Best way to charge my new macbook pro

hi! so i got my first macbook pro a few days ago for college and i was wondering about the best way to charge it. it's probably going to be unplugged everyday to bring to classes and what not so i was wondering how to maintain a good battery life? i've seen people who are able to get 7-9 hours of battery life unplugged. any help would be awesome!

Here are two Apple support articles that you should find informative about your MBP battery life:
http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1446
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