I am also a college student, and I am not young. I suggest you practice running script directly, which may be a shortcut. Because running script is the most practical, it will take a long time to practice running script first and then according to the routine, but the writing speed of running script is very slow.
Choose a good copybook and start practicing. Don't take a crash course. For a hard pen, that copybook is actually a good word, and the selection and pasting of calligraphy requires a little higher. I've only practiced Chinese calligraphy, but I heard that Tian Yingzhang/Sima Yan's hard pen calligraphy is good.
I hope everyone will pay more attention to China's calligraphy!