It is the wave of the future and cannot be avoided. One of the most essential ingredients to success anywhere, anytime is learning to manage your time . Don t get behind in your work. If you want to get a job after graduation, or to attend graduate or professional school, you will probably need letters of recommendation from professors and perhaps others. If you want them to say something good about you, remember you will need to have done something good.
Life is competitive.
Evidence of overcoming adversity, rising to challenges, and achieving beyond expectations are helpful in assessing candidates for admission. You are here to obtain a college education first and foremost, not to play sports, not to join a fraternity, and not to find a spouse. Even though you may also do one or all of these things, they should come second, third, or fourth, not first. You should be different for having spent four or more years of your life here. If you do not, you have failed and we have failed.