The List of "better" Social Tips (ideas) for college.

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<p>A more reasonable list of "tips" that is directed more towards a universal audience of college freshman:</p>

<p>-Make friends in EVERY class. One good friend in each class is fine, but strive to make more. </p>

<p>-Have study groups before important exams that deserve alot of attention and studying. Instead of drinking alchohol, offer energy drinks. If you're a purist, go for clean, spring water. don't bring stupid and trouble-making people for your studygroup. If you do, you would probably end up talking about chicks and drugs the whole time instead of tomorrow's honors chem 125 exam (haha, exagerated alittle there... probably chicks, but not really drugs, unless ur stupid enough to ask a druggie to come to your studygroup)
Study groups are a great way to meet and get to know people while achieving the goal for everybody in college... to LEARN.</p>

<p>-Please! Go to atleast one party a year. Parties are a good way to meet girls and interesting people you never knew existed. If you're good at picking up hot chix, you might have late nights every now and then ;). Also, drink alchohol at these parties, but not too much that you get drunk. enough so people know that you aren't a pussy. (unless it really goes against ur religion or values). I reccomend hard lemonade because it doesn't contain alot of alchohol (only like 5%), it tastes good, and hmmmmmmm</p>

<p>-Between classes, when you have breaks (like for me, i have a 3 hour break between honors chem 145 and calc 125), socialize as much as possible. But only if you don't have work to do. Also, if you're hungry, then try to get some friends to go eat with you at the nearest cafe.</p>

<p>-try to get a girlfriend.</p>

<p>-Try to control your diet. It is infamous for freshmans to gain an average of 15 pounds during the sku year. especially if you live in a dorm. Always try to work out between studying times, and eat healthy food as much as possible (not too many instant ramen noodles). Not alot of girls like guys who look like chubby out of shape slobs. And also, if you get out of shape, studying will get harder and more tiring.</p>

<p>-Pay attentioin to your hygiene. OK, so you might forget to brush your teeth one night because you fell asleep studying for the next day's exam, but try to keep clean. Take showers everyday, use soap and scrub down, use a moisturizing shampoo, shave (for guys, unless you want to grow some turf on your face), deodorant, keep hair tidy, blah blah blah. Brush your teeth and floss atleast 2 times a day. Mouthwash before meeting new people or a date (unless you have mints at hand, or you truly are confident your breath doesn't smell after those instant ramen noodles you just had ;) ). People like other people who keep clean, smell nice, and look good.</p>

<p>-Learn to introduce yourself. It sounds wierd, but alot of people have "approach anxiety", which means they don't liek the idea of greeting or introducing themselves to new people becuase of the fact that they don't feel confident that what they are doing isn't the "right" thing to do. For introducing yourself to the opposite sex (especially if it's for dating/picking up/sexual purposes), then you really need to practice. You can't just say "Hi, my name is joe. what's your name?". ha, how boring are you?!</p>

<p>-Know that at some times, your social life IS more important than your academic life. especially if your friend is in need of your help, or if a super hot chick just asked if you wanted to make out for the rest of the day.... haha :) Who knows what making out can lead to.... :) =)</p>

<p>-Always have your cell phone at hand. You'll never know when your friend might call you so you can meet at "George's Cafe", or the girl you just met the other day wanted to see you during your break privately somewhere in a secluded place.</p>

<p>-No!!!!!!! Your looks don't matter when it comes to making friends (of the same sex). Hell, who gives a flying *****?! For me personally, i don't care if my friend looks like an abercrombie model, or a Mr. Jedi-knight Cheese Puff geek. But when it comes to the opposite sex, then that's another story.</p>

<p>-Remember, you have to take the initiative. Most of times, people won't introduce themselves to you. Take action and do it yourself! Cause alot of interesting people are shy themselves.</p>

<p>-It's not high school anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! popularity DOES NOT matter. As long as you have atleast a few really good friends, your social life is complete. and if you're ready, get a girl. it's college, come on. and if it doesn't go against ur beliefs, get laid :) :) :) :) :) :)..... but only with the girl you trust and love deepily. No sense having sex with a dumb whore in college.</p>

<p>-Try to look as unnerdy as possible. But not to the extent that you look stupid, but enough so that it doesn't look like ur a studybug.</p>

<p>Got this list from a friend who's a rising junior. Please leave comments and some non-harsh criticism.</p>

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<p>It's certainly better than the other list of social tips, but it's still ridiculously over-generalized, immature, and tries to impose the author's view of what college should be on people with completely different values.</p>

<p>For instance, why is there this insistence on having a long-term girlfriend who you deep lovely? What if a guy just likes to have lots of random sex? </p>

<p>Who is your buddy to say that that's wrong? Also, what is with the ridiculous drinking advice? It's infantile and draws its conclusion from the author's personal biases. It's indicative of a junior high school mindset more than anything else. </p>

<p>The social advice is far too general; it's correct in certain situations and colleges, utterly wrong in others. It also greatly depends on what the student wants. </p>

<p>The stuff about not looking like a nerd is also idiotic. I know a few guys who think anyone who doesn't have double full sleeve tattoos is a nerd. </p>

<p>I'm guessing that means your "friend" looks like a nerd, too? </p>

<p>Overall, still a terrible list. </p>

<p>Then again, the people who could give good advice are typically slightly older and don't make absurd lists on CollegeConfidential.</p>

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-try to get a girlfriend.

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<p>Stopped reading right there.</p>

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<p>Hard Lemonade?
And stop trying so hard to act cool with all these sexual innuendos. It's just pathetic.</p>

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<p>I was going to say exactly the same thing. A guy has to have a good reason to have a hard lemonade to not look like a pussy.</p>

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<p>Hard lemonade tastes good, that's why i'd drink it. Although yeah, you wouldn't use it to make people think you were macho..</p>

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<p>Hard lemonade is gross. Disgusting. Ew. Just drink regular lemonade, tastes better. You look much cooler when you don't drink at all. Plastic cups are automatic trash factor.</p>

<p>And if all you care about is "picking up chicks", you'll never find one. That's the quickest way to turn a girl off.</p>

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<p>DO NOT drink "hard lemonade" for those purposes. If you want to prove that you're "not a pussy" either:
1) Insist on taking shots. Don't do too many...3-5 should be fine over the course of an hour and a half or so. Don't wince when you do it, and come up with a bs story about liking the alcohol hit you or that kinda thing.
2) Wine. Wine is the ultimate college drink, in my opinion. It tastes amazing. The alcohol content is decently high (10-15% or so) and others see you as sophisticated when you drink it. Even Jesus drank wine.
3) Beer. Use this sparingly. It is good in that it scores high in the "macho" category, and doesn't taste bad once you get used to it, but it is bad in almost every other way. Beer-drinkers, especially plastic-cup beer drinkers are known for being cheap, rowdy, and drunkards.</p>

<p>Also-
I kind of disagree with the OP. You shouldn't have to drink alcohol to prove anything to anybody. Really you should be very sure of why you are drinking before you do it. Last year, for example, I drank less than once per month on average. Why? I didn't drink when I was angry or frusterated. I didn't drink if my motive was to increase my sociability. Both of those were issues that I needed to handle on my own. I didn't drink if I thought that my motive was to change other people's perceptions of me. That's stupid. If people were pressuring me to drink, I said no just to prove (to myself) that I could. It's not hard to turn down alcohol. When none of those things happened, I still usually didn't drink, because I didn't/don't want to rely on alcohol to have fun. Drink because you like the feeling. It is an effective way to have fun.
I guess that what I am trying to say is that you shouldn't drink in order to find solutions in your life, or, more relevantly, to look cool or "macho" or "not like a pussy."</p>

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<p>You shouldn't really be drinking anything other than beer.</p>

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<p>Beer is the Walmart of alcoholic drinks. </p>

<p>Plus quite a few people are allergic to it. Hooray gluten allergies/ celiac disease!</p>

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<p>wait, you're giving out college advice when you havent even started your froshie year?</p>

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<li> Girls are pretty much evil; do not study with them.</li>
<li> Don't study with girls. They go off-topic often and you end up staring at their body (if they are hot, that is).</li>
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<p>"Beer is the Walmart of alcoholic drinks. "</p>

<p>Your in college you twit. And you better not be a man.</p>

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I reccomend hard lemonade because it doesn't contain alot of alchohol (only like 5%), it tastes good, and hmmmmmmm

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<p>Have you ever been to a party before?</p>

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Your in college you twit. And you better not be a man.

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<p>Haha, I agree. Chug that beer! Unless it's brewed by Anheuser-Busch.</p>

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<p>Beer, on average, contains less ABV than most hard lemonades. Typical beers range from 4.0 to 5.0%, but it's not like it makes much of a difference.</p>

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<p>I would laugh at a guy drinnking hard lemonade at a party, even if he was like 6'3 300 pounds</p>

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<p>We do have Mikes Hard Lemonade and those fruity little Smirnoff bottles in our fridge - for the girls.</p>

<p>Males consuming said beverages is unheard-of, and results in a nasty party foul.</p>

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<p>everyone took the words right out of my mouth. right when i read that part about hard lemonade i laughed. i dont know how it goes down in washington state but here in california, if you are a guy you DO NOT walk around a party holding a mikes hard lemonade. hahaha</p>

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<p>These "tips" are still incredibly immature.
Ugh, Mike's isn't so great. I guess I don't particularly care if a guy drinks it, but it does make me wonder about his taste buds.</p>

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<p>a lot of good advice but too focused on girls. 1. not everyone is into chicks, 2. even a lot of guys into chicks arent going to base every last action on getting some</p>