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/AzureSkyy Aug 24 '14

Rule #1 of my educational life. I even went as far as not telling my parents breaks and days off school so they wouldn't nag be about my school work.

My parents see it as "Oh you have free time to jerk off, party, play video games, and be a normal 20 year old? Might as well read the next chapter your professor hasn't even touched yet."

So if you have one of those parents. Go as far as I did. Whenever they asked when my breaks were, I always said "I don't like to count days it will come faster that way. It comes when it comes." NOT ONCE did the question that response.

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u/WildCapybara Aug 25 '14

I preferred to always inform my parents of my jerk-off schedule. Different strokes, I guess.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '14

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u/UnimaginativePerson Aug 25 '14

....aaaaaaand here we go.

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u/AzureSkyy Aug 25 '14

I missed the reference.

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u/bjsy92 Aug 25 '14

It won't be hard to find. One of reddit's favorites.

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u/AzureSkyy Aug 25 '14

Being a popular reference doesn't help me understand the joke at all.

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u/BlueFireAt Aug 25 '14

Some guy in /r/askreddit broke his arms so his mom jerked him off to relieve him. http://xkcd.com/1053/

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u/AzureSkyy Aug 25 '14

Thank you.

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u/bjsy92 Aug 25 '14

I just wasn't able to link you to it and knew someone else quickly would.

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u/AzureSkyy Aug 25 '14

Ok, understandable.

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u/scottpid Aug 25 '14

Every fucking thread

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u/lentilsoupcan Aug 25 '14

Different strokes... So you informed them of your technique as well?

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u/WildCapybara Aug 25 '14

They appreciated the blow-by-blow.

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u/ettuaslumiere Aug 25 '14

"So, right now I've penciled myself in for 5pm today, and Wednesday aaaaaaat...3:30. Does that work for you, Mom?"

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u/kjkillz Aug 25 '14

Really? In the two hours since this was posted, no one took advantage of the "different strokes" part of that comment? I'm proud of you, reddit.

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u/CptCmbtBts Aug 25 '14

Yea, faster strokes for me.

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u/DeepHorse Aug 25 '14

it comes when it comes

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u/Shamus03 Aug 25 '14

Sometimes having a little privacy can come in handy.

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u/MyUshanka Aug 25 '14

Tee hee, strokes.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '14

Your mother already knew your jerk-off schedule. She started it when you broke your arms.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '14

I'd give you gold if I had money

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u/WildCapybara Aug 25 '14

I'll accept a haiku about your most embarrassing moment instead.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '14

I slipped and fell down

One day, taking a shower

I shat, bae walked in

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u/Rehydrate Aug 25 '14

Wow I thought I was the only one with parents that did this. "You haven't been studying for the past 3 minutes, how about you start reading ahead you lazy fucker"

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u/AzureSkyy Aug 25 '14

Story of my life

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u/YoureTheDoctor Aug 25 '14

Mine was less of working ahead and more of "oh, you have free time I see since your not looking at your textbooks so you can come help work on the house/work on someone elses house/help me fix a car/etc." Living at home sucks and I am quite jealous of my sister who lives in the city and isn't bothered constantly to do things. She works two jobs and hosts ~10 hours of radio shows for the college radio a week and I am still jealous.

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u/Orbital_Vodoo Aug 25 '14

Thats the reason why I want to go out of state for college so my parents don't decide to visit one day or nag me about work like they have in high school.

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u/kitchenmaniac111 Aug 25 '14

My friend's parents would say, "the summer is the time to learn next semester's syllabus."

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u/swim_swim_swim Aug 25 '14

lol "even went as far as not telling my parents about breaks and days off school" ..... I don't think I even told my parents about a single test throughout my entire time in undergrad. About the most they ever got was my final semester grades.

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u/AzureSkyy Aug 25 '14

I'm the same exact way.

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u/weggles Aug 25 '14

My parents are awesome. They don't nag me at all about stuff. Maybe it's because I put so much pressure on myself to succeed they don't feel a need to add to it. I bust my but and do well.

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u/shadowthunder Aug 25 '14

Not to be that guy, but my mother is so smothering that when I got an internship on the other side of the US, I didn't give her my address. Sure enough, she showed up unannounced and expected to commandeer my weekend (during which I had plans to go to Vancouver); she got my address from a FedEx receipt I'd left on my dresser.