I am not always sure if going to college was worth it and that is not a great feeling that surrounds the last four years of my life. I know plenty of very successful people who never got their degree.

Basics were a waste of my time and money. Yes, my money. My parents didn't pay for my education and I will spend the next million years of my life paying it off and I am a little pissed about it because half of my education will not serve me in the future simply because the first two years of college are a review of high school and what I feel is the education systems way of making more money off of me.

I am an English major. I spend my days crafting an endless amount of papers on subjects that I do not always find interesting.

Math, while I know the basics and then some, does not provide me with the skills I need to be a great writer and communicator. I feel the same about biology. So here's to all the college students who are struggling.

Change your stupid major if you don't love it! It took me three and a half years to realize that I would have much rather have spent my time working on my writing in creative courses instead of listening to a professor talk and talk and talk about the same book I've learned about three times. There is only so much I can talk about Faulkner and the endless amount of layers that are present in his writing.

Sometimes the red curtains are just curtains and the color has nothing to do with the writer's inner turmoil. If you can take classes that involve your major early on, the real ones, not the baby crap you take first, then do it. You may find out that you were never meant to be a doctor or whatever life path you've chosen for yourself. To those of you like me, there is always your masters to fix the last few years doing something you didn't love.

Your upper level courses are easier than the lower level ones. At some point in time professors actually start treating you like the adults they have been claiming you are. Lower levels are tedious and sometimes you take them as a senior because you assumed it would be simpler to pack your last few semesters with them. Well its not. Because they assume you are fresh out of high school and don't know how to manage your time, the courses tend to have a lot more due on specific days rather than one or two large assignments that are usually at least a month apart like in your upper levels. Get the annoying classes out of the way and make sure you constantly check your degree requirements to ensure that you are going to in fact graduate. Sometime advisers get it wrong. I was in a class that I was told would work for my degree and it really didn't. Fact check everything.

If you can, live on campus. School is your life at this point. You have no other choice but to interact with your classmates and make friends. The fun things you do will be small events planned on the campus and sometimes concerts with good entertainment. This, as I am told, is a better way to forge those college friendships. However, like me, my adult relationships exist because I didn't live on campus.

My friends have different priorities than the ones who live on campus do. Having a real job, not that small one that only gives you the school regulated 20 hours a week, really does teach you something. Being an adult sucks. However, I own a few things, like my car, that I can say are entirely mine. No cosigner like on student apartments and completely yours to ruin how you see fit. That is true freedom and it's ugly. College is really hard no matter how you slice it and it will kick your butt a few times at least. Hang in there, or don't.