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.