Today's Final Four
Four tidbits I learned from college:
1. If you are at a “top 25” school and you aren't getting paid, 50% of that circumstance is your own fault. (I learned this directly.)
2. Just provide stressing parents what the likely end result will be. Kids set themselves up for external stress from their parents by telling them every scholastic detail and every grade. Within the first month of class, you typically have a gauge of the range of your potential performance in the class. So if you bomb your first test but know that you have three more to make up for it and could end up with say B+, why tell your parents you got a D? Say you got a B. If you get an A on the next one, say you got B+ - it shows improvement and those two grades combined leave you about where you actually are. In that way, you can be like B/B+ range to your parents the entire time such that if you get an A, its more love, and if you get anything below that, you can just say you got got by your final. That’s one “ahh well” end of the year stressful moment vs. multiple ones throughout the semester. College doesn’t operate the way the outside world thinks it does (try working in college marketing)…take my advice and just make things easier on yourself. (I learned this primarily indirectly and had a couple of direct reminders.)
3. Don’t use your significant other’s name as a password for anything. Overtime, its use will become habit and you won’t be conscious of the password’s significance. But...if there ever is a time when you engage in another relationship after you and that former significant other have parted ways and you need a favor of them to sign into something for you, you’ll have some unnecessary explaining to do. (I learned this indirectly.)
4. There is always something else: another person, another thing to do, another class to take, something. The phrase, “what am I supposed to do, there are no more ___” probably can be deflated. Moreover, there seemingly is an unlimited resource of people. You should make sure these resources are scarce by the time you graduate/leave. (I am not sure that I ever really learned this).
1. If you are at a “top 25” school and you aren't getting paid, 50% of that circumstance is your own fault. (I learned this directly.)
2. Just provide stressing parents what the likely end result will be. Kids set themselves up for external stress from their parents by telling them every scholastic detail and every grade. Within the first month of class, you typically have a gauge of the range of your potential performance in the class. So if you bomb your first test but know that you have three more to make up for it and could end up with say B+, why tell your parents you got a D? Say you got a B. If you get an A on the next one, say you got B+ - it shows improvement and those two grades combined leave you about where you actually are. In that way, you can be like B/B+ range to your parents the entire time such that if you get an A, its more love, and if you get anything below that, you can just say you got got by your final. That’s one “ahh well” end of the year stressful moment vs. multiple ones throughout the semester. College doesn’t operate the way the outside world thinks it does (try working in college marketing)…take my advice and just make things easier on yourself. (I learned this primarily indirectly and had a couple of direct reminders.)
3. Don’t use your significant other’s name as a password for anything. Overtime, its use will become habit and you won’t be conscious of the password’s significance. But...if there ever is a time when you engage in another relationship after you and that former significant other have parted ways and you need a favor of them to sign into something for you, you’ll have some unnecessary explaining to do. (I learned this indirectly.)
4. There is always something else: another person, another thing to do, another class to take, something. The phrase, “what am I supposed to do, there are no more ___” probably can be deflated. Moreover, there seemingly is an unlimited resource of people. You should make sure these resources are scarce by the time you graduate/leave. (I am not sure that I ever really learned this).
posted by Aristocrates at 11:11 AM
2 Comments:
I learned #3 directly....thanks, shaunkoiner (one word, all lower caps)
the tricky part is trying to explain to them that the password name was never a "significant other"...believe me....doesn't go over so well...not...at...all
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