1)In college more than ever ,before songs will attach themselves to memories. Every month or two, make a mix cd, mp3 folder, whatever - just make sure you keep copies of these songs. Ten years out, they'll be as effective as a journal in taking you back to your favorite moments.
2) Take time to analyze your productive hours ,if you are nocturnal let it be ..embrace that time and make most of it .
3) Take naps in the middle of afternoon and let it be a reckless abandon
4) Carve out an hour every single day to be alone
5) At least a few times in your college career, do something fun and irresponsible when you should be studying.Like the present scenario logging on to orkut or facebook even before few hours to go for your exams ...
6) In four years span of your college life send a hand written note to someone (his /her ) who made college possible for you and all the adventures so far . Acknowledge their efforts .It will mean a lot to him/her now, and it will mean a lot to you in ten years when he/she shows it to you.
7) Embrace the differences between you and your classmates. Always be asking yourself, "what can I learn from this person?" More of your education will come from this than from any classroom
8)Take risks.
9)Wednesday is the middle of the week; therefore on wednesday night the week is more than half over. You should celebrate accordingly. (It makes thursday and friday a lot more fun.
10)Take some classes that have nothing to do with your major(s), purely for the fun of it.
11)Become friends with your favorite professors. Recognize that they can learn from you too - in fact, that's part of the reason they chose to be professors.Gaining khnowledge is always a 2 way process .
12)When your friends' parents visit, include them. You'll get free food, etc., and you'll help them to feel like they're cool, hangin' with the hip college kids.
13)When you're living on a college campus with 400 things going on every second of every day, watching TV is pretty much a waste of your time and a waste of your parents' money. If you're going to watch, watch with friends so at least you can call it a "valuable social experience."
14)Much of the time you once had for pleasure reading is going to disappear. Keep a list of the books you would have read had you had the time, so that you can start reading them when you graduate.Books are rearly your best friends in college life as substitutes emerges in no time once you enter the college campus .
15)Things that seem like the end of the world really do become funny with a little time and distance. Knowing this, forget the embarassment and skip to the good part.
16)Every once in awhile, there will come an especially powerful moment when you can actually feel that an experience has changed who you are. Embrace these, even if they are painful.
17)No matter what your political or religious beliefs, be open-minded. You're going to be challenged in the next four years in ways you can't imagine, across all fronts. You can't learn if you're closed off.
18)Don't always lead. It's good to follow sometimes.
19)Ask for help. Often.Because you amidst your best buddies ,who ironically will be your saviors inspite of being involved in creating troubles and thereafter seaching for the best possible solutions for you to be out of the mess.
20)Your health and safety are more important than anything.
20)Half of you will be in the bottom half of your class at any given moment. Way more than half of you will be in the bottom half of your class at some point in the next four years. Get used to it
21) Welcome failure into your lives. It's how we grow. What matters is not that you failed, but that you recovered.
22) It's important to think about the future, but it's more important to be present in the now. You won't get the most out of college if you think of it as a stepping stone.Live each and every moment as it comes ....
23) Take a lot of pictures.And most important of all is take weird and nasty pics , because these are the only pics which could help you relate the whole story as it is for that day and the incidents related to that pic .
24) In ten years very few of you will resemble ,what you are actually right now ,many of you may not look as good as you do right now, so secretly revel in how hot you are before it's too late.
25)On the flip side, don't try to do everything. Balance = well-being.
26)Make perspective a priority. If you're too close to something to have good perspective, rely on your friends to help you.
27)In the long run, where you go to college doesn't matter as much as what you do with the opportunities you're given there.So avail it and make optimum utilization of this.It hardly matters you win or loose ,it will give you another reason for celebration among friends .Even participation matters a lot in those days ...
28)Excursions starts in college itself Explore the campus thoroughly.Don't get caught.Break the rules atleast once and visit the prohibited areas ,it will help you to develop guts
29)Life is too short to stick with a course of study that you're no longer excited about. Switch, even if it complicates things.
30)Now for those people who are in some kind of relationship whether distant or with in the class .The key is not to let your relationship interfere with your college experience .You dont want to date someone that is totally fine , but is not fine is ,missing out a lot of defining experience because you were hell lot busy with your bf/gf over the phone(3 to 4 hours or sometimes even 24 hours are not enough ) . That you started neglecting your friends completely .
31)Your friends will change a lot over the next four years. Let them.
32)Call someone you love back home a few times a week, even if just for a few minutes.
33)If you need to get a job, find something that you actually enjoy. Just because it's work doesn't mean it has to suck.
34)Enjoy every second of the next four years. It is impossible to describe how quickly they pass.
35)This is the only time in your lives when your only real responsibility is to learn. Try to remember how lucky you are every day.
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