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What Your Student Needs: Tips for Each College Year
A colleague who is also a therapist told me a few months ago that the sophomore year, specifically the spring semester, is the hardest for many college students. “Why?” I asked, even though I had my suspicions. She said that after three semesters of...
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Goal Setting 101 for College Students (and Their Parents, Too!)
It’s that time in the semester when I teach goal setting. Why, you ask, do I not start the semester with goals? It is because that I believe students need good data–meaning grades on early assignments, concerns about fitting in–to create specific,...
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Researching Colleges: What to Ask Current Students
When researching colleges to apply to, your student may already be reading college websites and contacting the admissions office. Another major source of information is current students at the colleges of interest. After helping your student with gathering the...
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To Work or Not to Work? That Is the Question for College Students
Conventional wisdom goes something like this: Some work is good for college students, but too much work can make it harder for them to focus on their classes and ultimately graduate. Most colleges and universities stick by the recommendation that 10-20 hours a week...
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What Students Say about the First Year of College: Part II
In my last blog, I wrote about what students say about the first year of college based on the themes that I have discovered in their written responses over my past four years at a university. These themes–seven in total–have come from careful reading of...Latest Posts
