Recommendations Before Starting To College
By: Ata Tekeli
Tags: Skills, College, Programming, Student Life, High School

Not just for programmers, for all high school students. Here, I’ll give you my suggestions based on my experience.

1-Fix your social problems and have strong social skills

This is my first advice because I suffered greatly in high school and throughout my first two years at the university. Even though I managed to solve most of these problems, they affect my everyday life as a student. But, fixing your social issues and having strong social skills help a lot when you move to college.

To give you a perspective, let’s break all of them out:

-Fix your communication skills and pay attention to this skill

Verbal and non-verbal communication skills are the lifeblood for a successful life. Whether with professors, classmates, employers, and with your teammates in a student club. Even though they can be fixed in numerous ways, the best way is to pay attention to your mistakes and moving forward to fix them by getting feedback as you move along.

-Learn how to work as a team

The most important skill after communication and it’ll continue to be for the rest of your life. Because your well-being depends on this skill. To learn this skill, the best thing you can do is to fix behaviors that prevent collaboration with your friends and to actively engage in situations that require collaboration.

2-Make meticulous research about departments, universities and decide where you want to be

A mistake cost me better places where I could study university. But I can’t complain about either because this choice has brought greater things in my life. After I chose where I study, I became a community manager and managing multiple international networks in my own club as a vice president and editor. Still, choosing where you want to study thoroughly gives you a lift in your life as it’ll give you a good environment of friends making you thrive in each situation you encountered.

3-Exercise daily and keep on continuing to do so

It might not what your social circle recommends in high school but exercising half an hour per day is beneficial for various reasons; first, it gives you a massive energy boost. Second, it clears your mind and makes you focus more on the important stuff. Third, it removes a lot of stress from your shoulders. Finally, it gives you good health and a night of better sleep. When all these benefits combine, you’ll get where you want to study and a good healthy life will emerge as a result.

4-Participate in as many projects as you can

Especially social responsibility projects to learn more important skills like time management, stress management, and project management before moving to college. In some countries around the world, these skills can be vital to be accepted and to be given a scholarship including certain packages possible. If you just enter with central examination like in my country, you can be just better off at going into top replacements. But the world is changing and some corporations do not even need a college degree. However, they look for openness to learn, teamwork, project management, and intellectual humility.

5-Learn programming

Unless you work with liberal arts-related work; most of the departments will require programming to a certain extent. If you want to prepare a technical background for university; I’d recommend you to learn python for the last year including object-oriented programming. Thorough the rest, you can decide what you want to be and practice according to your field.

6-Learn to write (creatively and formally)

I didn’t know why creative and formal writing was important before I started as a content writer in a startup without pay for a year before I left to pursue my blog. And when I realized after a couple of months; I started to understand the importance of language and essay writing lessons. First, creative and formal writing is how you express yourself in a certain way. Second, it can give you a revenue source. Finally, it can make your dream come true. So, writing gives you certain boosts in life and it can make you better off with certain standards of living like having passive income and being a freelancer.

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