College Survival Guide (r/AskReddit)

our slash asked reddit what tips would be a Ned's Declassified College Survival Guide never fall behind it will take ages to catch up and usually ends up in the scenario where you live in the library for a week and end up having a nervous breakdown during the exam this is me now this should be me now I went to the library today to study for an exam tomorrow and browsed reddit for 45 minutes and drove back home I'm actually a ducting idiot go2 class even if you're ducking around on your laptop at least be there whenever you have a couple hours of downtime consider doing future homework / project / essays you wouldn't believe how much weight will be lifted off your shoulders when you know that you're ahead in classwork I went to school with a guy who was pretty much always down to hang out and never worried about his classes his secret one day in the middle of the term when most of us were freaking out about a technical paper he already completed at two weeks prior and was heading to the beach with a few girls he had met at the bar meanwhile we worriedly crammed out a hit paper I would recommend people at least try to get things done early you'll have more fun when you're out with friends rather than studying / writing with a hangover to add to this for those who like a night beverage write ronk edits uber you get less writer's block the ideas and arguments flow out in a bunch of gibberish but we looking at it the next morning so the helps you grammatically connect those points got me through a goal at papers be aware of your money especially if you have school partially paid for by parents scholarship etc just be aware for most people it is the first time you really have full control of your wallet so don't duck that up it's easier to be aware of money when you don't have any but if you have that savings account set aside for college expenses its way to ducking easy to dip into it constantly I recommend you need a budget for anyone in college even if you don't use it to budget by keeping track of what you spend and make you can easily know whether you have money the important thing though is to do it frequently treat your bank account is empty at PS 500 save Mars more than once sleep more than you study study more than you party and party as much as you can I saw that front page post - if somebody puts a sock on their door it's because they need help with their laundry bargain immediately bargain and yell can I help I brought my own bleach learn to pull hit and learn it well you'll need that skill for about 95% of classes you'll need that skill for about 95% of classes life sell your Dorma slacker front property step 11 dabble in bankruptcy step 12 get a reasonable job step 13 set multiple alarms to make sure you wake up in time step 14 try to get in touch with the right people that'll surely help you get news concerning your work surroundings faster if someone you know passes out from drinking too much do not lay them on their back chance of them vomiting and then choking to death on it if you are going to lay them down and leave them consider strapping a backpack on to them that's full of textbooks or clothes or something that makes it impossible for them to roll themselves over onto their back people die from this and it's a really Weil thing that can happen when kids who haven't had much partying experience start binge drinking and passing out save a life I never thought that I'd need this until I studied abroad and ended up taking care of a classmate who accidentally drank too much I will never forget saying let's put on our backpack now honestly studying abroad should be renamed getting Runk all the time in foreign countries you'll have more fun living off-campus provided you live in proximity to both the school and your friends spend at least a year on campus you're 18 you've never lived on your own and you need the extra support that residence halls provides honestly for all the annoying rules your rabble impose there there is a safety net to make you're doing alright you're also probably not going to know many people and it's the best place to meet people hands down living off-campus you're on your own no one is going to help you with anything your landlord probably doesn't give a hit about you and it's harder to meet people once you've got friends and think you've got the hang of it go off-campus but don't rush into it hence my disclaimer I'm 19 living basically alone a half hour from campus and I don't know what the duck I'm doing with my life try to make friends with students a year above you in your program ask them for last year's tests / midterms / assignments they are often recycled I didn't feel like writing you test questions so my classes midterm next week is last year's midterm in a new order the final will almost definitely be the exact same thing writing questions is hard and why throw out good ones just because they were good last year hopefully none of my students are listening but honestly if they are and they find the midterm and they learn the questions and then they learn the answers they learned the content in the class so duck it they deserve to do well in the course I'm not even sure it'll be cheating my lecturers literally just give us the exam questions it's an essay based subject and their logic is they'd rather be testing our analysis of two topics than our memory of 10 don't where you're ducking varsity jacket but Troy though become friends with teachers who teach in your program I graduated last May and I'm in the field I think want to be in for the rest of my life and working at a couple good places for it to all because I became close with my teachers and they gave me recommendations / told their friends about me if a teacher says they are going out for drinks after class gyah with them it's not about sucking up it's about viewing them as a human and them viewing you as the same and making connections one of my friends told me his creative writing prof takes his students out for drinks provided they are of age at the end of the semester never got to take that professor but I thought it was nice of him to do that I also had another professor who came with us to an Honor Society conference and she paid for our dinner at a pub one night we paid for our own drinks and we were all of age of course a school nearly screwed us out of being able to stay because of stupid red tape and drama she also got to see me tipsy / slightly run and she seemed amused by it I was very grateful that she did that for us because we nearly had to leave the convention search textbook name PDF pray it isn't written in Lithuanian blasphemy all hail Google Translate if a person sits in the same seat for a week it's their ducting seat seriously go sit somewhere else you take that person's seat and you're the edit a word dude I have a three-hour math class with the his chairs possible mine is against a pillar and a window wall ducting Cadillac of seats almost a game to get it I guess there are different circumstances speaking as a science major pre-med at a large University one don't fret if your college life doesn't look like the movies or someone else's Instagram photos just do what you like and what you think is right and Duc all that noise I don't mean to tell you to live a boring life but what is fun differs from person to person if you think driving to the beach writing a few waves and catching some clams is fun just do it if you think a nice afternoon playing ball and then having a few years is better than blacked out at some hyped up frat party just do it so when someone tells you your grades don't matter that should raise a bloody red flag and you should really verify whatever advice they give you there's a difference between grades aren't everything and grades don't matter three unless it's genuinely regarding your own mental health when someone tries to get you to care less duck that that should also raise a red flag why do you all your parents pay so much money to go to college a piece of paper numbers networking networking networking experience and a chance to grow as a person if your parents pay how are you going to repay them not only for college but for putting up with your dumb ass if other people are paying thousands to play the game of mirror mirror on the wall who is the most chill of them all let them but don't join them because it'll only cut down the amount of as you have to kick for although college is difficult it isn't impossible at all to do well I've seen so many students aim to be average because people tell them about how hard colleges or how they don't think they are smart enough to get good grades or how they got destroyed by their first exam etc in other words the reason some people don't do well an organic chemical isn't because organic chemical is hard it is but because they mentally set themselves up for averageness go in your class scared but also go in knowing that it is very possible to do well aim high don't give up innate intelligence plays a role but your willingness to put in the painful effort matters just as much 5 don't expect the curve to save you but know it's there the curve mainly helps you pass not necessarily help you earn a good grade 6 the university doesn't always want the best for you especially if you go to a large public university the policies or the advice they give is optimized for the average student which may or may not be you for example if you want to be a doctor your major advisor will likely not give a hit because their job is to get you to graduate in four five years with whatever GPA that gets you out what you do after you walk the stage and whether you go to med school or not does not directly affect their salary or job security 7 you should never strive or settle to be the average student you're special in some way so know it do it and show it if you strive to make 50k a year you'll put in effort to make 50k a year life hits you and you'll likely make less if you strive to make 200k you'll put in effort and the right steps to make 200k a year life hits you and you'll likely make above 50k a year eight be a kind person but remember you're not obligated to help any other student but yourself you can't end world hunger if you are the one starving 9 past Exum's are wonderful find some some professors may say it's taboo some will say unauthorised ones are illegal some will hand them to you just find some because you can bet many others have them 10 it's a bureaucracy everyone you meet has a boss and their boss has a boss you don't want to just be a number just another student in the crowd well give them a reason to listen 11 repeat of 3 give a dock 12 internships the less people that have that type of position equals the worse or better it is both being subjective terms either no one wants it or it is very selective or unique which will make your application stand out 13 only join a frat if you are interested not because they have these mysterious and magical connections not because they have old exits not because they get laid easily not because you like to march to places in a crowd of 30 guys with smug faces it's hard work joining and staying in one and whatever benefit you're hoping to reap you can take your time money and effort elsewhere for a likely better deal however if you think you want to join a frat beyond some sort of benefit then it's all you edit 14 take every opportunity as a learning opportunity you can always grow to be a better person today than you were yesterday learn from your mistakes learn from others mistakes learn from your successes etc in regards to the last point I think that the friendship and connections frats offer can also be found in school clubs not to bash on France though the ones on campus here are all pretty cool it's easier to stay in shape than to get in shape later in life wish I knew this during middle school ducking like and subscribe [Music]

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Published: Wed Aug 21 2019