Academic advice for new college freshmen

Well, it's about that time of year when slightly-bewildered freshmen will begin to arrive on America's college campuses. In case any of them are reading this blog, I have a few bits of advice. In this post, I'll dispense a bit of academic advice; in a later post, a bit of social advice.

1. Take some economics - this will help you recognize when politicians and pundits are full of shit.
2. Take some psychology - this will help you recognize when economists are full of shit.
3. Take some philosophy - this will help you recognize when psychologists are full of shit.
4. Unfortunately, the only way to tell when philosophers are full of shit is to take more philosophy; and I'm not going to advise you to do that, lest you end up like me with an ABD.