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Do the reading, homework, and assignments as soon as you can, and sleep well.
Buy a vehicle that looks like the campus maintenance vehicles and get easy parking around campus.
Go to office hours and ask thoughtful questions, you can network with both students, staff, instructors, and TAs, everyone is your network.
In some universities its cheaper to not buy a parking pass, and just pay the tickets (assuming its infrequent enough).
I can't say I know anything about the parking/car stuff as that sounds very US-specific, but I can second everything else.
Don't get complacent with the work, stay on top of it, and if you ever feel yourself falling behind, don't be scared to ask for help. Literally everyone wants to see you succeed, but the further you fall behind the harder it gets.
At the same time, allow yourself to have some fun too.
100*this. It can look tedious and you might not really see the point of what they want you to do but...
Even Uni is just a school. You have to jump through the hoops. You will be far more relaxed if you do that than if you do everything last minute and then fail some assignments due to turning it in late. Pluspoint being, if other students get to know you to get things done, they will want to work with you in group assignments.
It's soo much working with the system than fighting it.
Also, nobody is forcing you to be there. You're there for you, so don't be a dingus and waste that opportunity.