Part One: Welcome to Your College Experience

PART ONE
WELCOME TO YOUR COLLEGE EXPERIENCE

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1 THE ESSENTIALS FOR COLLEGE SUCCESS

STUDENT GOALS

  • 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.

2 CULTIVATING MOTIVATION, RESILIENCE, AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

STUDENT GOALS

  • 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.

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3 MANAGING TIME, ENERGY, AND MONEY

STUDENT GOALS

  • Manage your timetake control of your schedule, combat procrastination, and avoid distractions.

  • Manage your energyprioritize your use of time and maintain your energy.

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

4 DISCOVERING HOW YOU LEARN

STUDENT GOALS

  • 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.