Survival 101

 General advice to ease your passage through the initial turbulent weeks of adapting to AMC or any other.

#1 Avoid Confrontation

Seriously. Do not go there , you'll regret it. 

Think peace, love , respect, basically all that hippie shit.

Channel your John Lennon and Bob Marley.

And for God's sake, lay off the Marilyn Manson, Black Sabbath and all the death metal.

#2 Comply

Go along with most of what they tell you, unless you have a valid reason not to.

When you fuss too much , you're singling yourself out and painting a large red target on your back -metaphorically of course. And they will remember you.

#3 Respond, don't react.

Specks of rust in your water? Flick it away.

Did that guy just flash you a creepy smile? Don't make eye contact.

Go into autopilot mode, or better pretend you were abducted by droids from another universe , who fiddled with your brain and made you incapable of emotion and reprogrammed it to respond with the most appropriate response.JK. You don't have to take it to such extremes , but you get the idea.

Wait, is it just me or did that sound suspiciously like propaganda. Definitely not the intention!
but these are 3 golden rules to survive (mostly) unscathed , any sticky situation AMC throws at you.
And there will be several of those.

But most importantly, use your own judgement.
You only need 3 months to prepare for that exam. Absolutely not. Following such advise blindly,
will inevitably result in bawling your eyes out the night before the exam and flunking all your internals and possibly your finals. Use your head! and do what you feel would be in your best interests.