MOTiVATiON for $UCCE$$

Surviving your first year of college depends largely on your ability to handle your new freedoms and responsibilities in an adult manner.

Put your studies first. One measure of maturity is the ability and willingness to accomplish the things that must be done. What about you? Will you be able to put your studies ahead of your social life?

Keeping in good health. Your physical health is an important factor influencing your success in college. Good mental health includes having a positive outlook on life and thinking positively when you react to a problem.

What is your attitude about college -- positive or negative? Eat right, get your proper amount of rest, and be positive and you'll succeed.

Achieving grades. Students often criticize grading practices, especially when their own grades are low. So if your grades aren't all that you'd like, be fair enough not to place blame on your professors. Accept the fact that only you can be responsible for achieving the grades that you want.

Making academic decisions. A great many freshmen are uncertain about their future educational and vocational plans. They are vague or unrealistic about the occupational field they plan to enter; consequently, they are undecided as to what their major subjects should be. The result of this problem is indecision and lack of interest. The three major symptoms of lack of interest are: procrastination, vacillation and disorganization.

Goal: Choose a major with help from school counselors, faculty, research, testing and a proper decision-making process. Once this has been achieved, you are on the road to success!

SMILE !


The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
- Edgar Watson Howe

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. Schopenhauer
One learns people through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.
- Mark Twain

If you want to get the best of a man, you must look for the best in him.
- Bernard Haldane

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Source: Brown, William F. and Wayne Holtzman. A Guide to College Survival. Iowa City: The American College Testing Program, 1987.