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Time Management and Study Tips for Students

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Time management and study tips

Study Tips

  • Don’t cram at the last minute.
  • In fact, don’t cram at all.
  • Don’t do all-nighters.
The evidence is against you.  

Time Management Tips

Managing your time wisely when taking four or five college classes isn’t easy but it isn’t horrifyingly difficult either.
A successful time-manager student, which means a self-management student, will be less stressed, get more sleep and feel better than those who procrastinate.
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To help you start your first semester on the right track and put that 4.0 grade point average within reach,here are three tips from experts  
1. Use a day planner
It will hold you accountable for even the smallest of tasks. A planner “will not only help students keep track of academic responsibilities,” says Michelle Curtis-Bailey, senior admissions advisor and Educational Opportunity Program coordinator at Stony Brook University, “but it will also [help in noting] important campus deadlines, such as drop and add dates, course withdrawal deadlines, registering for courses, and more.”
In using a daily planner, “students should record the tasks they need to complete on a daily, weekly and monthly basis,” says Hope Walton, director of the Academic Skills Center at the University of Richmond in Virginia. List your tasks by high and low priority, Walton says, keeping in mind that your focus should be on completing larger projects by their due dates first.
Lynne Richardson, dean of the College of Business at the University of Mary Washington, tells students to make sure they pencil in some time to relax when prioritizing their week.
2. Form study groups early
Form study groups where you can talk and work through the same assignments with others. Ann Marie Klotz, the dean for campus life at the New York Institute of Technology, advises students to “build weekly traditions. Enchiladas and Engineering? Pizza and Poetry?” she says. “Form groups to study and make it social, too.”
3. Break projects into smaller steps
Feeling overwhelmed often leads to procrastination. For college students, this may mean that a long research essay seems too daunting to begin. But to succeed in college, you’ll have to face these challenges head-on. Sharon Donnelly, director of counseling at Delaware Valley College, advises breaking down big assignments into smaller parts or steps.
“For example,” she says, “if you have a 15-page paper due at the end of the semester, start by drafting up the paper.
Then, set aside time in your schedule to work on each part of the outline, as well as time to revise and proofread it.”
Not only will you feel more successful in having accomplished these small goals, you will also learn what it takes to manage your time most effectively.
For more like this come to Dropout to Dean’s List.
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College Dropout Rates in the U.S. are bad.

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College Dropout Rates in the U.S. are bad and there is no hope in sight for many.

BUT THERE IS FOR YOU 

Jordan Weissman, writing in Slate gives us an update on America’s awful college dropout rates.
It’s something I’ve been writing about a lot here and on Dropout to Dean’s List.
The research is from The National Student Clearinghouse in the U.S.
Some of his and NSC’s observations: (My comments.)

  • Four-year college students have a better shot at graduation than two-year college students.
  • But, less than 40% t of undergrads attended full time during their whole stint in school. More than three-quarters of them finished their degree within six years.

(Six years is not too bad when considering all the things that happen to people. But it’s two years more than  it should take and that’s a loss of time and money for all involved. 452181864-students-arrive-on-the-south-bank-ahead-of-their.jpg.CROP.promo-mediumlarge

Students who try to do their academic work part-time (while working at a day or night job)  have a rough go of it with much lower graduation rates.)

  • 53 percent of students who attended both full and part time struggle. (That makes sense and is my experience at a college in Toronto.)
  • (The students are  overwhelmed with work,  personal problems and family history–(many are the first in their families to go to college.
  • They also have serious health issues–  many suffer from anxiety and depression and a full 20% of them harm themselves by (cutting, burning and stabbing themselves).
  • Many have no real support from friends and family.

It is hard to go to school and study when you feel alone and abandoned.

  • They also don’t know themselves and what they want so they are seduced into entering programs that are unsuitable table for them because of trends, parental desires and peer pressure.)

 One-third of these  students typically drop out entirely.

“Given that few students who spend more than six years in school finish, chances are most of them will drop out as well,” says Weissman and the facts bear him out.

The National Student Clearinghouse reports that 55 percent of first-time undergraduates who matriculated in the fall of 2008 finished a degree within six years, versus 56.1 percent of those who began in fall 2007. To read more of

Jordan Weissmann’s post, go HERE.

If your sons or daughters, or you, are having difficulty completing school, join me at Dropout to Dean’s List.

For a fast and sincere reply, email me: daleyfrank0@gmail.com or call me at 905-584-0617.

With this kind if thing there’s no time to waste.

If you could have done this by yourself you would have done it by  now.

I’ll be with you trying to get out of this trap.Frank

 

Frank Daley
daleyfrank0@gmail.com
647-205-5059
356 Westridge Drive , Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Five things students need to be “college-ready.”

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FIVE THINGS STUDENTS NEED TO BE “COLLEGE-READY.”

“The phrase “college and career ready” is today’s education reform mantra.
John Warner, writing on Inside Higher Education, takes the educational politicians to task and tells you what he thinks students really need to succeed in college, aside from basic skills of course.
You know, like the ability to read and write.
What do students need?
1. Curiosity
2. Self-regulation
3. Passion
4. Empathy
5. A healthy skepticism of authority.
I agree with him.
And all of them come from SELF-KNOWLEDGE.

SELF-REGULATION COMES FROM SELF-KNOWLEDGE

You can’t possibly self-regulate unless you have some self-knowledge.

You don’t have to be a guru on a mountain-top but you have a clue as to who you are what what you want (even if what you want is transitional).

CURIOSITY COMES FROM SELF-KNOWLEDGE

His first requirement, curiosity, is a given if you want to know yourself.

PASSION COMES FROM SELF-KNOWLEDGE

His third requirement, passion, comes from self-knowledge. When you know who who you are and what you want, passion arrives automatically.

SO DOES EMPATHY

His fourth requirement, empathy, also derives from self-knowledge, albeit unexpectedly.
Self-knowledge brings clarity. You see things others don’t see about themselves and the world and you can put yourself in another’s place because you “get” what it is toNOT have Self-Knowledge.

AND SKEPTICISM ABOUT AUTHORITY

Why? Because when you know yourself you resist conventional wisdom, general instructions, advertising  and the general rules of others (parents, teachers, religious leaders, politicians, etc.)
It’s not because you think you know everything, it’s because, knowing yourself, you know what is good for you and what is not.

What is real and what is a mirage.
If you, as a student require self-knowledge–and you do– let me help you get it.

IT IS EXCITING TO HAVE SELF-KNOWLEDGE!

Not only is it not painful, it’s exciting and revelatory!

Live the best life you can live.
Be the best YOU you can be email me at daleyfrank0@gmail.com for a FREE strategy session.
Or call 905-584-0617
If you are a student,  join me at Dropout to Dean’s List. 
Read John Warner’s whole piece HERE.
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Frank Daley
daleyfrank0@gmail.com
647-205-5059
356 Westridge Drive , Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

EDUCATION SERVICES

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EDUCATION SERVICES ON SELF-KNOWLEDGE COLLEGE SITES
Broadly speaking, education is the backbone of all our work on SELF-KNOWLEDGE COLLEGE (SKC).
But practically speaking, discussion of more formal education  and its problems and solutions will occur on our  site, DROPOUT TO DEAN’S LIST, which can be linked to at the top of our home page or here:

WELCOME TO DROP OUT TO DEAN’S LIST


SERVICES
(I will be updating this shortly.)
A)  Secrets of Success through Self-Knowledge
This is a normally a 12-week course taking people from  a lack of self-knowledge to a degree of it that ensures more success in their personal and professional lives. I have clients taking it over six weeks as well.
WHO IS IT FOR?
Anyone who knows s/he has a serious problem in life but doesn’t know what it is and doesn’t know how to solve it.
The presenting problem may be one of a dozen things  such difficulties with Time management, procrastination, goal-setting, choosing a career path, overcoming the inability to find and choose a mate. In all of these cases, the core problem is a lack of self-knowledge.
I can help you get that knowledge fairly quickly.
B) CAREER SELECTION
The  Secrets of Success Course prepares you for choosing the right career path for you!
C) How to Stop Dating Losers
A six week course that guarantees you will never date another inappropriate person again!

The next two courses are for students  but parents might like to know about them too so they are listed here. They are offered through Dropout to Dean’s List
D) How to Pick a College Program for YOU!
Want to go to college or university but you don’t know what to take? What to major in?
Don’t want to waste money by dropping out because you hated the program you chose?
Get the right information to make the best decision the first time!
E) HOW TO BE A STUDENT   (In development. Ready soon!) This course–a variation of the Success course–turns you into a real student in six -12 weeks. It is not a make-up class or a “subject” course–we don’t do math or history.
It is a program to allow you to find your gifts, talents and abilities so that when you go back to school you will succeed beyond what you have ever achieved before.
This course turns you into a student. I was going to say”successful” student but that’s a given.
You will be successful. 
NOTE:
All these courses will eventually be offered on a group basis. They are currently offered on a private basis, because most clients prefer it that way. This is personal work and many people do not want to expose themselves to others in a personal way.
This way is more expensive, of course, but you do get personal attention all the time.

PARENTS:
I CAN HELP MAKE YOUR SON OR DAUGHTER INTO A GREAT STUDENT BUT IT CAN’T BE JUST YOUR WISH—HE OR SHE–HAS TO WANT IT TOO. BADLY. OR IT WON’T WORK. 
If you would like to discuss how that can happen just email me and we’ll set up a free strategy session.
You know you can’t make them do something like this but together we might be able to persuade them to try it. Before they fail or drop out (or after, if that’s the situation). 
This is delicate stuff but you know what will happen to them unless they get a good education.
It won’t be pretty.
Act now so they can be ready for next semester.

 

Frank Daley
daleyfrank0@gmail.com
647-205-5059
356 Westridge Drive , Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Variety! Post Wrap-up July 28-Aug. 3

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A Variety of subject matter! Three are great for everyone and one is special interest!

1. Killing you slowly with sleep!

Sleep problems might be killing you slowly because either you sleep too much  or too little.

Many people have sleep problems of one kind or another.2744193593_ee58172ba0_m-BABOONS-150x150

There is an astonishingly high percentage of people who have trouble sleeping for one reason or another. It is in the order of 40 million people in the U.S. You may have a problem yourself or you know someone who does.
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2. FEWER H.S. GRADS OPT FOR COLLEGE

For  various reasons, fewer high school graduates are opting for college in the U.S.

The real problem is that some people who DO go, should NOT go and then they either drop out or switch programs and lose a year or two in the process.

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And some people who don’t go, SHOULD GO.

Years later they play the “I shoulda, coulda, woulda” game.

The real problem is that many young people have no idea which is the right choice for THEM.

Are you in that predicament?

It is not the end of the world.

We can fix this fairly fast.

Floyd Norris, writing in Business Day, writes about it–

“Falling college enrollment indicates that upward mobility may become more difficult for working-class and disadvantaged high school graduates,” said Heidi Shierholz, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute in Washington.

Read the whole article here: Fewer U.S. Graduates Opt for College After High School
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3. Genie Bouchard is a success and you can be too!

How to be self-confident and successful. Eugenie-Bouchard_hot01-300x225

Wimbledon junior champion 2 years ago at 18.
Wimbledon finalist at 20 this year.
Why she’s a success and how you can be too.
Here are a few critical success keys.
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4. Is self-discovery destroying marriage?

Any self-discovery going on here?

Any self-discovery going on here?

A U.S. psychologist thinks so. Ian Semple, writing in Britain’s The Guardian, examines this controversial theory.

“Eli Finkel, director of social  psychology at Northwestern University in Illinois, said couples today looked to their marriages to help them “grow as individuals”, and support them through “voyages of self-discovery.. But their expectations are rarely met, he said, because of the investment of time and effort involved.”

Read More

Frank

 

Frank Daley
daleyfrank0@gmail.com
647-205-5059
356 Westridge Drive , Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Fewer U.S. H.S Grads Opt for College. Are you one of them?

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Fewer U.S high school grads opt for college.

Are you one of them? 2179136411_a0490eb496_m riveter at work

It doesn’t matter if you aren’t….at least, not yet.

What matters is…

Are your talents, gifts and abilities developed best in college or not?
Is college the right place or the wrong place for YOU?

Never mind statistics.

Never mind anybody else.

And never mind what your friends and parents say, either.

(Well, to a degree!)

Do you need to go to college (or university) or is that the wrong place for you?

THE REAL PROBLEM ISN’T THAT KIDS DON’T GO TO COLLEGE

The real problem is that some people who DO go, should NOT go and then they either drop out or switch programs and lose a year or two in the process.

And some people who don’t go, SHOULD GO.

Years later they play the “I shoulda, coulda, woulda” game.

The real problem is that many young people have no idea which is the right choice for THEM.

Are you in that predicament?

It is not the end of the world.

We can fix this fairly fast.

Floyd Norris, writing in Business Day, writes about it–

“Falling college enrollment indicates that upward mobility may become more difficult for working-class and disadvantaged high school graduates,” said Heidi Shierholz, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute in Washington.

Read the whole article here:

Fewer U.S. Graduates Opt for College After High School

If you are a person who hasn’t a clue what you should do, I’ll make it easy for you. Join me at Dropout to Dean’s List and I’ll help you figure it out.

You will have to do some introspective work, answer some hard questions and be rigorous in your answers, but you will LOVE the process–it’s learning about the most important person in your world –YOU!

You will learn about yourself and you’ll be happier than a pig in you know what.

If you’re not bothered by this, great, you don’t need me.

STRUGGLING WITH THIS?

If you are struggling with whether or not to go to college, I can help.

But if you ARE really concerned about what the hell  are you doing in your life and you DON’T ACT on this, fine.

If this doesn’t interest you, carry on. Come back next year.

I’ll be here and you’ll be in the same anxious spot.

It’s your education.

It’s your call.

Your life.

But I CAN help you.

WHEN THE STUDENT IS READY, THE TEACHER APPEARS.

Are you ready?

Call me: 905-584-0617.

I will not pressure you to do anything.

We’ll just talk.

Frank

P.S. Here’s an article on whether college is worth it financially.

Is college worth it?
 

Frank Daley
daleyfrank0@gmail.com
647-205-5059
356 Westridge Drive , Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Is college worth it financially?

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Is college for you?

Is college worth it?

Is college worth it financially?

Or otherwise?

Yes, it is–for many people.

But it might not be worth it for YOU.

 

  • You might not be suitable for college–or it for you!

  • You might not have the academic credentials to go to college…yet!
  • You might not have the right learning skills for college…yet!

Those last three things  can be overcome.
What can’t be overcome--or should not–is whether college is the right place for you in the first place.
You should determine wheher or not college is right for you.

  • Don’t go because your friends go.
  • Don’t go because your parents say to go.
  • Don’t go because you think you “should” go

I can help you decide about all that.

In an article by Matt Essert, a Canadian editor at Policymic in New York, a graph shows clearly the financial advantage of going to college.

Is college worth it?

Well, if indeed you SHOULD GO TO COLLEGE

There are some caveats:

  • some schools aren’t worth it:
  • some programs aren’t worth it;
  • and some programs –even at good schools–don’t really pay off in purely financial terms.

But being paid for doing what you love is psychic income.

And life is isn’t all money.

As to whether it is (normally) better to go to college than be satisfied with high school, the answer is yes.

But are there people who are successful without college?

Absolutely, (but they are relatively rare birds).

But those birds DO fly!

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If you are

  • having trouble deciding on whether to go to college or not.
  • deciding on a college program or even if you want to go

(and if you can’t do that, you don’t know yourself well enough and you really need to come to Dropout to Dean’s List)

  • or if you want to go to college but aren’t getting the  grades you need
  • or if you have dropped out of school for any reason
  • or failed out

then you will benefit from my help at Dropout to Dean’s List.

I guarantee that I can help you succeed in school.

Email me at frankdaley@rogers.com

There is no obligation whatsoever.

I will just help you decide on a course of action.

Frank

 

Frank Daley
daleyfrank0@gmail.com
647-205-5059
356 Westridge Drive , Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

 

Professors and college success. Get it at Dropout to Dean’s List

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Prof. Frank Daley

Prof. Frank Daley

Professors and college success.

Get it at Dropout

to Dean’s List.

There are many things that contribute  to success in college.

The chief one is Self-Knowledge.

Others include freedom from financial stress, a well-prepared academic base, learning skills, self-discipline–as well as others.

One of the most important is the quality of the teaching.

This goes for high school, grade school and university too!

AN OLD SAYING THAT IS NOT ALWAYS TRUE!

“When the student is ready, the teacher appears.”

Yeah, right. We’ve all had bad teachers: careless, underprepared, ignorant, arrogant, lazy people who “Phoned it in.”

Many are worse than that.

Those teachers were/are a  blight. They stifle curiosity and creativity and the child’s natural love of learning.

But GOOD teachers can change your life, put you on a  path to success.

They are worth gold.

This has been known for years but here’s more research evidence that backs up the early research and people’s real experience.

A CARING PROFESSOR IS A KEY TO COLLEGE SUCCESS

If you believe the new “Gallup-Purdue Index Report,” a study of 30,000 graduates of American colleges on issues of employment, job engagement, and well-being, it all comes down to old-fashioned values and human connectedness. One of the report’s big takeaways: College graduates, whether they went to a hoity-toity private college or a mid- tier public, had double the chances of being engaged in their work and were three times as likely to be thriving in their well-being if they connected with a professor on the campus who stimulated them, cared about them, and encouraged their hopes and dreams.

Read More at: https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-caring-professor-may-be-key-in-how-a-graduate-thrives/

Back to the old saying: “When the student is ready, the teacher appears.”

Well this teacher is good.

Are you ready?

If you, or a person you know, could  benefit from expert guidance in this area, visit us at DROPOUT  TO DEAN’S LIST.

FOR AN EVEN FASTER RESPONSE, EMAIL ME AT  frankdaley@rogers.com or call 905-584-0617

NO OBLIGATION.

I’m with  you.

Frank

 

Frank Daley
daleyfrank0@gmail.com
647-205-5059
356 Westridge Drive , Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

How “non-rich” people can go to college

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How non-rich, OK “poor” people can go to college.

The headline writer for this piece by Morgan Housel, in the Motley Fool (USA Today), uses the term “non-rich” in the headline.

Trying not to to offend anyone, I guess, but it’s actually accurate because these days you almost need to be rich to go to university.

NOTE:  Most Americans and many Canadians use the term “college” to also mean university. That’s not the case here.

College IS expensive.

Grants are not as high or as plentiful as in the past (or maybe it’s just that there are more students trying to get them).

Most students have to work while they are in college and many are not  skilled enough to spend time working for money when they should be working on their studies.

And, anyway, many young people are simply not ready for college.

Not academically and not personally.

They don’t know who they are or what they want to study.

Until you know who you are and  what you want, there isn’t much point in spendig a lot of money on a degree.

Morgan Housel offers a path to a degree that makes sense. After high school, get a job. Go to a community college for two years, transfer to a state college (in Canada) any one of the relatively inexpensive ones) when you know what you want to study.

Or, if your grades are decent and you have a general idea of your interests, go into a basic liberal arts, science or business program for a year or two while you are learning more about yourself.

Housel writes

“I can’t count how many roundtable discussions I’ve heard asking whether college is still worth the cost. They are important debates; college can be expensive. But most leave out an important point: There is more than one way to go to college.”

Continue reading–> HERE

Comments? Or share if you like this.

Another thing  you could do if this a problem for you, or a child of yours, or even a student you know, is to contact me at frankdaley@rogers.com

I’ll show you how to handle college well.

 

Frank Daley
daleyfrank0@gmail.com
647-205-5059
356 Westridge Drive , Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

 

How “non-rich” people can go to college

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1371903942000-DM-grad-1306220826_4_3-300x225

How non-rich, OK “poor” people can go to college.

The headline writer for this piece by Morgan Housel, in the Motley Fool (USA Today), uses the term “non-rich” in the headline.

Trying not to to offend anyone, I guess, but it’s actually accurate because these days you almost need to be rich to go to university.

NOTE:  Most Americans and many Canadians use the term “college” to also mean university. That’s not the case here.

College IS expensive.

Grants are not as high or as plentiful as in the past (or maybe it’s just that there are more students trying to get them).

Most students have to work while they are in college and many are not  skilled enough to spend time working for money when they should be working on their studies.

And, anyway, many young people are simply not ready for college.

Not academically and not personally.

They don’t know who they are or what they want to study.

Until you know who you are and  what you want, there isn’t much point in spendig a lot of money on a degree.

Morgan Housel offers a path to a degree that makes sense. After high school, get a job. Go to a community college for two years, transfer to a state college (in Canada) any one of the relatively inexpensive ones) when you know what you want to study.

Or, if your grades are decent and you have a general idea of your interests, go into a basic liberal arts, science or business program for a year or two while you are learning more about yourself.

Housel writes

“I can’t count how many roundtable discussions I’ve heard asking whether college is still worth the cost. They are important debates; college can be expensive. But most leave out an important point: There is more than one way to go to college.”

Continue reading–> HERE

Comments? Or share if you like this.

Another thing  you could do if this a problem for you, or a child of yours, or even a student you know, is to contact me at frankdaley@rogers.com

I’ll show you how to handle college well.

Frank Daley
daleyfrank0@gmail.com
647-205-5059
356 Westridge Drive , Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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