t your closest friends, because this will probably be your last chance to ever see some of those people, period.</p>