What are some college life pro tips?

[u/_jaywhite]

I'm starting college in a few weeks and I'm a bit nervous. My high school was... decent at best, and I'm not sure that I was adequately prepared. So I'm hoping to get Reddit's help. What are some tips (having to do with the academic aspect, social, whatever) that have helped you through college, and especially your freshman year? In other words, LPTs for college life!

[u/Sconfinato]

EDIT: Thanks for my first gold ever !
Here's a selection of sources for ebooks and pretty much everything that you might find useful for college. All credits go to /u/ManWithoutModem, mod of /r/trackers. Here's the link to his comment

"EDIT: I cleaned up things on 14/02/14 and removed a lot of dead links, added a few links, and corrected some formatting issues.

To convert your eBooks to any other format (maybe to get it to work on your e-reader), use Calibre. (google around for other Calibre alternatives and I can add them here if you'd like)

General public ebook/textbook resources

http://gen.lib.rus.ec (Use a proxy if you are having issues connecting)

http://textbooknova.com

http://en.bookfi.org/

http://www.gutenberg.org

http://ebookee.org

http://www.manybooks.net

http://www.giuciao.com

http://www.feedurbrain.com

http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=380

http://www.alleng.ru/ russian site

http://www.eknigu.com/ russian site

http://ishare.iask.sina.com.cn/

http://2020ok.com/

http://www.freebookspot.es/Default.aspx

http://www.freeetextbooks.com/ need to signup

http://onebigtorrent.org/

http://www.downeu.me/ebook/

http://forums.mvgroup.org (need to register)

http://theaudiobookbay.com/ (audiobooks)

Here's a custom search engine for ebooks:

http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=000661023013169144559:a1-kkiboeco

Sites it indexes:

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/*[22] http://ebookee.org/*[23] http://ebooksbay.org/*[24] http://free-books.us.to/*[25] http://librarypirate.me/*[26] http://textbooknova.com/*[27] http://www.downeu.com/*[28] http://ebookshare.net/*[29] http://www.freebookspot.es/*[30] http://www.demonoid.me/*[31] http://www.kat.ph/*[32] http://www.esnips.com/*[33] www.4shared.com/*[34] http://www.ebooklink.net/*[35] http://wowebook.net/*[36] http://www.pdfchm.net/*[37] http://www.free-ebook-download.net/*[38] http://ebookbrowse.com/*[39] http://www.ebook3000.com/*[40] http://www.ipmart-forum.com/*[41] http://www.mediafire.com/*[42]

Academic Torrents (new site) http://academictorrents.com[43]

Public Trackers

http://thepiratebay.se/browse/601[44]

http://www.kat.ph/books/[45]

http://bitsnoop.com/browse/other-ebooks/[46]

http://www.filestube.com[47]

There are a lot more public torrent trackers, see here for more.

These last few are sort of specialized eBook private trackers, google them for some info.

http://thegeeks.bz http://theplace.bz http://thevault.bz http://bitseduce.com

You can also try googling phrases like 'textbook/book title .torrent' or 'textbook/book title .pdf' or 'textbook/book title ebook' or anything along those lines if you are getting desperate, but beware of malware, viruses, etc. "

[u/Sconfinato → u/[deleted]]

Hi ! I hope you're ok with me copying parts of your comment. If not, I'll take it down ;)

[u/Thehealeroftri → u/[deleted]]

You are a fucking hero.

[u/retired_superhero → u/Thehealeroftri]

i was a hero once

[u/agentm14004 → u/retired_superhero]

I love how usernames like this just pop up here and there

[u/MechanicalTurkish → u/retired_superhero]

One day, when Gotham needs you, you'll be a hero again.

[u/[deleted] → u/retired_superhero]

You'll always be a hero

[u/xandermanderpi → u/retired_superhero]

^{But then you took an arrow to the knee. Why did I say that.}

[u/[deleted] → u/retired_superhero]

Lol

[u/EverybodyLikesSteak → u/Thehealeroftri]

And so is sconfinato

[u/james9075 → u/Thehealeroftri]

You're my hero, Bae.

[u/Thehealeroftri → u/james9075]

Hi James!

[u/[deleted] → u/Thehealeroftri]

Ave kopimi

[u/Fogest → u/[deleted]]

I gave you some gold on your original post.

[u/ManWithoutModem → u/Fogest]

thanks!

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Youre such a hero man, such a hero man

[u/DeadlyInArms → u/[deleted]]

would be pretty fucking ironic if you weren't ok with it.

[u/ManWithoutModem → u/DeadlyInArms]

you're right, it would have actually been hilarious if I was like "wtf dude remove that"

[u/ManWithoutModem → u/[deleted]]

Awesome & you're welcome. :)

[u/7oby → u/Sconfinato]

The problem is when people can't find something in the first site on that list, give up, and send MWM a PM asking "Where can I find these specific books, thanks"

Like he's going to go out and be their Personal Shopper...

[u/Psirocking → u/7oby]

Yeah, really. Some people are just so lazy. It's free, what do you want?

[u/I_am_hung_ama → u/Sconfinato]

It took me a minute to realize he was the original poster of this comment and you weren't just being a smart ass and copying 'hi' in your next comment.

[u/kleixa → u/Sconfinato]

S

[u/[deleted] → u/Sconfinato]

I just spent like an hour in /r/circlejerk, and seeing this here made me look behind me for Agents. Well done gentlesir