Words of Wisdom for Freshmen

College is the institution where people who have been telling their parents to treat them like adults for the past four years realize that it's more fun to act like a kid. 


It's a place where an eighteen-year-old has their best opportunity in their life excell.. College is not just an institution for higher learning that your parents tried to convince you it was while you were in High School, instead it's a sociologist's wet dream where people from ever nook and cranny around the globe converse on one place. It's the real "Real World". 


Picking the right university is the first major decision you will be forced to make in your quest for knowledge. There are many reasons to pick one university over another. There’s location, size of the college, cost, availability of classes.Most have a much more rigid screening process........ 
<though i screwd d last two yrs f my high school >


As a freshman your first experience at getting around campus is Orientation. At my Orientation I came to the realization that I'm going to fail out of school if my lectures are even one tenth as boring as the Dean's ‘Welcome to the University’ speech. 

Lots of thoughts passed through my head as various administrators and alumni gabbed on about their first year of college. I realized that I would never see any of these people again unless I do something amazing or amazingly stupid that forces me to meet with them and chances are it would be the later.


Once we were sufficiently orientated with the campus, it was time to meet with our advisor. Your advisor is someone who acts like he wants to help you and guide you through this maze called college but ultimately wants to go home and try to forget that he is going to be in college for the rest of his life. We chit chatted for a few minutes before he broke into the interrogation. He asked me what I’m interested in?


Interests?!?

What are the interests of 18-year-old college students?i don't think my interests are relevant in our conversation. Then he asked me questions I had no answer for, like, "What do you want to do with your life?" "How do you think your college will help you achieve your goals?” and “What are your long-term plans?”


I didn't have any long-term plans, for that matter my short-term plans consisted of going to lunch . My advisor persisted in his questioning to which i had no answers.


Now d 9am class is sheer torture and anyone who says otherwise should be shot on sight. The reason your GPA is related to the class time is because of the fact that you will not go. It comes down to when you look at the two blinking dots on you alarm clock after you've snoozed for the sixth time and instead of getting up you're laying in bed guessing what song will be on the radio the next time the alarm goes off. Only after your neighbor has had enough with listening to the start and stop of music from their adjacent room is when you actually contemplate getting up for the day. Let it be known that a 9am class in college is the equivalence of arriving at a normal 9-5 job at 4 in the morning; it's simply unheard of. 


Even if you manage to adequately attend you earliest class, sometimes there are other distractions and obstacles, which pose a problem for your later classes. 


College is an exam; there are tests all the time, and most importantly, the majority of test you take in college are not taken in the classroom. 


Class is an important part of college life; it's the true bona fide college part. At very least it's the part that those two people about a generation older than you only care about and if you want to continue to stay on your paid for vacation called an education, you'll learn how to fit in into you busy schedule of Tequila and watching the sunrise.

Sometimes there are obstacles in your way to class, for example finding the class is a popular obstacle. I believe this is the university's first means of weeding out freshmen..


Oh, not familiar with the weeding out process? If you attend an oversized  university the admissions is notorious for booking more freshmen than they can hold for the four years. My guess is that the airlines and the universities are in cahoots to just screw everyone. One theory for their over-acceptance is that freshmen bring in more revenue than any other class. Think about it, when you a freshman you stay in the university dorms, eat at the university eateries and buy books at the university bookstore. 

In other words they have a high acceptance rate because freshmen are suckers....