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Five Ways to Avoid Procrastinating in College

Procrastination is a college student’s worst nightmare. The biggest impediments that you’ll face in school will be self-created time restraints. Time management is crucial. You have to balance the fun with the not so fun if you want to succeed in college.

Here are five ways to help you avoid procrastinating.

1. Budget your time

Account for all your waking hours in the day. Really breakdown how you spend your hours, and set aside chunks of time to complete whatever task is on your agenda.

2. Work with productive people

Associate with kids who know who handle their business. When you team up with capable study partners, you’ll notice the impact on your performance. By cooperating with others, you will have the dual benefits of combining knowledge and constant encouragement.

3. Be truly interested in the courses you take

You need to have a genuine passion for your studies. You need to flavor your education with your personal tastes. Follow your academic interests and combine your likes with a solid career plan. The more involved your are with the subjects and disciplines that you love, the easier it will be to get your work done.

4. Know when it’s time to refuse to party

Balancing school and social commitments can be tricky at times. You have to be on the ball when it comes to your classes, but at the same time, there’s the need to celebrate your academic accomplishments with your fellow students. You need to be able to identify when it’s time have fun, and when it’s time to hit the books. Too much of either’s no good. You need to mix it up intelligently. In no time at all, you’ll discover the party-to-study ratio that’s right for you.

5. Avoid all-nighters

Cramming in college is common, but it can also have a detrimental effect on the value of your education. Think about it. If you distribute the amount of information that you need to cover over a longer period of time, you’re going to develop a better working relationship with the material. If you try to consume a quarter’s worth of data in one night, you may perform well on your final exam, but you will have lost the opportunity to naturally absorb the material for the long term. Avoid all-night homework sessions if you can, if not, hone your ability to come through in the clutch.

Procrastinating kills, but you can fight back. Don’t be absorbed my unimportant things. College is loaded with many different distractions, but you go there for a reason. Remember your goals. Realize that your opportunity window is finite, and get to work.

Chris Stout
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Seven Tips to Help you Succeed in College

The entire college experience can seem a bit overwhelming, especially to incoming freshmen. Take control of your university education. Don’t just let college happen to you, attack it with passionate curiosity. Have faith in you abilities, and have a proactive approach when it comes to achieving your goals.

Here are seven tips that’ll help you succeed in college:

1. Be original.

Professors like original thinkers, so think outside the box. Don’t follow the majority. If everyone in your class is turning in the same essay, with the same recycled points that they heard during lecture, your original paper will stick out like there’s no tomorrow. That’s a good thing. Be ambitious with your efforts, and tie in a bunch of different perspectives into one unique, well-argued point.

2. Don’t be preachy.

You will see your fellow students making long speeches about topics they no little about. That’s just a part of going to college. Don’t get into the habit of preaching. Let the kids around figure out their own ideas. It’s not your responsibility to mold the minds of your classmates. Just worry about your own business, and let other people stand on the soap box.

3. Become friends with your professors.

Many of your professors are cool people who possess a strong desire to help out interested and interesting students. Distinguish yourself from your classmates by having quality conversations with your professors during office hours. The more a professor likes you, the better you will perform. Don’t brown-nose in these situations, just have honest debates about subjects that interest you.

4. Be able to juggle multiple responsibilities

You need to be able to multi-task. Learn time management, and be able to prioritize your assignment. Put classes in your major in front of other electives.

5. Have fun, you need to.

College isn’t all about studying. This plenty of personal growth to experience. Get out of your dorm room once in awhile and have a good time. You’re going to need to relive stress on a regular basis, so make sure that you find the proper outlet.

6. Don’t be rigid about your class selection

Mix up your schedule. Take a foreign language or an art class. Learn about history, philosophy, science and religion. The more doors you open, the bigger the picture will appear.

7. Develop thick skin

Don’t let anyone phase you. You paid to be where you are, so you can’t let a confrontation in section or a stinging comment from your professor prevent you from making the most of your college opportunity.

If you take your education seriously, you will notice the results. Be interested in your own development. Take charge and be proactive. Establish what your goals are, and craft an actionable plan for realizing them. With a focus and hard work, you can achieve anything.

Chris Stout
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How to Get Into Law School Three Tips for the Brand New College Student

I would have never bothered to read an article like this at a time when it would have mattered because, unfortunately, I didn’t think about how to get into law school, as early and often as I should have. Indeed, if you’re already more than half way through undergraduate school, you may want to look for advice somewhere else.

If, however, you are one of those chosen few youngsters who know what you want to do in life years before you have any business knowing such things, then I’ve got a few words of advice that will help you get into the law school of your dreams.

Although much of this will seem obvious, please take it to heart and try to understand why following these tips can make your life much easier in the future.

Tip #1 – Your GPA

The premise of this article relies on the assumption that you haven’t yet had the opportunity to screw up your college career yet. As such, you must make every effort to maximize your grade point average (“GPA”) during your undergraduate years.

Others will lie to you, but the truth is that your GPA, coupled with your LSAT score, are the most important factors in determining your admissibility to whatever law school you choose. Let me put this another way – your GPA is much, much, much more important than where you go to school, what activities you participate in, what classes you take, who your grandpa is, etc.

So if you are going to undergraduate school for the sole or primary reason of going to law school, take classes and pursue majors in which you can excel. Your high GPA will make life much easier when it comes time to apply to law school.

Tip #2 – Start Preparing for the LSAT Now

About 60% of prospective law students will do nothing or next to nothing to prepare for the Law School Admission Test (“LSAT”). Another 39% or more won’t do anything to prepare until six months or less before their test date. If you get started now, with literally years to perfect your understanding of the test and the time-proven strategies for maximizing your score, you have an excellent chance of getting a score that will virtually guarantee your admission to any school.

Anyone who has been through the process will tell you that the secret to success on the LSAT is practice. I’m not going to discuss the test and its components in any detail, but it is sufficient for me to say that the LSAT test does not test your knowledge of anything. Instead, it is designed to test your ability to think in certain ways.

Anyone can learn how to excel at thinking in these ways, but it takes lots of time and lots of practice. You shouldn’t be surprised to learn that the few months before most people take the LSAT is a hectic time. In addition to preparing for the LSAT, you may be preparing your law school applications, finishing your final college courses, and rejoicing in the prospect of your impending graduation.

The result of all this is that even those who think they are preparing extensively aren’t even coming close to practicing as much as you could if you start now. So my advice is that you begin reading all the practice materials you can, completing practice tests and even attending LSAT prep classes now.

Changing the way you think – or training yourself to think in a certain way – is a demanding and (biologically) a lengthy process. If you give yourself years of preparation you will demolish even your smartest competitors who have spent just weeks or months learning how the LSAT works.

Tip #3 – Do Interesting Things

In the event even your best efforts don’t result in a 4.0 GPA and 175 of the LSAT, you will find yourself in need of the law school admission advice found in my book, Covert Tactics for Getting Into the Law School of Your Choice.

As you will learn, students without premier numbers are given an opportunity to plead their case for admission via a personal statement, interview and/or personal visit. When it comes time to make that case, you should have something interesting to say.

Thus, much as you should prepare for the LSAT now, you should begin gathering ideas for you personal statement now. Don’t “volunteer” just for the sake of volunteering, but seek opportunities to do fascinating things that may – or may not – reinforce your desire to go to law school.

This article may be freely reprinted or distributed in its entirety in any ezine, newsletter, blog or website. The author’s name, bio and website links must remain intact and be included with every reproduction.

To learn more about the the techniques and strategies you can use to get into the law school of your choice, visit http://www.coverttactics.com.

sebastian foss
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Five Tips on Writing Essays in College

Writing is an essential skill for any college student. Even if you’re a biologist or a mathematician, you still need to write lab reports and proofs. Every college student has to take at least one writing-intensive course. College level essay writing doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Here are five tips that’ll help you write better essays:

1. If you haven’t read the book, take good notes in class, and discuss the points covered in your notes.

In an ideal world, every student would read every book and turn in every assignment. In reality, that’s not what happens. Things come up. Certain classes begin to take precedence over other courses. You may find yourself having to juggle different assignments in such a way, that one slips through the cracks. Don’t panic. If simply don’t have anytime to finish reading that thousand page Dostoyevsky novel, you can still turn in a quality essay. If you have to sacrifice reading the book, then you better go to class and take out-of-this-world notes. Wrap your mind around the important historical, philosophical and thematic issues, and discuss these topics in your essay. Mine the book for two or three quality citations, and you’ll be fine. This method should only be used as a last resort, because when you turn in essays in this fashion, you might make the grades, but you’ll lose out on your education.

2. If you have read the book, extract an original take from it.

Don’t just regurgitate what you read, analyze it and develop a unique way of discussing the issues covered in the book. In a college essay (or any essay for that matter) you are free to argue whatever point you want, as long as you can back it up with supporting evidence. Don’t write something that you think your teacher wants to hear, and don’t spit your professors’ opinions back at them. Develop your own distinctive opinion, and argue it thoroughly.

3. Try to combine multiple ideas from the course.

Tie in what you’ve learned. Think outside of the topic and weave together different threads from the fabric of the class. Reference your lecture notes, and previous reading materials. Make connections in the curriculum. Professors love that kind of stuff.

4. Include historical perspectives.

Whatever you are writing, you can always find little tidbits of interesting historical facts to throw in. Type your essay topic in an Internet search engine and follow the term with the word ?facts.? You will be presented with pages of fact sheets that you can mine for valuable trivia. Whenever you want to add thickness to your argument, couch your claims in a relevant historical context.

5. Don’t ever plagiarize.

Plagiarizing is lazy, useless and dangerous. You want to strive for originality in whatever endeavor you undertake. You should never want the opinions of others to be confused with your own unique takes. Furthermore, plagiarizing can get you in serious trouble. If you haven’t done the work, take evasive action and buy more time. It’s better to turn in an excellent tardy paper than a worthless on-time essay.

College essay writing isn’t a mystery. You need to read your materials, take good notes during your lectures and pick an essay topic. Then you organize your ideas, craft a cleverly worded thesis statement, and set about proving your assertion with supporting evidence. That’s it. Just be original, think outside the topic and always remember to answer the question entirely.

Chris Stout
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A Day in the Life of an Online College Student

Amy Kirwan, a recent graduate of Phoenix University, recently sat down with me to speak about her day-to-day life as an online college student. As a working professional, she found the online environment a great fit for her lifestyle. Working nine to five, Amy would check in with her online school a few times a day to stay in touch and check out the status of her group projects so that if her online classmates needed anything from her, she could take care of it right away.

For the most part, though, the daily life of an online college student is shaped by the off-line life of that student: you can participate in the online classroom environment without disturbing your work schedule. You read for your classes on your own time, and conduct research when you can. At night, students spend several hours at the computer.

When you’re on the computer at night, you can interact with your classmates. Online colleges try to arrange classes so that people in the same time zone are taking classes together. Therefore, when you’re working, the people in your classes tend to be working as well. In addition to free-form interactions with your classmates via the message boards, you will be required to post written answers to discussion questions about your readings. These written responses take the form of essays. In addition to providing your own answers to the discussion questions, you will be responsible for reading and responding to those responses posted by your classmates.

Phoenix University requires its students to actively participate five out of seven days a week. If the school week begins on a Monday, you will probably do the required reading on Monday and Tuesday and post your responses to discussion questions by Wednesday.

In addition to the substantive responses to your classmate’s discussion question essays, you will interact with your online classmates by participating in group papers and group presentations. One example of a group project is the creation of a new business, where teammates work together to craft a mission statement, a business plan, as well as plans for how the company would be marketed.

Depending on the course you take, you might also be responsible for writing an individual paper each week, in addition to the work you are responsible for in your team project. Each week, you will receive an assessment from your online professor, which will include results on papers and tests as well as commentary on your online posts as well as an overview of your progress in the course.

Elizabeth Saas
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Time Management Tips to Help Earn your College Degree Online

Earning your degree online is very rewarding to you and your career, but it can be quite the challenge. It takes a lot of responsibility and effort. One of the keys to success is time management and organization. Here are some tips to stay organized and manage your time en route to your online college degree.

1. Get a daily planner

Organization is as simple as writing down what you need to do. Buy a daily planner and write down what assignments you might have due or exams you might have to take for each particular day. Jot down any readings that are suggested by your instructor. Look at your planner every day and you will remember to do your assignments for your online classes, read your books and study for your exams.

2. Print out your schedule

To stay organized, you should get accustomed to a typical everyday schedule. Do you work? Type in your typical work schedule or the schedule that you will be working for that week. If your schedule might not be the same each day, you might have to make a new schedule every week, but this will help you to stay organized. After you figure out your work schedule, set aside several hours per day for each online class you are taking and follow that schedule. This will help you learn every single day, so you won’t have to cram the day before the test, which is not an effective way of learning. Print your schedule, and you will be organized and on your way to your online college degree.

3. Buy binders to keep papers organized

At times, some professors get a little assignment happy and give you task after task to ensure you are retaining the information. To keep all of your assignments in order, simply purchase a three-ring binder. By putting your assignments for a particular class in a binder, you can go back to them if you need to use them for other assignments or exams. You can find binders almost anywhere, and most can be purchased for only one dollar. But a binder for each online class will save you a ton of time and help keep you organized. A binder might seem like a small piece, but it helps build the finished product that is the online college degree.

4. Schedule studying times

This goes along with printing your schedule, but it can not be reiterated enough. Many people pay to have counseling or tutors lay out a schedule for times that they are able to study every single day, and you can do this by yourself! You can open up a spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel (this program is included with Microsoft Office) and create your own program, or you can use a template to make your own calendar with times, dates and study availability. It is very simple to do, and you will gain a great advantage. Scheduling study times and abiding by them will greatly increase not only your grade point average, but your overall retention of knowledge.

5. Set goals and abide by them

Setting a goal and sticking to the plan you lay out is the key to succeeding not only with taking an online class, but in life. If you learn to set goals and achieve them while earning your degree, you will be able to do the same in your job after you graduate from college. Setting goals and achieving them are what many managers and supervisors are looking for in an ideal employee, so following the goal structure will help you with your current objective, and in the long run.

Follow these five steps toward organization and time management and you will be well on your way to an online college degree.

M.J. Joseph
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Why Not Start Your College Education Online Today?

There are many of us out there who would love to extend our education in order to make more money in our chosen career, to get a head start in changing our careers, or simply to enrich our lives with the power that new knowledge can bring. Also, if you are like many of us, you may find it difficult to make time for the classes, labs, and the logistical requirements of attending a traditional college.

In such a scenario, you can find a solution to your problem in online educational facilities available on internet. You may not be clear about how can one can carry out education online and its requirements.

If you are interested in getting a college education and are considering taking college courses online over the internet you should be sure to do your research and find out all you can about you potential digital institution of online learning.

While there are numerous reputable, accredited, and established online universities and colleges there are also just as many fraudulent and questionable institutions on the wild, wild web as well. When considering something as important as the investment in your future that education is, it pays to take a look behind the scenes at what you are really signing up for.

One sure shot way to pick an authentic online university is to look for the online version of your local or state university. In today’s internet savvy world quite often you will find that your local college is offering a part or subset of a particular course online. Search hard and I am sure you will be able to find a full course online from a good state university that suits your requirements.

Digital media – Internet has something to offer everybody. Irrespective your interest there is always something available on the internet for your higher educational needs.

If you are an enthusiast for particular academic subjects without the need to log course hours toward the completion of a degree program, you may want to look at Open Courseware, a project of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T) that provides the entirety of many courses online for free to those out there with a thirst for knowledge but without the test scores or the financial ability to attend the prestigious institution itself.

Be very wary of online scams and fly by night operations on the internet as well when considering enrolling in online college. These so called “degree mills” offer little to no education and undeniably questionable “degrees” to their customers who in essence pay for fake degrees without having to put in any work. These can not only be an expensive mistake but can do irreparable damage to your reputation if you are caught trying to pass off one of these so-called degrees as the real McCoy.

Of course there are pros and cons to any situation. If you are careful and select well then you have a very good way of improving your qualifications through an online degree from an established university. These degrees are best suited to those who want to continue with their education while keeping on with their respective jobs.

David Neehly
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Massage Therapy Classes: Where To Take Them

Massage therapy classes are the perfect type of class to take when you are looking for ways to improve your skills or looking for a great new career. You can take just a few to improve the type of massage that you can give your loved one. Or, if you would like to get your massage license, you can even learn to give massages as a business. No matter what your goals are, it is important to consider where you will be getting the classes at. There are a number of different locations including the web, your local community college and even specific massage schools. Each has their benefits.

Consider these tips to find the right place to get your massage therapy classes.

1. Select a massage school that offers the type of massage technique that you want to learn. You’ll want to make sure that it will offer you the types of massages that are important to your career ( a wide range here) or the type of massage you love and enjoy.

2. Select the classes that are from an accredited school for your licensing. If the school is not recognized, which is a trap that many fall into, then you may not get the specific number of hours required to provide the service to paying customers. For this reason, check out the school’s accreditation.

3. While many consider comparing the cost of one massage therapy class to the next, it is more important to find a quality location to learn and really feel like you are learning the proper techniques. If you don’t invest in the right amount of massage work, you won’t be able to get the full range of benefit that you need to excel.

Finding the right massage therapy classes is a great way for you to insure that the experience that you have is the right one for you.

Jenny Ambrose
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