Go to your classes. No matter how boring accounting is, you paid for so you might as well attend. I think it is just about impossible to flunk a class if you show up each and every day. Get to know your professors. If you know your professors, most of them will do anything to help you out.
Racism is stupid.
Lastly, make sure that if you don t understand something, ask a question. I am taking a few freshmen courses this year because I felt like putting them off as long as possible. People look at you like you have the plague if you ask a question in those classes. You pay for the class, learn something while your there. I have met a lot of people in my time here but there are a few people who stick out in my mind when I think who really helped to shape me into who I am today.