A few tips for college?

[leonid]

Re: A few tips for college?

Understand that grades are not proportional to the amount of effort you put in. You can procrastinate AND get good grades

[Wafles]

Re: A few tips for college?

From my experience, the teachers that used participation grading as a means to convince students to not ditch class were usually the worst quality professors I had. I always thought it seemed like a way of saying "My class isn't interesting enough to keep you here unless I make it a requirement".

Go to class. Every single class.
Go to office hours too. Get on a professors good side, and get on it early, use that connection to get other connections and you'll get some cool opportunities.

As far as the application process goes, just know what you're looking to get out of college before you start applying, which it sounds like you already know. And of course, apply to a few different schools that you really want to go to. Don't follow your friends to be with them, you'll make new friends at college anyway.

[Ohaider]

Re: A few tips for college?

Oh yeah btw as a freshman you'll be treated as a high schooler pretty much in terms of attendance/undivided attention if your uni is anything like mine lol. hopefully that's not the case all four years

4 absences in some of my classes = administrative withdrawal. 2 in others
i've been yelled at for having my cell phone out during the bullshit classes like 'music for the listener'

seriously it's just like highschool other than amount of homework/classtime

[funmonkey54]

Re: A few tips for college?

1) For an undergraduate degree, do not be afraid to follow the money. If you get exceptionally high scholarship to a reasonable institution, it can open you up to more education down the line that you might not otherwise have been able to afford.

2) Opportunities do not make themselves. Get close to professors. Literally. Hold them. Caress them. Do whatever it takes to find unique opportunities that develop a portfolio or that propel you into other paths down the road.

3) Figure out your crap fast. Changing majors is expensive. If you need to take a year before entering college to help sort things out, do it. It's a massive waste to spend money on college for a career you aren't going to pursue and it will put you on a strict timeline for the next 5-7 semesters that doesn't allow you to take extra classes that you want to take.

[Quigly]

Re: A few tips for college?

the only class that matters is the one that i teach on how to not be a fucking loser

you're automatically enrolled the second you start college good luck