Hello Friends/Teachers/Students!
This week I'm starting with a new topic called TOTW (Tips of the Week)!
Hope you all will enjoy it! Here are some tips for you, when/if you are in college.
1- This January start buying extras of your favorite shampoos, toothpaste, deodorant, and other personal care products. Put them in a box at the top of your closet and start stockpiling. When you are off at school and short on money, you will have already bought the items that seem to take a large chunk of your money. It also gives you a reason to go home from time to time.
2- In college, books are expensive. And you have to buy them. (You also have to buy your own Scantrons for tests.) You can easily spend between three and four hundred dollars per semester on books. Start saving ten percent of your money now to buy the books you will need for college.
3- Learn to use a calendar or day-timer. These calendar books are not just for real adults. You need them when planning activities around your tests, papers, and projects. When you get your syllabus, put the due dates for papers and projects and the dates for tests in your day-timer. And then look at your day-timer every day. Never plan an activity without looking at your book to see what happens the next day. Some of the PDA's that most of us use nowadays don't give us a look at the full month. You can't afford to be surprised by a test date or due date.
4- Study, study, study--You parents aren't paying all of this money just so that you can go to a four-year party. At first it doesn't seem like much learning is going on. You are only going to classes about half of the time you went when you were in high school. And the professors don't seem to assign much. They just want you to read. And you can do that later, right? Wrong! Keep up with your reading. Read your assignments on a daily basis and take notes on what you read. Use your highlighter. Summarize chapters. Take note of key words and memorize their definitions.
5- Become the person that you want to be. Sometimes the conformity that high school encourages puts young people in a "box" that they have a hard time getting out of. College is a great time to begin to become the person that you want to be. Do some of the activities that you wanted to do in high school but were afraid that people would think that you were nerdy for enjoying. In college peer pressure should be totally out of your vocabulary. If someone ever wants to do something that you don't feel comfortable doing, don't do it. If that person no longer wants to be your friend, you are better off. Besides that there are 19,999 other people on campus to get to know.
6- Stay in touch with your parents.(And not just to ask them for money.) They have some good advice to share. Besides that they want to know how things are going. After all they are probably paying for most of it! Don't just call when things are tough. Call to share the good news, too.
7- Keep your faith with you. You may have always gone to church at home with your parents, but now you are off at school, and you don't know how to get involved in a religious group there. Just go! The first time you go may be a little hard. But most congregations in college towns want college students to attend. You might find families who will "adopt" you when you need a home-cooked meal or when you need a sympathetic ear. And keeping involved with your religion will help you to strengthen your faith on your own so that it really becomes yours, not just your parents'.
8- Eat right. Freshman 15 refers to the fact that many freshmen, both guys and girls, gain 15 pounds during their freshman year. Also freshmen wear themselves out so that a visit to the infirmary is necessary. Eating at least one nutritious meal per day, drinking your orange juice, and taking a daily multivitamin will help you stay healthier and more academically productive.
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