#collegeblogging

ahah thanks 😂 I have good news for you which is that by the time you're 24 you're going to have forgotten almost everything about the college application process. i think i was mostly a solid A- student in high school?? definitely near-flunked AP calc, I think i scraped through with a D. but if I remember right colleges are looking more holistically at applications these days. shit like extracurriculars and volunteering and leadership and all that. interviewing can't hurt. it's probably a good idea to write an essay that isn't about winning a sports game.

as far as colleges go I adored W, I loved the campus and I loved Boston and I loved the people and I loved going to a historically women's school. it's unreal how much more confidently & frequently people speak in class when there aren't cis guys there, and you carry that skill everywhere afterwards. the college has a LOT of resources available, and ofc as a queer person there's nowhere better. biggest downside is there's a lot of white feminist aspiring girlboss types around. avoid anyone who shows up anywhere in pantsuits, and don't read more emails than you absolutely have to.

uuuuuuhhh I MIGHT NOT BE THE BEST PERSON TO ASK I had a fairly rough time in college and am currently wielding a chainsaw for a living. but here's some stuff that helped for me

don't worry as much about classes as you think you need to. this isn't a race towards graduation, it's four years of your life. keep yourself under control and all, but there should be times when you go to a party the night before you have a paper due, or skip three days of class for an impromptu roadtrip. school shouldn't be your entire life.

you don't have college apps to worry about anymore, so you only have to do extracurriculars if you actually want to. they're also a good place to get out of your room and meet friends even if you don't stick with the org

this is the last time you're ever gonna have all your closest friends within a 10-minute walk so spend a lot of time with them, even just studying together

personal preference but I didn't date for like the first year and a half, too much other shit going on

keep a planner with dates and stuff but for god's sake don't get hung up on that washi tape and colorful bujo shit unless you really want to. it just needs to be functional

keep a sleep schedule PLEASE it doesn't have to be a good one just make sure it's regular (2am-10am is FINE as long as it's always that)

go to class even if you didn't do the homework. attendance records and hearing the lecture are way more important than homework grades (if you even have those). it's scary the first few times bc high school teachers are HARDASSES about homework, but I can assure you the prof is used to it.

I had this thing that in my head I called "money in the bank" that BASICALLY boiled down to doing stuff ahead of time, but with the specific attitude that im better at doing tasks in big chunks than a little bit every day. prime example is getting the syllabi at the beginning of the semester and taking an afternoon to put it all into a planner/Google Drive/Calendar, downloading the PDFs of the readings, starting a google doc for each day - basically minimizing the amount you'll have to do on the actual day, bc that actual day might be a Bad Brain Day. it's your slush fund, rainy day cash, your past self setting up structure and help for your future self so Bad Days can't hit as hard.