It's nice to be able to achieve something every day, or at least whenever everyone around you seems to be doing things – but that's not how life works. Don't get in your own way by being stressed out about where you're supposed to be or how many successful start ups a 19 year old should have under his/her belt.

Marina Keegan, while writing for the Yale Daily, captured it best: "We’re so young. We’re so young. We’re twenty-two years old. We have so much time. There’s this sentiment I sometimes sense, creeping in our collective conscious as we lay alone after a party, or pack up our books when we give in and go out – that it is somehow too late. That others are somehow ahead. More accomplished, more specialized. More on the path to somehow saving the world, somehow creating or inventing or improving. That it’s too late now to BEGIN a beginning and we must settle for continuance, for commencement.

What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over. Get a post-bac or try writing for the first time. The notion that it’s too late to do anything is comical. It’s hilarious. We’re graduating college. We’re so young. We can’t, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it’s all we have."

Walking is underrated. I only did it because I can't bike (I know - it's shameful, embarrassing, etc) but it taught me how to fall in love with this campus. Walking to class gives me time everyday to slow down and just be by myself - and it's probably one of the top reasons I'm still sane. But of course, walking isn't for everyone – but be sure to find your own way of unwinding.

It's true. No grade is final until the curve is announced. Stay hopeful.

Just do it. There's a difference between challenging/pushing yourself and just plain being unhappy. There's too many exciting things to do in college to be stuck doing something you hate and don't grow from.

I think it's easy to forget in the midst of all the assignments and parties that everyday you are becoming somebody - and this somebody matters, because it is who you are and will be. And that decision won't be entirely yours, but chance can't shape it entirely either - so if you want to be the kind of person who is kind or generous or loving - start becoming that person now.

Or as Anna Deavere Smith wrote, "What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things."

These two cards may seem contrary to each other but what I mean is this: expand your boundaries and explore as much as you can. But while being out of your comfort zone can help you grow, sometimes your discomfort is telling you something important - and that signal is worth listening to. Sometimes, not everything novel is good and then, it's nice to stay grounded in who you are. Just make sure to draw that line carefully, and to know that the "who you are" question is yours to answer.

And finally,

Remember to take a few moments to step out of your head and into this amazing, exciting new place you've worked so hard to get into - and let yourself enjoy that.