- For certain tough classes (especially math & science), you may have to spend hours at tutoring every day.
- For tough classes, for a study group! It will make your studies fun instead of torture. Approach people you’d like to be friends with – male and female – and invite them to form a study group. Then do homework and study for tests together.
- Take general ed classes that pique your interest, as well as your core classes.
- Enjoy college and don’t expect to graduate in four years.
- Look at events bulletin boards for all sorts of weird events, and experience all that you can, especially lectures.
- Take advantage of recreation opportunities – trips, sports, crafts.
- Go to your professors’ office hours. Try to chat with your professors and get to know them as people. It’s okay; they expect that.
- Before you take a given course, find out all the professors who teach it, and observe all their classes. Then you can choose the professor you prefer. This is a wonderful difference between college and childhood schools. Often you can choose your teacher!
- Don’t take someone else’s word for who is a good professor. Your opinion may differ.
- If you are feeling horribly depressed, come home for a short time!
- Ask a lot of questions in class! It doesn’t mean you’re stupid. It means you’re smart, courageous, care about understanding the material, and that you’ll probably get better grades than anyone else. Also, if you’re wondering about something, probably others are too, but are too timid to ask.
- Do a challenging major while you’re young and energetic, and before you have a spouse and children you need to spend time with. A hard major is a sacrifice, especially compared to those doing easier majors. But God rewards voluntary sacrifice. It will hopefully pay off many fold later.
- Take a ballroom and/or folk dancing class! Dancing is one of the most pleasurable things in the world, and women love men who can dance! It’s pure joy, and great exercise. Ballroom and folk are structured dances, so you don’t have to be creative; just learn the patterns and do them.
- The older you get, the more difficult your studies may be. Understanding may not be easy and automatic, the way it probably has been, more or less. You will sometimes have to fight for perseverance (to get through your reading) and understanding; particularly literature, philosophy, math and science. But it’s a worthy fight, as worthy as courage in the face of war. (Story – Introduction to Literature when I was seven.)
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