7. Love Thy Neighbor! If you're living on campus, get to know your neighbors. After all, you are going to be living next to them for a whole year. Make friends with them, they can always be a huge help, from homework to hardware and everything in between. In my dorm anytime there is a spider or something is broken, we call on our neighbors to help us out. Anytime they need something cleaned or help with homework, we make time for each other. Even if your neighbors aren't your best friends, at least make nice with them. The last thing you need is an enemy living next door to you who can be as obnoxious and distracting as they want if they want to mess with you.

6. Goin' Greek! If you're in college you should definitely consider going Greek, but only if it's for you. It's a really great way to get involved and get to know a ton of people. Since I started pledging I've met so many new people and had a ton of great experiences. I even got to go pumpkin "acquiring" with a few other Greek organizations.

But make sure Greek Life is definitely something that you want to do. It takes up a lot of your time, and for some of you, it might not be worth it. But definitely check out rush before you decide that going Greek isn't for you.

5. Ration Your Food! It may seem a little dumb at first, but you really can't just eat EVERYTHING in your dorm all at once. When I first moved into my dorm, my roommates and I brought a TON of food with us. Our RA told us that by the end of the month, we'd be scrounging for food. We all all thought "Nah, we've got a ton of food, it'll last." Well, within three weeks, we were living on bottled water and mac and cheese because that's all we had left and we had run out of cash.

You WILL end up living by this rule

4. Limit Your Distractions! I know with all the fun stuff on the internet and all your friends around, it's really difficult to focus, so sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and remove yourself from the distractions. I've had several nights where I decided that socializing was more important than getting my homework done early, I thought, "I'll just stay up tonight and finish it." But the distractions only got worse and I ended up until 4 in the morning struggling to finish my work. (Though I did get some funny stuff from the conversations I had while putting off my work.)

Don't let the picture fool you, it really IS a bad idea.

3. Sleep! Sleep! Sleep! It really is one of the most important things. I know it's hard and that you have a lot of work and no other time to do it, but your body can only handle so much sleep deprivation before it just shunt down. It really goes with the whole time management thing. I know I sound like every other person telling you about college, but I'm speaking from experience. I stayed up until 6 in the morning one night, and trust I
REALLY regretted it in the morning, it was basically impossible to function. I'm not saying you won't pull a few all nighters, just don't be doing it every single night.

2. find help if you need it. If you are struggling, don't hesitate to find help as soon as you can. i know it's embarrassing to admit you don't understand something you think the whole class understands. But you can't let that stop you, because eventually things will just keep piling on top of the one thing you don't get and then all of a sudden you don't understand ANYTHING that's going on, and it makes it that much harder to catch up.

1. Don't procrastinate. I know it's over used and you hear it all the time, but it's so true. Time management is the best friend you can have. Like me, in high school i didn't have that much work, i had an hour after school everyday and that was enough to finish all my homework. but once i got to college, it so much different, i just keep wanting to put it off saying "it's not due til next week no big." but next week comes and it's still not done. Trust me, it's just not the way to do it.