First year of college
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First year of college
How was the first year of college for you guys? I am asking because ima start in about a week and im getting kinda nervous about it. Also, any recommendations would be great.
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Where is Harry GO?
The Three Laws of Robotics:
1. A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
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yoshito
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Just imagine it as a place where people actually want to be there to learn. The feeling of being in a room where some are waaay smarter than you and some being almost as old as your parents seems scary at first, but at the same time fun. I'd wait till the second or third week to figure out who's going to stay in the class and who's leaving for a different Professor.
All in all, just try to worry if you like the Professor and will learn from him.
Also remember, although you're a Freshman, everybody there is practically the same. =P Just some have paid more to the school than you.
All in all, just try to worry if you like the Professor and will learn from him.
Also remember, although you're a Freshman, everybody there is practically the same. =P Just some have paid more to the school than you.
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Tell me more about your human emotions.
The Three Laws of Robotics:
1. A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
-I, Robot (Asimov)
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Cloud
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Right now? How do you like Ebay?
The Three Laws of Robotics:
1. A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
-I, Robot (Asimov)
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The first month I learned that you should never take your home for granted.
But after the first year I learned that you should never take your college home for granted either. At first you'll be homesick for your own room. Then you'll be homesick for college when you come home for a long break.
Best advice I got: work hard, and then play hard. Don't try to do this in reverse, though.
Also:
Beer and whiskey, mighty risky; Whiskey and beer, never fear.
Don't treat it like high school: the rules are different. Remember, all of a sudden all the other students were on the top of the heap in high school too, so it's going to be a lot harder to breeze through assignments and tests and do better than everyone else.
Still, there are rules that will help you maximize your credit for the work you do, and once you learn the way the game is played you'll do as well as anyone else. To that end, you should try to get to know at least one faculty member really well during your first year, if only as a way of figuring out your strategy.
But after the first year I learned that you should never take your college home for granted either. At first you'll be homesick for your own room. Then you'll be homesick for college when you come home for a long break.
Best advice I got: work hard, and then play hard. Don't try to do this in reverse, though.
Also:
Beer and whiskey, mighty risky; Whiskey and beer, never fear.
Don't treat it like high school: the rules are different. Remember, all of a sudden all the other students were on the top of the heap in high school too, so it's going to be a lot harder to breeze through assignments and tests and do better than everyone else.
Still, there are rules that will help you maximize your credit for the work you do, and once you learn the way the game is played you'll do as well as anyone else. To that end, you should try to get to know at least one faculty member really well during your first year, if only as a way of figuring out your strategy.
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And? That's an interesting question. I'll come back to that in a minute. Did you believe him?
The Three Laws of Robotics:
1. A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
-I, Robot (Asimov)
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Baakay
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Here's a few of those "do as I say, not as I did" things 
1) Don't wait until the last week of class to start researching the term paper. The librarians will point you in the right direction, but they won't write the dang thing for you and your five thousand buddies By the end of the semester they will be toast from answering the "where's the bathroom" question a few hundred thousand times.
2) ALWAYS write down the ENTIRE citation of where you get something! Name of journal, date, volume and issue numbers, page numbers. Because if you don't, you'll have the best quote in the entire universe to put in your paper and it'll take you four hours to find where the hek you found the thing in the first place. (You might be able to guess that I know this from recent and gruesome personal experience.)
3) Just because you can eat anything you want in the school cafeteria does not mean that you SHOULD. The Freshman 10 or Freshman 15 is not an imaginary effect. Seriously. Treat your body nicely, including enough rest, especially at first. You'd be amazed how sick you can get until you've adjusted to the new routine. (2 weeks into the semester here, and the hills are alive with the sound of sneezing.)
4) Be open minded and consider what your professors and classmates have to say. A lot of them are brilliant. A lot of them are clueless. A lot of them only outrank you because they have more years under their belts and otherwise are stupid as the whiteboards behind them. You have to decide which. *That* is the whole point of going to college.
I suspect you're going to have a blast and be one of those people everyone else looks to for leadership. You're one of the really fine ones!
1) Don't wait until the last week of class to start researching the term paper. The librarians will point you in the right direction, but they won't write the dang thing for you and your five thousand buddies
By the end of the semester they will be toast from answering the "where's the bathroom" question a few hundred thousand times.2) ALWAYS write down the ENTIRE citation of where you get something! Name of journal, date, volume and issue numbers, page numbers. Because if you don't, you'll have the best quote in the entire universe to put in your paper and it'll take you four hours to find where the hek you found the thing in the first place. (You might be able to guess that I know this from recent and gruesome personal experience.)
3) Just because you can eat anything you want in the school cafeteria does not mean that you SHOULD.
The Freshman 10 or Freshman 15 is not an imaginary effect. Seriously. Treat your body nicely, including enough rest, especially at first. You'd be amazed how sick you can get until you've adjusted to the new routine. (2 weeks into the semester here, and the hills are alive with the sound of sneezing.)4) Be open minded and consider what your professors and classmates have to say. A lot of them are brilliant. A lot of them are clueless. A lot of them only outrank you because they have more years under their belts and otherwise are stupid as the whiteboards behind them. You have to decide which. *That* is the whole point of going to college.
I suspect you're going to have a blast and be one of those people everyone else looks to for leadership. You're one of the really fine ones!
Time for me to chime in!
Harry: College is cooler in alot of respects
like some betarians pointed out, for
1) professors treat you like adults unlike H.S. where you are scolded and baby-sitted most of the time,
2) breaks in classes!
You get to smoke, talk on the cel phone, go potty, pick up mail (if you have on campus p.o. box) its kinda nice to have a 15min break while in a 3 hr lecture. Something H.S. never offers!
3) most ppl in your class are there to get their money's worth (i say most cuz you ALWAYS have those stupid immature pricks no matter where you go T_T ) so theres none of that social-bickering crap going on.
Though it is a lil scary at 1st, once you've survived the 1st month you pretty much get the hang of it.
You will be incredibly homesick thou =_=
I know I was 1st yr, now I can barely keep away from my lil apt of freedom XD lol!
You learn to appreciate home and what your parents do for you alot more! Cuz from now on, your doing your own laundry, cooking, bill paying, errands, etc. it sucks but hey gotta start being independent sometime right?
College flies by super fast! O_O so dont forget to have fun too!
It seems like only yesterday that I was but a mere rising-sophmore when
I joined beta .. now I'm on my last yr.. its soo scary.. ;_; but exciting at the same time!
Let us know how it all works out for ya Harry!!
*glompninjutsu*
Harry: College is cooler in alot of respects
like some betarians pointed out, for 1) professors treat you like adults unlike H.S. where you are scolded and baby-sitted most of the time,
2) breaks in classes!
You get to smoke, talk on the cel phone, go potty, pick up mail (if you have on campus p.o. box) its kinda nice to have a 15min break while in a 3 hr lecture. Something H.S. never offers!3) most ppl in your class are there to get their money's worth (i say most cuz you ALWAYS have those stupid immature pricks no matter where you go T_T ) so theres none of that social-bickering crap going on.
Though it is a lil scary at 1st, once you've survived the 1st month you pretty much get the hang of it.
You will be incredibly homesick thou =_=
I know I was 1st yr, now I can barely keep away from my lil apt of freedom XD lol!
You learn to appreciate home and what your parents do for you alot more! Cuz from now on, your doing your own laundry, cooking, bill paying, errands, etc. it sucks but hey gotta start being independent sometime right?
College flies by super fast! O_O so dont forget to have fun too!
It seems like only yesterday that I was but a mere rising-sophmore when
I joined beta .. now I'm on my last yr.. its soo scary.. ;_; but exciting at the same time!
Let us know how it all works out for ya Harry!!
*glompninjutsu*
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Basically if you are an Otaku, then you'll waste your life in College and remain with the rest of us.
If you decide to cast away your anime fandom, then you'll have to say goodbye to us.
It's that way.
Basically, you can't spend the same hours chatting and talking with your College professors, and spend the same with us.
If you want a good Recommendation letter for Grad school... prepare to spend many hours talking endlessly about the most boring latest developements on phenotypic cloning.
p.s. what kind of subjects do you like better? Arts or Science?
If you decide to cast away your anime fandom, then you'll have to say goodbye to us.
It's that way.
Basically, you can't spend the same hours chatting and talking with your College professors, and spend the same with us.
If you want a good Recommendation letter for Grad school... prepare to spend many hours talking endlessly about the most boring latest developements on phenotypic cloning.
p.s. what kind of subjects do you like better? Arts or Science?
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