Hopefully you’ll graduate college with a degree that’ll land you an awesome job. But that’s not all you should have learned during the best four years of your life. Another big thing is how to take care of yourself. Unless you live at home with your parents, you’ve probably had a taste of what it’s like to live on your own. By the end of college, you should be pretty ready to go out into the world without depending on your parents anymore. Here are the skills you should learn in college if you want to be successful in the real world:
15. Money Management. You’ll (probably) be on your own financially after you graduate, so hopefully you learned a thing or two in college.
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14. How to clean. Even if it’s only cleaning up vomit and spilled drinks, those skills will translate into useful knowledge for the rest of your life.
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13. Organization. Things like having a calendar/planner, keeping your room neat, and knowing when you have important events and deadlines is essential.
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12. How to meet people. This will be important for networking and making friends when you aren’t surrounded by people in classes every day.
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11. How to do your own laundry. Although the washing machines will probably be better once you graduate, you’ll still have to do your own laundry. Mom will not be there to do it for you. Hopefully this isn’t news to most of you…
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10. How to do your own grocery shopping. You mean food doesn’t just magically appear in the fridge?
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9. Staying healthy. Believe it or not, your metabolism won’t always be able to handle eating full meals at 2 am.
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8. Some sort of time management– even if you’re still not that great…
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7. How to call and make your own appointments.
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6. Taking care of someone else. Whether it was a pet, a sick roommate, or a little, you’ll need to know how to take care of someone else when you have a family of your own.
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5. How to cook. Can you at least make scrambled eggs? That should sustain you.
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4. Some useful skill for getting a job. Hopefully your degree will be a big part of this.
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3. How to live with different people who can sometimes be a little difficult to get along with.
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2. Home repair. At some point you’ll probably have to fix a toilet or hang up a curtain or unclog a drain. Watching excessive amounts of HGTV doesn’t count.
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1. Your mom was right about everything. (Not necessarily a skill, but something you’ll learn in college.)
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By: Lauren Strickland
