Any tips from the seasoned vets and/or green names would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance 
Go hard! Don't hold nothing back. If you are able to pass your instructors guard even for a second it will show your ability to progress through the ranks.
Get your game face on! 
Don't ask if your doing better every 5 min, don't try to teach a move you just learned a min ago, stay quiet in the gym...
"i pass out before i tap out"
Never wash your gi or belt. You'll lose all your knowledge.
Mark Bocek - Don't ask if your doing better every 5 min, don't try to teach a move you just learned a min ago, stay quiet in the gym...Thank you, VTFU
John M -I thought it worked that way.
Never wash your gi or belt. You'll lose all your knowledge.
T rex arms when in the guard. Keep your base solid an try not to let your body get extended. If you're on the bottom then shit get up. Jk shrimp shrimp shrimp. And once they are in your guard just chain subs and kill them!
Shower before AND after class
Wash your ass
Shower before AND after class
Brush your teeth
Shower before AND after class
Cut your finger and toe nails
Shower before AND after class
Wash your gi after EVERY use
Shower before AND after class
Shut up and listen
Oh yeah and....Shower before AND after class
learn escapes. study techniques for escaping the bad positions. This way you won't spaz trying to avoid them.
then look at how all of the positions fit together. this way when you start your escape, you will have a path to follow.
along the way, pay attention to your posture. Study what posture is and what posture you should have in various positions. This way you will have a home base to come back to whenever you feel out of position. If something feels wrong, check your posture.
Study fundamental movements like shrimping and the upa. These will help you regain posture. Once you have posture, you get back on the path to advance position.
generally speaking, anyway.
Go hard. Go hard; go all the time
"Never break eye contact"- saw it before on the UG and had to pay it forward.
Try as much as you can to go with the best guys in class. You will learn the most when its the toughest on you. Also, those dudes are the most likley to try and pass on some knknowledge.
And yeah...
Wash your ass before and after class.
All the time.
Everytime.
Stay for open mat.
Good luck bro.
You will find great joy in training.
If he grabs you, you grab hit harder
Lots of solid advice. Any advice on a gi?
the main thing is you keep showing up to class, you'll catch on eventually and figure out what type of guard/passing/submissions/etc you prefer.
I was too fat for JJ.
Don't go retard.... That's how people get hurt.
Ttt
Basics:
When you are doing drills. Do the drills! Never ever ask or question them like this:
"But if he does that, then I just do this, or what if he changes his X to a Y what do I do then"
STFU and train.
Ask if you dont understand a techniqe. If you dont get it on the second or 3:e instruction just move along and train train. Instructors dont really have time to explain too much.
Dont start talking until you hit blue belt. Just keep your head down. Train hard and be nice.
"A blackbelt is a white belt that never quits." Their is alot of truth in that sentence