CHECKLIST FOR SUCCESS

• Seek out relationships with instructors outside of class. In particular, visit them during their posted office hours.
• Use social networking to help you develop supportive, stimulating, and motivating new relationships while in college. These connections will help you be successful during and after college.
• Be open to new relationships. College may be a great time for you to test out serious relationships, including romantic ones.
• Don’t hesitate to get help from relationship experts in your campus counseling center. When counselors are asked, “What is the most common type of problem you help students address?” the answer is “relationships.”
• Work to have good relationships with your family during the college years. Family members have your best interests at heart, and college is a time to set boundaries while also becoming closer to them.
• Get involved. Join other students in groups sponsored by the institution. Involved students are more likely to graduate from college than those who are not. It’s fun, easy, free, and rewarding, and employers are interested in your extracurricular activities.
• Know that social organizations, such as fraternities and sororities, can be very supportive of college success. But they can also be very disruptive. The choice will be yours.
• Working during college is a good thing, depending on where you work, how much you work, and what you do. Get help on this important decision from your adviser and career center.
• Consider performing some kind(s) of service during college. By doing so, you will develop meaningful relationships that will help you clarify your career choice.