How To Prepare For College?
Your Next Big Step: Preparing for College
College can be a time of freedom: no parents, no principals checking up on you, all-you-can-eat dining halls, new people to meet around every corner, and thousands of ideas and activities buzzing around campus. To avoid dizziness, it helps to enter with your feet on the ground. Many students come to college with no idea or plan of what they'll do afterwards. That kind of open-mindedness can be helpful since those with too-rigid plans end up modifying them anyway once they're away from their old schools, homes, and social lives. But having some sort of idea what you want out of college, even if it's just what sort of big things you want to figure out, can give you the rudder you'll need to steer through the many choices you'll be faced with on campus and get the most out of your college experience.
Required Reading: What You Should Know Already
The truth is that most colleges won't expect you to get to campus with anything more than the high school education you'll already have. Super ambitious students can talk to professors and current students or peruse online class syllabi to get a jumpstart on their college reading, but the vast majority of students will be served by following any suggestions your college sends out to admitted students or just waiting until your college courses actually begin to hit the books. If you'd like to do more preparing, consider spending time with classic texts like Plato's dialogues, Gandhi's autobiography, or Shakespeare's plays to give you new space for reflection… or smart-sounding allusions for papers.
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