MTH: Math: Resources @ College Success

Introduction: Different kinds of time -- Strategic planning and goal setting time -- Productive time--getting more done -- Income improvement time -- Spare time -- Work time -- Creative time -- Problem-solving and decision-making time -- People and family time -- Rest and relaxation time -- Quiet time.

Emotional intelligence: here to stay -- Class closed and the ABCDE model -- Emotional self-awareness -- Self-regard -- Self-actualization -- Emotional expression -- Independence -- Assertiveness -- Interpersonal relationships -- Empathy -- Social responsibility -- Reality testing -- Problem solving -- Impulse control -- Flexibility -- Stress tolerance -- Optimism -- Happiness -- EQ and student success -- EQ and work success -- The role of EQ in leadership -- EQ, lifestyle, healthy living, and relationships -- What's next?

Explores how college students can improve their quality of life by building positive lifelong habits, addressing such topics as difficult roommates and overwhelming academic schedules.

Check It Off! provides a checklist of activities for each year of college to prepare the student for a career and to help him or her answer the three most important questions:

1. What do I like to do? 2. What do I want to do? 3. What does the world need?

This book is a quick, easy read that uniquely focuses on the activities students should pursue during college rather than after college. Check It Off! provides a proactive approach to career planning that steers the student to explore activities in preparation of a career and career direction.

Sec. 1. Before class -- Picking your college and picking your battles -- Cutting the academic umbilical cord -- Be good to the gatekeeper -- Beyond the chili pepper -- Oh, the humanities! -- Debt and u -- Between boredom and terror -- Why choosing a major for stupid reasons might be a very smart thing to do -- Why professors want to help you -- AND MORE!

You and Your College Experience, Staying Motivated, Organized, and On Track, Thinking about Thought, Listening, Taking Notes, and Remembering, Reading to Learn, Preparing for and Taking Tests, Interacting with Instructors and Classes, Writing for Classes, The Social World of College, Taking Control of Your Health, Taking Control of Your Finances, Taking Control of Your Future

teaches students how to acquire marketable job skills and real-world know-how before they graduate

Preparing to step in it - Stuff you'll need to know before you register - Scheduling: yes, you actually have to show up! - How in the world are you going to pay for this? - What will you wear? - Major pains: choosing your classes - What happens now? - The coursework situation - The 15 commandments of classroom etiquette - Don't panic! Okay, maybe a little - Graduation: are you still alive? - The [dreadful] workplace - Advice from nontraditional students.

Deciding what to do after high school is one of the biggest decisions you'll ever make. This book will help you come to grips with this often-overwhelming time of transition. It begins by helping students think seriously about who they are and what they want and then moves on to dissect the various options that are available after high school, such as enrolling in a training program, attending a community college, taking a gap year, enlisting in the military, or pursuing a traditional four-year degree, and more.

Put College to Work shows how to identify your strengths, find the right career field and major to pursue, leverage your skills, and create your own opportunities. You'll learn how to network to employers through your university's career center, alumni association, and major donors, plus the industry and research connections of your professors. Put College to Work presents a step-by-step plan to use the resources available to you in college ... to enhance your education with practical experience, make connections with employers, market yourself as a dynamic and creative employee--and land a job before you graduate.

Going to college can be exciting, anxiety inducing, and expensive! You want your child to get the most out of their college experience?what advice do you give? Thriving at College by Alex Chediak is the perfect gift for a college student or a soon-to-be college student. Filled with wisdom and practical advice from a seasoned college professor and student mentor, Thriving at College covers the ten most common mistakes that college students make?and how to avoid them!

Twelve college students give the best advice they never got.

Planning to succeed in college -- What you can expect from college -- The college search -- Preparing for college life -- Academic success -- Personal issues and services.

Part One: The truth about college, selectivity, and success -- Busting the elite-college mystique -- Examining the link between top colleges and success -- Realities of college life today -- Part Two: The success profile-- what it is, and how to develop it -- What is the success profile? -- Developing the success profile in high school -- When high school isn't enough: How to go above and beyond in developing the success profile -- Developing the success profile in college -- Putting the success profile to work: How to get a great job after (or during) college -- Part Three: What you should consider when choosing a school -- Useful criteria for selecting a college -- Finding a financial fit -- College in the future -- Myths and misunderstandings about college and admissions.

College students -- Time management

"The antidote to parents' anxiety about their kids being prepared for the job market upon leaving college -- a hopeful and inspiring guide on what to do right, from Jeffrey J. Selingo, bestselling author of College Unbound"-- Provided by publisher.