Graduation from college is a joy-filled day, with much celebrating, usually in the sun and among family. The next day, many students wake up …show more content…
While college is one of the few times in our lives where it is acceptable to be living with one foot in the future, there is indeed the present that one must also be concerned with. For you, the student planning to go to college—or already in your first year—this is a time in which you are still maturing in so many ways: socially, physically, cerebrally, and psychologically. It is also, ironically, a time at which you are feeling a rush of feelings of independence and hence least likely to ask for …show more content…
Part One focuses on direction, majors, and careers, and gives information that will enable you to take the right courses and secure a well-paying job in an upwardly-mobile career. Part Two discusses the less tangible, but still extremely important, factors in having a successful college experience—the ones that will contribute to your character at this time of life and in the prosperous and happy future which I am planning for you to have.
This book is designed to give you the best shot at making the most of these pivotal years. Like it or not, these years will impact the rest of your life.
In short, I have written it with the goal of seeing people take the right steps upon entering college, so that they can take smooth steps upon leaving it. While I encourage you to keep an open mind when you are reading, feel free to disagree with me when you want—but never forget that my goal here is to see you gliding comfortably from high school to college to the working world. I speak from experience and know that it is my duty to tell you the realities, no matter how uncomfortable they may seem. There’s no reason to learn the hard way when you can learn in a way that is easy and saves you tons of time and