COLLEGE ADVICE!!!!! Anonymous 311626[Reply]
good dad my dear nonas i start college in about 15 to 20 days and i am already spiraling. i feel insecure about being 164 cm and 71 kilos but then my dumbass realised that a new place is basically a blank canvas and i get to decide how people see me. for once i think i have a chance to rebrand myself since all my school life i was the same geeky nerdy fat kid nobody wanted to speak with. i have at least 15 days so i need sharp and effective ways to drop five kilos before i land there and then i can pace myself later. i also want advice on saving money doing well academically handling relationships and building friendships because this feels like the one chance to get everything right and i would rather walk in with strategy than stumble in blind.
15 posts and 1 image reply omitted. Click reply to view.Anonymous 311673
I agree with what others have said above in that investing in a rice cooker/crock pot is the best thing you can do for yourself if you're going to be living in a housing situation with no proper kitchen available to you, eating out nowadays is way too expensive and not worth it anyways and you can make much tastier food at home with a crock pot, it helped me avoid the dreaded "freshman 15" when I was in college.
Also network, network, network. My internships and college club work helped me so much in having my first job out of college be a cushy remote email job, don't get your degree without at least a bit of internship/extra curricular experience along with it, you'll be boned even if youre getting an in-demand degree.
Good luck Nona!
Anonymous 312674
Americans are absolutely retarded bootlickers now.
Americans will look you in the eye and say horses have nothing to do with transportation.
Americans think that there is no chance tyranny will increase in the future.
Anonymous 312682
Your weight sounds fine and like an unnecessary distraction from you just relaxing and enjoying the moment, even if its nothing like you expected and not as "good as you had hoped". From my personal experience as a STEM student, many people in college and uni don't have time for friends or hanging out. We have to balance work, school, internships, extracurriculars, stress from family and peers, our own hobbies, etc. Dont think college and university will be all parties and preppy girls. All of us have very important work to get done and not much time to do it. So if people don't seem to want to be friends or reciprocate talking outside of class do not take it personally. 4 years of College and uni and I've only made maybe 2 or 3 friends each of them lasting only a semester. As for the rest, The definition of insanity is to try the same things over and over again expecting a different result. Being neurodivergent(I'm assuming you are as I relate to your thoughts and feeling alot from when I was out of hs) is difficult bc society is constantly distracting us with what it says we should prioritize, what it says we should focus on. I think you should focus on yourself, what you like to do, getting much more independence such as going out on your own(out to eat, out to bars, just to the pet store alone) you will be incredibly surprised how much more at peace you are when you are alone and able to think your own thoughts without being distracted by things that don't matter like your weight or what you are wearing or your hair or what that guy meant when he said that, etc. Now is the time to learn to be alone and learn independence its incredibly foundational for your self esteem to come to your own conclusions about what you want to do and what you prioritize in life.
Anonymous 312683
>>311672Also very good advice, agree. I'm still trying g to figure out what networking is. Biochem major
Anonymous 312784
making friends in college is easy, just compliment the things you like about ppl and ask them questions about it. everything else stated itt is good too, do not look for a boyfriend that will distract you from studies and don't worry about your weight its not worth having an eating disorder. if u desperately want to lose weight at some point i would only recommend keto diet and semaglutide but you really shouldn't be trying to reduce at all when you have other things to worry about, doing well in school noteably, because there are things that will affect your energy levels and mood when you try dieting that won't be good and will distract you from studies, such as being vitamin deficient. changing your metabolism in significant ways is an involved process that requires a large amount of research, which if you do not take into account will either waste your time to accomplish nothing or marginal results, or even worse, give you a debilitating disorder that can seriously damage your body and mind long term.
personally when i was in college i did martial arts and a parkour club which was great because it was a source of exercise and a social setting as well. you should join clubs for other things you like as well, such as professional organizations for the field you want to go into.
most important to your studies, you should develop friendships with the professors you like, they will help you the most in college and after by setting you up for your career and helping you figure out what you want to do with your life.
