| 1. Orientation activities are a must. | | | | your work off. Like skipping classes, procrastinating on |
| Even though they might make you feel awkward, | | | | your homework has toxic consequences for your |
| even though there might seem to be 500 of them, you | | | | grades. |
| should go to as many orientations as you possibly can. | | | | 5. Learn time management skills. |
| Remember, most of the other people attending them | | | | You might not believe it at first, but going to all of your |
| feel just as awkward. Lean over to one of them and | | | | classes and doing all of your homework does not |
| ask: "Haven't we already been to 500 of these | | | | equal having no free time. Once you get your course |
| things?" You might make a friend for life, or at least for | | | | schedule, you should look at where you have blocks |
| dinner. In addition to the opportunity to begin meeting | | | | of free time. You should dedicate some of those to |
| your classmates, orientation activities also provide | | | | studying intently, so that you have time for other things. |
| useful information about the school, its campus, its | | | | Don't spend freshman year with something always |
| activities, and its policies. | | | | hanging over your head. It's a bad precedent to start. |
| 2. Meet as many people as you can. | | | | 6. Get involved in extracurricular activities. |
| Beginning with your new roommate, take the time to | | | | With your time management skills, you should be able |
| get to know the people around you. Although some | | | | to handle at least one activity outside of classes that |
| students show up to college with friends from their | | | | excites you. |
| high school, for most people, this is not the case. | | | | 7. Make sure you eat. |
| You're all in the same boat. Take that boat to dinner | | | | And make sure you eat right. Cap'n Crunch is delicious, |
| together, to campus social events, etc. Making friends | | | | agreed, but it is not a breakfast, lunch, and dinner |
| with those around you will help ease you into the | | | | option. Eat a vegetable occasionally, and try not to get |
| atmosphere of college. | | | | too addicted to caffeine. |
| 3. Go to all of your classes. | | | | 8. Make sure you sleep. |
| After 500 plus orientation activities, the start of classes | | | | Which you'll be able to do, if you don't become a |
| might seem like a brutal slap in the face. Or maybe | | | | Starbucks junkie, which you won't have to, because of |
| you'll realize that nobody is going to give you detention | | | | your time management skills. |
| if you skip, so you start skipping. Whatever reasons | | | | 9. Get some exercise. |
| you have for cutting class, they're bad. Learning is | | | | Even if it's just going for a walk. The fresh air is good |
| really what college is for. Don't deprive yourself of it. | | | | for your mind and body. |
| 4. Do your homework when it's assigned. | | | | 10. Make time to have pure, unadulterated fun even |
| Again, the freedom of college can be intoxicating, but | | | | after the start of classes. |
| don't become so infused with it that you begin blowing | | | | |