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From High School to College
College life in many ways is very different than high school. Your college professors may expect you to perform at a different level academically than your high school teachers. And maybe you did not have to study much in high school but now in college that is a different story. This may be the first time you are living away from home, the first time you have a credit card, or the first time you have to manage your own time. The following links discuss these differences, offer advice, and provide information on a successful transition from high school to college.
Differences Between High School and College
Time Management
What do Professors Expect?
Active Engagement
How
Is College Different From High School? Click here to understand
some of the important differences between high school and college, which
may help you achieve a smoother transition from high school to college.
Extensive and exhaustive site dedicated to making that important transition
smoother to guarantee success.
Making
the Transition from High School to College From the Indiana Career
and Postsecondary Advancement Center, this site includes a search engine
that covers all aspects of transitioning from high school to a post-secondary
institution. Highly recommended and complete.
College
Prep- 101 A pithy and complete index of topics to explore when
entering college. This site is divided into three categories: Pre-College,
At College, and This-n-That. An excellent and complete site, with
a comprehensive links section. Highly recommended.
College
Directory Links to college and university homepages around the
world which offer undergraduate programs.
Financial
Aid Recommended sites and books with information on scholarships,
student loans, and general financial aid.
College is
Possible America's colleges and universities have prepared this
site to guide you to the books, web sites, and other resources that admissions
and financial aid professionals consider most helpful. With planning, preparation
-- and the right information -- college is possible for almost every American.
College
Transition Group A seminar and a web site to help young adults
make the successful academic and social transition to college. A complete
guide to college transition topics.
Mission: Critical
The site is intended primarily to provide students with a solid foundation
-- and a lot of practice -- in basic principles of informal logic, so that
they may build more advanced thinking skills on this foundation in their
courses.
Critical
Thinking on the Web Maintained by a professor at the University
of Melbourne, Critical Thinking On The Web offers an extensive annotated
directory of resources dealing with the broad topic of critical thinking.
In addition to a useful top ten list that includes such Web sites as Critical
Thinking: What it is and Why it Counts? and Skeptics.com. The directory
offers dozens of headings on related topics such as Great Critical Thinkers,
Statistics and Probability, Language and Thought, as well as listings of
journals, electronic mailing lists, bibliographies, and the like.
Time
Management Tips Prepared by the Self-Development Center at George
Mason University, this brochure is not going to tell you to study more
and socialize less, although in some cases you might want to consider it.
Instead, it will suggest how to make the most of your time and personalize
it to fit your tastes and activities.
Time
Management Principles As a student, there are some basic Principles
of Time Management that you can apply. This site goes in-depth with practical
suggestions and an excellent study strategies link.
Top
Ten College Student Money Mistakes In the college environment,
money management often becomes an issue. Knowing how to avoid common problems
is the key to beating them. Here are ten common mistakes students make,
and how you can avoid them.
Managing
Your Money and Coping With Debt Specific to the needs of university
students, this extensive and innovative site offers money management advice,
budgets and debts, financial planning, consumer advice, savings and tax
information, and a whole lot more.
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