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Congratulations, Princeton Class of 2014. You’re better than 91.82% of everyone who decided to apply to Princeton this year! (Makes you sound smarter than you probably are, right? But so does saying we go to Princeton.)

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to navigate and survive this insane place that is exciting and great and awful and grade-deflating all at the same time. It’s a wild ride! (To be honest though, we bitch and moan about it but there’s nowhere we’d rather be.)

So in order to make this whole daunting thing a bit easier to swallow right now, we thought we’d offer some advice for you in this time of heady excitement (college!). You’re not here just yet, so be sure to watch yourself. Check out these rookie mistakes:

• Don’t do stupid things that will get you noticed on the Internets.

• Don’t do stupid things on the Internets that will get you noticed on the Internets. (Facebook groups? Prime place to do stupid things. Don’t add everyone. Makes everyone uncomfortable.)

• Don’t forget to generally steer away from stupid things.

• Don’t forget to read this blog (this one).

Congrats again. (Oh, and it’s not like Harry Potter. Sorry.)