Heading off for freshmen year!

edited August 2011 in General
I'm driving to my new-found home in the Aber Hall highrise dorm building at the University of Montana at... eight o'clock AM tomorrow.

Wish me luck!

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  • edited August 2011
    Good luck with that. I don't know about other people but I sure liked college a lot better than high school.
  • edited August 2011
    You are a child no longer, NoLonger!

    Live it up the next few years. Go to EVERYTHING - classes and events both. YEAH. Join clubs. Sign up for trips. Go on exchange. MAKE FRIENDS. Bake and cook for your friends. University is the time and place!
  • edited August 2011
    Seriously. Enjoy it! I miss college. Once you get into the real world you have to worry about things like rent, student loans, and blood money.
  • edited August 2011
    Hoorah!

    College will quite possibly SUCK at first, but never be too discouraged! Once you find a good group of friends, it will be amazing. It's just the finding friends bit that makes it so hard in the beginning. I can't tell you how many good friends have told me how miserable they were for the first couple months of college, before they got into the swing of things. But hey! I love college! Tanya gives good advice: live it up. The way I see it, you have tons of opportunities in college that you won't get later in life, so it's the perfect justification to go all out while you still can. Travel, have fun, grow, and learn. Get a job, save up, and do something you've always wanted to do. You're most likely going to be broke, overworked, and exhausted for the overwhelming majority of your stay, but it's a blast. Just keep up with your classes above all, and fit everything else around it.
  • edited August 2011
    Yeah. Just to be clear, your classes do come first. Don't waste your money and flunk out. It's a good time to learn some discipline that you'll need to have the rest of your life anyway. Get started on at least a little homework on Fridays, and do more of it early on Saturday and/or Sunday just to get it out of the way. It works better if you can get your roommate on a similar plan. That way you focus more, you get your work done, and you can enjoy your weekend evenings as well.
  • edited August 2011
    Or, you know, you could just pull several all-nighters every week of the semester and get it all done like I do. As long as you turn it in and you make good grades! Who needs sleep anyway?*

    *Disclaimer: Everyone needs sleep. Trying this method of study will leave you exhausted and will probably shorten your life a couple of years per semester.
  • edited August 2011
    All moved in, gotta organize some things obviously, but my internet is all set up and everything else! Classes start Monday.
  • edited August 2011
    Just dropped off Zlam at college today :(. Try not to die NoLonger. And enjoy your hair wrap (if yous still have it).
  • edited August 2011
    I honestly don't know how to take it out! :jt:
  • edited August 2011
    Hair wrap?
  • edited August 2011
    NoLonger wrote: »
    I honestly don't know how to take it out!

    It will come out eventually on its own, but if you want it out before, you can take some scissors and cut the very top of the wrap. It should slide off then with a bit of working. (Bonus points if you don't cut your hair off)
    Mish42 wrote: »
    Hair wrap?

    hairwrap2.jpg

    Like this, but NoLonger's is a lot simpler.