By Joyce McIntosh


For students to go to college for the first time, the idea of living away from home can come as a thrilling one. Sometimes it can present as a fun thought that the "stressful" part of it can be overlooked. In order to help first-year college students to work their way around college and dorm life, some tips may prove to be rather useful.

The new world that college introduces to you is one that takes you away from your "comforts" in the sense that you are now faced with doing chores like your laundry and of course every potential assignment college professors may give you. For wanting an organized life in college, come up with your own list of tasks that need to be completed each day and week. By merely using a monthly calendar and a day calendar, you can keep everything organized. Post a monthly calendar on your dorm wall listing the dates of tests, assignment due dates, study group times and other pertinent information.

Make sure that your professors know you and you know them. Your effective learning at most depends on the "interaction" you are able to build between you and your professors in college. Asking questions about matters concerning your lessons in class is fine, or maybe even giving your professors a visit during working hours in order to talk or work out what you don't understand about your subject.

To be in college should mean being productive in every sense including involving yourself in on-campus activities. It is not only going to help you draw in positive effects on you as a freshman college student but also help you hone the talents and skills you possess because college is haven to many interests. This does not mean however that you would have to strain yourself quite unnecessarily because after all you should aim at being socially active enough to meet new people and having a good time in college too without neglecting your studies.

As a college student living in rather small dorm rooms, a mini storage facility can definitely come in handy. Being at most times with very limited spaces, dorms can't accommodate all your dorm items like a mini storage facility you can rent nearby can. If you need to store away extra textbooks, a futon, some bedding and maybe even a mini fridge or including all other odds and ends, mini storage facilities are effective solutions for those summer months when you head home. It is certainly easier than trying to stuff it all into your car or into suitcases.

Any first-year college student can be with convenience and practicality by renting a mini storage facility which can offer them a month-to-month rental basis as they are not often in need of one on long periods. Check out facilities which are fully-fenced and truly secured - with adequate lighting and fully-installed and working security cameras around in order to get your money's worth. Be sure to ask about discounts for students as some Bath self-storage facilities and East Lansing self-storage companies do offer discounts for collegians.




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