I believe that the best way to succeed in college is to come into college knowing nothing at all. Throw away all your learned skills from high school and come in with the mindset that you know nothing about anything.
When I, and many other freshmen, think of college, we think of it as an opportunity to become a new person, and have a clean slate. This mindset is the best one to have simply because it opens up a gateway for you to see yourself in the way you want to see yourself, not the way others have viewed you before. And nobody cares about any of your accomplishments, or failures you had, before you got here. Nobody.
Nobody is going to walk up to you and say "hey you're that kid that got a 2400 on the SATs!" or
"You got the Gates Millennium Scholarship?! Of course you can have my seat in the front row of lecture today! You smart kid." because we don't care. Yes, these accomplishments got you where you are today, congrats. But it is a new day, with new challenges, and new opportunities.
This can also be seen as an opportunity for any slackers out there like me, who beat the statistics and got into their top-choice school, to start fresh and allow themselves to learn and grow in the process. Make mistakes and learn from them.
College is not a chance for you to finally have freedom and get away from your parents' constant demands on life, just so you can finally experience a real "grown up" party. Instead it should be a place for you to find out who your are as an individual, without someone being there to tell you who you are based on what you did in the past. Because again, no one cares here.
So if you got nothing out of anything I wrote, remember, nobody cares about your past accomplishments or failures. So don't dwell on them either. Set new goals, and accomplish them, for yourself.
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