 Class is now in session. I'm Bianca Renee and you're watching Bianca Renee Today and today I'm gonna tell you all the things that you need to know about college that no one has told you before Now there may be some things in this video that you have heard of but no one told me and I really wish that someone would have So even if you gain one piece of knowledge from this video, it'll be worth it now to give you a little backstory about me I actually graduated college Eight years ago. Wow. I sound ancient now. So it's been a long time, but I don't think these same Fundamentals have changed. I'm the firstborn in my family. I've been the oldest kid out of my siblings out of my cousin So therefore I was the first to go to college. My parents also didn't go to college My mom became a dancer. She was like touring in Japan by time. She was 18. My dad went to college for like Maybe a semester and then Stevie Wonder called him to go on tour. So he was like Juices so my parents really didn't know that much about the college scene either and either did like my aunts and uncles Like I just really had no one to really talk to you about what to do I just knew that I wanted to go because I was teacher's pet and I always got straight A's and it's what you're like supposed to do right so I went to Cal State Northridge shout out to my matador Susan and And Yeah, I did some things wrong first of all since preschool We've always been in the mindset of going to school every day Monday through Friday our school nights That's just how it was but no one told me that that changes when you go to college You do not need to go to class Every day anymore in college. There's usually a Monday Wednesday Friday class or a Tuesday Thursday class Sometimes it's only one day week, but it's like a really long class, but there's no class At least at my school that required you to go every single day. So my first semester in college I picked the schedule that had me in class Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday and Friday I also learned that Friday Doesn't really exist in the college world That's why Thursdays are considered college night because nobody goes to class on Fridays, but I was I picked an 8 a.m. Friday class not only did I have a Friday class. I had an early Morning Friday class, but obviously do what works best for you if you're someone that likes to just have a little bit of School every day, you know spread it out. That's fine I'm someone that does not want to be at school Every day if I don't have to and that's me living eight minutes from campus if you're commuting to school and live like an hour Plus away, please try to condense your schedule to like two or three times a week that way You're not driving to campus every single day. That's just too much So once I figured that out after my first semester, I did not have a stacked schedule anymore I was sticking to Tuesday Thursday. I'm only going to school two times a week So tip number one don't go to class every day if you really don't have to or if you don't want to don't take Friday classes because apparently no one does that in college and Three pick classes that work for you Obviously, there's gonna be times where you have to take a mandatory class and only this certain time is gonna be there And it's gonna suck But if you're not a morning person, you don't like to wake up. You're always late in the morning stick to like the 11 noon type of classes do night classes whatever fits you and your Personality now one of the greatest tips that I can give you that definitely helped me Back in the day was rate my professor calm I wasn't even sure if this website still existed, but I just checked and people are still commenting in 2019 But if you go to rate my professor calm, you actually could see people rate The professors kind of like yelp for teachers It gives you all the receipts. So I being the I Don't know planner that I am I did extensive research on my professors before choosing what class I was going to I was looking for comments like no homework No tests just one midterm one final no book requirements all notes are available online Great personality makes learning fun. Those are all the notes that I'm looking for and let me tell you I had the greatest teacher I don't know if I was just picking like the right professors and the right classes, but college really wasn't that hard for me I did go to Granada Hills Charter High School where they take pride in Preparing you for college and I think they really did because high school was so hard Like academically I was doing homework and projects all the time Like non-stop so by the time I got to college it was like easy Because there was just no homework, but that's just me I also didn't go to law school or anything like extremely challenging like that shout out to you guys that are I was a Cinema and television arts major multimedia production, which really worked perfect for me in my YouTube career I got to learn Photoshop editing I Got to be behind the scenes. I'm working with cameras in front of the camera Anything television related radio like I kind of touched it all so that worked out Which kind of goes to my next point really try to choose your major as soon as you start college I know many people like to go in undecided. They say it's okay. You can go in kind of figure it out, but You're kind of wasting your time and your money because now you're taking these random classes That might not even go towards your major And now you just took that class and paid for it for no reason I think we all want to finish college as soon as possible. I mean, I don't want to be a super senior I don't want to stick around longer than I have to so I'm only gonna take classes that I need to take My next tip for you is books Try not to buy all the books. I learned this way too late in the game I was getting my little syllabus and I was okay This is the books that I need and I went to go buy all the books that I needed and then half the time We didn't even need the books. We only had to read one chapter in that book for one project I just wasted so much money Also, don't buy new if you don't need to they use books have the same information as the new ones And you're not gonna read this textbook Probably ever again the better option that I just recently found on Instagram, which I posted in my story Apparently Amazon will let you rent your college textbooks for the semester and then pay for you to send them back and It only cost $20 to rent some of the books So someone posted this I read the comments of this post and people said that it's true They use it all the time. They loved it so definitely take advantage of this Amazon book rental system because You don't want to spend that much on books the sneaky thing that I did that Probably shouldn't tell you guys because then you guys are all gonna know the secret but I would just rent out the same book Over and over and over and over and over again from the library. I Mean the library technically has like a clause where you only could rent the book back-to-back so many times But no one ever stopped me So I just literally rented out my textbook from the library for free the entire semester Work for me might as well give it a try and my last suggestion in the book department would be Try to take classes with your friends one It's obviously gonna be more fun to go to that class with a friend someone that you know It's gonna be great because if you can't go that day Your friend could take the notes and then you have the notes about the class and you guys can share your textbooks You guys can study together. You could borrow the book on one day. They could have it on another day Another thing that I wish I knew especially at CSUN was not to get a parking pass I was paying like $300 for this parking pass every semester and one it didn't even work for the dorms So I got my first parking ticket ever by using my CSUN parking at the dorms parking because apparently I needed a dorm CSUN parking pass which was the same price as the regular parking pass So then the next semester I had someone from the dorm Buy me my parking pass that way because it was the same price But now I could park anywhere I wanted So make a friend with someone at the dorms if that's the same policy at your school But then I realized I shouldn't even be paying for this parking pass because if you do take an 8 a.m. Class No one else's People do not like to take morning classes. They start sleeping in they start skipping class So street parking was like a breeze at 8 a.m. You're the first one at school You probably can find street parking. So that's what I did like Maybe my last year when I kind of figured that out So depending on where you are where you live definitely check out the area for street parking You might need to walk a little bit more But you could be saving at least three hundred dollars a semester Because I was the first one in my family to go to college. I also didn't really know how to get in I was someone that literally had straight A's like my entire life. I was a teacher's pet I would stress over homework and projects. I was that girl to where if I got an A- I'd be upset about it I know that perfectionist still lives within me, but if I'm getting straight A's There should have been no reason why I paid for college I should have easily been able to get some type of grant or scholarship I just really didn't know how my college counselors in high school. They didn't really help me that much I always felt like I didn't understand Like the difference between a state school or you see you might not know the difference between a grant and a Scholarship and like certain requirements like it's a lot But if you are in high school really try to talk to someone that's either been to college knows the ropes or Hopefully you have a better college counselor than I did but really try to figure that out as soon as like sophomore year So you could start preparing yourself for what you need to do so that applying senior year isn't just a big fast blur of Confusion now this next tip is for my curl friends watching if you have curly hair You definitely need to wear your hair down big and beautiful on the first day of school Especially if you don't know anybody and you're going to a brand new campus the very first person that I talked to on my college Campus is still my friend to this day my friend Ashley who has the blonde curly hair you guys are probably seen on Instagram We end up talking to each other because we didn't know where our theater class was because they changed the room or something like that But then later in life We found out that the reason why we were cool with asking each other was because we both had curly hair You know how it is so we obviously have a lot in common If you have curls you know good and well that you can go to Target the gas station the grocery store the airport and you could just strike up a whole conversation about your hair because There's so much to talk about you start talking about your products that you use your routines and the next thing You know your best friends. So do not show up to school on the first day in a bun You got to walk in confident You got to walk in letting everyone know that you're about to block their view for the rest of the semester And they got to be okay with it Claim your territory and low key Where you sit in class Could make or break your semester and or your life Like when you really think about it, who do you talk to in class? Usually the people around you next to you and then you guys end up becoming friends That could become a horrible friend or they could become a great friend and they could influence your college life If you don't have curly hair I'd also recommend bringing extra pencils extra paper and gum These are three things that people usually end up asking for actually Do people use paper and pens in school anymore? Those might be antiques now Don't bring an extra iPad or anything then people just take advantage of you Well stick with gum bring something to share Because that's always a great conversation starter now I honestly wanted to make this video for a long time now But I just didn't know exactly when school started and now that I'm making this now I think I'm still too late because many of you have already picked your classes and possibly already bought your books But for those of you in high school and are going to college soon Take notes or come back to this video later. So these are all of my college tips I didn't know any of this going in but I really wish I did and I hope that this helped at least One or two of you if you learned something from this video Make sure to give me a thumbs up and subscribe and leave me a comment because I'm curious as to what you didn't know And more importantly, if you're in college or have already graduated, please leave your college tips down below The more knowledge we have the better and make sure to follow me at instagram at Ms. Bianca Renee That way you get daily updates on what i'm doing in my everyday life. I'll see you guys next time Thanks for watching Bianca Renee today