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Preface
Introduction
1. The Big Picture
2. Techniques of Studying
3. Examinations
4. Thinking Process
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1. The Big Picture
Motivation and incentives | “This subject is of no value to me” | Maturity | Girls and college | Competition | Why do we compete? | The pace at college | Attendance | Personal attention | Counseling | Professors are different | Teaching for the unknown future | Carry-over | Supervision | Drifting along – the able student | Are class discussions important?
Supervision
Parental supervision lessens when you go to college unless you live at home. In fact, parents are frequently far away. When the parents customarily had supervised too closely, their offspring later experience a counteraction for a while. There is a joy in the new-found freedom, and work is postponed.
Freedom is not all sweetness and light. It brings responsibilities in like amount. Your first few weeks away from home may get you off to a poor start, unless you look at the parents' supervision in a new light: You now will have to care more about yourself to make up the deficit created by your parents' absence. Where they acted as the stimulus and the reminder, you will have to do what they did — and to the same degree!
