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Evaluate why you are
going to college and develop realistic and meaningful reasons for spending
four
or more years of your life to obtain a college degree.
- Think about what
you would like to be doing after college graduation and try to formulate
realistic educational and occupational goals that are
appropriate to your interests and abilities.
- Try to correlate your course work
with your occupational goals. Consider taking a course required by
your major each semester.
- Try to get to know others who share your
educational and vocational interests.
- Arrange experiences that involve
work closely related to your chosen occupation.
- Set short-term goals for each class, each assignment, and
each study period.
- Prepare a visual record of your progress toward each goal.
- Determine the grade you want. Record every quiz or test grade and keep
a running grade point average, so you are constantly aware of how far you
need to go to reach your goal.
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If you tend to skip class and want to change this habit, keep a visual
record of how often you have skipped class, then you will know whether or
not you can actually "afford" to miss another class.
- Make a sincere effort to improve your study habits.
- Learn to take criticism in the form of grades or in the form of dialogue
with a professor. Do not be discouraged by criticism. Use it to grow
by looking for the lesson in the experience.
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Watch getting caught between the constant striving for perfection and the “simply
get it done” attitude.
- Remember that college is your job. You are developing attitudes
and habits that will carry over to your professional life. Look at
yourself:
Would you, as an employer, hire yourself right now?
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