College Rules!, 3rd Edition: How to Study, Survive, and Succeed in College - Softcover

Holschuh, Jodi Patrick; Nist-Olejnik, Sherrie

 
9781607740018: College Rules!, 3rd Edition: How to Study, Survive, and Succeed in College
Softcover
ISBN 10: 160774001X ISBN 13: 9781607740018
Verlag: TEN SPEED PR, 2011

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And You Thought Getting into College Was Hard . . .

Students who assume they can figure out college on the fly often learn things the hard way—they look back and think, “If only I’d known this from the start!”College Rules! will save you the time and trouble, setting you up for academic success from the get-go. Lesson #1: College is different from high school, and even those who were at the top of their class will need practical advice on how to successfully transition to college life. This updated and expanded third edition of College Rules! reveals strategies that aren’t taught in lectures, including how to:

Study smarter—not harder
Plan a manageable course schedule
Master e-learning technologies
Interact effectively with profs
Become a research pro—at the library and online
Organize killer study groups
Feel engaged—even in “yawn” courses
Survive the stresses of exam week
Succeed even as an alternative or adult student
Set yourself up for stellar recommendations

Saving time, energy, and aggravation by doing everything right the first time will free you up for that pizza break, ultimate frisbee game, or ski trip even quicker. Why? BecauseCollege Rules!

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sherrie Nist-Olejnik, PhD, is a professor emeritus at the University of Georgia who lives with her husband in Athens, Georgia.

Jodi Patrick Holschuh, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Texas State University who lives with her husband and two children in Austin, Texas. Together they have helped thousands of students transition to college successfully.

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Six Ways College Differs from High School
You may already have considered how college is different from high school. Perhaps you’ve talked to relatives or friends about their experiences. Chances are you’ve seen lots of college scenes in movies and on television (trust us--college really isn’t like Animal House or even Old School), so you have a mental picture of what college is like and how it differs from your previous school experiences. To get you thinking a little more about this, here are six ways in which you can expect college to be different from high school. (You’ll probably think of more from your own personal experience, but these six generally apply to just about every college student.)
 
1. Greater Freedom and Responsibility
In high school, most of your time is usually planned by others. Someone is always bossing you around--telling you when to go to class, when to do homework, and maybe even when you can go out with friends. In college, you not only set your own class schedule, but you also manage your own free time. You can no longer count on your teacher or your parents to remind you when something is due or when you have to be somewhere. Even if you have so-called helicopter parents (does this sound like your parents--always “hovering” over you, doing everything for you?), they won’t call you to wake you up in the morning to be sure you get to class on time--at least we hope they won’t. You set your own priorities and manage all your new responsibilities. It may also be the first time you have lived away from home; this means you have the additional responsibility of fending for yourself--eating properly, doing laundry, managing money, getting medical attention, and studying when you should. Even though mom and dad are only a text or call away, more responsibility will definitely fall on your shoulders.
 
For Adults Only
If you are returning to college after some years away from schooling, instead of experiencing the new freedoms of college, you may find that you are experiencing just the opposite of what many freshman go through: it may have been quite a while since anyone told you what to do and how to do it. You may find the deadlines and bureaucracy of college frustrating, especially if you are juggling a full-time job and family responsibilities as well. We suggest you meet with your professors or your advisor to speak about these concerns.
 
2. Different Class Structure and Instruction
Unlike high school classes, college classes generally don’t meet every day. Usually college classes meet on either a Monday-Wednesday-Friday or Tuesday-Thursday schedule, and you don’t necessarily go from one class directly to the next. You will also spend less time in class each week--usually just twelve to fifteen hours, depending on how many courses you’re taking. This is quite a change from the thirty-plus hours you spent in high school classes.
 
You will also find that class sizes are much different in college. You may be in a class with as few as five students (although this is extremely rare, it does happen occasionally), or you may find yourself in a classroom with more than three hundred fellow students. If you are in one of the large lecture sections, you will find that the professor probably will not even attempt to learn students’ names.
 
The way you are taught may differ as well. Your professors will often give assignments (such as reading the text or completing practice problems) and then not check them. They assume you are responsible and you are eager to do the work. On top of that, they assume that, if you don’t ask any questions, you must understand the information. Unlike your high school teachers, your college professors usually won’t approach you if you are experiencing trouble in the course. Instead, they expect you to seek them out if you need any extra assistance (which, in most cases, they are happy to supply during their office hours). Nor will your professor approach you if you miss a class. In high school, your teachers probably gave you the information you missed (handouts, notes, assignments), but in college you will need to get notes from a classmate and ask the professor for any other assignments or important information you may have missed.
 
We must add another word about assignments. More than likely, professors won’t remind you about impending due dates. Instead, they expect you to consult your syllabus regularly and turn in assignments on the proper dates.
 
3. Faster Pace
You will soon notice that instruction moves at a much faster pace in college. The amount of material you may have covered in a year in high school may take up only one semester’s worth of college work. Not only that--some professors lecture at warp speed for the entire class time, especially in the introductory courses that first-year students have to take. Your professors have high expectations of you; they expect you to be able to keep up with what they are saying and to take good, comprehensive notes. Whew. Also, any professors worth their salt don’t lecture straight from the text. Instead, they expect you to be able to relate text information to the lecture topics without discussing it in class. Of course, this activity is always done on your own time. Finally, it’s also reasonable to expect to cover three or more text chapters in one week. At first you may feel like one of those little hamsters in a wheel, running faster and faster and not getting anywhere, but eventually you will adjust to the pace.
 
Do Your Homework
Actually, that’s our advice: do your homework. If your precalculus professor tells you it would be a good idea to do certain problems and you know for a fact that she will never in a million years collect them, do the problems anyway. It will help you in the long run as you prepare to take the exam.
 
4. New (and Improved) Kinds of Studying
Many students begin college thinking they just need to study more. This is not particularly surprising, since according to a recent study, the average high school student studies less than two hours a week. Are you surprised? Although it’s correct to assume that you will need to study longer, it’s also important to understand that you need to study differently. You need to be able to connect new information with what you already know and with other content. You are also responsible for learning large amounts of information with very little guidance. We will talk about this issue in greater depth throughout College Rules! For now, know that you will have to spend some time each day studying for your classes and that the way you approach studying will change.
 
5. Fewer Exams
In college there are fewer exams--often only two or three per semester, per course. Although this initially sounds like a good thing, it actually makes learning a little tougher. Because there are so few exams, each one covers a great deal of information. Do the math. If you have only three tests in a fifteen-week semester, each test covers five weeks’ worth of reading and lecture notes. In a heavy reading course such as psychology or political science, that can translate into reading several hundred pages and remembering even more information presented in lectures. In addition, many college exams are cumulative, which means that the test covers all the information taught in the class during that term. If you make a poor grade on an exam in high school, it’s not a particularly big deal because you have a lot of other opportunities for grades and your teacher is likely to drop (or just not count) a bad grade if the rest of your grades are good. In college, however, grading works a bit...

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Verlag
TEN SPEED PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
160774001X
ISBN 13 
9781607740018
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
352
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