| If you don't already have it, you'll either pick it up in college as necessary or there's no hope for you. Either way it's nothing that you need to prepare for. Enjoy your last summer of freedom. One thing that I would suggest: research any department/major that sounds remotely interesting, you don't want to find out when you're a senior that you really should have majored in *insert amazing major* instead of what you began with.
Research your professors on ratemyprofessor or pickaprof when you're signing up for classes. While not all professors are represented, and while sometimes the feedback is rather worthless, I've found it to be quite useful and have not been led astray at all by the suggestions -- assuming you are able to tell which people are telling the truth and which are lying (hint: if someone says "X teacher blows! He's so ****ing hard, not an easy A!" it's safe to say that the class is not an easy A, but besides that you should look elsewhere for information or pick a class based upon the time it's offered).
Pick classes first for the quality of professor, then for the time it's offered, and lastly for it's location (having classes reasonably close together is always a good thing). Some create schedules around not having class on certain days, or never having class before 11 or 12 -- it's not worth sacrificing a potentially amazing learning experience just to sleep a bit longer. |