Advice on heeding advice. (Score 3, Insightful)

In the next few months, you'll be deluged with advice, not just here on slashdot, but from all kinds of people on campus, from upper classpeople to profs to counselors to people who never even went to college but still like to give advice. The best advice I can give you (this comming from a senior at Michigan State) is to decide for yourself what the best decisions are. If you follow all of random pieces of advice ("you *must* get this prof!!), all of the rules of thumb (x hours of studying per y credit hours), and even all of the rules (no drinking, he he) you'll really shortchange yourself out of the true college experience, which is finding out what works for *you*. It'll take some time, and probably at least one semester that you'll have to write off as far as grades are concerned, but not only will you be a better college student, you'll be a better person as a result.