O 'Keeney How To Make It College Now That You' Re Here Summary
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Name: Mohammad Abdelwahab.
ID: 39709.
Date: March 8, 2011.
SUMMARY
In this article “How to Make it College, Now That You’re Here” by “O’Keeney”, views and discusses different methods on how to become a successful student and achieve it by organizing your time and not getting your studies involved in your personal problems from his own experience. He also discusses different ways of getting good grades such as choosing a quite place where you can study alone without getting distracted from other people. Another way is always writing notes for each idea or complicated definition on a side whenever you’re reading anything or writing so you would never forget your ideas. He also discusses different
points on how to manage your time with all the work you get including your studies, family, job and other responsibilities. One of these points is to get a monthly calendar where you can mark and circle your projects and exams dates so you always stay on track. Sometimes there never seems to be enough hours in the day to accomplish all the tasks you have so another point is to write on a list what do you have to do and what tasks you have to finish in order to manage finishing them. He also states that if you’re facing any family, friends or any other kind of real problem, then try to meet some friends whom you can actually trust so that they would help you in solving them or make you even feel better. And if your problem can’t be solved by talking about it to some friends, then attend clinics of professional therapies where they can help in solving your problems. Furthermore, each student must have the positive attitude towards college were takes classes serious by understanding, taking notes and being positive about any class even if it was a dull, boring one and won’t allow it to change his view about the major or university in general. In conclusion, this article helps each student to manage their time in the university so they would balance between their academic life and social life, in addition becoming a useful educated member in the world.
Name: Mohammad Abdelwahab.
ID: 39709.
Date: March 8, 2011.
SUMMARY
In this article “How to Make it College, Now That You’re Here” by “O’Keeney”, views and discusses different methods on how to become a successful student and achieve it by organizing your time and not getting your studies involved in your personal problems from his own experience. He also discusses different ways of getting good grades such as choosing a quite place where you can study alone without getting distracted from other people. Another way is always writing notes for each idea or complicated definition on a side whenever you’re reading anything or writing so you would never forget your ideas. He also discusses different
points on how to manage your time with all the work you get including your studies, family, job and other responsibilities. One of these points is to get a monthly calendar where you can mark and circle your projects and exams dates so you always stay on track. Sometimes there never seems to be enough hours in the day to accomplish all the tasks you have so another point is to write on a list what do you have to do and what tasks you have to finish in order to manage finishing them. He also states that if you’re facing any family, friends or any other kind of real problem, then try to meet some friends whom you can actually trust so that they would help you in solving them or make you even feel better. And if your problem can’t be solved by talking about it to some friends, then attend clinics of professional therapies where they can help in solving your problems. Furthermore, each student must have the positive attitude towards college were takes classes serious by understanding, taking notes and being positive about any class even if it was a dull, boring one and won’t allow it to change his view about the major or university in general. In conclusion, this article helps each student to manage their time in the university so they would balance between their academic life and social life, in addition becoming a useful educated member in the world.