Go to your professors’ office hours. They may seem scary at first, but most of your professors actually do want to talk to you. Make relationships with them now so you can go to them later for letters of recommendation, a fellowship, or an independent study. Rent your textbooks. No matter what you’re studying, textbook […]
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STUDENT SURVIVAL GUIDE ’12: Introduction
I was never a math major, but if my calculations are correct,
18-year-olds starting their freshman year at college this fall were born in or around 1994. Which means you whippersnappers might not fully appreciate the super-cool concept for the cover of this Student Survival Guide, because you weren’t alive for any of the 1980’s. Which means I feel sad for you. So for your first college assignment, I task you with (legally) downloading music by Duran Duran, The Go-Gos, Culture Club, Erasure, and their contemporaries. You will thank me later.






