Here are 10 tips to help you create a productive and memorable college experience… and most of all, to deeply enjoy this time in your life:
1. Answer the question, "Why am I going to college?"
2. Imagine your ideal college experience.
3. Take at least one extra class each semester.
4. Set clear goals for each class.
5. Triage ruthlessly.
6. Get an early start each day.
7. Reclaim wasted time during your classes.
8. Learn material the very first time it's presented.
9. Master advanced memory techniques.
10. Have some serious fun!
For an in depth explanation of each item, read the entire article here.
My advice is to take one LESS class a semester and graduate in 5 years like me. You have a lot more of #10 that way.
Ooooor manage 40 credits a year and graduate in three years like me. Then you get to have real fun way sooner.
NERD ALERT!
By "real fun" you mean "being unemployed", right? Honestly, with today's market, encouraging naive youth to go to college in the first place is just downright cruel, and if they do go, you'd do well to advise them to space it out long enough to (hopefully) ride out the rest of the Obama administration at least.
That approach works too. (And you'll have more time for YAL stuff *hint hint*)
I agree with Bonnie. Three years FTW
Mikayla knows what's up. Also, not taking out any loans ftw.
Are we still operating under the delusion that undergraduate education is at all serious in this country?
I think Elliot's on to something - you could try ...
Get a BA degree in some liberal art over the course of 6 years while you work - hang out w/ quasi socialists, artists, generally well meaning dirty people who don't like war
Realize that your school probably lied to you about the value of your education and job prospects past that of "Barista"
Have a government that has totally skewed your ability to add worth to your society by picking winners and losers through tax codes, inflation, subsidies, protectionist measures, federally backed student loans, ('welfare is the alibi of Tyrants' you remember from one of those literature courses) etc etc
After your deliverance (or is it during?) find the virtues of liberty, YAL, Mises, etc
Get a skill in {insert scarce skill in demand most likely something in the medical field (those people always be getting sick...) }
Be the creepy old dude in class (some diversity offices prefer to call these people 'non-traditional students')
Just "undergraduate"?
A very helpful post! I am on my second year at university, but not too late to change things! Especially useful for me the topic areas of getting organized, tracking your spending, textbooks, nights out and using your campus. Learn a lesson for life! This whole experience has helped me to more closely examine how I used my time and how to make more efficient use of it. Thanks
Nice tips, thanks for sharing this. I'm a college graduate and some of the tips i also experience and it's very interesting. -Dr. Paul Perito
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