Contact Student Disability Services (SDS) ASAP!! They are your friends and will help you facilitate conversations with your professors and with housing for any accomadations you may need!
TALK TO YOUR PROFS!! They do not bite I promise! As soon as they see that you are registered with SDS, they will do everything they can to see you raccomadations met within there class. Plus this is a great time to introduce yourself to them so you aren’t just a nameless face in the class. This will help if you ever need favors or letters of recommendation from them later.
Make sure you stay in the right dorm for you! Many campuses have several different styles of dorms for you to pick from and they have different price points. DO NOT SETTLE ON A DORM. This is where you will be staying a majority of the time and you want to make sure you are comfortable. This means taking in account for your bad days. How close are you to where your classes will be? How close are you to food? How close are you to health services? These are all important factors in where you choose to live.
Start small with how much you take on! Give yourself time to build up to college life. Start with smaller hours and maybe one student organization and build from there. It will always be easier to add on to your list of responsibilities than it is to take away. I started out with 15 hours, and being a member of an organization, then became and officer of said org, then got a campus part time job, and now I have a full time job on campus along with a steady increase of my hours throughout the process.
Don’t be afraid of communicating with your new friends about your disability. I know it can be hard to open up about something you may view as a negative quality about yourself, but 1) it isn’t a bad thing about you, and 2) college is such an accepting place! You will find your safe spot and make understanding friends. Now I’m not saying you wont come across a couple of bad apples, but college is such a huge community. You WILL find your group eventually and they will completely understand your personal ups and downs and be there through it all and even help you though those low spoons days. I absolutely adore my group because it has gotten to the point I don’t even need to say anything and they already know what I need, and they will even get food and class notes for me before I even ask them to do so.
Definitely plan for meals inside your dorm. I know there are some bad days where even if food is just downstairs, I cant even make it that far. If that means having hella snacks, or even making sure you have a fridge, do that! We do not want a starving spoonie who already doesn’t feel good. Dats bad. No no. Same thing goes for water! Hydrate or Die-drate!. Most schools will have a place where you can get a gallon of water using your dining meal plan.
Roommates! Love em or hate them, they will be apart of your college experience. Make sure you communicate with them about your needs. At the very beginning of the year, you will most likely sign a roommate contract with each other that outlines your expectations for your dorm. Again, DONT SETTLE! If you need quiet hours, don’t be afraid to ask for them. If you don’t want guests at certain times, or at all, talk about that. I know it may seem daunting but I promise it is absolutely worth it to fight for your needs. You will be living there 24/7 and it is as much as your home as it is theirs. There should also be a CA/RA that can help you and your roommate find common ground and negotiate peacefully!
This is all I can think of at the moment, BUT if y’all have any questions or just want to talk about your college experience so far, my DMs and Asks are open!
Here is my token Tippy picture for this post! Enjoy! She is still a little brat but I adore her.
The price put on education is dumb as hell and I for one won’t let anyone else be scammed by their university bookstore!
If you message me your textbook ISBNs I can find you scans of your textbooks for 10 dollars a pop. AND I can offer you these textbooks without you giving up any information about yourself, because let’s be real the internet is a sketchy place. I can just send you a link to a google drive where you can access the PDFs and downloaded them without any fear of malware or viruses.
I just want to save y’all money. Personally, all my spending money goes towards my cat and food. I saved myself about 600 dollars. I want to do the same for y’all. Please feel free to share this around to anyone you know struggling to buy textbooks.
This isn’t a scam, this isn’t a hack of my account. To prove it, here is a picture of Tippy being adorable. TBH the internet can never have too much cat pictures
Reblogging again as we gear up for Fall 2020! Please don’t waste money on textbooks when you could spend that money on much better things!!
The price put on education is dumb as hell and I for one won’t let anyone else be scammed by their university bookstore!
If you message me your textbook ISBNs I can find you scans of your textbooks for 10 dollars a pop. AND I can offer you these textbooks without you giving up any information about yourself, because let’s be real the internet is a sketchy place. I can just send you a link to a google drive where you can access the PDFs and downloaded them without any fear of malware or viruses.
I just want to save y’all money. Personally, all my spending money goes towards my cat and food. I saved myself about 600 dollars. I want to do the same for y’all. Please feel free to share this around to anyone you know struggling to buy textbooks.
This isn’t a scam, this isn’t a hack of my account. To prove it, here is a picture of Tippy being adorable. TBH the internet can never have too much cat pictures
I met so many ENFP friends at college it’s so nice. Mainly male which was almost like a surprise for me because I’ve known mainly female before. It’s great to get to know more people.
Spring semester is right around the corner and we have the tips on how you can jumpstart your time at Academy of Art University on a path toward success! Check out what you can do to put your best foot forward right at the beginning of 2017.
Join us for Welcome Week: You will have an opportunity to meet your peers and our department directors, and find out how to best prepare for a successful semester. Keep an eye out for the schedule and get excited to tour San Francisco, meet other new students, and enjoy parties and a BBQ throughout the week.
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Classes started off easy enough but as always they devolve into what essentially is a foreign language class. My notes become nothing more than a series of letters with both superscripts and subscripts, matrices, numbers and greek letters. I write down everything I see on the board but it does not seem to make a difference in learning the subject matter. Classes are happening and passing at a rapid pace. Homework is being submitted and graded… All-in-all sounds like normal engineering college classes. Hate every minute of them but you gotta do what you gotta do I guess. Hopefully won’t have to take 2 next semester. Then I can focus more on crafting.
*yes, the pinkish one isn’t milk tea but it’s still deelicious so… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Anyways, I’ve been drinking tea and milk tea more often these days so I made a graphic showing y’all how to make my favorite drinks! I added the Chinese just cause. Maybe you could use it to study ingredient names? haha idk
Enjoy a cup of tea on my behalf and lemme know what you think about the drinks or about this graphic! <333
