College Life
Dear Freshman Friend: Hello and welcome to college! You will spend the next four years of your life studying, sleeping, eating, exercising, making friends, making enemies, falling in love, being heart broken, plagiarizing, and suffering in this ancient institution called university. You probably learned from brochures, applications, and other similar college advertisements the number of volumes the library owns, the name of your future college professors, and even how many hectares the university covers. But nobody has ever talk to you about this: the reality of college students. These are secrets behind the walls, the subject that many admission officers had tried for decades to keep it as a secret until this moment...so here we go. MONEY You will be cheated by paying thousands of dollars in tuition, room, board, and all kinds of imaginable fees (like right now I am paying a $20 parking fee, and I don't even own a car). Books are the second most expensive items in college life. Somewhere down the line, you will pay $100 for a book; and at the end of the semester, if you are lucky, you will get seven bucks for it. An easy solution is to sell the book to a prospect victim, I mean student, who is planning to take the same class (hin
Believe it or not they have family, friends, hobbies and even a life outside school. Try to be respectful to them, remember they are God in their classroom. in their concentration area just because you absolutely love his/her lectures (it can earn you at least an A-, guaranteed). My advice is to set up a camcorder to follow all his actions, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for about a month to decide whether or not he/she is "normal". If not request a room change claiming that you suffer twentythreephobic, or any other phobia that beginnings with your room number. It can be better portray as an overcrowded building housing 200 students living on their own for the first time as responsible and mature adults. You will end up eating cereal, bagels, and soda whenever there is "recycled" food. will quit because of you and your stupid questions and complains. No, they don't live in their offices; they have a home just like you and me. If you want to get extra points let your professor know that you are planning to go to graduate school to earn a Ph. Especially when the ham sandwich you were served for lunch look suspiciously like the honey baked ham you were served at dinner the night before. Here is some advice that can make the adjustment process easier: · Roommates--you can be sharing your room with a psycho, compulsive maniac, nerd, punk, or Goth, it can be very scary and frustrating at the same time.
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