Last updated on 2012-08-06, by Tony

Top 6 Back to School Tips from Campus Movies

As September is approaching, 2012 summer vacation comes to an end. Pretty soon, students will go back to school for further studying. However, before that, they are lucky enough to finish enjoying 2012 London Olympics which is expected to end on August 12. Moreover, they even have sufficient time to watch those most anticipated summer movies in August in the cinema.

After spending an impressive summer vacation with the help of Olympics 2012 and summer movies, students have to go back to school to start a new semester when they have to live on their own. Since campus life usually brings students various difficulties, it is wise to get some back to school tips to prepare for the uncertain future.

As a favored movie theme, campus movie not only vividly presents the situations the students are facing in the campus years but also provides some solutions to the situations. Therefore this post will show you top six back to school tips originated from campus movies. Since the DVDs of all those movies are available, Google Nexus 7 users may just as well convert the DVD files to MP4 videos.

Back to school tip 1: Keep your nature

This back to school tip comes from a campus movie named Mean Girls which mainly focuses on the fighting of several girls in the campus. An innocent girl as she is, Cady changes a lot after being lured by the vanity. Consequently, she loses all her friends before she gets her nature back. In the campus life, one must learn to resist the lure from all respects and maintain his integrity.  

Back to school tip 2: Be far-sighted

This tip originated from The Social Network, a movie revealing how Mark turned out to be a billionaire by running Facebook. In this campus movie, Mark gains the panorama of his future in the college years. Moreover, he knows which is more important all the time, the short-time benefits or the promising future. To every student, figuring out a future plan is quite helpful.

Back to school tip 3: Seize the day

This back to school tip is found in Dead Poets Society, a movie on how a teacher manages to teach his students to be innovative and creative in a traditional school with old-fashioned thoughts. Just as Keating implies in the movie, to live happily in the campus days, students need to seize the day to do what they think is worthwhile.

Back to school tip 4: Set the goals

Just as Pirates of Silicon Valley implies, students need to set their goals in the campus days. In this campus movie, though Bill Gates and Steve Jobs both spend agony time in the campus life, they both get to know what to do in the future in the school days. In the campus days, many students will feel lost. However, as long as they can find their goals, they can spend a happy time in the campus.

Back to school tip 5: Pursue the dream

As an encouraging campus movie, Rudy provides students an invaluable back to school tip: pursuit the dream. In the movie, Rudy is not only weak but also stupid. However, he finally gains success through his efforts and insistence. Even though he is laughed by the world, he never gives up pursuing his dream. Rudy tells the world, if students can pursue their dream, they will success.

Back to school tip 6: Distinguish right from wrong

This back to school tip is provided by 21, a movie about how a talented college student joins in a gambling competition after wrongly guided by his professor. In 21, the math ability of Ben Campbell is made use of by his teacher in the casino. However, while Ben becomes rich, he gets more and more troubles.  

Therefore, those are the top six back to school tips one can obtain from campus movies. In all those campus movies, though characters get into different troubles in the campus days, they manage to help themselves out with all those back to school tips.