Micheal Cripps is an Academic Director of the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of New England, he is a Professor of Rhetoric & Composition, as well as Director of Composition. Cripps advice for the incoming freshman was that college is a lot different than high school in the sense that students now have to do much of their work outside of class which makes it very challenging especially with all the freedoms that come along with college. He emphasized the importance of looking at your schedule everyday of the week when your not working or when you don’t have class or practice and utilizing them as potential study blocks for yourself you don’t have to fill them all with studying but it’s really important that everyday you spend time on school work or else it will catch up with you and begin to feel overwhelming. One of his other big pieces of advice was to always be looking ahead and that its really problematic when you are only deadline driven and that you will always feel like you are behind if you are trying to do college that way. Cripps said that he has changed his views on self control and discipline over the last 30 years of teaching he said that he used to value academics over all and that he has loosed up on that type of thinking and now he thinks that the social dimension is a lot more important than he used to think it was. Being able to create connections with people who are here for the same reasons that you are here is extremely important academically and emotionally. He also suggested that keeping a planner to stay more on top of things. He also talks about all the different things that will now be occupying your time as a college student “friends, sports, work, social media” and that balancing those things will always be difficult but it’s important to always put your wellbeing and your academics above all else. He encourages first year students to get out there make connections and join clubs.