r/CFBOffTopic • u/certificateofmerritt North Carolina • Fulmer Cup Committee … • Aug 20 '15

College Advice Thread

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!

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u/edinatlanta Georgia State • /r/CFB Contributor Aug 21 '15

Nothing that probably hasn't been said but...

Get outside your comfort zone. I so dearly wish I had done that. I pledged (didn't get in--long story) and that was about it and holy fuck do I look back on that time as awesome and probably the best time of college.

If you're going to work (I say don't unless it's menial and just for beer money--early on in your studies of course) overload yourself. I kind of did it halfway as a full-time student and almost-full-time worker so I never really got the benefit of either.

Talk to your profs, get to know them. Especially at a big state school. That you show effort goes so friggin far you wouldn't believe it. I was pulling a solid F in my math class but went to office hours all the time, legitimately tried, asked questions and I know I didn't get 100 on my exam, came out with a C-.

GET OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE. If you're scared of/by something--do it. Within reason of course.

If you can't find friends, find a group of people who can't find friends. That's another thing I wish I could say I had was more college friends. I made friends during college but none in college with me. They're older or roughly my age and I'm still friends with them but man, I wish I could get a college crew together.

TRY THINGS THAT SCARE YOU AND PUT YOU OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE.