給大學新生的13個建議：別虛度光陰
College is the time to try new things, meet new people, and have new experiences. The things is, it can all fall apart if you don’t have a clear idea of what you are getting into. Be sure to make the best of it with these tips for new college students.
大學是嘗試新事物、結交新朋友、經歷新體驗的時機。問題是如果你不清楚自己要做什麼，這些機遇就會白白浪費掉。大學新生一定要好好用用下面的這幾個方法。1. Go to class
去上課Oh, it will be so tempting to sleep in. After all, you’re a college student! You can do what you want, right? Well, you sure can if you want to scramble to make up for it later on. It is much easier to hold a GPA than to attempt to bring it up!
睡覺很誘人呀。畢竟你是大學生了！你可以想做什麼就做什麼，對吧？好吧，如果你想以後倉促補上那當然可以。保持住學分績點比嘗試提高它要容易得多！
2. Know what you can handle course-wise
知道如何能明智地處理課程It is much better to finish a semester ‘late’ (who doesn’t these days?) than to have a nervous breakdown because of over-scheduling yourself. In the bigger picture, a few months or even a year does not make that much of a difference, unless you want to brag about how you finished school on time.
推遲完成（現在誰不這樣？）比過度安排導致自己精神緊張要好得多。從大局的角度看，幾個月甚至一年的時間也不會有多大的不同，除非你想吹噓自己如何按時完成學業。3. Get involved
參與進去You might be attending school in a different state, or even in your own state. Either way you can afford to expand your interests and meet new people. College is an easy way to make contacts and new friends!
你可能要去到另外一個州讀大學，也可能還是在自己家鄉所在的州。無論是在哪裏，你都能夠擴大你的興趣並結交新的朋友。大學是接觸和結交新朋友的簡單方式！4. Make friends in your program who are ahead of you
結交班級裏成績比你好的朋友This way you might be able to borrow their old tests, notes and/or lab reports. This is not cheating, but using your resources and contacts wisely. Many sororities and fraternities have these resources available, some even in database form! You can trade off with this friend or do something nice like bake him/her cookies for their help.
這樣你就可能向借他們以前的測驗、筆記和/或實驗報告了。這不是作弊，而是明智地使用你的資源和人脈。很多姐妹會和兄弟會都有這些資源，有一些甚至存在了數據庫裏！你可以和你的朋友交換下，或做一些像給他/她烤餅乾這樣的事情來感謝他們的幫助。5. On that note, consider joining a sorority or fraternity
說到這裏，可以考慮加入姐妹會或兄弟會Yes, you have to go to social events. Yes, you might get categorized as a snob or fill-in-the-inappropriate-name-blank, but you really can benefit from the social network and resources (such as old tests).
是的，你必須要去社交。是的，可能有同學覺得你很勢利，覺得你很煩哪兒哪兒都有你，但你真的可以從這些社交網絡和資源中受益（如以前的測驗）。6. Buy your books online or from a friend
從網上或朋友那裏買書Holy cow, the universities make a boatload off of textbooks! Using one book for a semester (even with selling it back) can cost $100 plus! Many companies like Amazon sell textbooks cheaper than at universities and offer gift cards at a decent rate to sell them back.
我的天，大學的教科書可以裝滿一船！一學期用一本書（甚至把它賣掉後）就得花100多美元！許多像亞馬遜這樣的公司賣的教科書價格比大學裏要便宜，而且還提供禮品卡，用完後賣出去的價格也合理。
