Randomly came across this as I was searching for a Wordpress theme.
Of course, I haven’t graduated yet, but I think most of them resonates with me, #2 and #5 in particular (”Take only the classes required for your degree” and “Move off-campus by yourself as fast as possible”).
I only partially agree with #1 (”Take as many AP classes as you can in High School”). I actually enjoyed most AP classes I took, despite the fact that I almost got no credit for all of them–U.S. Government, microeconomics, and calculus comes to mind. On the other hand, some were a vast waste of time–English, physics, statistics, U.S. history. I would have much rather avoided them for my own physical and mental well-being. Obviously, this is not to say that I didn’t learn a thing from these classes; the point is that small amount of learning simply wasn’t worth my time and effort. I could have gotten that much education at the public library for a much shorter time than (1 hour of lecture time + __ hours spent on homework) x 4 classes x 8 months = ????, as Will (Good Will Hunting, 1997) would have pointed out.