Many people talk about how college is the best experience of their lives. Although I do agree that college has been swell thus far, I feel also feel that if I don't keep track of my time commitments I'm just going to spontaneously explode. Even then, I feel like my class schedule by itself will be enough to drive me insane. The blessing I have is that none of my classes start until 10:00 or later but the downside is that I don't have any time in between my classes and absolutely no time to get lunch.
Pro tip: Always give yourself time to get lunch.
Another thing I've learned in my brief tenure in college is to never take a class that you think will be "easy" because chances are that it won't be. Art History 102 and Economics 101 were classes that I thought would be a cool fulfillment to my prerequisites, but are currently harder than Biology 141 and Math 111. Even badminton is harder than I expected. Who knew there would be a test over the exact techniques and hits that are performed in badminton? I sure didn't.
I like being proactive and keeping a relatively full schedule to challenge and encourage myself to study and be a proactive member on campus. There's a lot of clubs that I'm looking into and many club and intramural sports that are all very interesting. Couple that with all the supplemental instruction that I feel like I have to go to in order to keep and retain the knowledge from lectures that seem to be jam packed with information that is going to be on the next test that seem very far away but are in reality very soon.
Another fact that stresses me out is the fact that you can't just join many of the clubs on campus-you have to apply, and if you get past the application process there's an interview where they only accept a handful of the interviewees. It's like trying to get into college all over again but with clubs and organizations that you want to join and be a part of. It's interesting and new, but extremely stressful and I don't think I've ever been so nervous for interviews and tryouts in my life.
