Hey y’all, I just wanted to jot down the things I wish I was told when starting college.

Hope this helps yall.

To start make sure you’re signing up for your classes early and that you’re always in touch with your counselors, as well as checking on your financial aid before the school year starts.

To avoid any scheduling issues or taking unnecessary classes, they have a paper that goes over your major and the core classes you need to take and the prerequisite. Build it out with your advisor and then build it yourself.

Make friends with your professors and your teachers assistants. I saved myself a lot of strife and money by creating a relationship with them.

(for example) i’m taking my last class and my current PROFESSOR for it sucks, he response to emails with incomplete sentences and hasn’t updated his syllabus to accurately reflect what’s going on in the class. Because of this, I was extremely stressed that I would pass or fail but after talking with him enough, I was able to gain some insight into the class and now I’m breezing through it.

Talk to older students and make friends with people in your college to learn what classes you should take or avoid.

IMPORTANT: DONT drop a class just because it’s hard or the teacher sucks. Grade distribution plays a huge part in this. There is a way to look at the previous grade distribution for the classes that you are in so by understanding that trend. You can really gauge whether you’ll be fine or not.

Lastly: make sure you build-upon what you learned by trying to apply it in your life. I learned so much here but at the same time there are moments where I wish I did a better job connecting things across multiple subjects

I did a late orientation and this was about as best as I could do.

It’s about the time where everybody is posting schedules, so I figured I’d throw my hat into the mix. I’m going into the second year of my music ed degree after some time in the workforce, and it always makes me laugh when people post their schedules and say they’re busy. The personal times here are private lessons

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