Remove Roadblocks

Student Tips:

Create a plan: Create a roadmap for academic success with an advisor and develop a strategy for life as a student.

Maintain balance in your life by establishing reasonable goals and planning ahead.

Be flexible

Create a support team of family and friends: ask for their understanding, support and help when you need it.

Ask for help: Talk with your teachers, advisors, and school staff. Learn about the resources available to you and seek help when needed.

Make community connections: Get to know your teachers, advisors, and fellow students.

Schedule time to relax: Do things that keep you mentally, physically, and emotionally healthy, and build them into your schedule.

Think small: Remember to break-up long-term assignments into small, manageable tasks in your daily schedule

Know your best time of day: Choose to study during the time of day or night when you are most alert.

Organize your calendar each week: Make a plan that includes budgeting the amount of time needed for different subjects, break times, and due dates for assignments.

Record assignments: Use an assignment notebook to record all homework and long-term projects.