Tuesday, December 30, 2008

College Tip, Tricks and Ways to get a 4.0 Without Showing Up




In just a few days I will officially be a college girl. I've waited a long time to finally go, and I'm so glad it's finally hear. Already the experience has been interesting. I was pretty confident that I wasn't scared and that leaving home would not be to terrible. I'm not so confident anymore.


I woke up on Saturday, our departure day, and was cranky. I was grouchy and bordering on rude on some points. I kept thinking to myself, "Tressa, what is your problem?" I'm sure some of my siblings were thinking that to.

When the trunks were finally shut and everyone went into the house fbecause Dad was going to give us blessings, I began to cry. Dad went down the line for blessings, and as my time got closer, my tears flowed faster.

Now to give you some background, I don't cry. Usually the closest I get to crying, is to want to cry. When tears do start flowing, it means I'm really feeling some emotion, but it made me feel better to look around to room and see others with tears on their faces.

This got me thinking about my other notions of college. I realized I have no idea what to expect. I have gotten a lot of advice. As I was driving through Wyoming I made a short list of the advice I've gotten.

Housing
1) stay in the dorms your first semester. It's a great way to meet people, and a nice way to ease into college.
2) Stay as far away from the dorms as possible. No boy will ever look at you, once he knows your in the dorms.

Classes.
1) focus on you classes while at school

2) pay attention to your classes but remember if you only think about your classes you'll go crazy.
3) Assignments only take the amount of time you give them. If you say an assignment will take three hours, then it will take three hours.
4) Make sure you give yourself cushion time. Start early, and allow for the unexpected.

Food



1) Eat cheap
2) Eat healthily

3) Don't worry about your food, just have boys buy your food.


Boys
1) stay away from the boys.
2) make sure you go on as many dates as possible.
3) don't be a brownie maker and chase after the boys. Have them chase after you.
4) Make your self available to the boys. They are lazy and won't spent to much energy, chasing after you.

Now, I'm sure that a lot of this advice is compatible. I'm sure that a lot of this advice I can adapt to be compatible, but some of these are polar opposites. I guess college will be a learning process and I will learn how to enjoy college. If not I got plenty of people who have great advice.

3 comments:

ESN said...

I like your new background. Cute! Good luck with all of that advice. I won't add any to make anything more confusing, but I will say this. I trust your guts more than I can tell you. So go with what your guts tell you! By the way, I love your guts!

EDETR's Dad said...

Poppa's proud of his little girl.

EDETR's Dad said...

By the way, I didn't find you cranky the day you left.

You were your normal, wonderful self.