The buddy system is the best thing you can ever do! Highly recommend. I'm super shy but every semester on the first day of classes I make it a priority to talk to someone and try to become buddies. It has helped me get study guides (you will be surprised how many people have study guides or notes from someone else that already took the class), reminders to do assignments, and it's nice to feel like you have someone to help you survive the semester!
Yup! My professor gave an automatic F to students in my class who used that trick. It made it impossible for them to finish with anything higher than a C the rest of the semester. Not worth it for sure!
If it's a physical paper, you're probably okay if it's not an English teacher, but if you have to turn it online via email, turnitin.com, etc., they'll for sure notice.
I agree, professors notice and it's pretty much straight up cheating so definitely not worth getting in trouble with academic integrity. Just write the few extra words lol
First tip is correct. During high school i studied my notes everyday after note taking and i got a 100 on exam. I didnt do this until half way through school year because i wasn't satisfied with where my current grade was and make sure to see teacher for help and prepare any questions that u dont know only if u tried everything and couldn't figure it out.
You're so right, making connections is super important. I recommend going to your professor's office hours and just talking to them and getting to know them, maybe have a few questions prepared. It's always good to have relationships with your professors so you can find out about opportunities and also get recommendation letters!
THINGS NOT MENTIONED 🔸Don't change the font from 12 to 14! Professors grade hundreds of papers and they will notice!! Change it to 12.5. 🔸If you use EasyBib make sure to check that the website correctly cites your references cuz rules for citations change over time. Use Purdue OWL, you'll have to cite manually but they will most likely be correct. 🔸Your school will also most likely have a research database accessible to students via the library so you don't really have to use Google Scholar unless you HAVE to.
Google Docs is awesome. Even renting from Amazon will save you money. Sit near the front or you'll get distracted. I wouldn't do the period thing, they've caught on and now a lot of them notice it.
I graduated from college almost 3 years ago why am I watching this. I will say to be careful about the period font change, some professors notice, and like the bibliography, it's easier to just write the paper the length it needs to be and to memorize the way to write the citations.
I'm in my second year of college now and some of these hacks are about to save my year. Also, about the textbook hack, I would recommend trying to avoid buying them from your school bookstore! The differences between their prices and those on Amazon are sometimes massive.
This is probably actually the only college advice video that I have ever found helpful and trust me I have literally seen everything on CZcams! Thanks dude, you just saved my life If you think of anything else, please help and make another video! Love you
About books I have 3 tips that will save you SO much money: 1. NEVER buy books before the semester starts. The majority of my "mandatory" books were not ever needed and most teachers will tell you up front if you ask if you actually need them or not, or students will tell you. Unless there was legit homework from the book I almost never got it since I could get the info from Google and CZcams way better and faster than from the book. 2. If you do need to buy a book NEVER buy it from the actual bookstore on campus. The markups on that are insane and you will rarely get any amount of decent money back. One trick they do is tell you you need the 3rd addition or something when in reality all they did was change a sentence or two and they only did it to charge more for that new addition. So buy everything from Amazon or wherever online. I've gotten books that, at the store, were 150 and I paid 30. 3. Try finding the PDF of the book online before you buy. Just google the title + author+ pdf to see if you can't find it. I've found a couple of books this way so my cost was 0 :)
Aww Lindsey, I love this video! I can tell that you genuinely liked to do this video and you were really yourself! Love you, and please please please keep doing videos like this.
@ all the freshman people: This is so important, take notes of this!! Lol, but seriously as an older student myself, I totally 100% agree with everything she said. Another tip: Time managing is so important, try and figure out what schedule works best for you, make a plan and stick to it so you're always on top of the things. It will take a while to figure out what works the best for you as an individual but will make your life so much easier when it comes to studying, hanging out, having time to relax by yourself etc. :)
I absolutely agree with the last tip. Networking is SOOOO important. Sometimes networking is how you get the career you want, and a degree may just be a formality.
Universities usually have their own database of scholarly articles. Much better than google scholar, especially for the articles in journals that you need to pay for. You can usually find them in your school's database, and sometimes you can request/borrow them from other schools!
Amazon and chegg are the best for renting. I have never purchased a book full price. It's also smart to buy paper ( and not hardcover ) copies of books and when possible used . Amazon has so many of them.
Google Scholar is great, but don't forget about your school library's website!! Depending on what you're studying you'll have to use sources from your library. You don't even have to go to the library because the majority of scholarly articles that your library has access to are available full-text online through the library website. (I'm a library school student if you can't tell :p)
It's not tedious to change your period font size. You just have to type control F and then type in "." And change it to 14. Takes 1 minute! Also easy bib is not reliable for bibliographies anymore. But there are other cites! I'm blanking on the one I use though 😓
i'm out of college and not really interested in the video, but i'm here and giving it a thumbs up just to support you. what i mean by that is that many of us will always here for you because we love you and soon enough many more people will do too based on your new content
Lindsey my first day of my freshman year of college is on Monday, this video could not have come at a better time!! Tips for studying and staying motivated to be your best self would be really helpful in the future :) xoxo
i love seeing you back on this channel looking more smiley than ever! im also going to buffer festival in Toronto so I hope to meet you there this fall!!!! can't wait!
About the textbooks, Amazon offers a student prime account. You get amazon prime for free for 6 months, then after the 6 months is over you get the yearly membership for 50% off until you are no longer a student (I believe). Basically, as long as you have a college student email, you get this awesome deal. Best thing I ever did. With the prime, you can rent your textbooks, I spent around $200 (not counting the textbooks my professors wrote) on textbooks. It would have costed me $1200 on textbooks without it.
Matthew Brunette My school has a link to our campus bookstore on the schedule we have online. I click that link and my textbooks are already in a cart. I copy and paste the ISBN number into google and order them from those websites, usually amazon, rather than paying $200 each to my bookstore on campus.
Good video! I lost 15 lbs in my first year, because I always cooked for myself (and I'm whole food vegan). Then again, I was 28 and had been cooking for a few years before going to school...Freshman 15! lol
Not even in college anymore but i love you so of course i'm going to watch but THESE ARE ACTUALLY A+ TIPS!! SUCH GOOD ADVICE!! Awesome video! & seriously these tips would've helped me so much freshman year. And frankly even senior year. I love you!!
Good luck! College is seriously such an amazing experience and if you try and find your way around it (but fr try) it will be the best thing to happen to you. Best learning experience in every way possible :)
I am a freshman for this spring semester and I start my first class monday. I will of course be using these hakes due to its my first time being away from home.
Not if you just do a search to find and replace all the periods at once. It takes like 10 seconds and can add around half a page depending on how long the paper is.
+Nidhi oh yeah you definitely can't do it online because they reformat. But in a pinch it helps, if anything to get some actual sleep after a long paper, but not something to do all the time
As a fairly resent college grad (I graduated June of last year from Developmental Services Work) this video was and will be helpful to many Lindsey. Awesome work :)
The buddy system is the best thing you can ever do! Highly recommend. I'm super shy but every semester on the first day of classes I make it a priority to talk to someone and try to become buddies. It has helped me get study guides (you will be surprised how many people have study guides or notes from someone else that already took the class), reminders to do assignments, and it's nice to feel like you have someone to help you survive the semester!
Class starts Monday. My life ends Monday
same omg
Dont do the period font change. Professors do notice. I got in trouble for that once
Yup! My professor gave an automatic F to students in my class who used that trick. It made it impossible for them to finish with anything higher than a C the rest of the semester. Not worth it for sure!
If it's a physical paper, you're probably okay if it's not an English teacher, but if you have to turn it online via email, turnitin.com, etc., they'll for sure notice.
It's not noticeable if you look at it, so they only way someone would notice is if you emailed the paper to them instead of a hard paper copy
my english teacher noticed it and it was a physical copy. teachers are not dumb
I agree, professors notice and it's pretty much straight up cheating so definitely not worth getting in trouble with academic integrity. Just write the few extra words lol
Don't sell books from your major classes. You will definitely need them as a reference later on in your career.
First tip is correct. During high school i studied my notes everyday after note taking and i got a 100 on exam. I didnt do this until half way through school year because i wasn't satisfied with where my current grade was and make sure to see teacher for help and prepare any questions that u dont know only if u tried everything and couldn't figure it out.
You're so right, making connections is super important. I recommend going to your professor's office hours and just talking to them and getting to know them, maybe have a few questions prepared. It's always good to have relationships with your professors so you can find out about opportunities and also get recommendation letters!
another college hack is to put what you are looking for on google in quotation marks that helps so much.
Omg some these hacks are so great that I didn't know and I'll definitely be using them especially since I'm going into my freshman year of college.
yay! best of luck to you :)) enjoy your freshman year!
Another life saver is quizlet!! The app is great for making flashcards or using already made flashcards!
Tessla P yes yes yes sometimes I'll look up a question there and the entire assignment is there
Don't change any font. They will notice.
THINGS NOT MENTIONED
🔸Don't change the font from 12 to 14! Professors grade hundreds of papers and they will notice!! Change it to 12.5. 🔸If you use EasyBib make sure to check that the website correctly cites your references cuz rules for citations change over time. Use Purdue OWL, you'll have to cite manually but they will most likely be correct.
🔸Your school will also most likely have a research database accessible to students via the library so you don't really have to use Google Scholar unless you HAVE to.
Who ever thought about the periods?? Genios
Genius**
I hope to god you spelled genius incorrectly intentionally.
don't do that it's very bad advice.
her mirror looks kinda like a veil
Google Docs is awesome. Even renting from Amazon will save you money. Sit near the front or you'll get distracted. I wouldn't do the period thing, they've caught on and now a lot of them notice it.
Seriously! One of my teachers actually checks for that now and whoever she catches gets an automatic F. Sucks :(
I graduated from college almost 3 years ago why am I watching this.
I will say to be careful about the period font change, some professors notice, and like the bibliography, it's easier to just write the paper the length it needs to be and to memorize the way to write the citations.
Another tip with google drive is you can use it to store your important files like in case your external hard drive crashes or something!
I'm in my second year of college now and some of these hacks are about to save my year. Also, about the textbook hack, I would recommend trying to avoid buying them from your school bookstore! The differences between their prices and those on Amazon are sometimes massive.
she's so pretty
I ain't even in college and I'm here learning shit. GETTING MY PERIOD TO A SIZE 14.
+Study Successfully I'm 26 done graduated college lmao I was literally joking
+Tiffani James well it wasn't funny sorry
Nicole Chow that's your opinion lol
I have done this my freshman-junior year (college) and received A's on all my papers. It's risky but was worth it for me
This is probably actually the only college advice video that I have ever found helpful and trust me I have literally seen everything on CZcams!
Thanks dude, you just saved my life
If you think of anything else, please help and make another video!
Love you
About books I have 3 tips that will save you SO much money:
1. NEVER buy books before the semester starts. The majority of my "mandatory" books were not ever needed and most teachers will tell you up front if you ask if you actually need them or not, or students will tell you. Unless there was legit homework from the book I almost never got it since I could get the info from Google and CZcams way better and faster than from the book.
2. If you do need to buy a book NEVER buy it from the actual bookstore on campus. The markups on that are insane and you will rarely get any amount of decent money back. One trick they do is tell you you need the 3rd addition or something when in reality all they did was change a sentence or two and they only did it to charge more for that new addition. So buy everything from Amazon or wherever online. I've gotten books that, at the store, were 150 and I paid 30.
3. Try finding the PDF of the book online before you buy. Just google the title + author+ pdf to see if you can't find it. I've found a couple of books this way so my cost was 0 :)
I literally just moved into my dorm today! Super helpful tips, just so so so nervous about everything lol
I would love to see more college related videos!
Aww Lindsey, I love this video! I can tell that you genuinely liked to do this video and you were really yourself! Love you, and please please please keep doing videos like this.
@ all the freshman people: This is so important, take notes of this!! Lol, but seriously as an older student myself, I totally 100% agree with everything she said. Another tip: Time managing is so important, try and figure out what schedule works best for you, make a plan and stick to it so you're always on top of the things. It will take a while to figure out what works the best for you as an individual but will make your life so much easier when it comes to studying, hanging out, having time to relax by yourself etc. :)
I absolutely agree with the last tip. Networking is SOOOO important. Sometimes networking is how you get the career you want, and a degree may just be a formality.
Could you do a video on networking?!
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Universities usually have their own database of scholarly articles. Much better than google scholar, especially for the articles in journals that you need to pay for. You can usually find them in your school's database, and sometimes you can request/borrow them from other schools!
Thank you so much for this! I'm feeling better about freshman year coming up soon!
I can't thank you enough for the tips. You have encouraged me greatly to be more social and to get out my comfort zone!
the weird thing for me in college was I lost weight my freshman year, I think it was the stress/anxiety that got to me & i didn't eat.
These are all so true! Especially the buddy tip. My life got so much easier and my grades got better when I started making friends in my classes
I'm about to graduate in December from my university and all of these life hacks are so so true!!! Listen to this women guys!! 🙌
I'm a senior in college now and some of these I still wasn't aware of, thank you!
I'm going into my junior year and omg where has this video been for the past two years
Amazon and chegg are the best for renting. I have never purchased a book full price. It's also smart to buy paper ( and not hardcover ) copies of books and when possible used . Amazon has so many of them.
Can you so a reaction to your old videos? I saw it on your snapchat a while back, the cringe is so real 😂👌🏼
This video came at the perfect time! Starting college next week and a little nervous. This really helped a lot. 💛 thanks, Lindsey.
Looking glowing as always Lindsey! Another great video 💓☺️
your brows look so on fleek in this video linds!!
Google Scholar is great, but don't forget about your school library's website!! Depending on what you're studying you'll have to use sources from your library. You don't even have to go to the library because the majority of scholarly articles that your library has access to are available full-text online through the library website. (I'm a library school student if you can't tell :p)
Amazon textbook rentals is a lifesaver!
It's not tedious to change your period font size. You just have to type control F and then type in "." And change it to 14. Takes 1 minute! Also easy bib is not reliable for bibliographies anymore. But there are other cites! I'm blanking on the one I use though 😓
Amazon prime is half price for students :)
So is Spotify premium! Only $5/month :) Also, Prime is free for students for the first 6 months and then $50/year!!
This was so helpful, thank you! X.
i'm so glad!
Thank you for posting this! It was hands down the most helpful back to school video I've seen!!
i'm out of college and not really interested in the video, but i'm here and giving it a thumbs up just to support you. what i mean by that is that many of us will always here for you because we love you and soon enough many more people will do too based on your new content
thank you so much for sharing this with us, it was super helpful especially because i barely started college this fall!!
i'm in my senior year of college and I can totally concur with everything you said Linds!!!! Love you and this video!
Thanks for the great video!! I love hearing about people's college experiences!!
I loved this video Lindsey! I'm so glad you're uploading on this channel again!
I'm going into my first year of college next week (community college) and I found these so helpful!!!! I'll definitely use these!
Being a student for 2 years already, I still learned from this. Thanks, loved this video :)
Lindsey my first day of my freshman year of college is on Monday, this video could not have come at a better time!! Tips for studying and staying motivated to be your best self would be really helpful in the future :) xoxo
i love seeing you back on this channel looking more smiley than ever! im also going to buffer festival in Toronto so I hope to meet you there this fall!!!! can't wait!
About the textbooks, Amazon offers a student prime account. You get amazon prime for free for 6 months, then after the 6 months is over you get the yearly membership for 50% off until you are no longer a student (I believe). Basically, as long as you have a college student email, you get this awesome deal. Best thing I ever did. With the prime, you can rent your textbooks, I spent around $200 (not counting the textbooks my professors wrote) on textbooks. It would have costed me $1200 on textbooks without it.
Mindy Cheyanne Just curious: how do you know what textbooks you'll need before you arrive?
Matthew Brunette My school has a link to our campus bookstore on the schedule we have online. I click that link and my textbooks are already in a cart. I copy and paste the ISBN number into google and order them from those websites, usually amazon, rather than paying $200 each to my bookstore on campus.
Good video! I lost 15 lbs in my first year, because I always cooked for myself (and I'm whole food vegan). Then again, I was 28 and had been cooking for a few years before going to school...Freshman 15! lol
Kinda of been nervous about college this year for some reason. Thanks for the hacks Lindsey!
This video was seriously so helpful! I'm starting college on Monday, and I couldn't be more nervous!
Not even in college anymore but i love you so of course i'm going to watch but
THESE ARE ACTUALLY A+ TIPS!! SUCH GOOD ADVICE!!
Awesome video! & seriously these tips would've helped me so much freshman year. And frankly even senior year.
I love you!!
This is one of the most helpful videos about college I've seen. Thank you :)
This is so helpful! I'm starting college in a few weeks and I am nervous but excited :)
I start college on Wednesday & I'm so excited!
I'm moving into my dorm tomorrow and I'm really nervous but this actually helped me! Thank you!!
Loved all these tips. Thanks for sharing.
This is so helpful! My first day of college is tomorrow and I feel so prepared with these tips, thank you! :)
This video is just in time! Tomorrow is my first day of University and I'm so excited (and scared). Thank you Lindsey ❤
Freaking out cause I start college on Monday
Good luck and have fun! Don't psych yourself you. You'll do great :)
dont be nervous! :p its not like highschool you aren't treated like a baby and you feel more independent. Arrive early so you can find your classes.
Good luck! College is seriously such an amazing experience and if you try and find your way around it (but fr try) it will be the best thing to happen to you. Best learning experience in every way possible :)
i loved this video! seriously so helpful for anyone starting college!
Thank you so much for this! I'm starting freshman year this Monday
Some great advice thank you!!! P.s I was hoping for your back to school videos and you delivered🌸 love you always
I'm moving into college tomorrow! This is such a big help! Thanks girl. Love you sm
Love this video hope you can do more driving VLOGS too pleasse when you get a car please😭🙏🏿
I have my first day of college tomorrow and I'm so nervous!!! thanks for this video it was very helpful😊 love you Lindsey
graduated from college 2 years ago & still watched cause I don't miss vid ;)
really helpful tips! thanks for sharing :)
and that book sound so good!
Really really good tips definitely better than others I've seen ! Thanks again love 💘
Thank you helping me because finished college two months ago .
This was a life hacks video with actual life hacks! Goog job lindsey!!! love you xxx
Thanks SO MUCH! This opened my eyes to so many things 🙂
love you lindsey💗 thank you for this!
I love these!!! I am so happy to see you so much on this channel!!! You are amazing! :)! Love you!! ❤️
I am a freshman for this spring semester and I start my first class monday. I will of course be using these hakes due to its my first time being away from home.
I move into college tomorrow
omg good luck I hope you have a great time:)
This video came just at the right time. I'm starting uni in October and these will definitely come in handy. Thank you!
Thank's for the tips ! I'm from France in my third year of college but I'll use your tips especially about Google drive ! Love you 😍🌻🌞
Wow, this was the most helpful college advice video i've seen so far!
This was so helpful thank you Lindsey!!
Thank you so much for this video! All of these hacks are great.
This was really helpful wow. So many new things i havent heard from anyone else
Very helpful! Thanks Lindsey!!
TYSM for this!!!! I start college monday wish me luck :)
I search up college hacks and my favorite CZcams shows up. How perfect. 💕
Thank you!!! Aaah nervous as hell but I'm excited to start college 😍
Wouldn't it just be easier to add a few more sentences rather than go through and change periods....
no that would harder lol tf
Not if you just do a search to find and replace all the periods at once. It takes like 10 seconds and can add around half a page depending on how long the paper is.
I guess, but it still is "cheating" if you have a certain format to follow. You may want to be careful especially with electronic submissions!
+Nidhi oh yeah you definitely can't do it online because they reformat. But in a pinch it helps, if anything to get some actual sleep after a long paper, but not something to do all the time
You just press Control + F and type in "." and it selects them all
As a fairly resent college grad (I graduated June of last year from Developmental Services Work) this video was and will be helpful to many Lindsey. Awesome work :)
great video,some actually really helpful tips that i haven't seen in any other vidros! def gonna use some
I loved this video so much. It was so helpful! thank you!!!
This video is so helpful! I literally just moved into college today.
This was super helpful Lindsey :)