Tips For Incoming Freshmen

For our seventh blog assignment of the year, we’re supposed to give helpful hints to students who will be attending ISU next year. After getting through my first few months at ISU, I think there are a few tips that I could give to an incoming freshman that might help them get through their first semester.
My first tip to incoming freshmen sounds pretty nerdy but you should probably try to actually go to most of your classes. It’s a lot different than high school because most of your classes it is optional to attend and there is no punishment for ditching classes. I usually missed about a class a week, which isn’t good, but I still went to almost all of them. I had a lot of friends who would randomly decide not to attend classes for really stupid reasons, especially on Fridays. I always hated going to class while they got to sit around, but in the end, two of my good friends that I hang out with almost daily ended up on academic probation and I didn’t, so make sure to go to class.
My second tip is to mix up what you eat in the cafeteria and try to eat somewhat healthy. I started out last semester with eating pizza, hamburgers, and chicken sandwiches with just about every meal. Not only did I put on a few pounds, but I’m so sick of the greasy food. Try only getting the greasy foods occasionally and instead getting salad, cereal, fruit, and sandwiches from the deli. That’ll keep you from putting on the pounds and from getting sick of the eating the same foods.
My final tip involves a problem that happened for me but probably wouldn’t for many other people. Make sure to get an “XL Twin” sheet set when buying sheets your dorm bed. I got a letter about buying them through the school but I didn’t want to spend the $20 so I just took the sheets off my twin size bed at home. This was a mistake. For the first half of the semester, I dealt with the problem of my sheets constantly coming off. If you don’t want to wake up every morning on a bare, dirty dorm mattress, just spend the extra money and buy the XL twin size sheet set beforehand.