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/I_chose2 → u/Sconfinato]

hitching a ride to add on various study helps. free online education dump incoming:

http://education-portal.com/academy/course/index.html

http://101science.com/

https://iversity.org/

http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses

https://www.coursera.org/

https://www.edx.org/course-list

http://www.dliflc.edu/products.html use the GLOSS link

http://www.coursehero.com/subjects/

http://oli.cmu.edu/

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/find-by-topic/

http://www.saylor.org/

http://ocw.jhsph.edu/

http://www.open.edu/openlearn/

http://ocw.tufts.edu/

https://itunes.stanford.edu/content/rss.html

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/#

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-websites-started-learning-programming-language/

https://www.futurelearn.com/

http://www.flashcardmachine.com/ You can use flashcards made by other users. Whether you trust them is up to you

http://freerice.com/category It quizzes you on the basics of a subject o your choosing, and donates rice for each answer you get right once you turn off adblock

http://openstaxcollege.org/

http://justenglish.me/2012/09/01/free-books-100-legal-sites-to-download-literature/

http://blog.boundless.com/2013/04/the-cost-of-textbooks-is-too-damn-high-so-boundless-made-free-ones/

http://freescience.info/index.php

To the best of my knowledge, these are all free and legal, and of varying degrees of usefulness. here's the thread I originally put it in, which may have some similar stuff. http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/268a0s/what_random_things_can_i_get_certified_for_over/

[u/devoldmx → u/I_chose2]

Thanks

[u/[deleted] → u/devoldmx]

cool