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Some promotors try and take advantage of the freshmen by trying to sell them wristbands for events far in advance, these are often times a scam of some sort. Bring shower shoes. ALWAYS carry your umbrella, even if there is not a cloud in the sky, until at least the beginning/middle of October. if you are a girl, purchase rain boots, they come in handy, puddles can get huge on campus. You don't need more than a 14 meal plan, which comes with dining dollars, try and have your parents put more money on your cane express or dining dollars, all places on campus accept these, like the food court, the rathskellar, and oasis.

Some promotors try and take advantage of the freshmen by trying to sell them wristbands for events far in advance, these are often times a scam of some sort. Bring shower shoes. ALWAYS carry your umbrella, even if there is not a cloud in the sky, until at least the beginning/middle of October. if you are a girl, purchase rain boots, they come in handy, puddles can get huge on campus. You don't need more than a 14 meal plan, which comes with dining dollars, try and have your parents put more money on your cane express or dining dollars, all places on campus accept these, like the food court, the rathskellar, and oasis.

I would advise my high school self to first visit all the colleges on my acceptance list. Then I would encourage myself to apply for more scholarships so taht you can continue your college career all the way through. I would also stress the fact of staying closer to home and not trying to escape across the country becuase you get very homesick eventually. Also I would want to remind myself that hard work senior year pays off freshman year and allows you to have more fun on campus. Over all I would just push my senior self towards meeting with a financial aid officer at the school and not being scared to ask for help.

Here are a couple tips: 1) Wear shower shoes! You don't want to know what some people do in shared showers 2) Sign up for as many clubs and activities as possible at Canesfest (even if it's just to check it out) 3) Make as many friends as possible. Many of your freshman year friends will stick with you for the rest of college. 4) You will get stuck with 8am classes. I promise you won't later on (as long as you don't schedule it like that) 5) Get good grades freshman year! I have junior and senior friends still trying to recover from their freshman GPA 6) DO NOT walk through the grove. It's a really sketchy area between US1 and the Grove 7) Do not even try to use a fake ID in South Beach. They're not stupid.

Don't be lazy and work to getting more scholarships and to getting a higher SAT/ACT score. College is extremely expensive, and finding anyway to lessen that load is important. Study the ACT test book that dad got! If you could get those extra few points on either the SAT or ACT, you could have gotten a better scholarship at UM. And don't be afraid of joining more clubs, being more involved, volunteering more, and just having fun in school. You only get to experience it once, and enjoy it for all it's worth.

Freshman year is the most important year. You need to... 1. Live in Hecht, as it is "the cool dorm" 2. Make as many friends as possible. 3. Scope out the fraternities and sororities. 4. Rush in the spring (there's no rush in the fall). 5. Order Miami's Best Pizza. 6. Be independent. 7. Take advantage of opportunities, be a "yes man" 8. Join as many clubs as you have time for. 9. The freshman dorms are a lot bigger than most schools. 10. You will get stuck with an 8am class, that's just the rule.

Freshman year is the most important year. You need to... 1. Live in Hecht, as it is "the cool dorm" 2. Make as many friends as possible. 3. Scope out the fraternities and sororities. 4. Rush in the spring (there's no rush in the fall). 5. Order Miami's Best Pizza. 6. Be independent. 7. Take advantage of opportunities, be a "yes man" 8. Join as many clubs as you have time for. 9. The freshman dorms are a lot bigger than most schools. 10. You will get stuck with on 8am class, that's just the rule.

After a late night of studying and too many caffeinated drinks, I have a nightmare where my present day self is floating ghostlike over a high school version of me and screaming, “No! Don’t do it!” The mistake that I made countless times in high school haunts me to this day: taking shortcuts in my classwork. I always wake up wishing I could go back in time and tell my high school self what I had to learn the hard way in college. Finding the quick, easy way to do my classwork is not the best way. In high school I could finish my calculus homework in under an hour and score a 94{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c}, but in college it takes me double the time to relearn the material. I never cheated on my homework; I just made my own shortcuts. But in college I have to completely understand the material, without cutting corners. Breaking this old habit is not easy, and if I had this advice in high school I could have saved time and work. In college (and life) there are no real shortcuts to get around the commitment needed to succeed.

I would advice to choose your school based on what you want out of your 4 years of colloge, not where your friend is going or you want a school that is close to where your boyfriend is going. Think about yourself online when it comes to chosing the right college

I would contradict the advice my guidance counselor gave me. She told me that choosing a college would be the most important decision I ever made. She was wrong. No decision will ever be as important as deciding what kind of person you will be. This is a decision you will have to make time and time again. You will have to decide what is of real value to you throughout your life. These choices will never be easy. You will have to make important decisions about whether to neglect your family or neglect your studies, whether to drop out to help your mother or father recover from illness, or whether to try to manage both school and family issues at the same time. Nothing is more important than character. And thus, the most important decision you will make is what type of person you want to be, how hard you want to work for your dreams, and how you are going to treat others along the way.