College Life
Dear Freshman Friend: Hello and welcome to college! You will spend the next four years of your life studying, sleeping, eating, exercising, making friends, making enemies, falling in love, being heart broken, plagiarizing, and suffering in this ancient institution called university. You probably learned from brochures, applications, and other similar college advertisements the number of volumes the library owns, the name of your future college professors, and even how many hectares the university covers. But nobody has ever talk to you about this: the reality of college students. These are secrets behind the walls, the subject that many admission officers had tried for decades to keep it as a secret until this moment…so here we go. MONEY You will be cheated by paying thousands of dollars in tuition, room, board, and all kinds of imaginable fees (like right now I am paying a $20 parking fee, and I don’t even own a car). Books are the second most expensive items in college life. Somewhere down the line, you will pay $100 for a book; and at the end of the semester, if you are lucky, you will get seven bucks for it. An easy solution is to sell the book to a prospect victim, I mean student, who is planning to take the same class (hint:
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Friend Hello, College Professors--These, LIFE Home, Resident Directors, Food Cafeteria--you, Coffee Coke, credit cards, Sincerely Friend,
Approximate Word count = 809
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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