Gettysburg College

Professors make an effort to have lots of office hours. Make an effort to use them.

Class sizes are small for a reason. You will be missed (and you will miss out) if you don't show up on a regular basis.

Learn to love Servo or learn how to cook.

The library is a great place to study and work. However, you are not the only student who knows this.

Losing your room key is embarrassing and expensive—try to keep track of it.

Don't feel like you have to have a major picked out before you arrive on campus. You are allowed to hold off on declaring until the end of your sophomore year, and you should use that time to decide what you'd really like to do. It's a lot harder to switch from a major you've already declared than to just declare in the first place.

As much of a pain as it might be, take the time to learn how to use Blackboard, CNAV, and Peoplesoft. While you will probably use Blackboard fairly frequently, chances are that if you don't know how to navigate Peoplesoft for instance, it will come back to haunt you just about the only time you really need it: class pre-registration.