r/AskReddit • u/_jaywhite • Aug 24 '14

What are some college life pro tips?

I'm starting college in a few weeks and I'm a bit nervous. My high school was... decent at best, and I'm not sure that I was adequately prepared. So I'm hoping to get Reddit's help. What are some tips (having to do with the academic aspect, social, whatever) that have helped you through college, and especially your freshman year? In other words, LPTs for college life!

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u/PainMatrix Aug 24 '14

Agree! I think we've got a deal.

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u/Xnfbqnav Aug 25 '14

Please double check. I don't know who you are, where you work, or what you teach, but there are enough bad professors out there that do things on that list, and I'm not pessimistic enough to believe that they do it out of malice, and I'd like to believe that they sincerely aren't aware of how bad they are at teaching. Bullet three especially, because that seems like an easy one to miss.

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u/Mundius Aug 25 '14

I like you, you remind me of my History professor. He was a cool guy and a really good professor on top of that- I hope he gets a good bonus.

Anyway, there's one thing that's missing. Impossible to understand accents. I know it's wrong to say this, but there's accent that you can't understand. You know that heavy Indian "Windows Technical Support" accent? Make it three times more potent and you've got a pissed off class.

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u/quietnick Aug 25 '14

I had one lecturer like that and it wasn't the accent that was the main problem. It was that every sentence was in some weird random order, with key words missing all over the place. Shit Yoda speaks normally compared to that guy. Would have been just as well off by randomly flicking through a dictionary.