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This is what a busy week of a college student looks like and like how the kid below loves corn, I can also tell you all about it. This is what needs to be done to prepare for Laboratory Activities.

What I learned from my freshman year in University? (Online Edition) 

Just a quick disclaimer,

I started college in an online environment and all of this tips is plainly based on my own experience. I hope this reaches anyone who just graduated high school or anyone who will go to online classes without knowing anybody from university and possesses a desire to make a fresh start in college to make the most out of it, just like what I wished back then. These are my learnings:

1. Take it slow. This is maybe the last thing that you want to hear, but take it from me, take your time by observing well and adjusting in your own pace. In first activities, always read the instructions in everything that the professor asks you to do and be patient to yourself especially if there are things that do not make sense. Take it slow as well in your interaction with your online classmates if the class have not yet started for this might lead to the grave of great expectations.  Based on my experience, students are excited to look for their fellow blockmates before the class starts, and there will be adding of facebook friends, and groupchats will be born. It is not bad to socialize, and this is like the getting-to-know-you phase but do not let your life revolve in it and let the course take its path.  It is okay to meet and interact but do not pin yourself to a group instantly or permanently. Observe well and find people who have the same goal as you. The last thing you want is a toxic baggage in the start of your college life. 2. Online Low-Key. Do not tell but show, work behind the curtains and the curtains will open for you. In introductions, be simple and humble, speaking your achievements in a loud way can have undesirable effects in the long run. It is easy to make the best first impressions, like to be the most-congenial, and best-in-class-recitations, but the real question is that, how long will it last? The validation should not come from others, or your achievements in the past but it should come from your work in the present. This is a key to have more fun. Being Low-Key does not make you any lesser, but careful and self-reliant. 3. Value self-worth. Giving importance to yourself is stressed hard because online classes might be full of illusion. In short, what you can see is what people want you to see. I heard many achievements that were proclaimed by my blockmates themselves that sounded like elevating them to greatest heights, and this held tendencies to degrade my experiences and to question what I am doing with my life. At the end of the day, it is just a trap of impression that can lure one to a power play, so do not be swayed because in college, all of what you guys achieved in the past does not matter because you are all starting in square one. Focus on yourself, and your goals. Look at the present, and do things that you love. 4. Choose. Choose your priorities and choose your friends. To value your self-worth, you should have a vision of the end result you want to see. A foundation to a good life is built when you start to choose it. To graduate is one thing, and that should be your main priority for now but you should set mini goals to yourself to bring out your capacity. These goals should never involve all productivity, but the strive for growth. Most things are your choice, but it does not mean that it is your choice, you can control everything, but still you can choose your mindset. Pressure is good in some times but not all times, for nothing good will come out without endurance.