I lived vicariously through others, so I only know of most these from the experience of others. I majored in English and spent all of my time reading and thus couldn't party.
- Don't spend all of your OASP on alcohol. You WILL regret it, and your liver will HATE you.
- If you don't want it stolen or destroyed, don't bring it with you.
These ones are from personal experience:
- Actually go to your lectures, take notes, and do the frickin' readings. You will only piss people off by not knowing what's going on, and you are only buggering yourself over. Don't be that guy. (I went to school with a few people like this, and the general consensus was that they needed to be punched in the back of the head.) Oh, and if you're like this, the profs WILL make fun of you.
- I know a lot of the posts her have revolved around drinking, but seriously, everything in moderation. We had a student pass out outside and freeze to death on my campus. Drink, have fun, be crazy. But do it safely.
- Join clubs. Seriously. I did, and it was so worth it.
- You will never have this much freedom or this much fun ever again. Embrace it before you have to be an adult.
- You will revert to childhood. You will take naps, enjoy colouring books and crayons, play dress-up, and watch cartoons. Embrace this; it'll clean off that ugly layer of self-important, 'I'm and adult' BS that most people pick up in their teens.
- You will never have this much stamina again; this will be the only time in your life when you can go for three days on six hours of sleep. Go with it.
- Do EVERYTHING. Take road trips. Host a crazy dinner party. Go to guest lectures and plays and independent films. Go to crazy events at your on campus pub. Pack as much as you can into four years, because you'll never get it back, and there is no regret more bitter than realizing that you wasted it.
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