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1. Go to class. EVERY class. It sounds so stupid and obvious but it's a crucial tool for success. Seriously, aim for perfect attendance. This is incredibly important.

2. High school doesn't just end when college starts. Some people never actually shed the high school mentality. Just look right through anybody who tries to steal your focus from your academics. Your education is of the utmost importance.

3. SLEEP! Again, it sounds so obvious but you won't understand just how essential sleep is until you pull and all-nighter and fail the test the next day. It's better to sleep with work unfinished than pull an all-nighter and suffer the lack of sleep the next day. Your body needs to recharge. We just aren't conditioned to stay awake for 36+ hours.

A few...

1. Pick your friends carefully. Good friends will support you when you have to study, or even when you are discouraged. Bad ones will trick you into partying every night and are no where to be found when you find out you have a 1.0 GPA.

2. Reach out. Most colleges have plenty of resources, but most students don't take advantage of them. So go to those office hours. Ask your advisor for help in picking courses. Build that support system.

3. Find a mentor in your desired field. The value of having an upperclassmen and/or adult who has been through the ropes successfully is invaluable. They can give you advice on how to do well in your specific classes, and if you're really lucky, they may even have contacts to put you in touch with for summer internships or jobs.

4. Be open. So many college students these days are close-minded, going into college thinking they no exactly what they want to study, only to find junior year that they really dont like their field. Spend your first year trying everything and anything. That goes for academics as well as extracurriculars (just be careful not to become over committed. 4 classes and 2 main extracurriculars should be good).

5. Buy a George Foreman grill! Saves money cuz you dont have to buy fast food, and keeps off the freshman 15 since its grilled!

Survival!

It is you, only you. Not mommy, not daddy. I would recommend that you learn fast that everyday in college is a fight. A fight to maintain everything; your gpa, lifestyle, and abilities. By learning fast that your teachers are not there to help you, you have to help yourself, you have the best tool in your arsenal: ambition. The shear drive of wanting to do this on your own and make it yours is what gets the best of the best through. Learn the questions to ask, learn how to take notes, and learn how to study. Many students graduate from high school with a 4.0 gpa to find themselves making a 2.0 in college. Time management is very important too; don't overload yourself with studying and forget about free time. In contrast, don't lounge around and forget about important dates and stuff.

Use your calender, schedule planner and other means of organization to make sense of the chaos that you will soon be consumed by, or already battling against.

So in conclusion, the best tools I can give you are:

1) Study Skills (work on them)

2) Know People (find teachers or professors in the classes that you have trouble in and ask for aid)

3)Never Let Your Fire Burn Out (maintain your ambition)

Visit www.fastweb.com for articles and scholarship searches that I am sure will aid you.

Good Luck

I coasted through school before college. Studying was pretty effortless, just a quick reading of the books and a brief review before the exams. When people bragged that they aced an exam without needing to study, I was right with them. I noticed that friends of mine who had to really try didn't end up with top grades. My teachers thought I was something special.

That doesn't cut it in college.

I got to college with this idea that if you really had to work at it, you were stupid. Teachers would think less of you, and give you lower grades, if you weren't effortlessly brilliant. I didn't know how to buckle down and work until the end of my junior year.

So the lesson I learned was that you get good grades for mastering the material, not for having this image of being brilliant. So do the work. Colleges usually offer free study skills classes. Take one, if you need it. Keep up with the work, pace yourself on papers, projects and exam prep, so you're not cramming at the last minute. If you need to be a grind in some of your subjects (or all of them), do it. Teachers don't grade you down for it. They don't grade you down for needing help, either, so go to them when you do need it. many colleges have peer tutoring, so use that when you need to, too.

Depending on the college or university there are a lot of wonderful resources. Clubs, on campus jobs, living on campus, volunteer work through the university, school spirit events are all excellent opportunities to make you feel more grounded in the college experience.

Wow, your question takes me back about 13 years! I can tell you what you'll learn in college that will help you navigate through your work life. Networking and learning to interact with people of all sorts. I can tell you to have a blast (as long as you study first!).

Answer every question at the end of assigned chapters.

Get another book like your text and do them also,

That's how math and science can be tamed and the liberal arts also,

Ask you professors what will on their exam,

IE will a science test have laboratory questions also,

Get two book on how to study,

Marry me.

i have learned that if the teacher assigns reading do it. and dont wait until the last minute to study everything because it is too much to try and remember over night. also dont try to be friends with everyone because cliques form and girl fights happen a lot. good luck!

In college, you have more choice about what you take. This means that you actually get to choose classes that you're interested in.

College also teaches you a lot about yourself.