非常实用的50条建议，真希望能在上大学之前看到！转给需要的童鞋吧！
1.Your friends will change a lot over the next four years. Let them.
你的朋友会在接下来的四年变很多。请不要干涉。
2.Call someone you love back home a few times a week, even if just for a few minutes.
每周打给家里你所爱的人几次电话，即使只讲几分钟。
3.In college more than ever before, songs will attach themselves to memories. Every month or two, make a mix cd, mp3 folder, whatever – just make sure you keep copies of these songs. Ten years out, they’ll be as effective as a journal in taking you back to your favorite moments.
在大学音乐会比以往更能引发一段回忆。请每一两个月，编一张CD，或者电脑上的MP3文件夹，总之保证你复制了那些音乐。十年之后，它能够像一本日记一般带你回忆过去最美好的光阴。
4.Take naps in the middle of the afternoon with reckless abandon.
每天中午都要毅然决然的小憩一下。
5.Adjust your schedule around when youare most productive and creative. If you’re nocturnal and do your best work late at night, embrace that. It may be the only time in your life when you can.
调整你的日程到你最有效率和创造力的方式。如果你是夜猫子并且在晚上工作最棒，那就接受这种模式。这可能是你人生中唯一能这么做的时间。
6.If you write your best papers the night before they are due, don’t let people tell you that you “should be more organized” or that you “should plan better.” Different things work for different people. Personally, I worked best under pressure – so I always procrastinated… and always kicked ass (which annoyed my friends to no end).
Use the freedom that comes with not having grades first semester to experiment and see what works best for you.
如果你在快要交差时熬夜赶出来的论文最好，那就别在乎别人说你“你该学会安排时间”或者“有计划更好”。每个人都有不同的工作方式。就我而言，我在压力下做得更好，所以我很拖沓，而且总是弄砸（这让我的朋友发无名火）好好利用第一学期不打分数的自由吧，去经历不同的事然后找出最好的适合你的方式。
7.At least a few times in your college career, do something fun and irresponsible when you should be studying. The night before my freshman year psych final, my roommate somehow scored front row seats to the Indigo Girls at a venue 2 hours away. I didn’t do so well on the final, but I haven’t thought about psych since 1993. I’ve thought about the experience of going to that show (with the guy who is now my son’s godfather) at least once a month ever since.
在大学至少有那么几次放 纵享乐，无视你本来应该在学习。在我大一精神科期末考前夜，我的室友居然搞到蓝色少女合唱团的前排票，而演出的地点要两小时路程。我期末考表现不怎么样， 但在1993年之后我从未怀念考试，我只怀念去看演出的经历（还是和现在我儿子的教父一起去的），而且从那以后每个月都想起那么一两次。
8.Become friends with your favorite professors. Recognize that they can learn from you too – in fact, that’s part of the reason they chose to be professors.
和你喜欢的教授交朋友。同时记得他们也会从你身上学到东西——事实上这也是他们想当教授的原因之一。
9.Carve out an hour every single day to be alone. (Sleeping doesn’t count.)
每天匀出一小时独处。（睡觉不算）
10.Go on dates. Don’t feel like every date has to turn into a relationship.
出去约会，但别想着每个约会都将变成恋爱。
11.Don’t date someone your roommate has been in a relationship with.
不要和你室友的EX交往。
12.When your friends’ parents visit, include them. You’ll get free food, etc., and you’ll help them to feel like they’re cool, hangin’ with the hip college kids.
当你朋友的父母来访，接纳他们。你将能白吃白喝什么的。而且你会使他们觉得自己很酷，能够和时髦的大学孩子打成一片。
13.In the first month of college, send a hand-written letter to someone who made college possible for you and describe your adventures thus far. It will mean a lot to him/her now, and it will mean a lot to you in ten years when he/she shows it to you.
入学一个月，你该手写一封信给帮助你进入大学的人，告诉他们至今你的经历。这对她/他而言意义很大，而在十年后她/他将信给你看时也是如此。
14.Embrace the differences between you and your classmates. Always be asking yourself, “what can I learn from this person?” More of your education will come from this than from any classroom.
包容你和同学的差异。时刻提醒自己“我能从他身上学习什么？”这比上课能学到的多多了。
15.All-nighters are entirely overrated.
所有夜猫子都被高估了。
16.For those of you who have come to college in a long-distance relationship with someone from high school: despite what many will tell you, it can work. The key is to not let your relationship interfere with your college experience. If you don’t want to date anyone else, that’s totally fine! What’s notfine, however, is missing out on a lot of defining experiences because you’re on the phone with your boyfriend/girlfriend for three hours every day.
对于和高中同学异地恋的大学生：别管别人说什么，异地恋能成功的。关键是不要让你们的关系干涉你的大学经历。如果你不想和别人约会，完全没关系！有关系的是，你将因为每天打3个小时电话给男/女朋友而错过很多经典的经历了。
17.Working things out between friends is best done in person, not over email. (IM does not count as “in person.”) Often someone’s facial expressions will tell you more than his/her words.
解决朋友之间问题的最好方式是面谈，不要用电邮。（即时通讯不算“当面”）一个人的表情胜过言语。
18.Take risks.
去冒险。
19.Don’t be afraid of (or excited by) the co-ed bathrooms. The thrill is over in about 2 seconds.
别对公共浴室感到恐惧（或者产生兴奋感）。这种感觉进去两秒钟就没了。
20.Wednesday is the middle of the week; therefore on wednesday night the week is more than half over. You should celebrate accordingly. (It makes thursday and friday a lot more fun.)
周三是一周的中间。因此周三晚上表示一周大部分过去了，你应该庆祝一下。（这让周四周五更有趣了）
21.Welcome failure into your lives. It’s how we grow. What matters is not that you failed, but that you recovered.
直面失败。我们因失败成长。关键不是你受伤而是你愈合。
22.Take some classes that have nothing to do with your major(s), purely for the fun of it.
选些非专业课，纯粹因爱好去学。
23.t’s important to think about the future, but it’s more important to be present in the now. You won’t get the most out of college if you think of it as a stepping stone.
计划未来很重要，但活在当下更重要。你如果拿大学当垫脚石你就不能充分利用大学。
24.When you’re living on a college campus with 400 things going on every second of every day, watching TV is pretty much a waste of your time and a waste of your parents’ money. If you’re going to watch, watch with friends so at least you can call it a “valuable social experience.”
当大学每时每刻有400件事在进行，看电视完全就是浪费时间和金钱。如果你一定要看，至少和朋友一起看吧，好歹能算“有价值的社交经历”。
25.Don’t be afraid to fall in love. When it happens, don’t take it for granted. Celebrate it, but don’t let it define your college experience.
不要害怕陷入爱情。当爱来临，也不要当做必然。感谢恋爱，但不要让它主导你的大学生活。
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