Long time no see bro…

Its called growing up little one. Welcome to college.

Sucks about the wallet part how you lose that just walking down the street is weird. but the stress and everything is just par for the course. Just wait till December when you have a full 15-18 hour schedule and they are all taking finals within about a week of each other. But trust me as much as you hate it right now you will look back on it in 10-15 years and realize its the best time of your life.

wait till the fall semester starts. it gets better and the hotties will be there by then as well…

don’t start smoking man.

Nice to see you growing so much at school!

during summer school!

that is tough. i managed to avoid 8 am classes after my freshman year.

Get ya some.

It makes things seem better,

good luck. Wondered where you’d been lately.

is to start drinking heavily.

... of smoking, DO NOT DO IT!! Trust me, from experience I know. It is a pain in the ass to quit, it took me like 8 tries for it to finally stick. You got too much going for you (despite your recent misfortunes) to be picking up nasty habits.

Just remember that starting first semester, every freshman is in the exact same boat as you…Living away from home for the first time, having to become self-disciplined in regard to when and how much to study. So you aren’t alone in regard to those emotions. These type of things will come much easier to you than most others though…You’re a bright guy and you will soon realize how much you have benefited from going to one of if not the best high school in Dallas.

Just try to take a deep breath and relax. Everyone losses their wallet once in a while but you can recovery all of those items, it isn’t that big of a deal. The one thing you shouldn’t do though is turn to any substances (smoking or alc) to relieve the stress. Those are things you can and I think should experiment with but you never want to become dependent upon them in order to dictate or alter your emotional state.

Try to put your exam into perspective. It was just one mishap from an exam in summer school. These kind of things happen but looking back you won’t even remember it. You can learn from it though (maybe set your cell phone alarm also next time) but all in all it isn’t too big of a deal.

Everyone on this board wishes they could go back to college and re-live some of their favorite times. The best advice I can give you is to make really good friends (good, kind people who you can envision being friends with in 10 years) and have a really great time having fund and making lasting memories. If you do both of those things there is no way you can’t have an amazing experience at college.

Pickpockets and other general scammers love college campuses and college towns.

It’s a good thing you’re getting your butt kicked this early as far as the work goes. Better to happen quickly over the summer than to feel in over your head come fall mid-terms. Now you know what to expect. I started college the summer after high school as well and only one class was a struggle, but that small experience allowed me to cruise when the fall semester started.

I don’t know where the shit you really are, but ever since you left for school you have described the exact opposite of what college is like….

Class is the thing you do the least, and you have so much damn free time on your hands that you don’t know what to do with it.

Id suggest joining a beta fish fighting club. You can make mad cash if you train a winner.

I miss feeling overwhelmed in college.

1) you can get a temporary debt card from your bank until the new “official” debt card arrives.
2) dont ever take an 8 am class when your not forced to. as a kid it give you more time to study and refresh and review one last time after a nights sleep. that and you tend to oversleep and drop classes before even 10am unless you have major discipline and most freshmen are the same way it screams eventual drop possibility.
3) western union was suggested earlier, its good one if you are in a jam.
4) study tips.
a) always have whatever your readings for the test done about a week before the test.
b) when you are reading through, have a highlighter, mark anything that may be relevant, maybe even creating a color coded scheme to have definitions one color, historical info in another etc.
c) about a week before the exam start reviewing your readings, chapter by chapter, and creating a written review sheet that includes your highlighted stuff in an organized fashion. (writing down stuff you need to remember thats detail oriented helps you remember that stuff)
d) spend about 10 hours per day the last 2 days before the exam studying your ass off, skim back over the chapters and soak in the stuff you felt important and burn that review you created into your skull.

if i would have known that kinda stuff from day 1 it would have made life easier, but i used that philosophy through UT and got A’s, so thats my recommendation.

side recommendation: i was never the “frat guy” clique kinda guy, but i came to find out that they literally have basements full of every test every frat brother has ever taken at said school from the date the frat was formed. they can tell you which teachers and profs to take etc. it makes an impossible school, i imagine a total breeze. its the george w. bush graduation theory. also as an extra bonus, you get sweet long term business connections that you wouldnt otherwise have and “free” beer to relieve your stress. it wasnt ever my style of gin-joint, but its something not to forget.

hope that helps. keep your chin up.

ps: what ever happened to the asian chicks? if the asian dudes who were watching the game with ya are cool now you should see if they can work you in with the girls.

“Suicide is always an option.” – Cahill

years later, you will realize how much life REALLY sucks sometimes and laugh at yourself for thinking everything was so important back then.

trust me…i still do it to this day.

Chicks dig fresh breath. They don’t tend to like it when your mouth tastes like an ash tray and your clothes stink.

was the night before i drove out to san francisco from dallas. some friends were giving me a send off. got stupid drunk, end up in a scuffle with some punks at the end of the night, buddy gets his lip split, don’t remember much more than that. on the drive i was pulled over 4 times even though i was never over 5mph above the speed limit. my dallas house closed a few days later. try getting a real estate deal notarized without any identification, or completing the I9 at the new job for that matter. credit and debit cards were all runup at sears. absolute nightmare.

college was stressful at times for me as well. sometimes i couldn’t walk across campus without sitting down several times due to back pain that i blamed on stress – took too many classes freshman year. then i figured out i was a pretty good test taker. as long as i looked at something, i could remember it during the test. not quite a photographic memory, but similar effect. my cramming routine was ledgendary, though it’s an awful habit to get into.

sorry to hear about all your bad luck :( I sent ya an email if you need any help let me know ASAP and I’ll send ya some overnight.. :)

For those of you recent college grads who have taken AP classes, I was wondering how much did they help you out in preparing for the workload??? Right now, the last 2 years, I took 4 AP classes altogether, passed all of them, and I have 6 coming up for my senior year…..btw good luck Miles

don’t look to message boards for a support group. try looking to real friends. go out there an be nice to somebody and maybe they’ll be nice to you back.

but, if you’re looking for advice, just know that this is not going to be the hardest time in your life. it will get much harder, your GPA might get lower before it gets higher, so however bad you are feeling now will be insignificant when you look back on it in 5 years.

um…that might make you feel better.

Also, I’ve failed a class and lost my wallet multiple times and i can’t complain too much about where I am in life.

You are my homeboy.

for all the nice words,I really do appreciate it.

And for the people saying I need to get laid. I have a girlfriend and I get laid plenty, which is probably part of the problem with my school work.

And ab03, I do have friends. That is what I love about this school, everyone is friends with everyone. Everyone drinks with everyone, and everyone hangs out with everyone.

There is no status, except for me. Because I am who I am.

It only gets worse brotha