I.A.F.Y.B. said:
Heres my advice:
-Stay in school
-Don't get into a habbit of skipping classes
-Do you assignments
-Do your homework before you hang out with friends,watch tv,play videogames. Cause eventually u will just be putting it off and not want to do it.
-Stay away from drugs/alcholol. If you already do that, save it for the weekends.
-Don't let p@ssy get in the way of school. (I use to skip classes to go bang my chick... wasn't worth the education I was missing)
This may sound like common sense but I did the opposite of what i just wrote and it made school hard for me, my life harder, and more stress on me.
I agree. Let me elaborate.
- Stay in school.
If you don't like the school and/or the town, transfer. If it's just because it's school, consider all the cooler stuff you'll be able to get or do once you finish.
- Don't skip classes.
This may have been cool in high school, but not so in college. Some freshmen skip classes with too much frequency, as they have the freedom to do so. However, there are still negative consequences. Poorer grades, needing to repeat classes, or in extreme cases getting kicked out due to poor academic performance. When I was a freshmen I did that, and I paid for it. Nowadays while I can't say it never happens, it's only once in a blue moon. I also do my damnedest to be there on test days, as those are the most important. A lot of teachers won't let you make up tests except for extreme circumstances, and tests also count for a lot.
- Do your assignments.
If you don't, you're grades will suffer, you increase the likelihood of repeating classes, which results in wasted time and money.
- Do your homework before leisure time.
Sometimes it's hard or impossible, if there are significant events that you don't want to miss. Usually, that's not the case, so it makes sense to finish them first. Personally, I don't like to do school stuff on weekends at all. So, I plan for it, finishing what I can before Friday evening, and using time during the week. It's best to do it at times when nothing fun is going on anyway, such as Tuesday afternoon.
- Stay away from drugs/alcohol.
It's good advice, but I'll never tell anyone to stay away from alcohol entirely. Most people drink to some degree, so there are things you may be missing out on if you don't drink at all. But, don't go overboard. Don't get drunk every night, and DON'T show up to class drunk, high, or stoned.
I'm also going to add what I consider to be good advice. The high school mindset regarding classes isn't going to get you through college. As such, you'll be experiencing some changes in your approach to classes. For this reason, I strongly recommend against taking a full load of classes for your first semester. There are only two groups of people where I think this advice doesn't apply; nerds and valedictorians. Chances are, you're neither. I did take a full-load, and I didn't perform well at all. I didn't get my act together enough, as the slacker high-school mindset doesn't cut it. By the time I did get my act together, the damage was done. I was kicked out of the school, I had to attend a community college, and now I'm finally back at a four-year school. Thankfully, I got my act together before getting kicked out, so I performed pretty well at the community college. Don't worry about taking a little longer, or needing to take a summer class or two. If you take an additional semester, it won't matter when you're 60 years old. As for summer classes, they don't have the same negative stigma that summer high school has.