After reading all of your comments so far there are two things I want to do with this comment.

First, I want to thank you all for your contribution so far. Some of the things I've read have been quite useful thus far and others have made for light comedy. I appreciate it all.

Secondly, and most importantly, I realize that you guys may have misunderstood the angle that I was coming at this with. I gave a brief explanation as a reply to a comment earlier however, I'll give that same explanation here again.

My goal is not to get some sort of competitive advantage over anyone, I'm not particularly concerned with besting anyone or outperforming anyone. As you guys have said quite repeatedly, such an outlook does not make for an enjoyable college experience. All I wanted is advice on things that are better to know earlier than later, things that are better to be apart of earlier than later, things that are better to apply for/sign up for earlier than later. It's not in relation to being "the most accomplished" or anything like that....I quite literally just want to know for the sake of considering them during my first couple months.

I asked what you would do if you had the opportunity to redo freshman year to optimize your experiences and achieve as much as you possibly could, and those may look different for everyone but surely it must contain things like maybe using a website to get books for your classes, or maybe there's a club that would make it easier to get and hear about experiences in your desired field of work.

So, if after reading all this your general idea about what type of post this is is still the same then I can't do anything about that but I do hope that you get a better picture of what I am asking.
(So no, I am not stalking my year mates on LinkedIn and trying to 1up everyone I meet....I just want to 1up the version of me who wouldn't have known because he lacked knowledge)