Well, I should point out: College is definitely not 13th grade (or whatever grade comes after your final year of high school). First, you'll probably only meet in your class two or three times per week, and you'll probably spend half as much time in class as you do/did in high school. However, you are expected to do a lot more work independently. As a result, professors aren't going to care about whether you show up to class, especially when you're in lecture sections with 50/80/100/300+ other students. You have to take the initiative to meet with your professors or grad assistants when you have questions about the material. Also, no one is going to care if your dog gets sick / your SO breaks up with you / other personal problems. Unless you're in the hospital, you need to get to class every day if you want to do well.
You will, nonetheless, be spending (or needing to spend) a lot more time outside of class reviewing material, reading textbooks / assigned readings, etc. The more work you do, the better your grade will be.
Also this is probably the first time you're living on your own. You can stay up all night if you want - your mother isn't around. Get some sleep. If you take nothing away from this post, you need to remember to get at least 6-7 hours of sleep every single night. Also, you can eat junk food, or exist entirely on energy drinks. Again, don't do it. Eat reasonably well every day, and try to get some exercise - no need to put on the Freshman 15.
I hope this is helpful.
There's a lot of attractive people in my biology class. Too bad I probably wouldn't be interested in their non-superficial details; you're looking at someone who is quite picky about that sort of topic.
One of my classmates had almost the same kind of clothes as Yukiko Amagi: red headband, red mini-jacket, black dress (though with white polka dots).
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http://twitter.com/raydere | http://raydere.tumblr.comI've already seen a couple people who look like Chie (due to wearing a green jacket with yellow stripes) before.
One of these days I'm gonna run into a fistfight between an orange-haired guy with headphones and his silver-haired best friend.
http://twitter.com/raydere | http://raydere.tumblr.comTomorrow is my computer science department's writing workshop with That One Professor and Statistics.
http://twitter.com/raydere | http://raydere.tumblr.comToday I spent about an hour reading a scholarly paper on International Relations which gave a long, detailed analysis of the reasons why current IR theory is utterly useless to real-world policy makers, and suggested things that could be done to shift the IR academic community towards developing theories with actual real-world applications. In other words, a 30-page explanation of why his branch of science is of no practical use whatsoever.
My first reaction was "They get paid to write this stuff?", then I realized "I'm on a scholarship, I get paid to read it! :O"
<><There seem to be papers of that sort in many disciplines.
[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.So my classes start up again on Monday. Kinda looking forward to it. Namely in that I'm going to try and gain some friends, possibly find a girlfriend. Also I'm gaming the system so hard that I'm getting paid to go to college, so next week will be a huge payday for me. Oh right, learning, that too, because that is absolutely the purpose of college.
Through the eyes I have known you.In theory, this gives you more time to explore your options and confirm your interests before you have to declare, at which point you'll need to follow a track and take more specific/more difficult courses. I'd definitely recommend tackling a broad range of subjects your first few semesters; in fact you'll probably have to, if your school has core/general education requirements.
College is as flexible as you make it. If you fill your schedule with research, clubs, a job, etc. you won't have much free time, and if you go premed you'll have much less wiggle room than someone majoring in English.
I'm not sure what the rest of your questions mean.
Nope. Paying for additional years sucks, though.

I say full sized university's are better for social atmospheres as opposed to a Community College.
Apocalypse: Dirge Of Swans.