Advice to future college students

1. Save your notes so you can sell them to your friends the next semester. 2. College advisors will keep you in college forever so form your own plan. 3. You have the right to change your mind and change majors. 4. Make sure to officially drop classes because some professors will not drop the course for you if you fail to show up, then later you find an F on your report card. 5. You are the one doing all the work and paying back student loans, so pick an occupation that makes you happy. You got your whole life to be disappointed so dream for as long as you can. 6. Get a job. You heard the one with the gold makes the rules, so earning your own keep puts you in a bargaining position with your parents when financial decisions on your college expenses are made. 7. College is not a 4 year vacation from your parents where you can do whatever you want and parents will pick up the tab for you. Eventually, parents won't be around to take care of you so a college degree is nice to have. 8. Don't put anything in your dorm room that you can't handle being stolen. Money, music, checks, leather jackets are most often stolen things. And some roommates steal from you too. 9. Many internships are not paid. Plus, they expect you to pay your own apartment rent and car expenses without a paycheck. If you are lucky, they will pay minimum wage. 10. Watch for credit card offers. If you put away your credit card bills in a drawer and never pay them, THEY DON'T GO AWAY. These credit card companies target students without income expecting their parents to pay these bills.