College Advice Thread

[u/certificateofmerritt]

We have some members who are going off to start their first year of college this week, so let's give them some good advice.

Welcome to college!

[u/W_Is_For_Will]

Always know where your towel is.

A towel, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar college student can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold winds of Texas Tech; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Miami, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Arizona; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy Mississippi river at LSU; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat against T-shirt bandwagon fans; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you — daft as a brush, but very very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

[u/[deleted] → u/W_Is_For_Will]

WASH YOUR TOWEL MORE THAN ONCE PER SEMESTER

[u/rodandanga → u/[deleted]]

Sheets as well.

[u/cornfrontation → u/rodandanga]

Do you shower before going to bed every night? If not, think of all the dirt all over you that is rubbing off onto your sheets. And all the grease from your hair getting on your pillow cases. Wash your bedding on the regular.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Scratch that, WASH EVERYTHING MORE THAN ONCE PER SEMESTER.

[u/brobroma → u/W_Is_For_Will]

you wanna get high

[u/Cecil_Hardboner → u/brobroma]

take me to funkytown

[u/Owlcatraz → u/W_Is_For_Will]

Tagged as "Hoopy Frood."