Welcome Back, Students

Published August 30, 2010

The students are back.

Young man in a suit smoking a pipe (Dan Foy/Flickr)

Welcome to Boston, young man. (Dan Foy/Flickr)

Harvard kids (starting classes Wednesday) or MIT kids (starting next week) should check out the list of links and tips from the City of Cambridge, including bike maps, street-cleaning days, farmers markets and parking information.

Boston kids could follow the new blog for ONEIN3 Boston, which is named for the one-third of Boston’s population between age 20 and 34. The Massachusetts secretary of state has a complete guide for the new Bay Stater.

The Neave Online Publication has some grown-up advice for college freshmen on a topic that admissions officers won’t touch: sex. And for the adults, Benoit College’s annual Mindset List is out to help bridge the generation gap with the Class of 2014.

Meanwhile, some Twitterers submitted their own advice:

  • Sometimes the polite thing to do is to take the empty seat on the bus. No one can sit when you block it & you’re in the way. (@RachelCraves)
  • When on the #mbta, remember to take your backpacks off & put on the floor. The same goes for non-students as well! (@aliphin)
  • Pls don’t walk in mass groups off campus. It causes foot traffic. (@BaDaBingLany)
  • Don’t be afraid to make mistakes; Pick challenging classes over GPA Boosters; Meet people and polish social skills (@bzheng)

What is your advice for incoming students?