Best advice on how to survive college?

Get lots of sleep and keep up with your homework.





Join clubs and make every effort to make friends. Try clubs that deal with your major/concentration.





Be open minded, you will be living on your own for the first time. This means trying out new things for yourself.





Learn how to do laundry. Bringing home clothes is somewhat pathetic. Mom can't do it for the rest of your life.





DO NOT GO HOME EVERY WEEKEND! This will affect your studies and will make you homesick. Call home no more than 3 times a week. This may be tough initially, but you can do it. Have your own life!





Take random classes on different subjects that interest you. I took yoga and loved it!





Never walk home alone after dark EVER, especially off campus. This is to be multiplied by 10 if you are walking back from a party or a bar.





ALWAYS wear/use a condom. My roommate in college got chlamydia three times. If he won't wear one then you don't want to be sleeping with someone like him anyways.








Follow these points and you will graduate college with high grades, life-long knowledge, and disease free.





Good luck and have a great time!Best advice on how to survive college?
Some good advice from others here already, here are a few things i've learned from my first year at my second university:








socialising:


- try and take advantage of every opportunity offered to you


- if something scares you, make sure you do it.


- try and meet as many people as possible, make every effort you can to speak to new people and find out about them - you never know who'll become a friend for life


- definitely take up a new hobby, or several new hobbies. this year i started ballroom dancing, got dragged along with a friend, and am now so obsessed i practice every night.. you never know what you'll love until you try it!





money:


- don't waste money on expensive food, cheaper versions are often just as good as brand names (you're american right? or not british anyway. i assume your supermarkets are the same as ours in that they make v cheap own brand versions of stuff, e.g. Tesco's own baked beans etc.)


- this includes takeaways, waste of money!


- all this will allow you to spend your money on more worthwhile things like life experiences you'll never forget





health:


- keep up sports, exercise, gym etc. a healthy body is good for a healthy mind





use of time:


- if you find yourself feeling lethargic and not really doing any work or just sitting around a lot, force yourself to go and try something new. i find the most productive days are the ones where there is so much going on and you cram stuff into allotted time periods.





drugs:


- experiment with softer ones if you fancy it, probly leave it a few weeks after you've arrived and settled in though


alcohol


- if you're american you probly can't drink, but if the opportunities are there you might as well drink yourself stupid. after a couple of years of that the novelty wears off so it's good to get it out of your system!





good luck!Best advice on how to survive college?
Haha, I'm not sure there's any good, specific advice that anyone can give you. Do your assigned reading, do your homework, study, make connections, make friends, and don't be stupid.





And by ';don't be stupid';, I mean don't have tons of sex with strangers (a lot of people coming into college get caught up in it).





Feel free to experiment, but at least be smart about it. Try new foods, meet new guys/girls, go drinking, smoke pot, be adventurous.
Just stay in school. It will eventually pay off. Sometimes when we are in the beginning or even the middle, it seems like it is never gonna end. My advise is perserverence. Do not quit. That is what I done, and when you quit it is like you never started. Without a degree of completion, all of the effort that you have put into it is for nothing. Hang in there.
Stay close to your family and try not to run with the crowds.