letter to the Creekers!!!!

Class of '10...CONGRATS!!!!!!



Graduation is gonna seem like one of the biggest achievements of your life and it will be the turning point of everything. You will cry, you will be sad, you will wish to go back.

At this point in your life you will wish school was out. You'll wish you are as far from Bridge Creek as possible and that all Bridge Creek is will disappear. You'll want the assumptions and cliques to go away. You'll be scared but more excited of your future. You will want to be grown up.

This is my warning to you......do not wish it so...

College life is not all its cracked up to be. You may think you are the smart one or the one that can balance everything or the popular one or the focused one but there is a gigantic news flash coming. There is always someone smarter, someone that can balance responsibilities better, someone more popular and liked, someone more focused. No matter what you believe your talents are there will always be someone ahead of you. And you believe in not being a geek? well change!!!!!! geekiness is encouraged at college. And those people are loved.

Take these truths as things to be considered:
1. Geekiness is not a disease; its a quality to be desired
2. Time Management = NECESSARY!!!!
3. You must suspend your social life on a daily basis
4. Bikes are cool again, and scooters can be too
5. Sleep is a luxury that most don't have
6. If you work more then 15 hours a week AND go to school AND have a social life you are very talented
7. Chemistry, Calculus, English Composition and Physics do not belong in the same semester
8. Reccomendation - Enroll each semester with 15 or more hours so that if need be you can drop at least one class without falling below full-time status
9. Find at least 1 place that you can study without distractions; it is entirely helpful if it's without friends
10. Determine if you are a day studier or a night studier. Enroll in class around that (i.e. if you are a day studier then morning classes would be best, if a night studier afternoon classes are helpful)
11. Take advantage of upperclassmen friends, they know what professors are horrible
12. If your roommate and you do not get along, CHANGE ROOMS!!!! Roommate drama can cause academic drama easily
13. Too many resposibilities = nervous breakdown
14. The college may be large, but everyone knows everyone (it's helpful to create a good image in and out of class)
15. 1 a.m. walmart runs interfer with writing papers
16. You will always be broke...PERIOD!!!!

These are basic rules. Everyone creates their own list of rules. There are universal rules that apply to almost every student though.

Don't assume anything about college.......nothing is never what you believe it to be...

Enjoy your last year seniors...It's gonna be the last free one....