Incoming college freshmen are bombarded with advice. Grandma tells you to eat vegetables. Older siblings tell you to wear sandals in the dorm showers. Creepy uncles tell you to find a girl who smokes, cause “if she smokes, she pokes.”
Thankfully, the New York Times has assembled some better advice. Nine different long-time university professors contributed a (relatively short) piece outlining the advice they would give to incoming freshmen. If you had to boil it down, they have two main points:
- Find good professors and be nice to them.
- Read. A lot. (Including newspapers!)
For your dose of surreal news, former Terp linebacker Shawne Merriman was arrested on suspicion of choking Tila Tequila this weekend. Just take a second and let the weirdness of that sink in.
On a more important front, students across the country are organizing and fighting their classmates’ deportation orders, The Boston Globe reports. A 20-year-old Albanian immigrant won a three month reprieve after her friends organized a 2,800-member Facebook fan group on her behalf.
And for a feel-good story this weekend, watch this Today (via The Baltimore Sun) piece about Prince George’s County Firefighters rescuing a 140-pound dog.