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Dear Incoming Freshman,
Congratulations on graduating high school and getting accepted by the University of Baltimore,
and if you where like I was when I graduated, congratulations on just barely passing high school and
making it out. I never really cared about academics in high school and my grades where very low but just
high enough to get by. When I got to college I thought I could easily turn my bad habits around and sucto
require you to get rid of many bad habits that you learned in your early academic career. Here are a few
Tip #1: SHOW UP
having to miss because of prior arrangements; this applies to people that just “don’t feel like it” or think
they have better things to do. Unless you are extremely sick or there is an emergency with your immediate
family, you should be in class. Skipping classes is an easy way to not learn the material and start to fall
behind causing you to play a game of catch up that you simply can’t win. Another reason to not skip class
is because attendance is part of your grade. For most classes, if you skip two or four classes, you have automatically
failed which is a huge waste of money. By not being in class, not only are you screwing yourself
over, but you’re also screwing over other students at your university who would have really wanted to
else can get in. So is it fair that you took that spot and committed to that class just so you cannot show up
and fail it,
No. If you don’t feel like actually going to classes you should have never signed up for college in
people to not show up, you should still go to class anyway and make up the assignment later. Your teacher
might let you turn it in later and you don’t want to lose more points just from not showing up.
Tip #2: Keep Track of Your Work
next class in the time remaining. By the middle of the school year, my agenda book would be destroyed
from being crushed by my binders, lost, or just completely ignored. Also I would always leave my book
give you those annoying little books anymore (but I think they sell them in the bookstore somewhere)
because they expect you to take responsibility for remembering what you have to do. With no one forcing
me to write down my assignments like they did in High School, I decided that I would be able to memorize
all of my assignments.
readings, which lead to me failing most of my classes. When I got back to school next semester I tried usall
the time, the apps that had my assignments on them where usually buried by all the social media and
entertainment apps I had and I would never check them. I needed something that was as easy to carry
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