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As you start college, various well-meaning people will give you excellent advice, most of which you will ignore, even though you are destined eventually to give the same advice to others. (Don't cut class. Don't procrastinate. Don't spend all day on the Internet. Don't expect everything to be relevant to your major. Don't watch soaps. Don't spend money you don't have. Don't take on more courses than you can handle. Don't cheat. Don't be afraid to change majors. Don't be embarrassed to ask for help. Don't put beans in your nose. And so on.)
The little essays here are intended to be more helpful than that by being more specific. You will probably ignore this advice too, but since these essays are wordy, there is more chance for something to click. So read them and prosper already.
Learn to concentrate, to give all your attention to the thing at hand, and then to be able to put it aside and go on to the next thing without confusion. Actually, you can finish any task much quicker if you concentrate on it for fifteen minutes than if you give it divided attention for thirty.
—Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living (1960).
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
—Mark Twain (1835-1910).
I love to learn, but I don't like to be taught.
—Winston Churchill
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