College/University mistakes you've made

tombreck2 · 2014-12-02T16:46:41+00:00

Looking back I wish that I had joined a frat. I hated them when I was there because I thought they were douchebags who got all the girls.

Now that I swallowed the pill I've realized my mistake.

orvken1 · 2014-12-02T13:46:26+00:00

There are 3 critical things to own in college to excel in your academic life. I strongly suggest you to invest money on these.

A wide long desk, where you put your textbooks, lecture notes, calculator, PC monitor and keyboard simultaneously.
A comfy chair, so comfy that you can sit comfortably for 4 hours straight.
A standard PC with 24" monitor screen. Large screen is required to compared documents when doing research or studying.

You don't need a tablet, nor the thinnest mac-book air, nor a over-powered thick hot laptop. In a year or two they will be broken due to your neglect of using them on your bed. Furthermore, imagine:

Laptop screen vs. 24" monitor screen.
Annoying, sometimes hot keyboard vs. Ergonomics PC keyboard.
Touchpad vs a $20 gaming mouse.

Fuck those faggots who taking notes with their iPad and strange stylus. Just print your lecture notes and drag your feet to EVERY FUCKING CLASS. One hour lecture/tutorial is worth 6 hours of self studying. You those excess 5 hours to meet girls.

Aim for at 65%-75% mark range. Networking is far more important than your grade. As long as you aren't barely passing classes, you will still called for interview. Use your excess effort to improve your social/networking skills.

asd1100 · 2014-12-02T15:32:29+00:00

School first. You do the best you can. It's a long term investment and short of having a kid, it's the only thing that you do at that age that has long term consequences.

Lift, eat healthy and basically have a healthy lifestyle. At this age it very easy to form habits(also the effects are maximise now) and due to culture it's also very difficult to impose self discipline on yourself.

Have fun. This means party indiscriminatly, this means you shouldn't worry about being alpha, this means you love the girls that want love and you bang the ones that want banging. Don't make empty promises and just enjoy each person as they come. Don't be judgemental don't be a gratuitous ass. On the other side: don't be a pussy, don't be a push over. Your time is yours, you decide how to use it, never let other people tell you what to do with it.

On the girls topic. NEVER date, commit or promise. Have fun, ONLY. Say hi, and then laugh nervously(if you really have nothing witty to comment in the moment) to anything that is cute, make it a reflex. NEVER DO PICK UP, never use package bits unless they are amazing. You are of inferior value than girls at that age, don't try pretending your are something else. You can't fake that shit and you are loosing more in the long run(the opportunity to become a natural alpha) if you keep up empty pretenses.

Meet all the people and all the girls. And choose who is worth your time. Be confident on what you know and don't shy away from showing it. Shut the fuck up about what you don't.(this is a important quality to restrict you ego from going nuclear, like college tends to do to gen y people) We are building a succesfull man now, we aren't in this for the short term college glory.

huntertaining · 2014-12-02T12:36:59+00:00

I think you could benefit from at least having sex before you put yourself in a college environment. I'm not bashing you or anything, it's just that practice makes perfect and all.

I know this isn't all you were looking for but it is something you should consider and maybe work towards.

orvken1 · 2014-12-02T12:58:17+00:00

Procrastination.
Never lift.
Spend too much time on academic, but very little on social.
Spend too much time on SNS. Being a creep on Facebook.
Worried too much about the best laptop or tablet for college. Little did I know pen and paper is the best iPad. Just print your lecture notes. All you need to buy is a good desk and a comfy chair.
Games. Fuck games.
Didn't count my calorie intake.
Went to expensive college overseas. Undergraduate degree is the same everywhere. If your parents are just barely above middle class, there is little point on going overseas.
Spray too much perfume.
Didn't fit my jeans.
Wore over-sized clothes.

fnordsnord · 2014-12-02T15:21:00+00:00

Meet people. This will be the best networking opportunity you will have in your lifetime. Almost EVERYBODY at uni comes from at least a little money, which means your bro's dad's (and some moms) will be influential.

I'm in management, and I'm here to tell you that the single most important thing about getting a good job is "knowing a guy that knows a guy." Mind you, your grades should be good. You should interview well. And your resume shouldn't flat-out suck. But all that together is about 20% of getting in the door. The rest is knowing somebody who is already at the company.

New_Horiz0ns · 2014-12-02T13:05:04+00:00

If you are British, or even American however especially British. Do not drink! Don't get fucked each time u go out.

Eat healthy. Its easy to put pizza in your oven each evening. Dont do Netflix Marathons.

Do not miss lectures unless you spend that time in the library studying.

Do not engage in drug consumption. Execeptions for one time experimentation. Do not smoke weed ever. Because something that encourages you to eat Cheetos & sit on the couch is against all that is a RP man.

Note, how nothing here has anything to do with women.

Hudoneit · 2014-12-02T16:32:25+00:00

Meet most all the girls in your classes early in the semester. Like within the first week.

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GregariousWolf · 2014-12-02T18:57:05+00:00

Don't take all the weed out courses at once. You might weed yourself out.

MrMagwitch · 2014-12-02T16:26:13+00:00

BrunoOh · 2014-12-02T22:10:59+00:00

Wasted like four years doing not really much. Fortunately not a big deal financially as I don't live in the usa, but it is a waste of time.

AFPJ · 2014-12-02T22:53:55+00:00

1, do not go to College or University. If you already fucked that up, here are your best bets:

If you must go to college, spend half a year to a year surviving in the real world beforehand.
Join clubs, frats, whatever. Your social network is 80% of the value you get from university.
Your GPA becomes irrelevant after your first job, only max it for post-secondary admissions.
Don't date women, ONS/FWB at best but you really shouldn't be wasting time on women at all.
Start a business, advertise it on campus. Have enough revenue to live off of before graduation.
There's a morning crowd and a nightlife crowd, do not join or associate with the nightlife crowd.
Get involved in sports/clubs. Lift, cook, get up at a set early time every day. Become disciplined.

College is not the time of your life, it is not the time to party, it is not the time to waste on women. It's an easy time to build a network, improve yourself and put yourself on a good trajectory in life. Your value accumulates and will snowball. Do shit right and you'll pull enough 18-20y/o 9s and 10s in your mid 20s to be bored of it before 30.

If you can at all help it, go directly to entrepreneur life after college (hence why I don't recommend college), avoid corporate life at all costs - the salary will get you hooked on an even more toxic lifestyle than the 40hr week itself.

Nightlife is where money buys, beauty sells, power speaks and social skill mitigates the marketplace. It's easier to see who people really are on a primal level: dicey, boring, outgoing, fun. Are they in a corner? Or out socializing?

If you've neither money/power nor social skill, there isn't much for you in nightclubs. Beauty helps a bit, though.

Most influential people relax & network during the day. If you work 9-5, your access to them will be restricted.

masterrod · 2014-12-02T23:31:30+00:00

Not screwing a girl after touching her and she began to shake.

toysjoe · 2014-12-03T00:23:35+00:00

I was with a girl and she invited me to her place. I was too afraid to fuck her since it would be the first time I meet her parents. So I didn't.

Fuck that. Take the time and fuck her good. Don't do what I did like a little bitch. I thought it was respectful at the time, but the more I think about it the more I hate myself for it.

JakofClubs · 2014-12-02T16:23:21+00:00

Getting a bachelor of philosophy rather than STEM. There's nothing wrong with learning what I learned, but I could have gotten the same value by just sitting in on lectures, and going to the library, and also gotten a degree worth more than toilet paper.

Title	College/University mistakes you've made
Author	twistero
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Date	December 2, 2014 12:30 PM UTC (11 years ago)
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1, do not go to College or University. If you already fucked that up, here are your best bets: