First Day of School Preparation: College

Video Transcript

"Well, it's time for college, and you're preparing for your first day of this huge milestone in your life. I'm Debbie Noah, and I'm here to give you some tips on preparing for that first day of college. One of the best things you can do is attend orientation. At orientation, you've got college students, telling you what's going to happen, giving you the lay of the land. You have advisers, who are there to help you with your schedule. You have people showing you campus. You have people taking you around to dorms, and apartments, and giving you the lay of the land. It's very important. It'll cut down on a lot of the apprehension and a lot of stress for you and your parents. When you visit your campus, be sure you find where the parking is, where the places to eat are, the, where, if you're going to live in an apartment, get yourself ready for that. Get all the things you need. If you're going to live in a dorm, get prepares for that. Lots of things to think about. You and your parents probably need to think about budgets, and how to manage money, and how to manage your time. How important that's going to be when you hit the big college days in campus. When you go to class for the first day, your professors are going to give you a syllabus, tell you what you need in the way of any supplies, which are probably going to be minimal when you reach college. About, about the only thing you're going to need are some spiral notebooks, and pens, and highlighters. But they're going to tell you textbooks, tell you any extra textbooks that they require for that class. I advise you not to buy your textbooks until you go to class. Cause many times, what is listed in the book store is different than what your professor wants you, to save you some headaches. As far as supplies go, you need a great backpack, one that will be durable. One that will more than likely hold a laptop, if you have a laptop, and all those heavy books that you're going to be hauling around. Again, you're probably not going to need a whole lot of anything else, other than the spirals, some pens, and highlighters, and your textbooks, and your laptop. I would strongly recommend you "ge" having a computer. Most kids do these days. But, a laptop gives you a lot of advantages. You can take it to class with you, you can take it to the coffee shop with you, when you're working on your notes. And, and then just in computer's in general, a lot of the professors put notes on the website, so you can get them from there, and it just makes it a lot more helpful. And probably one of the most important things you need to be aware of, is in college, you're on your own. You've got to know when the deadlines come. You've got to be able to sign up for classes when you need 'em, or you may lose the class you need. You need to know when tuition's due or you, they'll be dropped from classes. All of that's very important, so stay organized, managing your time, and being up on things is going to help you, more than anything, be a successful college student. I'm Debbie Noah and I know you're going to love college."