<p>i agree with balmes pavlov. Can we just be SERIOUS and add realistic skills that would be needed for college, instead of juggling and getting a haircut?</p>
<p>how to get along/make friends/acquitances with others.</p>
<p>SOCIAL skill is THE most important.</p>
<p>but that's not exactly something you can just "learn" before heading off to college</p>
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this is just ridiculous. what kind of task would require you to juggle in college?
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<p>Girlfriends.</p>
<p>I kid, I kid. Honestly.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>On a more serious note, the ability to prioritize and know what's worth losing sleep over and what's not. A 75% of your grade final project? You'd better not be sleeping for weeks. An optional no extra credit just for fun paper? Well if you have the time...but you should really do the 75% project first.</p>
<p>;)</p>
<p>I read the juggling suggestion as juggling things like work and classes and parties, not juggling flaming swords or something...</p>
<p>See, smart student from Brown University can understand me :) But anyways both juggling balls/sworrds and juggling work/study/parties are important :))</p>
<p>The only think I can think of that is missing is that people should also know how to cure a hangover :)</p>
<p>The whole social thing is something to work on senior year of high school. If you feel you don't spend enough time socializing, thus making you weaker in that department, take a light load and spend as much time with friends as you can in and out of school--and remember to enjoy every minute of it. Definitely make the most of the summer.</p>
<p>Remember, though, that just because you were solid socially throughout high school doesn't mean you'll be a good fit at college. I don't have near the popularity numbers I had at high school, but made some friends at both my old and my new school.</p>
<p>The thing you want to juggle the most is time. Make sure you can and that you can do it well.</p>
<p>some colleges have juggling clubs. i know one of my tour guides mentioned it. i believe it was at yale.</p>
<p>and please people. get a grip. don't get so worked up over a joke, not everything has to be serious.</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Having sex with a girl at a party while your girlfriend sits obliviously in the other room. </p></li>
<li><p>Convincing girls to do threesomes.</p></li>
<li><p>Driving a car with a BAC of 0.20+ and NOT getting pulled over.</p></li>
<li><p>Negogiating with a dealer on the street so that you get your crack rocks at 60% off.</p></li>
<li><p>Negogiating with a crack wh ore on the street so that you can get a BJ for 70% off. </p></li>
<li><p>Smoking weed all day and drinking alcohol all night, only to ace a midterm or submit a top-class research presentation the next day. </p></li>
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<p>There's a few more, but those are the main ones.</p>
<p>totally agree with gracie.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/boost-your-skills/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/boost-your-skills/index.html</a>
<a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/college-success/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/college-success/index.html</a></p>
<p>This covers mostly everything.</p>
<p>"1. Having sex with a girl at a party while your girlfriend sits obliviously in the other room. </p>
<ol>
<li><p>Convincing girls to do threesomes.</p></li>
<li><p>Driving a car with a BAC of 0.20+ and NOT getting pulled over.</p></li>
<li><p>Negogiating with a dealer on the street so that you get your crack rocks at 60% off.</p></li>
<li><p>Negogiating with a crack wh ore on the street so that you can get a BJ for 70% off. </p></li>
<li><p>Smoking weed all day and drinking alcohol all night, only to ace a midterm or submit a top-class research presentation the next day."</p></li>
</ol>
<p>I've got all but one of those down cold. #4 is a tricky one, but I'm still just a freshman.</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Work your alarm clock. Your Mom won't be there to wake you up.</p></li>
<li><p>Memorize "Spring forward, fall back."</p></li>
<li><p>Fix your computer, television, etc.</p></li>
<li><p>Car management, i.e. getting oil changes at the right time, when to replace your tires...</p></li>
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<p>Sorry to the original poster of this thread. This is actually a great thread and I feel pretty bad about brushing it off and treating it trivially a couple days ago when I was playing along with the spoof suggestions of another user. I apologize. Here's a "bump" to get this thread back on the top page.</p>
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<p>Here's a real skill that will help for college:</p>
<p>1. Keep your high school drive. By that I mean, most of CC users worked their butts off in high school to be able to make it to some of the best colleges/unis in the country (and the world in some cases). *KEEP THAT AMBITION GOING FIRST SEMESTER, FRESHMAN YEAR. *</p>
<p>My friends and I started our first semester of college with dreams of 4.0s and dozens of extracurriculars and internships etc. Stuff we could pull off during high school. College is different. Its harder, trust me. We were all gung-ho and cocky entering college, figuring it wouldn't be THAT difficult to do as well in college as in high school, but that was a stupid thing to think. </p>
<p>We were only in class for like seven hours a week, but the homework, jobs and our burgeoning college-social lives all weighed us down. Forget the 4.0s. It became a fight to at least get a B+ average or so. We were too busy partying or dragging ourselves to work study or watching TV or sleeping off our hangovers after the partying to get real work done.</p>
<p>The effect was a continued laziness second semester. This is really "dangerous." My friends, many of whom were perfectionists, figured their GPAs were already ****ed up, so they worked even less hard during second semester than they did the first. They lost incentive and interest. This is a pity.</p>
<p>I can't stress how important doing well and being ambitious that first semester of college is. You want to establish a firm, good foundation GPA-wise and extracurricular-wise. I'm not saying forsake the partying and general lazying about (both rites of the American college experience) but remember your butt-busting days slaving away in high school and continue to use that endurance, ambition and drive in your first semester particularily.</p>
<p>If you do well that first semester you'll have MUCH more incentive to continue to excel semesters afterwards, instead of slowly letting yourself sink as the semesters pass you by.</p>
<p>Here's my best tip:</p>
<p>STAY IN TOUCH WITH FRIENDS AND FACULTY FROM YOUR HIGH SCHOOL. Old contacts who have known you for ages can often come in handy. They're usually great to talk to whenever you're troubled, know you better than most people at your college, and can write letters of recommendation for you if need be. I was just over at my HS watching the play and hanging out with some guys I graduated with. Also saw a ton of underclassmen, many of whom I still talk to. These are people who know me for who I really am and not people who judge you on if you party hard or not like you get at most colleges.</p>