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- cookiebearo, on 10/10/2007, -3/+90sorry to be picky, but it's 40 not 50 :/
- karebu, on 10/10/2007, -6/+47'Mirror' (the site's slowing down quite abit already):
I just finished my first week as a senior at SDSU, and now all the useful tips are coming back. Freshman, pay attention. I learned all these the hard way. Here they are, in no particular order:
1. NEVER buy your books until you absolutely need to. $500 to buy all of your school books per semester is extortion. Borrow or steal if necessary. Some professors even list their books but never use them.
2. Don't expect to get the full amount you paid for your books. Realistically, expect about a third of it back. Try not to cry.
3. Use the library whenevery possible. It's free and you can get your books there. Plus, the lesser used cloisters make for an excellent place to have sex.
4. If they're handing out condoms on campus, pick up as many as possible. These things are expensive if you pay retail, but Planned Parenthood gives them out for free. You don't have to use them all at once, you could even save a few for Christmas presents or a waterballoon fight.
5. If you live in the dorms, STAY AS HEALTHY AS POSSIBLE. Come finals week, you will understand why. This includes but is not limited to: using shower sandals, getting vaccinated, eating healthy, practicing safe sex, and hermetically sealing yourself off from your neighbors.
6. If you want good grades, sit up front. If you're tired of hearing your professor's *****, sit in the back and try to fall asleep.
7. Earplugs are useful, especially if you have a roommate or said professors.
8. Learning by osmosis does not work.
9. Avoid classes before 9am AT ALL COSTS. Even if you live in the dorms, these classes will sap your energy for the rest of the day.
10. Wear dark sunglasses to oggle your more attractive students. Museum rules apply here: look but don't touch.
11. When clubbing in Mexico, drinking in Mexico, attending strip clubs in Mexico, the following things are mandatory: Plenty of dollar bills (the $ is as good as gold there), bottle openers, cigarette lighters, comfortable shoes, and US passport.
12. If visiting said country, learn how to negotiate and communicate in Spanish, or bring along a friend who does. This is necessary for ordering food, bartering goods and services, and other things.
13. Never skip on paying a cab fare in Mexico. I saw this happen and La Policía weren't too happy about it.
14. Never let your friends hang off your car drunk.
15. Don't let La Policía see your drunk friends in a rented car across international lines.
16. If #15 happens, try to explain to La Policía why you don't have the special 'insurance' and try to stall until your Spanish friend can come bail you out.
17. Advise your drunk friends to stay in the car while #16 goes on, otherwise they will be shot. I'm serious.
18. If you think someone likes you, spend more than a few days trying to get to know them before sleeping with them.
19. Try to sleep at their place.
20. If it turns out to be a one night stand, try not to take it too hard. It's better to move on in the long run.
21. The popular group from high school made it into college too. They're called fraternities and sororities.
21. Avoid frat guys and sorostitutes like the plague.
22. Try not to feel too angry about how some students have their parents pay for everything in their life while you work hard to apply for scholarships you won't get.
23. Take a part time job you might like. They're hard to find, but they're out there.
24. General Education requirements are a fact of life. Even though they're useless and do not apply to your major, they're usually very easy, so don't blow them off. The good grades in these classes with save your GPA later on in college life.
25. Upper division classes are more difficult. Try not to take them all at once, unless you hate sleep.
26. Sleep is our friend
27. Calculus was made by the devil to confuse and anger all students.
28. The following majors are doomed to poverty: English, Psychology, undeclared, Spanish, Art, Art history, theater, monkey physics, witch hunter, philosophy.
29. The following majors have a decent chance of becoming successful while not even finishing college: Business, Business administration, International business (travel required), accounting, gold-digging, prostitution (women only), sycophant, political science.
30. Statistics is not really a type of math, just a good way to guess.
31. If you have the opportunity to study abroad, do so. Might I recommend Europe? Avoid the Middle East if possible.
32. Studying abroad is expensive. Save all the money you can.
33. When buying concert tickets to a large event, never buy them online from e-bay. Instead, buy them from a scalper the day of the concert.
34. Protect your computer, cell phone, and ipod at all costs. These things are you're lifelines. College students can only live 36 hours without all 3.
35. Protect you car stereo if you live in a bad neighborhood.
36. Facebook is a critical instrument in college.
37. Things change at home while you're away at college.
38. You can't go home again.
39. Figure out who you are, what you want out of life, and identify your beliefs while in college.
40. If you insist on staying in college for more than 4 years, enjoy them while you can. - ThreeDee912, on 10/10/2007, -5/+33"26. Sleep is your friend"
+1 to that... (-yawns-) - Bricks, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2930. Statistics is not really a type of math, just a good way to guess.
33. When buying concert tickets to a large event, never buy them online from e-bay. Instead, buy them from a scalper the day of the concert.
He must've used statistics to determine that there were 50 entries, and that scalpers are a great way to save money.. - doubleoh7, on 10/10/2007, -0/+25I make a killing as a witch hunter.
- digghasnoethics, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1538. You can't go home again.
This is perhaps the key thing you have to learn. Physically you might manage it, but mentally its no longer there anymore. You've been changed by your time away, what you've learnt, the experiences you've had. Home hasn't changed that much, but what you see makes you think its a different world.
Expect to move elsewhere, have different friends and different goals.
BTW That's a good reason why you go to college in the first place. - nibinathion, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1428. The following majors are doomed to poverty: English, Psychology, undeclared, Spanish, Art, Art history, theater, monkey physics, witch hunter, philosophy.
Only applies if the only reason you went to college is for job training. In which case you might as well gone to a trade school. - RealmDown, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Dugg for #28 and the excellent use of the word, "sorostitutes"
- fishbert, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1141. Always close your dorm room door when you leave, even if you're just going a few doors down the hallway. If you don't, you may find an unknown hairy drunk passed out on your bed. (happened to a friend)
42. If your roommate gets up in the middle of the night, climbs down from his bunk, ***** on a chair in the middle of the room, then climbs back up to his bunk... let the campus police clean in up. (again, happened to a friend... and they did) - mach4x0r, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1329. The following majors have a decent chance of becoming successful while not even finishing college: Business, Business administration, International business (travel required), accounting, gold-digging, prostitution (women only), sycophant, political science.
True Dat. - Dylson, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Or hes trying to make it more convenient. But sure, believe whatever you want.
- gravylookout, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Don't change majors more than twice. After five I'm still unsure.
- fishbert, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Your prostitution courses will come in handy, though. (#29)
- epiffffany, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Proper grammar is harder for some.
- maliath, on 10/10/2007, -5/+14"28. The following majors are doomed to poverty: English, Psychology, undeclared, Spanish, Art, Art history, theater, monkey physics, witch hunter, philosophy."
Dugg for being fun, but this point is horribly inaccurate. I was a philosophy major and I'm in medical school. You can study whatever you want, and philosophy at a large university is the most inter-disciplinary education you can get. I had professors from neuroscience, biology, mathematics and physics in the philosophy department. - Gambit89, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11Here's a mirror:
Top 50 things high school taught me.
Thank God it's over.
Some things high school taught me:
1. Teenagers never use time wisely.
2. Pens usually run out of ink right after the teacher says "Go" to begin your 3 in-class essays.
3. You usually don't understand the poem or prompt for an English essay until you've bluffed the first half of it.
4. It IS possible to take a test on a novel if you haven't read it...but you can't expect a 100% on it.
5. When you tell the teacher that he NEVER mentioned anything about a test, somehow the rest of the class seems to have had heard him in fact do so.
6. When you look wildly around at everyone and ask your neighbors when in the world he said there would be a test, half of them give you a date and the other half shrug, saying "I didn't know there was one, but whatever."
7. You will ALWAYS get stuck behind some slow, shuffling, in-no-hurry fellow student(s) in the only hallway leading to your next class.
8. School bathrooms always smell...and you're lucky if there's enough soap to clean two of your fingers.
9. The only word you'll hear more often than "homework" in 11th-12th grade is "college".
10. Somehow administration thinks 30 minutes is enough time to stand in the never-ending lunch lines, pay for your food, get back to your eating area, find a place in the shade, eat your lunch, use the bathroom, and take care of duties like returning books, paying for dance/event tickets, ordering class rings, voting for class officers etc. etc.
11. Even though teachers KNOW that isn't enough time, if you ask to use the bathroom in the class after lunch, you are guaranteed the response, "You should have done that at lunchtime."
12. Kids don't care that you've been waiting in "line" for 15 minutes to get your food; shoving to the front is considered okay to them.
13. Cafeteria and food cart ladies don't find it necessary to tell them that's wrong.
14. Those kids always get the last pizza and breadsticks, and you've waited in line for nothing.
15. The words, "You have no homework this weekend!" is expected to be replied with "Oh my goodness, thank you so much, you're an angel! I bow at your feet!"
16. There will always be someone smarter than you - and there will always be someone stupider as well.
17. Under-classmen think it's okay to sass Seniors.
18. Seniors think it's okay to teach them a lesson.
19. There will always be someone screeching in a high-pitched voice behind you at football games.
20. Other kids will always get away with breaking the rules....but you won't.
21. Lockout is terribly boring - and the supervisor likes to slurp Coke and belch loudly, then grin.
22. Having no first period may be an advantage for your sleep time, but there will be no parking left by the time 2nd period starts.
23. AP classes take about 10 years off your life due to stress.
24. You can feel completely prepared for a test...and then fail.
25. As an AP student, you are expected to be a take-everything-seriously adult instead of the teenager you are.
26. Most substitutes are crazy.
27. People you thought were your friends can sometimes turn out to be nothing more than phonies.
28. Random and spontaneous get-togethers often make for the best memories.
29. Drama is as common as the trash littered all over a otherwise beautiful, brand-new campus.
30. The day will come when a friend confides that she's lost her virginity, and you wonder where you were in the path leading up to it.
31. High school dances cause more drama than they need to.
32. Teenagers do NOT know how to drive.
33. Your sister will never let you forget that you believe that.
34. There will always be that annoying student who can get hours of homework done in time to go to bed at a decent hour while you're up at 3:00 AM finishing a 5-page paper.
35. Half the time you bring your textbooks, you don't need them.
36. Teachers are people too, and when they get moody, stay away.
37. Some people will never act their age.
38. For some girls, all that will ever matter is makeup, manicures, designer clothing, and boys.
39. For some boys, all that will ever matter is tight jeans, see-through shirts, huge breasts, and a tight butt.
40. People you thought you knew will always find some way to surprise you.
41. Even the popular kids will have to start over in college.
42. Drinking and driving is never cool, and some people unfortunately learn this the hard way.
43. AP students are opinionated. VERY opinionated.
44. At one point or another you will learn what it feels like to have everyone point and laugh at you.
45. It's inevitable that you will eventually say something stupid in class.
46. Report cards are either highly anticipated, highly dreaded, or regarded with no thought/concern.
47. It IS possible to fall UP the stairs.
48. True friends are safe harbors in the storm of high school.
49. You'll be up, you'll be down, you'll be all around...but if you keep your head on straight, you'll come out fine.
50. Though you spend four years dreading saying good-bye, all too soon graduation comes...and those four years have gone by too fast. - benggg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7No, the guy selling weed is the one making bank and smoking for free. Its one of the perks of being a drug dealer. noob.
- fishbert, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Calculus is easy.
Algebra is hard. - ThankTheCheese, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6it's true -- I had a plumbing issue recently and had to stay at my parents' place for a couple days. Just about frickin killed me.
I'd sooner sleep in a pool of toilet water than do that again. - SierraAlpha, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6And I digg you down because I like where this is going.
- smackhero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5hey, he made an educated guess using his statistics knowledge.
- wingzeromkii, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I'd say engineering is also. I made about 10 grand last summer doing internship.
- KnivesForRobots, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6No.1 thing I learned: college age + theater major = theater girls put out!
I took theater as an elective and stayed two years! Never acted in a single play! - LocalDocal, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Er, would it really be a good idea to attempt to photocopy an entire textbook? Worse, you'll have to copy at least three of them? I would imagine most people would get exhausted of doing it before long.
However, that's not to say advice #1 isn't a good idea. In fact, it's an extremely good idea. After a few weeks of my college start, I realized immediately what a horrible idea it is to buy books right off. So many of my professors started off the class by saying, and I quote, "You NEED ::Insert Textbook::", which the vast majority of them will never ever use. Of course, I eventually followed the same advice (buy it when I only need to), but even then, a few ***** professors will always force you to buy it through some cheap trick.
I remember clearly how a few of my professors did this by assigning small homework from the book. It wasn't even anything particularly big, it was just some fill the blank questions which everybody was required to complete and turn in. One professor even assign homework which was entirely based off of 'copy the terms and their definitions'. That's it.
It was outrageous and, somedays, I swore my professors had a quota to fill. - eliezerlp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4** Not to walk around the main street in town with an open beer can in front of mounted cops. You are bound to get arrested (like my roommate). Hey a little more room for me.
- OG1502, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Has anyone found the 50 things I learned from high school one?
- fishbert, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Buying from scalpers the day of isn't really a bad idea. If it's not a particularly high-demand show, they'll probably be trying to unload the tickets so they don't lose the full value.
- RealmDown, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Cool -- look, oil.
- phirestyle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3...because the person who submitted the article made a mistake.
Yes, rhetorical question. - KillMyGPA, on 10/10/2007, -5/+8http://www.duggmirror.com/
- smackhero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3it means falling asleep with your head on the textbook does not help you absorb the information (as through osmosis).
- cuoops, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Research different fields to get into. I still come across people with jobs I didn't know about...and it's been 20yrs.
- LegomanArt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Soo... why are there only 40 things on a 50 item list?
- GodsFavorite, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3They pretty much do have a quota to fill. The campus bookstore at my school is a third party store and they give a kickback to the school each year to the tune of over a million dollars. And my school is only about 2000 students.
- Gambit89, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2http://www.thisisby.us/index.php/content/top_50_things_high_school_taught_me
thisisby.us seems to be under the digg effect, therefore it may take a while to load. - dugR, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2...yep my post really needed to be dug down thanks.
- docbob84, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Nah. That one says "Women Only" and this is Digg...
- UglieJosh, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The undeclared field is a fast rising market.
- speerross, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3oh shuttup. You call yourself a digger? we don't believe in Intellectual property here.
- SakisRakis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Being that college is not a vocational education outside of a select few majors, the choice should be determined on what will help shape you into the best person possible, not necessarily the best worker. Philosophy teaches one how to think, and as such it is invaluable.
- epiffffany, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4I'm being pedantic but that's not contradicting the point in saying you're studying something other than philosophy [now] and therefore may not end up in squalor.
- ChesapeakeBaybe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1On a more serious note:
41. Girls never get wasted at a frat party or leave a wasted girlfriend friend alone at a frat party
42. Re roommates: everyone seems cool until you live with them - RedViper1999, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Yeah I took 5, 400 level classes and I was dying all quarter. I can't remember doing anything except eating, sleeping, studying, and classes for 3 months. I think the stress got to me bad enough that I even started to lose some hair.
- Ebacherville, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Don't wast your time and money going to collage, get experience right out of highschool and you'll be ahead... then if you find a career that neeed a degree, then go back.. youll know more of what you want when yo go into school again.
- uiriamu, on 10/10/2007, -1/+243. Poke the professor until he gives you an A
- raftytaffy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1yeah lol, my jokes are odd
- Kerrigore, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Until you get caught... which you will...
- chicoesdaman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"24. General Education requirements are a fact of life. Even though they're useless and do not apply to your major, they're usually very easy, so don't blow them off. The good grades in these classes with save your GPA later on in college life.
25. Upper division classes are more difficult. Try not to take them all at once, unless you hate sleep."
I say the opposite is true here. I loved my major courses and could never understand why the ***** I had to take chemistry, algebra (from a West African who was very nice but only spoke about 20 words in English), two years of Spanish and a bunch of other sordid classes that had nothing to do with what I wanted to learn about. - speerross, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Army. Get shot at.
- wassim2k, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Could have at least provided a link to the HS article.
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