College Prep

Okay; so here's my little guide to college life and a few tips & advice to prepare yourself for this fast, crucial, hard year ahead. So you finish school and through the norm and peer pressure of today's society you decide to give college ago. You might need A-levels for University or your best-friends going, for whatever reason you decide college life is for you. That my friend is a decision you probably should have thought about harder. First thoughts of going to college.. new friends, new experiences, fun, party's, a chance to be treated more like an adult instead of a child, money, your 17th & 18th birthdays, fresh start and all that other rubbish. So to put it bluntly it normally doesn't go too plan. You lose friends from school and instead of necessarily making new friends at college, you make 'friends'. These are people you see in your lesson, will talk to maybe at lunch or before an exam & then never see through any of the holidays. Or you may be lucky to meet a few decent, honest people who will still keep in contact with you through your time at college and maybe beyond. Next there's the whole 'new experiences' & 'house party' palaver. I suppose some people I know have fulfilled this expectation but not all. You think you'll be invited to all these cool house party's, where you drink the night away and laugh until your stomach hurts. But lets be honest when do you have the time for these party's? You start college you get work, your first exams will be in January and you think they'll be doss, the same as GCSE's. Obviously can't be much harder. This is when you find yourself wrong, 2-3 months down the line you get the results back but not the ones you were expecting you thought your exams went okay you look down at the paper to see Astrology - F Chemistry - U. So fuck what do you do now. You still want to go see your friends but then you realise May/June will be a lot harder now adding the two exams you fucked up on to the pile of exams you are later due to take. Now wth do you do? A) don't bother trying B) work your ass off & have no social life C) become oblivious to any exam and repress anything to do with revision. So yeah that's what I did.. Not a good idea. Also you're 16 now coming up 17. You want your own money; unless you're a spoilt little child and mummy & daddy buy everything for you. asdfghj life isn't all rainbows and unicorns. Let's be honest we all need our own money here & there, that's what pays for the retakes, the revision guides, the paper, the pens, the new laptop you so happy to really want & all the other irrelevant college shit that you feel you need. So to put it simple you need a job, but with a job comes WORK. ...... to be continued. After working all day today & having college tomorrow i'm going to take my own advice & REST. Goooood night all.