Ten things they fail to tell you before enrolling in college.

1: It doesn't matter how well you managed your homework time in high school. You will be given more than ever before and you get no "late passes."

2: "Prerequisites" are pointless. They spend the first six weeks reviewing everything you should have known to take the class in the first place. Don't let that course-code jargon intimidate you.

3: You will do things you never thought you would do. Like snowboarding. Or having a Wii/ ramen party. Or simply smashing cake in someone's face. It will happen.

4: Textbooks are best used for stacking atop one another and mimicking a step-ladder for those things in hard-to-reach-places. (library bookshelves can go way up.)

5: When they tell you "it's okay if you don't know what you want to do with your life yet!", they are lying to you. You have a semester's worth of generals to figure it out, unless you want to overload your schedule with credit hours to graduate on time.

6: There's a high probability that sugar will become your best friend. Stick with it though, and avoid caffeine and energy drinks. Unless you want to wake up, 5 red bulls and 2 hours later, in a ball on the bathroom floor thinking those Chinese Communists you just spent all night reading about are after you...and forgetting you have a test in 45 minutes.

7: Work is important; but make sure you enjoy it. As soon as the university ships you off into the real world you better hope you love your career as much as you initially thought you would. Take advantage of being able to do whatever you want during your 4 years of undergrad school. fun fun fun fun fun. I mean...work*...eh...yeah.

8: Don't be sucked into that sorority rite-of-passage-bullshiza. If you feel left out, go color some Greek symbols on a t-shirt, or lack thereof, and strut around campus like a) you have nothing better to do with your life, and/or b) you're so hungover you don't know where you're going. You'll fit in perfectly and everyone will believe you.

9: Don't stop and take fliers from random people on campus. Especially not those advertising for Campus Rail Jam Tour. Just kidding. :) TAKE THEM!!

10: You will, most likely, be driven to the brinks of insanity.

:) But overall, it's really a lot of fun if you pick the right friends. And bring your boyfriend.

Love, Kalynn.