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Your Future Goals
So what are your goals – Fame? Fortune? Happiness? Perhaps you crave a career that affords you the opportunity to travel around the world. Or maybe you wish to earn your living in a position that will allow you to make a positive difference in the world around you. The choice is completely up to you, and a college degree will help you reach the goals you set.
Attend All Classes.
Do the math. And by this, we mean:
1. Figure out how much you (or your parents) are paying for tuition to your college.
2. Divide the cost by the total number of classes you will take in the semester. This will
tell you how much each class session is costing you.
Education is extremely valuable, and it’s not cheap. In these tough economic times, can you really afford to waste the $200 (or more) that each class session is costing you or your parents? We didn’t think so.
If the economic cost of skipping classes does not grab your attention, here are some other great reasons to attend all of your classes:
1. Class Is The Reason You Are Here. Period. End of story. All of the extra stuff that
you do in college – the clubs, the social mixers, the intramural sports, the weekend activities – they are all great. Still, the only tangible thing you actually pay for in college is the right to an advanced education, and this is found first inside the classroom.
Go to class.
2. You Can’t Learn This Stuff On Your Own. College education is serious and attendance
matters. Your professor might take attendance and figure it into your final grade, but even if she doesn’t, you can bet that the only sure way to be well prepared for your exams is to actively listen to everything your professor tells you throughout the class. Face it: she probably knows more about the subject than you will ever know. You may have gotten by on your intelligence and good looks in high school, but if your memories of the college semester have even small gaps, you can bet that even your best effort is going to earn you a lousy grade come exam time.
3. You Never Know Who You’ll Meet. Having trouble meeting people? Wishing you could find a more interesting group of friends to hang out with on the weekends? There is no better way to become connected to your campus community than to attend every class during the semester. A simple conversation between two classmates has been known to spawn a life-long friendship.
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COLLEGE SUCCESS TIPS
Transition to College Life