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Wednesday, June 21, 2006 at 12:58 PM Re: TF at College: Things I Learned at Advising & OrientationI went through freshman orientation at UW as well, and I too remember it as a silly feel-good experience. I agree with bguirk about advising. I added a few quarters onto my school career because I'd taken too many of a particular credit type and not enough of another. It's worth the effort to make sure you're making efficient forward progress. Also, I wish that someone would have told me that there are consequences to dropping classes, like a handful of "W6" don't look great on your transcript when you're applying to grad schools. Also, by simple math, if you're light on credits in one quarter because you dropped a class, you're going to have to make it up sometime. As a beer-soaked freshman who wandered to classes in sweat pants and a baseball cap, some of this didn't occur to me until much later. Studying abroad was a wonderful experience for me. Studying at an overseas institution is an opportunity that you might not see later.
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