1) NEVER make a joint account, your money is YOUR money.
2) Whatever happens make sure you finish college. Anything can happen and you need your qualifications, in case you end up in a position where you have to work to survive.
3) Please remember Sis, just because the guy happens to be a good person, practicing, and have a stable job, doesn’t mean the marriage will work. Are your personalities compatible ( this is someone you’ll be living with and growing a family with inshaallah)
4) ask questions( lots of them), for example, you may meet a brother who agrees with you about, let’s say marriage being about give and take, but when put into action you could find that his idea of ‘give and take’ and your idea of ‘give and take’ are worlds apart.
5) I would recommend waiting at least 8 months before deciding to start trying for children. take it from a married woman of almost 3 years, until you’ve lived under the same roof, and have passed that honeymoon phase, you don’t know each other, you may think you do, but I promise you, you don’t. It will give you both a chance to adjust to one another, because there will most definitely be times where you will clash with your husband, add a baby into the mix too soon, and something minor, will just become super complicated, because there is another life involved.
And finally...
6) NEVER allow your marriage to take your identity as an individual away from you! Always maintain who you are as a person, and as a woman, and make sure the guy you end up marrying will support you in that, and not be an obstacle.(because there are SOME men out there who will tell you what you want to hear to get married, and then once your married, use the ‘I’m the husband, in Islam you must obey me’ line to back out of everything they said( as a solution you could include it I your marriage contract).
All the best sis.