Approaching Midterms…

Needing to Improve Your Studying and Learning?

            In case you haven’t been keeping track, midterm is less than three weeks away and only two weeks after you return from Winter Break!  At this point are you feeling like you need to kick your academics into a higher gear?  If so, you’re not alone: the new-semester honeymoon is over, and February’s dreary days can sap whatever motivation you may have had.  We at the Academic Success Center (ASC) recommend two sets of strategies you can pursue: ways to help yourself and ways to get help from others.  Here are a few of the best:

Ways to Help Yourself:

 Use this checklist of “Keys to Academic Success in College” to get more organized.

† Apply these “Nine Tips for Staying Motivated in College” to overcome your doldrums.

† Practice these “Seven Steps to Becoming a Better Note Taker” to engage and learn better.

† Fill out and follow the two “Fillable Schedules” titled “Saturday – Friday, 6 a.m. – 1 a.m.” and “Semester Planning” located here.

Ways to Get Help from Others:

† Attend any department- or ASC-sponsored group helps sessions related to a class.

† Apply for an ASC tutor NOW for a class that isn’t going very well.

† Apply for a peer academic coach to help you simply “do college.”

† Set up a one-on-one ASC appointment to learn how to improve specific study strategies.

            As you know, college semesters fly by.  So don’t put off doing the very do-able things available through the Academic Success Center in VanZoeren 261.  Here’s our website where you can learn about all the various kinds of help we offer to all students, totally free of charge.

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