surviving tips Any tips for surviving a pub whilst on crutches?
Hurt my knee recently, going on a pub crawl with uni (pretty much going to seven pubs before finishing), plus already have tickets. Will prob be very crowded. Anyone done anything similar, what was it like? any tips?
Get a wheelchair and get someone to push you around. You'll get all the sympathy going !
i'm going to college in about 7 months. my high school, a pre-college charter school, has prepared me intellectually for it imo, but i'm still unsure about some things like time management or how i'm paying for it (i'm probably going to take out a loan to pay for the rest after accounting for scholarships, grants, work-study, etc). what are some tips i should keep in mind as i attend?
Tips:
1. College isn't like high school at all: There are no cliques and little groups of people.
2. You make your own schedule. If you pick an early start time to a class make sure you can make it.
3. You will have more than one class on almost all your days.
4. Some classes are (monday, wednesday, friday), (tuesday, thursday, friday), (wednesday, thursday, friday), (monday - friday) and some are just one day a week.
5. If you take one three credit course you should spend about 8 hours of studying and preparing for that one class.
6. A typical credit load is anywhere between 12-18 credits.
7. Time management is important and will determine how you do
8. You can get put on academic probation if you're grades aren't up to snuff
9. Classes like Philosophy, Logic and Art History are pretty boring unless you like that kind of stuff
10. You can typically change your major until your junior year of college
11. You can double major if you wish
12. You can pick a minor area to study (requires less credits to achieve than a major)
13. Have fun
14. Don't miss any classes
15. Give yourself enough time between classes so you can make it from one to the next (especially if you attend a big campus: I.E. Ohio State University).
surviving tips Does anyone have any good tips for surviving a road trip with two young boys this summer?
We are driving from Michigan to North Carolina for a vacation this summer. We are taking two days to drive there and two days to drive back, stopping halfway in Pennsylvania both times. My boys are 5 and 8 and have never experienced a major road trip like this before. I'm looking for tips on entertainment, car sickness remedies, games, must-pack items, thing like that.
My biggest tip is to make sure the hotel you stay at in Penn has a pool! The second is to invest in a portable DVD player that takes 2 headsets. We frequently take long trips with our kids, and those two have been major life savers.
Food tips: Make sure you have a lot of non-sticky, not too salty treats to munch on. You will be cleaning them up from the car, so non-sticky is obvious. Not too salty is because salt makes them thirsty and you will end up having to stop to pee too often. Limit liquids somewhat, just let them drink water and they won't drink more than they need (like they would with juice boxes). Also, it won't be a sticky spill. Stop for lunch at somewhere with a play place, and let them run crazy for an hour. It pays off to get that energy out! And for dinner, one parent can take the kids in the pool while the other goes to pick up a take out dinner to eat in the hotel room. The kids will get worn out and go to bed much easier. My husband swims with the kids while I get dinner. I return and we both help get everyone dried off to eat and the kids take turns showering. Then everyone gets ready for bed. It is pretty much dinner then straight to bed, but if they swam for a while, they are worn out.
Toys: Besides the obvious electronics (Nintendo DS, the DVD player, Ipods) some other fun things to take along are small reward toys. Many larger toys are also available in small versions or even on key chains. We would purchase a few and pull them out as gift rewards for behaving for legs of the trip. Examples are mini-etch a sketch's, marble mazes (those little blocks with small metal beads you need to get through a maze), those finger paint pages that only work with the paint that looks clear till you use it on the special paper, coloring books with metallic crayons, black paper with gel pens, find it while you travel flash cards, small books with flaps (for 5 year old), small Lego sets... Go to your local toy store and look around. I put a few we liked below. We wrapped the toys, and put them in a basket for each child. They got to see the wrapped gifts and we explained that when we caught them being good for a while (usually a time of 2-3 hours), they would get to choose a gift. This was the incentive we used to get bad behavior to stop easily instead of getting worse. Also, the new toys will help occupy them for a while. Many fun things can be found at the cheapy dollar stores, or even in the grocery store toy aisle.
And finally, mostly be patient and willing to stop. If you are driving along and see a neat park or store or whatever, be willing to stop and take a look. Let everyone stretch their legs. If you arrive a little later, so be it. Having the trip be more relaxing will make it much more worth it than the hour or so you save by pushing tired kids beyond their limit. Also, we didn't rush out in the morning. We let the kids get in a morning swim first thing, then took off. They started the day off with less wiggles, and were excited to get up and moving in the morning.
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What are some tips to surviving high school?
I've been homeschooled from K-8 and now Im going to be a freshman at a public school in August. Do you have any tips on wut I shuld wear? or How to survive the first day as a freshman? cuz im not really familiar with having school for 8hours and teachers or lockers or a scheduled lunch. So all tips and ideas will be accepted. THX!!
lol just wear normal clothes. act normal and you will be successful.
It's not too scary being at a high school, its actually fun and you will have a great time experiencing it
My mom and I do not get along at all. I've been planning what to do when I move out since I was 10. But it's getting worse since I've been getting older. Emancipation isn't an option, so any tips for surviving the next 2 years?
I don't know what your mother does... I can only refer to mine. Nevertheless, I think, I know what you feel like...
In my case I had to try to not listen. Listening only lead to more hurt. Don't listen. Don't answer. And doing something that shows you, you can do things is a good way, too.
Stay away from strange people, unsafe places and unhealthy thoughts. Throw bottles against walls to get rid from hate and anger. And do sports to route that energy where it doesn't hurt anybody, you included.
And watch out for the others - heavy sarcasm with people who understand helps a whole lot.
Believe me, the last two years you will make it alive - imagine how you'll never answer the phone when she will be lonely once you're gone - and believe me, she will be
You can do that - you wanna win, don't you?!
