<p>Any words of wisdom to future college students?</p>
<p>Be yourself. </p>
<p>Meet one new person every day for the first semester. </p>
<p>Don’t be afraid to walk up to new people and start a conversation. Everyone is new at some point.</p>
<p>If you want to join a club, sorority, fraternity, sports team…do it. You will have at least one small thing in common with them! Don’t listen to other people if they say joining a Greek organization is paying for your friends…it isn’t.</p>
<p>Some of my best friends to this day are people I met by doing all of the above. Don’t be afraid to try new things and to experience life. I learned to trust myself in college. </p>
<p>*****Next to being yourself, the second most important thing is to HAVE FUN! But not too much fun. You still have to do homework and pass and graduate…or it is just a waste of money!</p>
<p>If you’re only remembering classes in college, you’re doing something wrong.</p>
<p>College success is less about being smart, than about having good strategies.</p>
<p>^^^ an attempt to come across as a wise man but an immediate fail.
that statement is about as useful as a midget on a basketball team</p>
<p>^What’s so fail about his statement? You have to work the system in college. Strategy, i.e. course selection & networking, is a big chunk of why people do well. It’s not solely based on academics.</p>
<p>I wish I originally chose a college with the second major I was thinking about so I didn’t have to transfer out.</p>
<p>If you want friends to hang out with, don’t befriend the really nerdy group – they’re always going to be busy doing their homework.</p>
<p>I’m sorry I was imprecise in my statement: I wanted it to be general.</p>
<p>What I mean is that you have to realise that studying your ass off is not a guarantee for good grades - course selection (not neccessary the easiest classes, but the most motivating, useful,…), time management (the workload can be insane, especially if you procrastrinate), networking (it’s good to know seniors, to get old exams, to have somebody who motivates you, to have somebody who helps you to relax,…),… often decide a lot.</p>
<p>Hard work doesn’t equal good results - you need to study the right things (and no, that’s not a given), you need to think up a way to motivate yourself,… that kind of stuff.
When I started college, I thought it was all about academics. Scary as hell, professors speaking stuff I would struggle to comprehend.
Very few professors at my faculty are like that - most are very down-to-earth and the lectures are relatively easy to understand - it’s the problem sets and exams that are HARD for us (double major maths/engineering). But some classes are hard not to skip, not to fall asleep in,… The most common reason for people to fail is that they can’t handle the freedom of deciding every day to do homework, to study,… and that they don’t even develop strategies to motivate themselves,…
strategies that actually work for them. Not just drawing up a plan that they aren’t going to do anyway.</p>
<p>Alexander: first of all I’d like to apologize if my comment to your earlier thread was too sarcastic/ mean…its my nature…i gotta fix it before i go to college lol
secondly: that’s a much better explaination and i agree with everything you said.</p>
<p>^Now, that’s a fail. You’re commenting on something when you’re not even in college HAHA.</p>