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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Learn what office hours are.  Believe it or not, going to a prof's office is not punishment and doesn't mean you are in trouble.[/quote]

Yes -- absolutely.  Also, when you choose classes, ask upper-classmen/women about the classes they found most interesting and teachers they found most effective and helpful.

And, friends are important.  I'm 30 years out from college and those friendships have been mainstays in my life through some difficult times.  My oldest kids are recent college grads, and I already see how much their college friends mean to them.  Take time to be a friend.

Set time aside for exercise and sleep.

Finally, birth control is essential.  [/quote]

Either your age is showing, or your nerdiness, or both.  [/quote]

Ha -- I'll gladly cop to both of those (note that I mentioned I graduated 30 years ago).  How about you -- will you cop to your ageism and general nastiness?  How does it make you feel?  Do you need to be gratuitously mean to make yourself feel better?  There are other ways to do that, you know.    [/quote]

I'm older than you, actually.  The suggestions that new students make friends and also get advice from upperclassmen on what classes to take just struck me funny, that's all.  If your college-aged kid really needs to be told either of those things they'e really in a heap of trouble.    
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Interesting that you're older, and, yet, so mean-spirited.  That certainly blows the theory that maturity and life experience can help us become more generous.  Anyway, I understand that my advice here was not mind-blowing at all, but at a time like leaving home for college, a parent might have an opportunity to say something that sticks with a kid in a way that hearing the same advice at another juncture might not.  My sense is that much of the advice proffered here is in that vein.  BTW, what advice would you have for your child?  [/quote]

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