Name: 10 Things I Learned in College
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hi everyone it's trung I know many of
you guys have already started University

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so I thought it'd be time to let you
guys know the 10 things i learned in

college i graduated last June with a
bachelor's degree in communication at UC

I was a transfer student which means
that i spent two years at a community

college and then finished off the rest
of my two years at a university

so with that being said let's get on
with it go to your counselor

I don't care if the appointments are
booked back-to-back you go drop in on

office hours just be a pest your
counselor is going to be the person that

sets up a roadmap for you so you know
exactly what you need to do in order to

transfer or graduate i highly recommend
seeing your counsel at least twice in

your academic career to make sure that
he or she hasn't graced on over any

don't be scared to sit in the front of
the class it makes it less tempting to

goof off or gossip with your friend or
fall asleep because the professor's

it forces you to listen to a lecture and
just absorb what's going on in class

turn your complaints into a productive
question we've all had that class with

that crappy professor was completely
incompetent and sure it feels good to

kind of vent it out with your friends
and your classmates but it's totally

if you're not doing anything with that
frustration type out and pinpoint

it's ok it's a question is really broad
just make sure you refine it because in

pointing exactly what you don't
understand is going to help you move out

of that black hole you're in and make
the cost a lot more understandable

in it he or she can't read your mind so
you have to ask the questions write in

i kno textbooks are very very costly and
pretty much investment but what's the

point and paint true dollars that book
if you gotta be in the class

so what works for me is I have to
physically write in the book so let's

I'll draw a line and then I'll condense
the information and just write a short

summary about it even if it's just a few
bullet points on what happened

these little notes are going to help you
kind of organize the information and

just retain a lot more because you're
interacting with the text as opposed to

just passively glossing over the words
after doing this message that i found

that by reading comprehension just shot
up my grades really improved because i

was challenging myself to see if I
actually understood what I was reading

take large projects and divide them into
smaller tasks

once you hit your upper division units a
lot of professors they don't assign busy

you're not going to get some your turn
every day most likely you're going to

have two or three projects or exams that
are going to define your grade

so a lot of projects can seem very
daunting and just really overwhelming in

my junior year of college I had the
stats class and our grade revolved

around one huge solo project that
project gave me so much anxiety that I

use that energy to work on that project
day by day or else i just hope

physically uncomfortable and that last
tip kind of bleeds into this one which

so let's say the professor assigns me a
20 page research paper all with legit

sources and perfect grammar and etc how
I'm going to do this one day outside

myself to find six to ten just legit
credible sources and that's it I don't

even read it just find sources and just
call it a day

the next day i'll actually read maybe
two or three of them to see if there's

I can use for my paper and the next day
i'll read some more and the next day

I'll come through some facts just taking
this day by day and making little to-do

list either on your phone or just on a
platter or something

whatever works for you is going to help
you really break down these huge

I know it's so tempting to just stay in
your warm bed and watch Netflix all day

just go to class because what you will
need to get out of bed was knowing that

I was paying thousands of dollars to
learn something

learning to deal with homesickness when
I first transfer Davis I really

struggled with being homesick for the
first three months I was fine because

everything was just knew and sparkly and
fun but after that three months kind of

I felt really really depressed and what
made it worse was when i went to my

original home like my parents house
where I grew up and that's going to feel

like home either it just felt both
familiar and foreign at the same time

and so I was just in this weird limbo
zone

I'd say watch garden state to know
exactly what I'm talking about

I couldn't tell you what helped me get
past feeling homesick

other than just waiting it out just know
that a lot of you a lot of us have felt

this way to and just hang in there know
what environment works best for you when

i was working at home in my darkroom in
davis

I got nothing done literally I just
would go on tumblr or you to all day and

it was just a time vampire in my oh my
god oh I don't talk about it

I found my favorite place study which
was the shields library on the second

floor because that room was massive
brightly lit and

I was just reading about other people
were studying to which kind of

so find a place that really gets in the
zone and stick to that your grades do

not define you as a person growing
upgrades felt like a huge reflection of

my own self-worth and if I had bad
grades I would see myself as a bad

person and that's definitely not the
case

it was probably because I was raised the
constant pressure to do well in school

and if i did it i just felt really
shitty about myself

I was really really hard on myself to
get good grades and that pressure

actually crippled me from getting the
great that I wanted this lesson hit me

when I was a senior in college and this
is when my grades shot up because I just

didn't give up the game or I went to
class wanted to burn something as

opposed to just try to remember exactly
what the professor said wondering what's

I was just a lot less anxious and I was
actually happy to go to class and that's

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