I want to start out by saying that I’m a senior with one more semester left at Zoom university studying computer science.
College is an interesting time. You branch out of your comfort zone, and it’s probably the first time you are fully away from your parents and childhood friends.
It kind of feels like a reset.
Sometimes change can be good.
These are the things that I wish I knew on that first day I walked into my dorm room.
- Do Drugs
When I first started college I didn’t want to try anything new. I shy’d away from anything that went outside my comfort zone. Doing crazy things, trying alcohol, smoking weed, and just staying in my room.
It’s better to experiment when you’re young then spend the rest of your life wondering “what if ? ”.
You don’t need to do bad things to your body just say yes more.
2. Network like motherf**cker
My sophomore year I applied to 300 companies, 3 people responded, I got 1 interview, and no jobs.
My junior year I started cold emailing everybody that I admired I can tell you right now more billionaires and entrepreneurs were replying to me than the jobs that I was applying for.
After talking to them and applying to less than 5 companies my junior year I had seven offers for internships.
The lesson here: Don’t play by the rules, and make your own. There’s more than one way to get to where you want to be
3. Nature Can Teach You Everything
My sophomore year my roommate and I used to light paper on fire and throw it out the window just to see the paper fly up really high.
We still do it to this day.
It just fun seeing everything at work moving the piece of paper high up and it taught me how to enjoy the simple things, but also see the everything in this world is working together
-scr
