10 Tips for College Freshmen
There will be so much on your mind when you are about to say goodbye to high school and start your college career. You will be excited and perhaps a little worried about the workload and the new social scene on your campus. And, if you are living away from home for the first time, you are about to experience new living arrangements, food, and daily routines, and all of these will be very different from the life you know.
I’ve watched college freshmen go through this …

Find a Study Routine that Works for You
Many new college students are surprised to find that it is largely up to them to figure out how and when to study. College professors (unlike many high school teachers) do not check homework daily or give lots of quizzes to keep their students on their toes. Rather, they assign readings, papers, and long-term projects and let students work on their own, sometimes for weeks at a time, without checking on their progress. Unfortunately, many new college students do not handle this freedom …

What They Didn’t Tell You in High School
By now your high school teachers have taught you many skills that will help you succeed in college. For example, they’ve taught you how to take notes, read a text, study for an exam, and write a research paper. They’ve also loaded you up with lots of the hard information you’ll need in college such as a college-level vocabulary, equations, facts, and figures. But what else do you need to know?
Here are ten tips for college success that most of my college students …