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Good list. I have done all 10.
-No 8ams. If this is not possible try the next option which is loading your classes on Tues/Thurs or Mon/Wed/Fri. Its hard but possible. Some semesters I had no classes on Tues/Thurs which then 8ams were ok to me. Other semesters i was able to somehow manage no classes on friday. Which ment i was out every thursday night!
-No relationships. I was single my 5 years in college and boy was that the best decision of my life.
-Try to leave your dorm door open as much as possible.
-Lose your voice not only at the big football home games but also the directional schools
-Budget your dinning dollars early on. They go fast.
-Even if your teacher posts lectures online DON'T skip class (and especially if your an engineer) or you wont last too long.
-Take World Regions and Wine Class with Boyer. Easiest As ever. I cannot beleive some people get less then an A in those things
-Go to other sporting events that aren't football or basketball. Normally they give out free shirts. Easy way to save money on laundry
-Speaking of laundry. Dont leave your clothes unattended in the laundry room in the dorms. The second your clothes are done and your not around they are on the floor and all wrinkled up and dirty again (even if your gone like 2 secs). Stay down in the laundry room and take advantage of that time to study.
-Make sure to go to all the career fairs and try to network and lock up a summer internship. (this is important very hard to get a job out of college without an internship)
-Finally never leave! the real world blows!
When I moved into the dorms my freshman year, my RA put up a bulletin board titled "Ten Things To Do Before You Graduate":
1. Run/Bike the Huckleberry Trail
2. See a movie at The Lyric
3. Eat a burger at Mikes
4. Hike the Cascades
5. Stand on the edge of McAfees Knob
6. Eat at Home Place
7. Jump for Enter Sandman
8. Eat breakfast at Gillies
9. Tube the New River
10. Touch the Hokie Stone before running onto Worsham Field
At the time, I didn't know what half of the things were. But looking back, it was one helluva list, and I had a blast crossing every one of them off.
Slightly off topic, but my advice, spend the first five years after college working wherever you need to in order to gain the experience you need to come back, find a job in Blacksburg, and spend the rest of your days enjoying the greatest place on earth.
man, you are doing the job I would have loved to do had I not gone into design. I am fanatical about WR's actually catching balls.
I posted this in another thread, but my coach had 1 rule. Catch the ball. If you can touch the ball, even with the tip of one finger, you can catch the ball. If you didn't then you just didn't try hard enough. Jump higher, run faster... do whatever it takes.
If we dropped a pass in a game we had suicides waiting for us Monday equal to the number of yards we just cost the team. If we dropped a touchdown pass we were replaced by next guy immediately and could expect to be running all week.
HAHAHAHA These are INCREDIBLE!!!!
I'm impressed with this kid. Unselfish in every sense of the word and called out those that were too selfish to stick out. Hope French is write and he becomes the best tackle we've ever had... With an attitude like that I hope he gets everything that he wants!
All very good points. And I hear ya on that last bit. I'm kinda bummed I've only got a few days before I head back to blacksburg (I'm home for the week). Coaching football is pretty fun.
I am a WR coach at my old high school and I was going to say the exact same 2 things. Soft hands and attack the ball. I see my guys all the time beat their man on the route but the ball gets intercepted or knocked down because they don't come to the football. It makes a tremendous difference in the passing game if your receivers go to the football rather than sit and wait.
You know, they got a good commit form the Cali kid recently, but their class is really uneven and small to this point (what 9 commits?). If they have a 4-8 year again and London appears on the hot seat, I'd say they could lose Brown and Blanding before NLI day, and their 2014 class would be a disaster.
I hated the empo, it's like a casino except without all the things that make a casino awesome.
You could go in there after lunch and then leave at midnight, you would never know if you didn't look at a clock because you can't see outside.
Might have to try #3, I tend to go to a quiet floor in the library.
Not to mention it is a great spectator sport for obvious reasons.
Can we start voting now? Or are they still waiting for more entries?
1. Go to class. It's surprisingly easy to fail organic chemistry if you have no idea what's going on.
2. Work on campus.
3. You'll learn to love studying at the Empo when you don't have class there.
WILLIE BYRN IS WIDE OPEN!
That was legit offsides in '03, sad to say...
This! I ran out of money so early in the semester!
You'd better make a quick getaway, Horse...
I loved the point system of that class! Had my "A" a couple months before the semester ended.
Definitely!
That's funny. +1
Can we get a guy who has a personality complex about being a Hokie Bird? I think we could get some mileage out of that one.
What about a thugged out Ibis, or an illegally chopping yellow jacket? The possibilities are far reaching...
Get some friends together and stay in Blacksburg at least one summer during your time there. It's a totally different experience but just as awesome, if not more awesome. I spent the best summer of my life in Blacksburg.
Believe me, I am living the dream right now. I grew up wanting to be a football coach and at Tech especially. I now have a coaching position and I haven't even gotten out of college yet. Life is good. I also coach the DBs and all these same things can be said for defensive backs. Every day I have them doing drills for attacking the football.