Wow, I just got home form orientation at Clemson University. I cant wait until this fall when I’ll finally be on my own at college. Clemson is one of the best universities out there for the $$$. The average freshman SAT was 1170 and 5 of the sprot teams were in the top 10 last year. Only Stanford and Clemson can brag about that. Oh, well, enough of me bragging about Clemson. Anyone have som college life advice for me? Any words of wisdom?
BTW, Clemson is ranked #13 for next year and we are gonna beat those damn 'noles!!!
Okay . . . this from having completed my frosh year about a month ago, maybe more.
Do not drink and go to class the next day. It is NOT FUN. Your teachers will not all laugh. Some of them will think you are being disrespectful by having a hangover in class.
If you can manage it, do not have a class on Friday. This will give you LOTS of options for the weekend.
Try not to have more than 3 classes in one day. I had four and one of them I hardly saw more than five times the entire term.
Don’t stress about papers. Especially when you don’t have to look shit up. Just do them when you work best.
Figure out when you work your best. I do my best work in the laaaaate night, so that’s when I stay up.
If you do your best work in the night, don’t plan a class for 730 AM.
Learn from my biggest mistake: register as early as the place will allow. Figure lunch and dinner into your plans.
Remember that, as this is college and not high school, teachers will not lighten up your workload if you have a paper due the next day.
If you have a question, ask your RA or someone in a similar position. They get paid to answer your questions.
Be nice to your parents. If nothing else, they are your washer and dryer. And your cash source. And a bunch of other stuff.
Don’t party hard the first month. Wait until exams for that.
I hasten to add here that I have never been to a party at which there was alcohol. I am not in a frat and have no interest in joining one.
Oh, and yax…if you quote someone. You really shouldn’t delete stuff in the middle. Stanford and Clemson were the only Universities to have 5 athletic teams in the top 10.
If you notice, I didn’t change the meaning of the initial quote. The sentence “Only Stanford and Clemson can brag about that” referes to both the sports teams and the SAT score, The way it is written, the “and” links the two comments to the second sentance. I was not challenging the validity of the comment on the sports teams.
I think I now see what HomeSlice appears to be getting at. It should have been “The average freshman SAT score was 1170. Five of the sports teams finished in the top ten. Only Stanford and Clemson can say that”.
I maybe wrong so please feel free to double check this in the grammar thread.
Pardon, HomeSlice, but I just hallucinated that you said the average freshman SAT at Clemson was 1170. Are incoming freshmen required to take the SAT? (My vague recollection is that the ACT is still the more common pre-college test in those parts.) If not, that could kinda skew the scores.
[ul] [li]Always look before you shower.[/li][li]Always look before you use the toilet.[/li][li]Don’t assume that because your RA is cool, he/she will be cool with the booze you have stashed in your fridge.[/li][li]Driving your annoying roommate insane is a constructive use of your time.[/li][li]Don’t have sex in the library. [/ul][/li]
I will not comment on which of the above were learned first-hand, and which were pieces of advice handed down to me.
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[li]dont buy your drugs from a dealer who hangs outside the dorms (you shouldn’t be doing drugs in the first place kid!)[/li][li]just when you think you can drink another beer, if you find yourself holding more than one in the same hand, STOP![/li][li]if you haven’t puked yet, keep drinking[/li][li]if your RA is of the opposite sex, seduce said RA and have sex with him/her (unless you prefer same sex RA’s)[/li][li]only have sex in the library if you’ve already had sex with the student faculty member in charge of the library, or are having sex with the student faculty member at the time[/li][li]find the roof of the dorms, and streak across it, this will gain you popularity[/li][li]don’t go to class with a hangover unless you’ve showered[/li][li]try if at all possible not to use the toilets in the dorms[/li][li]don’t bother with a fake ID, most bars in college neighborhoods ID, but only because they have to, they still let you in regardless of whats on the ID.[/li][li]get as much sex as possible while you can, after the college years, life takes a drastic change in your sex life.[/li][li]remember this is all a dream, remember after college is when life becomes real and the world works in mysterious ways.[/li][li]doesn’t matter in the end how well you did in classes too much, just that you graduated finally.[/li][/ul]
i did happen to learn everything first hand, not all of it was without consequence, keep that in mind.
enjoy it kid.
SAT is mandatory here in the east. You wont find many (if any) schools that require an ACT. ACTs are mainly used in the midwest, but correct me if I’m wrong.
Oh, well, enough of me bragging about Clemson. Anyone have som college life advice for me? Any words of wisdom?