Advice for freshmen entering college
carterschonwald: It seems that a lot of good points have been covered so I'll point out two that seem lacking:
1) Make sure that when you do have a choice, that you only live with folks who will be easy to get along with even at their most acrimonious
2) for late night snacking and caffeine, fruits, oatmeal, and some variety of loose leaf tea are the way to go. Its cheap, and in the case of tea, even the strongest caffeine dosage of tea (even at the energy drink strength) is very low jitter.
3) you're in the boston area, take advantage of it and the opportunities to meet fun interesting people at other universities, seeing the constrast between the cultures at different schools is not to be underrated.