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12 Questions for Predicting College Success

Predicting College Success: Answer These 12 Questions

                - CBS MoneyWatch.com

The post asserts that

If a teenager can answer yes to the following 12 questions in five critical areas necessary for college success, chances are he or she will be able to do just fine. 

Academic Skill

• Can you read up to 200 pages a week?
• Do you have a system for taking notes?
• Can you clearly summarize a college-level reading assignment?
• Can you write a 10-page paper that refers to two or more sources?

Self-Understanding

• Do you know your academic strengths?
• Do you know which academic tasks give you the most difficulty?

Self-Advocacy

• When you run into difficulty, do you ask for help?

Executive Function

• Do you have a system for keeping track of your projects, books and papers?
• Are you able to ignore difficulties and focus on the task at hand?
• Do you have a strategy for completing tasks that you find boring?

Motivation and Confidence

• Do you know what you want to get out of your first year of college?
• Do you know that you can succeed?

Read the entire article and get the questions at moneywatch.bnet.com.

10 Bits of Advice for College Students From George Bernard Shaw

Here are 10 of Shaw's quotes to help college student succeed:

Avenues to Success for 10/01/09

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
     - George Sheehan,1918-1993, American author, best known for books about running

Image source: GeorgeSheehan.com

Avenues to Success for 09/30/09

What comes from the heart, goes to the heart.

     - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1722-1834, English essayist, critic, poet and philosopher

Image source: The Project Gutenberg eBook
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5 (of 14)
by Elbert Hubbard

Tips for making sure your college student is properly insured

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Insure.com offers these tips for making sure your college student is properly
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• Car insurance
• Home insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance

Avenues to Success for 09/29/09

He who seeks a faultless friend remain friendless.
     - Turkish Proverb                                                               

Waiting
John Everett Millais (1854)
Image source: Victorian Paintings

This is the Avenue to Success for 09/29/09.

Avenues to Success offers an opportunity for parents of college students to enroll them in an unique subscription service and, at the same time, support student programs at a college or university of their choice! They receive a daily motivational quotation specifically selected to help keep them focused on achieving their goals in life. 

Avenues to Success for 09/28/09

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

     - Sydney Smith, 1771, English essayist

Image Source: National Portrait Gallery, London

Avenues to Success for 09/27/09

Think of the time when you felt most proud of yourself. What happened to make you feel that way?

     - Unknown

Do this when you need a real "pick-me-up."

This is the Avenue to Success for 09/27/09.

Avenues to Success offers an opportunity for parents of college students to enroll them in an unique subscription service and, at the same time, support student programs at a college or university of their choice! They receive a daily motivational quotation specifically selected to help keep them focused on achieving their goals in life. 

Avenues to Success for 09/26/09

There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am," and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are."
     - Frederick L. Collins - (In Amazon, there are a number of books by a Frederick L. Collins written between 1920 and 1945. Many have to do with travel, so maybe the author of these books also gave us the quote.)

This is the Avenue to Success for 09/26/09.

Avenues to Success offers an opportunity for parents of college students to enroll them in an unique subscription service and, at the same time, support student programs at a college or university of their choice! They receive a daily motivational quotation specifically selected to help keep them focused on achieving their goals in life. 

Avenues to Success for 09/25/09

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
     Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), 43 BC - 17 AD Roman poet who wrote about love, seduction, and mythological transformation.

Image source: Malaspina Great Books Blog

 

Quote also attributed to Charles Brower, where I've also seen it with the word "joke" instead of "quip."  I do not know who Charles Brower is.

This is the Avenue to Success for 09/25/09.

Avenues to Success offers an opportunity for parents of college students to enroll them in an unique subscription service and, at the same time, support student programs at a college or university of their choice! They receive a daily motivational quotation specifically selected to help keep them focused on achieving their goals in life.