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re: Starting LSU Tips
Posted on 8/6/15 at 10:32 am to Mister Mayhem
Posted on 8/6/15 at 10:32 am to Mister Mayhem
I don't get why everyone is giving the OP flak for having his kid live at home. Unless the parents are overbearing, why spend the money to live away from home during college?[/quote]
It's all about learning to do things on your own without being forced to by one's parents. Everyone who didn't live at home, but graduated college has a similar story to this one. There always comes a time in one's collegiate career when they become lax about going to class. Their priorities get out of line with regards to their studies and they pay the consequences with their grades and pocket books. If one is forced to go, they don't learn this lesson. Failure (or at least getting close to it) due to one's own actions (or inaction) causes kids to grow up. They inevitably get faced with "make or break" decisions. It forces them to realize that they don't go to class because they are forced to, they go with an objective in mind. This mindset change is critical for teaching students the lessons they need to learn in college. The lesson is that we don't go to school, or work, or study or pay bills, ect because we are forced, we do so to accomplish an end, we have to want it.
Forcing a child to live at home denies them that opportunity to learn to "want it" for themselves by simply forcing them to comply.
It's like the difference between a pothead swearing off drugs because their job tests for it compared to them realizing it's not a healthy habit. The former will resent his job and constantly look for ways to skirt the requirements. The latter accepts his decision and doesn't fight it, but instead "buys in".
It's all about learning to do things on your own without being forced to by one's parents. Everyone who didn't live at home, but graduated college has a similar story to this one. There always comes a time in one's collegiate career when they become lax about going to class. Their priorities get out of line with regards to their studies and they pay the consequences with their grades and pocket books. If one is forced to go, they don't learn this lesson. Failure (or at least getting close to it) due to one's own actions (or inaction) causes kids to grow up. They inevitably get faced with "make or break" decisions. It forces them to realize that they don't go to class because they are forced to, they go with an objective in mind. This mindset change is critical for teaching students the lessons they need to learn in college. The lesson is that we don't go to school, or work, or study or pay bills, ect because we are forced, we do so to accomplish an end, we have to want it.
Forcing a child to live at home denies them that opportunity to learn to "want it" for themselves by simply forcing them to comply.
It's like the difference between a pothead swearing off drugs because their job tests for it compared to them realizing it's not a healthy habit. The former will resent his job and constantly look for ways to skirt the requirements. The latter accepts his decision and doesn't fight it, but instead "buys in".
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Posted on 8/6/15 at 10:32 am to PhiTiger1764
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Yea but how many times did you walk out of a bar blackout drunk and frick bad bitches on a Tuesday?
This guy gets it
Posted on 8/6/15 at 10:34 am to PhiTiger1764
Bad. Black. Fat.
Didn't matter.
Didn't matter.
Posted on 8/6/15 at 10:38 am to Amblin
Go to class
Don't get caught plagiarizing
Don't get caught plagiarizing
Posted on 8/6/15 at 10:41 am to Walt OReilly
quote:And major in something of interest, and not just for the perceived $$$ after graduating. If it's not in your heart, your heart will not be into it either...
Go to class
Posted on 8/6/15 at 11:01 am to More beer please
I've lived in an apartment my entire time in college paid for by working my butt off at night.
Nothing more rewarding than leaving work, walking into feeds when everyone's shite housed at 1 am and pulling the best looking girl in there because you can drive home and no one else can.
Nothing more rewarding than leaving work, walking into feeds when everyone's shite housed at 1 am and pulling the best looking girl in there because you can drive home and no one else can.
Posted on 8/6/15 at 3:02 pm to Amblin
I live at home and commuted for 3 years. it fricking sucked. you will feel left out, make less friends, and grades might even be worse off. didnt help that my high school wasnt very high on the social totem pol either. Im trying to move out, but i will have to pay for it myself
Posted on 8/6/15 at 3:57 pm to mikelbr
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I can't tell you how many times I was driving to school and detoured to Rainbow or Tiger mart to get a 40oz and go drink and pass out on a buddies couch, wake up with them about 10 and get more fricked up in Power Dorm or on Jennifer Jean. I was a terrible student first two years.
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wake up with them about 10 and get more fricked up in Power Dorm or on Jennifer Jean
10am?
Posted on 8/6/15 at 4:26 pm to Breesus
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Tip number one: between now and start of school find him a different place to live. Preferably a dorm with other college students. No one should live at home during college.
Tip number two: don't be a bitch about curfew or staying out and sleeping at friends houses if you're forcing him to live at home.
If you've raised him right up to this point he'll generally make the right decisions. you have to trust him and give him room to live. Which will be difficult since he lives at home, but you have to do it.
Tip number three: let him be a college kid. Let him make mistakes. Let him learn how to do shite on his own. If you baby him and force him to go to class and you stay on top of him everyday and make sure he's doing what he's supposed to, he'll never learn to do those things on his own. That's the most important lesson in life, making mistakes, learning from them, and learning independence
Totally agree. Unless you absolutely can't afford it, let him move out. Even if he has to get a part time job to pay for it. College is much more about transitioning into adulthood than it is about learning academics. You can't become a man if Dad is still calling the shots.
Posted on 8/6/15 at 4:28 pm to Amblin
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Coursey and Jones Creek
So he's kind of screwed as far as having a real college experience then huh?
Posted on 8/6/15 at 4:28 pm to brodeo
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Forcing a child to live at home denies them that opportunity to learn to "want it" for themselves by simply forcing them to comply.
Totally agree. Everyone goes through a lazy/irresponsible phase in life that you have to overcome on your own. It's better for that to be while you are 19 than 26 when you are starting a career.
Posted on 8/6/15 at 4:37 pm to armytiger16
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Did you ever getting the nagging feeling your friends resented you saving money by crashing at their place every weekend? Doesn't matter how good a friend if you do that for a couple years they will be unable to not harbor some sentiment that you are taking advantage of them.
no, but most of my friends weren't vaginas
Posted on 8/6/15 at 4:46 pm to Amblin
I will be regurgitating what everyone else said, but put your kid in a dorm. Even if you have to float a loan to do it, do it. Even if he absolutely fricks up, he will learn more about life and himself than he would getting straight A's living under your roof.
You really are doing your kid a disservice. I know it's expensive, but sometimes you have to bite the bullet, and this is one of those times. Give him the year to get his shite straight, living in the dorm, and a summer to work a job. Then help him out with a couple hundred bucks a month to live off campus.
You really are doing your kid a disservice. I know it's expensive, but sometimes you have to bite the bullet, and this is one of those times. Give him the year to get his shite straight, living in the dorm, and a summer to work a job. Then help him out with a couple hundred bucks a month to live off campus.
Posted on 8/6/15 at 4:46 pm to Amblin
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My son starting LSU this Fall and will be commuting from home. He has one class that starts at 7:30am. Any tips or advice as far as which lots are better to park, should he go Burbank or Interstate to get to campus, what are best places to get books?
Parking won't be a problem for a 7:30a class.. if he leaves home at a reasonable time, he'll have time to grab some coffee from Middleton and do the daily crossword well before his class starts.
As far as parking is concerned, it depends on what type of parking pass he has. Again, at 7:30a he should have his pick of spots, but grab a campus map beforehand and identify the appropriate parking lots... LSUPD will not hesitate to write a ticket if he parks in the wrong spot.
DO NOT get books from the LSU Bookstore... I wasted hundreds of dollars going this route. Your best bet is to go with an online textbook rental, or if your son is partial to underlining and highlighting in his books, purchase an earlier edition of whatever is being assigned to the class. Odds are it is exactly the same as the edition being used save for a few charts and graphs and rephrasing of a few paragraphs. Depending on his major 90% of his his exam material will come from lectures regardless.
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Also for LSU football tickets as a Freshman, how does that process work?
Incoming Student Ticket Process
Posted on 8/6/15 at 4:47 pm to Team Vote
Living with your parents during college is like dating an OT10 that is super serious about abstinence
It's an abomination
It's an abomination
Posted on 8/6/15 at 4:47 pm to chilge1
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Drop the 730 class. He'll never be on time, never go, and get a F
Gotta agree. When I moved off of campus, those early classes became pretty hard to get to.
Posted on 8/6/15 at 4:49 pm to Amblin
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commuting from home
Are you gonna walk him to class the first day ?
Posted on 8/6/15 at 4:53 pm to GaryMyMan
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majoring in something other than liberal arts
frick you...
now let me get back before my fries burn.
Posted on 8/7/15 at 1:04 am to GreatLakesTiger24
College is a period for learning and growing. I think a freshman benefits from staying at home during that first year. Afterwards , he or she should be more independent in their living arrangements and academic responsibilities.
Posted on 8/7/15 at 1:10 am to Amblin
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and will be commuting from home
Then he's not really going to college.
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