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I had earned plenty of time to play MapleStory and browse Reddit. Amazingly, my time spent in class + doing work and studying was far less than in high school where I’d spend 8 hours in class 5 days a week, and then spend hours a day doing homework after getting home. This was the life!\n\nLittle did I know, I’d actually crippled myself right out of the gate. These destructive habits stuck with me as the coursework became more challenging and the classes less forgiving.\n\nBy the time I finished my degree, my gpa had fallen to a 2.8. To be fair, that still doesn’t sound nearly as bad as I’ve been making it out to be. What the numbers don’t tell you is that I went from always getting A’s to never getting one again, lost the scholarship that was paying for my tuition, wasn’t once employed by a company, took 5 years instead of 4, let my health deteriorate, and (worst of all) I became deeply unhappy.\n\nLet me just pause here to say that this isn’t supposed to be a pity party. Every problem I’ve mentioned can be fixed or rebounded from. I’m only sharing all this to emphasize that circumstances change quickly. And the good news is, you can prevent this from happening to you. Prevention is always more effective than finding a cure after the fact.\n\nSo, let’s move on to the advice, shall we?\n\n---------------\n\n# Form Good Habits\nI want to emphasize that habits like these are *difficult to form*. Try to focus on 1-2 at a time and start slow. That means if you currently work 4 hours every day, see if you can get it to 5 hours a day for the next couple of weeks. Then move to 6 and so on. If you want to start eating healthy, then start by eating just a healthy lunch. Go from 2 cups of soda a day to 1. You get the picture. \n\nAnd if you do try to tackle 4 of these from scratch, I can virtually guarantee that you won’t do a single one. Habits take a lot of effort to establish, but the good news is once established, they’ll stick with you.\n\n### 1. Set Aside 8 Hours Per Day For Work\nSo this one is fairly simple, but it is important. The 8 hours you work includes the time that you’re in lecture, recitation, and lab. For those coming from high school, this might seem surprising since you’re already used to spending 8 hours a day in class. Except after school is over, you still have to spend X additional hours doing assignments or studying. So you’re actually committing less time than you were before.\n\nThere was a teacher who actually recommended this to me in high school. I thought it was bullshit. After my first year was over, I’d confirmed it was bullshit. After all, I’d dominated my classes compared to most of my peers while spending less time being productive than I had in high school. \n\nI was dead wrong.\n\nThat’s the danger of just assuming good grades = being successful. I was the Hare in the Tortoise and the Hare.\n\nLet me just get something out of the way here: time spent on homework or studying is *never* wasted. So you spent an hour longer on that assignment than your friend did? So what? Your neurons had longer to form connections related to that subject. Even more importantly, you’re building the habit of working hard. Work ethic is a muscle that will atrophy if it’s not constantly exercised.\n\nFor anyone who can get their work done spending only 3-4 hours per day, find a way to use the remaining 4-5 hours anyway. Review what you’ve done. Read next week’s material. Hell, start learning material for a future class if that’s where you are. If you’re already getting A’s in every class, aim to get perfect scores on your exams just to prove that you can. Ruin the curve and be proud of it. Don’t let all that valuable time evaporate into thin air.\n\nIf your freshman classes are easy for you, this habit applies to you even more. You aren’t working this many hours because you need it to do well. It’s an investment for the years to come.\n\n### 2. Work on Assignments and Study With Friends\nFind the people who work their asses off. They aren’t hard to spot. They’ll sit towards the front of the class, they’ll be taking notes, and they’ll have the balls to ask questions during lecture.\n\nFound somebody? Good. Now go sit next to that person and introduce yourself. You want to get acquainted with these people and work on assignments with them (even if you understand the material easily).\n\nThe advantage of having someone else with you is that when you get stuck on something you’ll have someone to ask for help. And you will be able to help whenever the same happens to them. Another advantage is that being in a group will keep everyone on task. 3-5 people in a group should be the sweet spot.\n\n### 3. Do Not Skip Class\nOh god. Please don’t skip class. The first class you miss in a semester will throw you off so hard. I know it can be easy to justify missing a class here and there, but it’s just not worth it. Go sleep in class if you must, but *be there*.\n\nLet’s say you miss the material from one lecture. The next time you walk in, chances are it’s going to sound like you’re hearing another language (if you’ve got a foreign professor, that might already be the case). The pace of some classes can be brutal.\n\nIn the cases where you absolutely must miss a lecture, call a friend from that class and ask if he or she can sit down with you and explain what you missed. Getting behind in a class can be a total nightmare. Don’t let it happen.\n\n### 4. Eat Healthy Food and Sleep 7-8 Hours a Night\nThis is pretty standard advice for any self help literature (and rightfully so). If you put shit into your body, you’re gonna feel like shit. If you sleep like shit, you’re gonna feel like shit. Period.\n\nTreat your body well. You wouldn’t expect your car to work normally if you put kool-aid and piss in the tank.\n\nHere’s an easy way to at least eat *something* as you sleepwalk to your first class. Every time you go to the dining hall, grab an apple or banana to eat the next morning. Those of you who are adventurous could even get some granola bars at Walmart.\n\nOne more thing: Drink water. I know the soda fountains in the dining hall seem like the best thing since Jesus, but just don’t even go there. Soda every day will make you feel lethargic and give you headaches.\n\nAs for sleep, make sure you’re getting 7-8 hours per day. Yes, even on the weekdays. If all you’re running on every day is 3 hours of sleep and Starbucks, soon you’ll be tweaking just as bad as the meth addict down the hall.\n\nGo to sleep. Just do it.\n\nhttps://ipfs.pics/ipfs/Qma92yLWtueiQjoVzheeA7kNsssxC8ZN73KfWj2H7HA26k\n\n### 5. Join Clubs You Are Interested In\nYou should join clubs for two main reasons. The first is that you’ll be able to spend time doing something you enjoy with others who enjoy it too. The second is that you’ll get a chance to network. Which is a fancy word that means ‘making friends’.\n\nI joined the video game club, but stopped going after my first semester in favor of doing the same thing, but by myself (ugh). A friend of mine would also invite me every week to go to the math club. I went once, but it was a 15 minute walk, so every time he invited me after I’d make up some crap to get out of it (one sec, going to go bang my head against the wall repeatedly). There are no other clubs to speak of.\n\nDon’t be like me or you’ll find yourself without a wide reaching network by the end of your college career.\n\n### 6. Apply to a Few Internships\nOkay, I know you’re a freshman and you still aren’t even sure what it is people do in your field, but hear me out. It’s going to be really difficult to find an internship for many reasons, but it will force you to do a few essential tasks.\n\nFirst is that you’ll have to make a resume, which you’re going to have to do eventually anyway.\n\nSecond, you’ll have to get all your formal clothes together, another task you’re going to have to get out of the way eventually.\n\nThird, you’ll get practice going to a career fair. The first career fair you go to, there’s a high chance you’re going to embarrass yourself. You want to get this out of the way while it’s still completely acceptable and expected of you.\n\nFinally, you’re getting practice with the whole process of finding a job. When you actually have a good chance of getting an internship from your second year onward, you’ll be ahead of the competition (which is honestly what companies are looking for in the first place).\n\nAnd if you do manage to get an offer your first year, take that shit! By the time you get through college you’ll have the resume of a rock star.\n\n### 7. Hit the Gym (Optional)\nAfter my first year, instead of getting the freshman 15, I’d experienced the freshman -10. Picture a dude who’s 5’9” and weighs 105 pounds. I’ll let you decide how I looked on a scale of corpse to 10.\n\nSo I found a friend and hit the gym. \n\nIf you’ve never worked out, it’s normal to be self conscious about the amount you’re lifting. I certainly was. Despite that, I’m telling you now that you shouldn’t give a single fuck. In truth, most everyone else there actually admires that you’ve started working out because we all remember how difficult it was starting out.\n\nFor example, when I first started I had trouble doing bench press without any weight on the bar (seriously). By the time I was done with my degree I’d gained about 30 pounds of muscle and could bench my bodyweight. Working out is something I actually got right during college ([results](http://imgur.com/gallery/EFHou) for those who are curious).\n\nThe first 3-4 weeks are going to feel like hell, but if you manage to make it past that, lifting starts to feel amazing. You’ll walk out of the gym twice the size you were an hour earlier in a pleasant haze of endorphins.\n\nAnother huge component of successfully working out is eating the correct foods. A simple guideline is to get protein, vegetables, fruit, and enough carbs (don’t go crazy unless you need the weight) to have energy. Honestly, getting your eating habits under control will make or break working out, so worry about that before you step into the gym. I had very limited success gaining muscle until 2 years after I started lifting for that very reason.\n\nI could go into way more detail, but I don’t feel that this is as important as the other sections. I might make a post in the future on this topic.\n\n---------------\n\n# Make Friends With People You Want to Be Like\n\nYes, you read that correctly. I’m not saying to make friends with people you *like*. I’m saying to make friends with people who embody the qualities you wish you had. Figure out exactly what kind of person you want to be and then seek those people out.\n\nHere’s something a lot of you might not realize. There are a lot of things you choose to do or beliefs you have that you’ve got little control over.\n\nThis could be how often you study, to how you spend your free time, to what music you listen to, and even whether you’re optimistic or pessimistic. All of these things are influenced by the people you spend the most time with. If you only hang around people who spend most of their time studying, I guarantee you will study more than otherwise. If you only hang around people who play video games all day, I guarantee you will play more video games than otherwise.\n\nYou are going to emulate what your closest friends do. It’s the way of the tribe that evolution hardwired into our brains. Keeping that in mind, here are the qualities I recommend you look for in the friends you make, in order of importance.\n\n### 1. Kind and Optimistic\nI’m going to be real here for a second. At some point you’re going to realize that the most important thing in life has nothing to do with what’s in your bank account, your abilities, or how much influence you have. What everyone is really looking for are happiness and contentment. When you envision yourself as rich or the best in the world at something, what you’re actually imagining is the feeling of happiness you’d experience in that moment. So why not work towards happiness directly?\n\nThe way you perceive the world and the way you feel on a daily basis is heavily dependent on the company you keep. So the people you want to be around are those who treat you kindly and remain optimistic.\n\nEmotions are contagious, so you’d better expose yourself to the right ones. Happiness will make you a more effective human being in almost every way.\n\nhttps://ipfs.pics/ipfs/QmWffzQbdq6gpvVCmV6KXkVHxxX2s2y3qG9hrsvhFZ69JV\n\n### 2. Hard Working\nAs mentioned earlier, you want to find the people who work their asses off and spend as much time with them as you can. If you’re sitting in the library with 3 friends who are working on assignments, you’re most likely going to be working too, not playing Starcraft (unless you’re an asshole).\n\nThis is just another application of you parroting your friends. Make sure you’re parroting the behaviors that actually benefit you.\n\n### 3. 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