College Culture, Student Success helps develop reading, writing and thinking skills as well as become familiar with the common customs, underlying assumptions, and strategies for success associated with being a college student.
College Culture, Student Successhelps develop reading, writing and thinking skills as well as become familiar with the common customs, underlying assumptions, and strategies for success associated with being a college student.
Preface for Instructors xvPreface for Students xxiI Wasn't Brought Up That Way: Where Home Culture Meets College Culture 1Overview 1And Then I Went to School 2Mother Tongue 8Bricklayer's Boy 15The Meaning of Work 22Abandoned but Not Alone 25Let the Colors Run 28Making Connections 35Exploring the Web 36A Day in the Life: Opportunities and Challenges In and Out of the Classroom 39Overview 39Focusing on Friends 40Could Your Facebook Profile Throw a Wrench in Your Future? 44Drinking Deaths Draw Attention to Old Campus Problem 49We're Lying: Safe Sex and White Lies in the Time of AIDS 52Universities Seeing a Gender Gap in Enrollments 58Earning and Learning: Are Students Working Too Much? 61Making Connections 65Exploring the Web 66Who's in Charge Here?: Exploring Self-Awareness and Personal Responsibility 68Overview 68ADHD: The Cloud Lifted 69Log On to Learn 72Sticky Fingers on the Information Superhighway 78Good and Bad Procrastination 86From Single Mother to Successful Student 91Saved 96Making Connections 99Exploring the Web 100Learning and Unlearning: Reinventing Yourself as a Learner 102Overview 102Multiple Intelligences 103How to Say Nothing in 500 Words 117I Just Wanna Be Average 130Upsilamba! 144Symptoms of Math Anxiety 149Take This Quiz! (Twenty Reasons You Could Be Working Harder and Longer Than You Have to, Yet Learning Less and Receiving Lower Grades) 153Making Connections 162Exploring the Web 163Becoming an Educated Person: Intellectual Curiosity, Integrity, and Critical Thinking in College and Beyond 165Overview 165General Education and a College Degree 166The Nontraditional Student in You 169Vamos a Leer! 174A False Wikipedia "Biography" 176Ambition 180What Is the Quarterlife Crisis? 184Making Connections 190Exploring the Web 191Credits 193