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COLLEGE SUCCESS TIPS Learn To Trust Your Sylla-buddy.
Getting organized in college is extremely important because it’s likely that most of your classes will not meet every day. Without being careful, it’s easy to forget that you have a paper due tomorrow, or a project that’s due in two days that you had better start on ASAP. And if that stuff is not due tomorrow or the next day, then something else must be. Now what could that be... It’s enough to make your head spin!
Here are some tips for getting and staying organized in college:
1. Color-Code Your Notebooks and Folders. Your campus bookstore carries countless colors and styles of notebooks and folders. Why not get a separate notebook and folder for each class – and make them both the same color! This will make it easier for you to find the handouts that go along with the notes that you are reviewing, or to grab the right binder and notebook for the class you need to be at in ten minutes.
2. Your Syllabus Is Your Real Best Friend... Most every course you attend will follow
a syllabus, which is a course-long schedule of what to expect in a particular class. All syllabi should list your professors’ full names, office hours, and contact information. Some syllabi are extremely detailed, listing the assignment that will be due in each class and the date it will be due. Most syllabi will tell you at least the topic to be covered during a particular class period, or a reading assignment you will be expected to know by a certain date. Review the syllabi often, as some assignments might take you longer than you think, and it’s always better to be a little bit ahead of the rest of the class than to fall behind.
3. ...But Your Class Buddy Is Really Your Best Friend. Don’t be shy about striking up conversations with your classmates on the first day. Plan to come away from that first class with email addresses, cell phone numbers, and possibly even firm plans to meet for coffee with a perfect stranger to study. This is the getting-to-know-you phase of classmate interaction, but you just might need to chat about something urgent and class-related right away. Better to have someone you can call or email when you have a question about an assignment, even if you don’t know them particularly well, than to attempt braving it on your own and risk spending hours and hours doing the wrong assignment.
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