"The Top 20 things I learned freshman year of college"

[asteriskea]

<p>Some college students share what they think are the most important things learned during their freshman year of college - many of the best lessons have nothing to do with class.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.kansascity.com/236/story/261675.html[/url]”>http://www.kansascity.com/236/story/261675.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

[LilyMoon]

<p>Good article! Thanks for posting.</p>

[midmo]

<p>I could have done without number One, and I’m sure a whole lot of college freshmen could do without number One. Being able to party hard all of freshman year and still make almost perfect grades just won’t work at a lot of institutions or for a lot of students.</p>

<p>I liked number 7, though, a lot. I have a nephew who attends Big State U two and half hours each way from his home. He goes home constantly. He is not without friends or campus activities, but nonetheless I think he has limited the college experience quite a bit by being gone so many weekends. More and more his attitude seems to be “just putting in my time until I get the degree”.</p>

[drb]

<p>In a somewhat different vein, advice to new freshman from locals. This being Boston, it is decidely less polite (the hard copy column is titled: Dear little sh**s…)</p>

<p><a href=“Personal Growth - WeeklyDig.com”>Personal Growth - WeeklyDig.com;

<p>

Yes, thousands of people were rejected by your school. Yes, your acceptance and attendance proves you have (or at least had) something they don’t. But the whole city doesn’t revolve around the schools of higher education, regardless of how prestigious and antique their reputations.
…
Moderation in all things. In the number of school-sigil-emblazoned items you wear at one time. In the amount of PDA in which you indulge in a given place over a short period of time (this includes high fives). In the amount of alcohol consumed per night. Even in the number of grocery items or home goods you attempt to haul home on public transportation. All will benefit from deliberate proportion. If you are ever unsure how much is too much, simply look around you: No one wears a BU cap, jersey and sweats unless they’re en route to play in a varsity game.
…
So enjoy your time here, treat the natives as you would expect to be treated and don’t wear Yankees paraphernalia in Kenmore Square on game day unless you’ve Scotchgarded it. The rest you can probably figure out in four years.

</p>

[jessiehl]

<p><em>reads the link provided by drb</em></p>

<p>Courtesy goes a long way in Boston?</p>

<p>BWAHAHAHAHA that’s the funniest thing I’ve read today.</p>

<p>On a side note, when I was a freshman, a dormmate from NYC, a female freshman, was taking the T into Boston. It was just starting to get cold, so she grabbed the first sweatshirt that she saw without paying attention to what it was. It happened to be a Yankees sweatshirt. She ended up being chased through the subway station by townies.</p>

[originaloog]

<p>I counseled my son on Item #8. Treat college like a job. Get out of the dorm by 8am and do not return until after dinner. Find a few choice location on campus conducive to study and reading. It might be a library, a student lounge, the Union, under a tree, in a coffee shop or in an unoccupied classroom. And use this time on the academic campus to use prof’s office hours, participate in department activities(his has a biweekly noon colloquia where the department supplies lunch).</p>

<p>Dorm rooms can be a time waster, from sleeping in too late, to interruptions from friends, to that oh so inviting mid-pm nap.</p>

[superwizard]

<p>

Moderation in all things. In the number of school-sigil-emblazoned items you wear at one time…No one wears a BU cap, jersey and sweats unless they’re en route to play in a varsity game.

</p>

<p>This cracked me up. Sometimes here people wear wayy to much Stanford clothes. Its mostly because the only shop that sells reasonably priced clothes close by is the bookstore. lol</p>