<p>Something reminded me of LatetoSchool this morning in church.</p>
<p>Yup, she’s certainly not resting, she’s doing the Red Shoe Rock!</p>
<p>This is my new favorite thread. Thanks to those who found it and brought it back to life!</p>
<p>Don’t limit yourself to thinking there are only X-number of schools where you could be happy and successful.</p>
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Posted [url=<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/11703794-post27.html]here[/url”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/11703794-post27.html]here[/url</a>].</p>
<p>** The sooner you get behind, the more time there is to catch up **</p>
<p>From the MIT Freshman Handbook circa 1980.</p>
<p>Always wear clean underwear.</p>
<p>There are great colleges of all sizes and descriptions because it isn’t so much the teachers or buildings or connections that make a college great it is you. I’m not saying all teachers are equal. They aren’t. But if a student is tuely motivated he/she can get a lot out of college. You need not choose as a college as if it is a life and death situation. It isn’t. I can name two dozen schools off the top of my head that I would love to send my sons too and I wouldn’t lose a minute of sleep over it either way.</p>
<p>Observe the masses…do the opposite</p>
<p>Read the syllabus.</p>
<p>college version of “RTFM” in office cubicle life.</p>
<p>Bloom where you’re planted.</p>
<p>“Love the one you’re with.” Finnean’s Rainbow, similar to “Love the kid on the coach” and “Bloom where you’re planted.” Unconditional love is such a blessing to the giver and recipient.</p>
<p>I personally like “If your all friends hate your significant other, consider getting a new significant other, not all new friends.”</p>
<p>Even for outgoing kids who have worked hard to find the right “fit” in a school, that first semester of freshman year can bring loneliness, awkwardness, false starts and homesickness. Realize that it can take a while to make a place your home.</p>
<p>okay, sorry, how do we make things bold without seeing the code?</p>
<p>**Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it<a href=“again%20and%20again%20and%20again”>/B</a>.</p>
<p>In the long run, we are all dead</p>
<p>– JM Keynes</p>
<p>…by breaking up with your girl/boyfriend now, before you leave for college.</p>
<p>Wow.</p>
<p>Don’t mind me. I’d forgotten that I’d started this thread…in 2005.</p>
<p>I like #204.</p>
<p>I like #204 also 
very applicable to my life.</p>
<p>Apply to at least one rolling admit school and be accepted before your senior year begins.</p>
<p>Thanks to CC and all the longtime posters (you know who you are) for this wisdom. It has made for a much more relaxing Sr year. S still applied to several other schools but he will attend this school because it is such a great fit and offers great merit.</p>
<p>God said it I believe it that settles it.</p>