The summer before freshman year is filled with family and friends, and their many pieces of wisdom as you enter college. The usual big ones including, but not limited to make sure you go to class, don't procrastinate, and enjoy the time you have. College is in the random details, and here is a list of random details for all of the incoming Tar Heels.

• Don’t bring a Swiffer, you won't actually use it, but you will want a vacuum
• When they send you the email for alcohol.edu do it before you come to campus and don’t have any time
• Also, Alcohol.edu, not really mandatory
• If you have to take Econ 101… BALABAN!! Find Balaban!!
• Don’t buy the textbook till after the first class unless you get an email from the professor telling you that they actually use it
• Go to all the dumb freshman things because that is where you will make friends
• Never pass up a cookie at the dining hall- you will walk it off on the way to class
• Learn the bus routes and download the app, but mainly you will just take the U or the P2P
• Make friends with your RA,
• Don’t buy HBO GO because it's free for students that live on campus
• Never have any expectations for registration—they will be let down
• Geology is indeed not “Rocks for jocks” but in fact very difficult
• In addition, African Studies classes are now very difficult
• If you heard it is an easy class for athletes, you won't be able to get in
• Trust everything on Blinkness.
• Put reminders on your phone for the basketball lottery tickets
• There is a Facebook group called “Phree Phood” that posts anytime there is free food on campus
• Study for your LFIT exam
• Don’t wait to get your language credits out of the way
• Don’t take Busi 101 unless you are sure you want to be in the Business School
• If you are thinking “I might want to be a doctor,” wait till your sure before you sign up for Chem-anything
• The Wendy’s is not in fact 24/7, no matter what the sign on the door would lead you to believe
• Don’t buy apparel from the Student Store, buy them from the cheaper places on Franklin Street because they are the same quality
• NC State students do, in fact, pee in the Old Well (so classy): Beware
• NC State would lead you to believe that we have a rivalry with them—they are in fact irrelevant
• Do your laundry at really random times if you want a machine
• You have to sign up for the cardio equipment at the gym
• If you are serious about going to the gym, you need to sign up for an off-campus gym or go at really off times
• Group fitness classes, specifically Zumba, will change your life
• While owning a bike may be practical, UNC is a pedestrian campus and you will not be able to ride it through The Quad
• SASB has a hidden study area that no one takes advantage of
• Actually, take First-Year-Seminars
• You will have to take Friday classes your freshman year, go ahead and accept that
• While the bookstore promises to buy your books back, they usually don’t, and if they do it for $5
• It is nice to make friends in your classes because you never know who the smartest person in the room is
• Side note to the previous, the person that raises their hand in class without ever putting it down -- is not the smartest person in your class
• Lofted beds are only fun for 72 hours
• If you want people to think that you actually go here: He’s Not Here = He’s Not, The Yogurt Pump = YoPo, and Top of the Hill=Topo
• No one can explain to you what it means to be a Tarheel, or why it is different from mere school pride -- but a year from now when you know what it means and have experienced this amazing place, you will wonder why you ever considered anywhere else