Now for the real advice

So in thinking about the title of this blog I realized that college is not all about the technical stuff. There is a fun part too.
Take for the example the endless pranks. You should have helped pull off at least a couple pranks by the time you should graduate. It lightens people's mood and helps you let loose. There are the little things like switching your roommates dresser drawers, or emptying the entire contents of the three hole punch on your roommates head (which my lovely roommate was nice enough to do to me about an hour ago and did not make me quite so happy). However there are also the bigger and better pranks. Once that require preparation. One such prank was pulled by my college group at church. On saturday night we "forked" the youth pastor's lawn and left notes informing them of the prank war being initiated by the "mature" college group. It was a great success pulled off around 3 in the morning on saturday.
This did involve cars and late nights. However pranks can be pulled within the comfort of your dorm room! Take for example one that a friend of mine and I pulled on another guy in our dorm. While he was out we popped a good 40 bags of microwave popcorn and lots of air popped corn as well and filled our friends wardrobe with it! It was fantastic really.

The last bit of advice I have for you refers to a certain game played within dorms known as Assassins. It is a game made essentially to produce mass paranoia. The goal is not to be eliminated by your assassin while eliminating your target. You can be eliminated with one witness. I fell victim to this rule by not being paranoid enough. The game started at midnight on Sunday night. I got my target and was looking them up on stalkernet and facebook. At 12:06...I was studying alone on first floor (my first big mistake) and in comes my assassin (identity unknown to me), and I was eliminated from the game six minutes after it started. I learned that in the game of assassins you must alwayws be prepared. Even the second it starts. I was going to start being careful the next morning, however that ws what killed me in the end.
So the moral of the story is: They are out to get you and they will strike at you when you least expect it. Ergo...always be paranoid!