Helpful Tips

Here are some basic useful tips that will help you survive your freshman year and can also be applied to your daily life. The first tip that I will offer is to make sure you get to know your roommate thoroughly and know what each other likes. For instance, studying with the music on or off, leaving a light on when you sleep, and having the television on when someone is trying to sleep. Your roommate will be with you the whole year so you need to make sure you make a good impression and get things figured out when you first get there and not just let everything pile up. Also, another helpful tip would be to get to know the people on your hall and in your residence buildings. You will see them every day and are going through the same emotions and experiences.

Find the perfect little niche or place where you can sit down, study, and focus on your work. If you find that cozy spot where you can get things done you will be more productive. You will not get distracted or lose focus on your subjects. When you are sitting there with your friends and watching television you get distracted and it takes you double the time to get things accomplished.

A third and obvious tip that I would suggest would be just going to classes. Even those rough 7:30 a.m. classes where you just want to sleep and find yourself struggling to get up and hitting the snooze button. When you go to class, you will learn the material and some professors give you helpful tips on what the test will be like and the test questions. They also inform you if there will be any changes to your test times and what will be covered.

During your first week or two of classes, make connections with people in your classes. They will be a great benefit to you whether you have questions about homework or upcoming quizzes or forming study groups that will help you concentrate and stay focused. Through meeting your peers in class you will have someone to sit with each time and after awhile you tend to get introduced to their friends and keep meeting new people.

If you have ever been to a college dining court, then you know how much greasy food they serve you and most of it is horribly bad for you. Make sure you try and eat a good balanced diet and not get sick off of eating just plain junk. You need to try and eat right and exercise as much as you can. The more exercising you do, the better you will feel about yourself. Another word of advice is to sleep. Sleep is crucial to survival and without it you get nothing done. You need to set an approximate time to go to bed during the week and stick to it. After a certain point in the night if you are up trying to cram for a test you will never remember what you are studying in the morning. These are just a few of the things that I have noticed that have helped me greatly in college.