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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cthulhu's Librarian" data-source="post: 1073563" data-attributes="member: 11064">Before I get around to answering your questions, let me say Congratulations!I'm sure that school at Oxford will be very different from my college experience here in the US, but there are some things that I'm sure will be the same, where ever you get your higher education. Plus, I've been out of college for almost 10 years now, so maybe someone a bit closer should be answering instead of me (but I do work at a University now, so I don't feel that far removed). And now the answers...Sure, start with a hard one. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Lets see, I've got my Associates Degree (2 year degree from a community college) in Television Production/Communications. Then when I went on to a 4 year school, I started out studying TV Production, switched to Theater Production, and eventually ended up with my BA in Anthropology. Don't ask me how that all occured, but let's just say it was an interesting journey.Just remember, no matter how hard the work seems, it will get better. And some of those classes you need to take in your first & second years, the ones that don't seem to be important or worth the time? They will be. Trust me. Take classes in things that sound interesting, even if they have absolutly nothing to do with your major. I never dreamed of being an anthropologist, but an archaeology class sounded interesting, so I took it. 4 weeks into the course I switched majors and never looked back. Even if a class doesn't effect you that drastically, you will be glad you took the classes, even if just to give you a break from all the English Lit. you'll be reading. Take a Phys. Ed. class every semester. You'll be better off for it. I learned archery, how to bowl, play badmitten, tennis, went on lots of hikes, and was in the best shape of my life from lots of swimming. Doing something physical helped keep me sane when I had lots of work & studying to do. Actually, contrary to most of my friends, I gamed very little in college. The people I found who were gamers were either too hard-core for me at the time (ie. they gamed every night and were flunking out of school while I was holding down a full time job and getting good grades), or they were just idiots that I didn't want to hang around with. More of the latter than the former, unfortunatly. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />  It was only after college that I started gaming again seriously. Yeah, but I can't really relate them here. Not with Eric's Grandma watching. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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