Xanda's College Survival Tips

As you embark on the new school year -- whether it's your first year of college or your sophomore year of high school -- it seems like the perfect time to recap Xanda's complete list of school survival tips, including one of my personal favorites (and still mighty relevant to me, as a supposedly fully-functioning long-graduated adult):

14. Take the length of the paper you have to write, in pages. Multiply by the amount of time it takes you to write a page (in hours), on average, when you’re concentrating. Add 1 hour. Multiply by 2. That’s how long it’s going to take if you don’t CLOSE YOUR DAMN INTERNET WINDOWS. Your webcomics will be waiting for you when you’re done; but if you are the sort of person who can’t resist them, that’s how much time you should give yourself to write.

Read Xanda's complete list of 25 Life Lessons.  You won't regret it.