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 * How to Survive an 18 Credit Semester as an English Major **


 * 1) **Don’t watch TV. **You think you have time to DVR How I Met Your Mother and watch it because it’s only a 30 minute show, but you don’t. You’ll enjoy the 22 minutes of no commercials, but then you’ll only stay up later writing your papers.


 * 1) **Find a comfy place on campus. **Campus will soon become your home away from home, so find a place you like. Preferably away from the idiots in the Student Center, who don’t care how many people are working on homework, and are loud and annoying all the time. Without fail. Might as well invest in a sleeping bag.


 * 1) **Get a Starbucks card. ** You’ll constantly need the caffeine so you might as well earn points and get free coffee periodically. Before you know it, you’ll become one of their “Gold Card Members” and you’ll get a free coffee after a whopping 15 drinks!


 * 1) **Find free printing. **With 27 papers to write in one semester, paper and ink gets expensive. Might as well put your over-the-top, ridiculously expensive, tuition money to good use!


 * 1) **Wear layers of clothing. ** Campus is either totally freezing or completely scorching. There is no in-between! And since it will most likely be dark out when you get to campus and when you leave campus, you’ll want that coat.


 * 1) **Bring your own food. ** I know Subway has many options, but really, you can only eat so many varieties before it gets boring. And then you’re not spending all your precious laundry coins in vending machines every day. (Make sure you ask for gift cards during the holidays.)


 * 1) **Learn the parking lots. ** Since you will constantly be coming to and from campus, find the parking lots that are closest the buildings you will be using each day. With a jam-packed backpack, who wants to trek across campus for 20 min, every day, in 30 degree weather?