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Book Excerpt
By Marie B. Highby and Julia C. Schmitt
140 Bite-Sized Ideas to Help You Succeed in College
E-mail: [email protected]
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140 Bite-Sized Ideas to Help You Succeed in College
BOOK EXCERPT Table of Contents
Section I: Welcome to College!
Section II: What Do You Want?
Section III: Success Habits
Section IV: Developing Your Network
Section XI: Youre GraduatingStay in Touch
About the Authors
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ContentsThis is the Table o Contents (TOC) rom the book or your
reerence. The eBook TOC (below) difers in page count rom the
tradebook TOC.
Section I
Welcome to College! 13
Section II
What Do You Want? 19
Section III
Success Habits 27
Section IV
Developing Your Network 39
Section V
Using Technology 47
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Section VI
Balancing Your Lie 59
Section VII
Taking Care o Yoursel 67
Section VIII
Food and Drink 79
Section IX
Emotional Surprises 91
Section X
Other Common Issues 101
Section XI
Youre GraduatingStay in Touch 111
About the Authors 119
140 Bite-Sized Ideas to Help You Succeed in College
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Section I: Welcome to College!
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Welcome to College!
Section I
This is the moment youve beenplanning or. Youre finally starting college.
They may call you a rosh, reshman, or
reshperson i theyre politically correct.
You may live in a dorm, an apartment,
a house with riends, or at home. But in
any event youre at the beginning o an
adventure, starting a new chapter
in your lie.
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Section I: Welcome to College!
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College is a resh start where you
can become someone diferent. Butremember, your habits or core values
wont change overnight.
When you first get to college,
dont be overwhelmed. Set the tone
that you, not your parents, want.
This is your lie, not theirs.
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You may be separating
yoursel rom your parents,
but you also need to prove
yoursel as a responsible
adult. Play the diplomat.
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Section II: What Do You Want?
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What Do You Want?
Section II
Ater the first or second week, when thehoneymoon phase o entering college
starts to wear of, you may begin to realize
theres actual work to do. Not just the work
your teachers are assigning you in your
classes, but the work that is necessary
to plan your lie. How do your actions in
school tie in with the overall lie plan that
you need to develop?
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Section II: What Do You Want?
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Think o your pre-college career
plans as a tentative hypothesis. Youllbe exposed to new ideas that give you
new insights about yoursel.
Get to know yoursel. Reflect on
what you enjoy doing and what you
dont. Base your career plans, at least
partially, on these reflections.
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Try writing a five-year plan and see
what you imagine as you envision youruture. Look at it five years later.
Youll be surprised.
Pickyourcareer path. Dont be the
doctor your mom wants you to be, i
you aint when you see blood. Hate
numbers? Dont be an accountant!
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Section III: Success Habits
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Success Habits
Section III
Success in college depends more on
your habits and routines than on your
intellectual acumen or brilliance. IQ isnt
everything: you need timely decision-
making skills and ocus to ulfill your
potential. Emotional IQ, ethics, and
meeting deadlines matter too.
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Section III: Success Habits
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Dont orget about the library!
Find one thats convenient
and comortable or you.
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There are some things that arentonline yet. Get to know the
library stacks.
25I you use Wikipedia as a source,
use it only as a starting point to find
academically acceptable reerences
and use them instead.
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Section IV: Developing Your Network
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Developing Your Network
Section IV
Your strong relationships with the
people in your networkyour riends,
study buddies, TAs, even proessors
are key to your success, both in college,
and aterwards. Make time or these
relationships. Dont get stuck in
study tunnel vision.
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Section IV: Developing Your Network
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The golden rule actually works.
To have a riend, be a riend.
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Staying up really late with a
group o people to discuss the bigissues is a great way to bond and
make lielong riends.
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People like being
remembered and thanked.
Find new ways to say
thank you.
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Section XI: Youre GraduatingStay in Touch
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Youre GraduatingStay in Touch
Section XI
What? Youre done already? Your years
in college will disappear all too soon, butgraduating doesnt mean ending your
relationship with your college, classmates,
or proessors. Making at least a small
contribution to the alumni undeven
i your money is tightis a great way to
support your ongoing connection with
your college and the resources it
continues to make available to you.
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Section XI: Youre GraduatingStay in Touch
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Get to know your schools
alumni website andinvestigate the resources it
ofers. Alumni networks
can be invaluable in
looking or jobs.
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Volunteer to interview uture
students or to provide them
with inormation about your
school. Theyll become
part o your network.
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Section XI: Youre GraduatingStay in Touch
139Reunions are un! Take the time to go
to yours. Its interesting to see whathappened to everyone. You never
know who the successes will be.
Alma Matermeans nourishing mother.
Thats how schools like to think o
themselves. Keep Mother happy by
letting her know how youre doing.
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Marie B. Highby is a leadership coach, college instructor, and
communications guru. #STUDENT SUCCESS tweet Book01 draws on her
career as a university instructor at San Jose State University, where she
taught writing courses or many years. Knowledgeable about the issues thatstudents ace, she is currently active in the open textbook movement and
involved with new technologies or teaching and learning. Maries degrees
include both an MBA rom the Darden School o the University o Virginia
and an MA in English rom Duke University.
About the Authors
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Julia C. Schmitt graduated rom Stanord University with two degrees and
a lot o seemingly useless knowledge about the ins and outs o college lie
gleaned rom personal experience, keen observation, mentor advice, and
stories rom her peers. Ater having the small epiphany that mentoring
current college students is highly rewarding, she decided to tweet her tidbits
o advice as a way to give back. Julia currently works as an Environment
& Sustainability Consultant, dance teacher, and entrepreneur in the SanFrancisco Bay Area.
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