Note to Students: Tips for College Survival

Student years are great, of course (and parties, personal life and all that), but there are also challenges: After all, no one canceled exams, tests, and adult life. How to behave and what to do in order not to undermine the nervous system in four years (about – five years), make real friends and not be fired after the first session? We’ve gathered together some important tips and shared them with you on Student’s Day.

#1: Make your teacher like you

It’s not the amount of rough material that matters, it’s the impression you create. For example, they like IBD (imitation of violent activities) at Moscow State University: it is better to say at least something than to say nothing.

#2: Your Instagram* is your face

This means that in Stories there will no longer be low-quality photos or uncompromising information about yourself (the maximum value for videos and frames from someone’s stormy and drunken birthday is “close friends” with a carefully filtered list). And also clean your subscriptions! It would be strange if your new classmate found you among the followers of a sex school (although, to be honest, we don’t see anything like that in this one).

#3: Befriend the Chef

If the group is “led” by a corporate spirit that knows how to find a common language with everyone, that’s fine. And if you run into someone who, even under death threat, won’t grade you in a class you missed, you’ll have to try: a few “hellos” at recess, an offer to have lunch together, and now you seem to be pretty good friends.

#4: Buy a printer

Really. Save a few thousand and buy a good printer! Believe me, you will spend hundreds of times more on all your reports, essays or lab work in copy centers.

#5: If you have tattoos, please cover them in session

Self-expression is fine, of course, especially if people over 50 are taking exams or tests, but if you haven’t memorized the material for 120 percent of the 100 possible, then pay attention to both your own and someone else’s nervous systems and don’t shock the teachers with body paints besides absence science . The same applies to piercings and other body manipulations.

#6: Reputation is everything

First you work for your reputation, then it works for you. In principle, this rule does not only apply within the walls of the university, it will also be very useful there. Prove yourself to teachers, classmates, headman so that you do not have debts and problems later, and in the third year calmly go about your work and your own affairs.

#7: Meet the clothes

In fact, they see it too – no, not according to reason as in the proverb. At least in the first year, you will have to try to get up half an hour early to run a marathon and choose an outfit (it is desirable not to repeat). Heels, makeup, and this day is yours.

#8: Take the initiative

In the end, you chose the faculty and university yourself, which means that it is interesting for you. It is clear that (at best) fifty percent will be useful in the program, but try to take advantage of this fifty. Some teachers, especially younger ones, often take students for internships or recommend them to acquaintances at large companies!

#9: Make Connections

Any university will give you acquaintances who can later open the whole world before you. So be kinder and more friendly: you never know which of your former classmates might hire you.

#10: Always be ready for surprises

They write on Twitter: “One morning they called me and said that the teacher was distributing machine guns here. A weekend. Naturally, I didn’t believe it. But I still spent an hour and a half on the road and arrived at the university. And the teacher really sat down and set the exam automatically. What should be added here? Do not mute your phone.

* Considered extremist and banned in Russia.