The absolute first thing you need to do before you do anything in college is adopt a Growth Mindset. By adopting this mindset, you’ll unlock your ability to improve your academic performance, and you’ll understand why it’s possible to go from C’s in high school to A’s in college.
It’s that time of the year again. Time to pick classes! Course selection can be pretty intense. There are hundreds of possible classes to take, but you only get to choose three. You want to pick classes that are interesting and relatively straightforward – but those classes tend to fill up quickly.
In addition to all of that, you have to compete with the rest of the student body to get into popular classes. It’s like the Hunger Games for course selection. As a student picking classes, you’ve been volunteered as tribute. To help you survive, we’ve compiled a list of helpful tips – that way, you’ll make it through course selection period victoriously!
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