College freshman do's and don'ts

<p>Learn how to manage your time. Seriously. Before you know it, it’ll be finals time and that Easy A gen ed or intro course will have been put on the back burner the whole 15 weeks and you’ll have to cram for that final while juggling three/four other courses. </p>

<p>Keep an open mind. You’ll most likely be meeting people with vastly different backgrounds than yours; with different upbringings and different point of views who you may or may not be comfortable around/agree with/get along with everyone, etc. Keep on open mind and get outside your comfort zone. You will meet tons of people that will {hopefully} amaze you. </p>

<p>If you’re in trouble or feel depressed or suicidal, PLEASE GET HELP. Learn how to get help and not keep quiet about your struggles. I speak from personal experience. It gets better, as cliche and lame as that sounds. I’m living proof.</p>

<p>Seriously just wear what you want.</p>

<p>My wardrobe consists of mostly high school t-shirts. I counted once and it numbered 40-50 t-shirts. I went to my school for eleven years, so I have eleven field day t-shirts, numerous band t-shirts, numerous cheerleading t-shirts, and then some other random t-shirts from my high school for clubs and stuff.</p>

<p>I have better things to spend my money on. I don’t see why I should waste all of the clothing I already have because some people think it’s “weird” I still wear high school shirts.</p>

<p>I also wear my class ring and actually have a few friends who also do. Mine was actually a conversation starter with one girl, because we had similar rings. (Ours were both just gold bands with flat black tops which is uncommon and “unique” to certain schools.) It really isn’t uncommon to see people with high school stuff on.</p>

<p>but but AUGirl everyone on CC says you can’t wear high school tshirts you just can’t if you do wear them everybody will tease you and say “haha look it’s the girl who wears high school tshirts” and then they’ll dunk your head in the toilets because college is actually middle school reloaded!!!</p>

<p>Don’t obsessed over stupid things. Your wardrobe is fine. Your cell phone, though it may not be an iPhone, is fine.
Go to class (text. Facebook if you want, it’s your money and time wasted).
Don’t be that ****** that feels it necessary to share with the world how “wasted [you] got last night” or who you boned. Chances are, very few people care.</p>

<p>I’ll add a do: DO get a job and a credit card right away. 4 years of work and credit history will be a major boost when you graduate.</p>

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<p>This one is a good one. I’ve got a credit score of 795 as a college senior doing this. ;)</p>

<p>Just a due warning to any prospective first time credit card hunters… only spend what you can afford. Just because there’s a tiny “minimum balance due” each month during the intro months doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to go swipe crazy.</p>