Incoming freshman need advice!

[blood zero]

Hey animefuel im an incoming freshman at lane tech and i need some advice about things like what i should look out for on my first day aand stuff like that:o.o::o.o::o.o::scaried:

[suigintou]

Your first day will be little more than a biting obligation to get to know fellow students and your professors. Your classes will mostly be your professors going over the syllabi for the semester. Also, if you live on campus, and your school is anything like mine, your hall RA will be trying to get you to come out of your room and do "fun" stuff.

[partyprobe]

Try making some friends with older students. If you are more outgoing then people will start to notice you and remember you, which is very good thing.

[Ishlitor]

Sit still, be quiet, let them wonder about you and when they least expect it pull out all the epic that you can and blow their fuckin minds. Its better to mind-fuck people and then just let it sit. More fun that way. And if you do it that way then you also avoid meeting asshole people who only act like decent human beings when you outnumber them.:usagi::usagi::usagi:

[carolyn07]

...do?,.

just be yourself!,.

and leave the rest to your professors!,.

if there's something that's needed to be done,.then do it!,.

for friends!,.be approachable!,.it's good to have friends who are compatible with you so there's no need for you to act like someone you are not!,.♥

[analogZero]

it'll be far more boring than you could possibly imagine. Think regular school, only you've got the weight of responsibility on your shoulders.
enjoy and get smart.

[suigintou]

it'll be far more boring than you could possibly imagine. Think regular school, only you've got the weight of responsibility on your shoulders.
enjoy and get smart.

Are you kidding me? College is infinitely more fun. There's more things to do, there's more cool people to hang out with, the professors are more human instead of stuffy, self-censoring high school teachers, the classes are more focused and you actually learn more while in a better environment, etc.

Everything about college is more fun and just plain better than any school beforehand. Unless of course you

[Bobadoe]

Don't drop the soap.....

[quietchat]

I'd have to say that bobcat's advise is worthless since it's directed for someone in grades 1-8 (Just say that senoir jr sophmore freshman is 2 years long going through those classes)


Alright, here's some good advise. First off, since it's a technical school, make a habit of looking at machinery, and try to envision how it works and runs. Any possible opportunity to open up a machine and see all of it's inner workings, take it. Get a job that involves machinery or computers.

Another thing you should make habit of is going to science heavy news sites and learning about new technology, breakthroughs, discoveries that are being made. You won't make alot of progress if you are confining yourself to what's in a text book that stays the same year round.


Now, as for the classes. As a freshman, obviously means introductory courses. With college, some people go in for 8 years of schooling, some 2, some 6, some 12, maybe even a couple of people that only go for half a year. That means that freshman, sophmore, whatever. Those are meaningless when you are gunning for a different degree, so don't even worry about it.

In class, things will get harder as you progress, and I'm not even taking specialized classes yet, but they are nearly impossible for me to do on my own. Make as many friends as you can that are going into the same feild as you and are taking relativly the same classes. This will help immensly, because now you have a collaboration of minds working to the same goals, and this means that if you get stuck, you have more minds that may not have gotten stuck. The more people you have working together, the more easily you can get through homework assignments. Limit yourself to 6 people working together at a time however, because then it gets clustered and everyone will need to start copying each other.


If you have more questions, just contact either me or suig in particular since we are actually in college, I don't know anyone else on the site that is though.

[suigintou]

Not really. Lane Tech is a high school. This stuff happens in high schools :) Remember, the OP is 14.

Well gee, thanks for making the rest of us all look like retards.

[quietchat]

Actually, apparently Lane Tech is a pre-introductory school to the college, so it's reasonable to think that it would be set up similarly to the college it leads up to.

[pink_lotus]

well wat i'd look out for is watch wat u say and try not 2 bug in on peoples business unless u think its ok and safe::D:

[SkY93]

Just look for marks ao you know where to go he second day, and make sure you go to the right bathroom

[theif666]

just be your self.

[blood zero]

thanks for all the info guys that really helps altough i do agree with quietchat's advice!

[wilsonx94]

WATCH OUT FOR SOPHMORES. Most ( not including me, too many of my friends are freshmen) will pull some of the dumbest jokes on you.