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Hello! Sorry to bother, I'm on mobile so I'm not able to see the FAQ but I was wondering what advice do you have for an incoming student starting their first year of college?
Oh boy, do I have some advice.
- This will likely be the easiest year of your entire college career, so take advantage of this and get some stellar grades. You don’t know what the future holds, so take this opportunity to start yourself out with a solid GPA.
- Don’t get too caught up in college parties. If you’re an incoming freshman, you probably aren’t old enough to be drinking legally, and I think that some college students genuinely forget that underage drinking and owning a fake ID is still very illegal. Don’t ruin your college career over partying. I watched my freshman roommate destroy her GPA because she went out to parties every other night. The parties will still be there when you’re a junior and senior and are actually old enough to drink legally.
- Honestly, get a campus job if you can. They’re usually extremely accommodating and only require you to work a few hours a week and you’ll need the extra cash.
- Don’t be afraid to talk to your professors. Go to their office hours, ask them to look at your papers, ask them about other classes they think you should take, anything. Get comfortable with them so that you won’t be afraid to ask them questions when you really have them.
- Before buying ANY textbooks, check for them on bigwords.com. They’ll find you the cheapest price for the book on the internet.
- If you don’t like your major, don’t stay in it! Don’t be the student who hits the spring semester of their junior year before switching their major.
- Talk to people on the very first day of class. If you don’t do it immediately, you’ll feel too awkward to try to make friends a few weeks into class.
- Don’t skip class! Oh my god, don’t skip class. I don’t care about your newfound college freedom and lenient attendance policies; you are at college for a reason, and I’m pretty sure that reason isn’t to sleep in until noon.
- If you feel weird about a class, drop it. Drop it before the deadline. Don’t let yourself get to the 14th week of the semester and realize you’re going to fail a class you could have dropped.
- Finally, just take it seriously. College is fun, but it is also SO expensive and you shouldn’t waste thousands of dollars if all you wanted out of the college experience was freedom. You can move out for much cheaper than the cost of college tuition. Don’t waste this opportunity.
Here are some guides I wrote that might be helpful:
