Part One: Welcome to Your College Experience

• Explore the college experience including the opportunities it provides, resources to help you succeed, and your purpose for attending college.

• Set goals for achieving your purpose.

• Understand how good academic planning will help you achieve your goals, whether you have already chosen a program of study or need help figuring out the right options for you.

• Succeed in making the transition to college and appreciate the value of building relationships with instructors.

• Understand the importance of motivation, attitude, and mindset and how they affect behavior.

• Learn what being resilient means and how to become resilient.

• Appreciate how developing emotional intelligence allows you to use your feelings to improve your thinking and behavior.

• Explore the role emotions play in success and well-being.

• Manage your time—take control of your schedule, combat procrastination, and avoid distractions.

• Manage your energy—prioritize your use of time and maintain your energy.

• Manage your money—create a budget, obtain and keep financial aid, understand loans, and manage credit cards.

• Become familiar with theories that explain how people learn and what learning styles are.

• Use different tools to discover how you learn best.

• Learn how to handle a mismatch between how you learn best and how you are being taught.

• Understand and recognize a learning disability.