Get involved with something outside your classes! There are always a ton of different clubs/societies that are just for fun or related to your studies. They're great ways to network and can provide opportunities for things you can list on your CV later on. If there is a society related to your studies, I would ABSOLUTELY check it out. My undergrad major was anthropology, and I joined the Anthropology Club and the department's honor society, and I wish I had done it from the beginning of my time in the major rather than a year in. Apart from the networking, we (I was an officer one year) organized guest talks from professionals in the field and also had our professors talk about graduate school. There were also weekly group study sessions, since obviously everyone is either taking the same classes or has taken other classes with the same professors, and can help you find an effective way to study for that professor's tests. In some of the more challenging courses, some of my classmates and I would create Facebook groups for extra study help - we'd post quiz and due date reminders, informational updates for the benefit of students who may have had to miss a lecture or lab, and we'd also post links to relevant articles and set up in-person study sessions.
I lived in a dormitory (residence hall) my first year of college, and I highly recommend doing it at least part of the time you're at school, if only for a more "full" experience and another opportunity to get to know different kinds of people and open yourself up to new experiences that can be unique to life at uni. My first roommate was a theatre major, and she encouraged me to audition for a part in the department's one-act play festival that was being put on as a student workshop for aspiring directors and writers. It was something I never would have done on my own, and I'm SO glad I did - I had a lot of fun, and it turned out to be one of my best memories of my freshman year!
If you haven't started already, and you haven't taken a tour of the campus, I would certainly do that as well. I'd especially make a point of setting up a time to meet with either the chair of your program or a professor whose research interests you share, to discuss what direction you'd like to take your studies, if continuing on for a higher degree or going into a career in the field is a goal of yours. I'm sure there are academic advisors much like what we have in US schools, but at least in my experience, they aren't always as helpful as talking to the professors and possibly also grad students in the program.
I know I just wrote a novella, lol so I hope that wasn't too much
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