tomsjeep wrote:
dog_party wrote:
I'm with the others that suggested to keep your head in the books as much as possible. It's especially important during your freshmen year. It's so easy to get distracted, particularly when you're taking a bunch of stupid required classes that have nothing to do with your major.
What's your major? Mine was studio art (drawing, painting, computer art, photography, etc.) and I also went to a small school (Morehead State U in Kentucky). If I had it to do all over again, I would have taken every stupid required class in the first couple years (with one or two art classes mixed in). I made the mistake of leaving a bunch of those worthless classes 'til the end of my under-grad career and regret it because I had less time to focus on my artwork.
Oh, and keep away from the parties as much as possible during the week (or at least when you have classes the next day).
The rule is 'only party on days with r in them'... Thursday, Friday, Saturday (spelling it out, since you ain't college edumacated yet). Although at Ohio Univ. where I did my graduate work, the line to get into the bars on a Tuesday night would wrap around the block. Partying is much better when you're a junior or senior.
Oh, and I fooled around as an undergrad and put off physics until my senior year... then lucked out and snagged a physics for non-science majors, taught by an astrophysicist whose first words were - we're going to skip all the math proofs, but if you want to argue, we can go to the chalkboard and I'll prove it... otherwise, let's just discuss the concepts. Coolest class I ever took. Doing Theory of Relativity as an art major!
Nice find on the ToR class for non-science majors! Man, you found a good one there! My under-grad book said I had to take "one grad level science class" so I kept flipping the pages until I found a high-level class called "Science of aviation." I learned to fly and got that goofy requirement out of the way in one swoop!
That's brings up a good suggestion to under-grad classmen...don't automatically take the lowest "level" class you can to get past an non-major requirement. My science of aviation class was three pages past the first "grad level" class that would have satisfied the requirement.
Also, find out as much as you can about the instructors before signing up for even the "simplest" of classes (non-major and major alike). I took Comp 101 in my first freshman semester and failed it because of the teacher. I found out 1/4 through the semester that the teacher was the Dean's wife and a real hound if you didn't write about butterflies and flowers. She wouldn't even grade my final paper where I wrote a first-person narrative about a mafia hitman. I took Comp 101 the next semester with another prof and he was one of the greatest teachers I ever had. He asked me at one point (after reading/grading two of my papers), "I have to ask you something....you FAILED Comp 101 last semester?!?!?!" I told him who my "teacher" was and he said, "Oh, that's why."
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My niece asked me to help here with her high school physics last year. I sat down with her one night and started working the trig out with her for a chapter on forces. She sat there patiently for about 20 minutes. Then she stopped me and said, "I don't need to know how to do it, just to understand how it works" 
I also took other classes like: knife making, welding, various automotive classes, fencing 
just saying since I've been there and done that.. My history class had 500 people in it and boy..