It's been three years since the day you moved into your college dorm. You just graduated high school and are super anxious about going to college.

You didn't have the best time in high school. And you won't have the best time in college either. At least, not the way you thought you would.

You're going to find out the hard way that you can't afford a lot of the things you want to do in college.

Drinks are expensive. Friends are expensive. Dues are expensive.

At this point, you're going to look back on your life thus far and have a lot of regrets. There were a lot of opportunities that you didn't know were available to you in high school and would have really helped you out in the future. For example, you should have taken the ACT one more time. I know you already took it three times and got a 28. That was enough to get you into your dream college, but literally, one more point on that test would have saved you thousands of dollars in student loans. You probably could have gone through college debt-free. You also should've started working those dishwashing jobs earlier in high school instead of playing varsity football, so you could actually have money for college.

However, it's not too late to start working now, even though you're just starting college today. Believe me, you are going to have a lot more free time this summer than you thought you would have. Your older sister is there and barely uses her car. Use that to go to work. Look up country clubs near campus. Big tip: Don't apply to those places online. Drive over, walk in there, and tell whoever's in charge that "I'm here and ready to help out wherever and whenever you need me to." Go every day for a few days until they hand you the hiring forms. You'll be surprised at how fast they'll want to hire you.

You'll be a lot happier with your paychecks because private country clubs pay well. But that doesn't mean you should go online and buy a fake ID and get alcohol for your friends with the money you're making now. I know you won't do that anyway because you'll soon realize that you hate drinking and would rather save your earnings and actually have money in your account. You don't need a ride to the hospital to figure that out.

Fast forward to winter break: This is the time where you should look up and apply for all the scholarships and summer internships that are in your field. Internships pay way better than washing dishes back home. More importantly, internships give you experience that will make your resume at least look prettier. You can also get financial aid during the summer by taking full-time internship credits that count towards your degree. Preferably, you should look to apply to new companies or startups because they are actively hiring new people like you. Don't limit your search to just Florida either. Apply to internships in other cities that you would want to live in like Las Vegas (major foreshadowing by the way).

One thing that you've already been doing well is planning your classes. You've been planning college classes since you started doing dual enrollment in high school, and you're really freaking good at it. One simple major change from Computer Science to Management Information Systems shaved off a solid two years of unnecessarily difficult calculus requirements. In the future, use RateMyProfessors before signing up for classes to avoid really tough professors and SlugBooks to save tons of money on overpriced textbooks.

While you're at it, plan to graduate college on the same day as your older sister. That's right. You're graduating in only three years.

I'm telling you this now because once you realize it, you're going to have an existential crisis. You only have 1,000 days to have a good college experience and to be prepared for a career that you have to be qualified for. If you cut out all the BS and focused on only school and work, you would be a lot better off in the future. But what would it all be for? I know that you want to save up your earnings and buy a used car in full. But you have to pay car insurance every month and maybe even maintenance on top of that. All for a car that would probably be worthless in five years. The career that you want to get after college is probably a 9-to-5 office job in some suburb in a city you don't want to live in. You would be sacrificing fun for the kind of success you know you don't want.

What if the money you saved up could be used to fund the kind of lifestyle you've always wanted to live? You can do that through studying abroad. Here's how you can do it. Once you live off-campus next year, you're going to get significantly more financial aid money per semester from FAFSA. This is important because Florida State lets students defer the full amount of their financial aid towards the cost of studying abroad. This means you can afford to study abroad in a year, but you can thrive if you work for two years though.

Sure, it'll only be a temporary thing, but so was high school, and so is college. Trust me. You won't mind knowing that all the hard work you will put in for the next couple of years will be worth living the life of a king for a few months. For 100 days out of 1,000 that you will be in college, you can live the carefree lifestyle that you desperately needed and ultimately earned. And if you can work to afford such an awesome once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for traveling the world, you can do anything. You can unapologetically be broke again, then work just as hard afterward and still get your dream career.

You wanted to have fun in college, right? Here's your chance.

Now go out and do the best you can. I promise you won't regret it.