So You’re Academically Prepared for the College Experience… How About Mentally?...

You’ve been slaving away for the past four years: paper after paper, exam after exam, and admissions essay after admissions essay. You are finally in a place where you are figuring out what state you’ll be residing in throughout the next four years, and there’s no doubt that the so-called carrot getting you through each day is the gratification that graduation will bring, paired with the image of a phenomenal summer of friends, family, and sun, before you embark on your new journey.

But are you really ready to start your college experience? Yes, you’ve proved to be academically prepared, but how about mentally prepared? Media is everywhere today, and there is no way to escape the new stats that are constantly pouring in about college students, their performance, successes, and experiences.

An article in this morning’s USA Today states that:

“Nearly half of the nation's undergraduates show almost no gains in learning in their first two years of college, in large part because colleges don't make academics a priority, a new report shows.”

So how can you get the most of your tuition’s worth over the next two years, make mom and dad proud, and feel like you’re tracking in the right direction towards a successful and fulfilling career you’ll love? It’s simple. Do your homework.

Granted, that’s the last thing that you’ll want to hear after a stressful year of compiling a plethora of seemingly useless information. However, there just may have been a method behind some of the madness.

Take the research skills that you’ve polished in your paper writing, the thinking outside-of-the-box that you’ve honed in trying to come up with a college essay, and the extreme dedication that you’ve shown to your future by putting out nothing but your best work to get into the college of your choice. Pair these three tools with the realization that you are not going to be handed your career choice, nor are you going to be handed a fast-track in preparing for your career and being sure that it’s a good fit for you. Now take all of this information and make a promise to yourself to utilize a combination of the upcoming months, and your first two years of college to dig a little bit deeper to ensure that you’re on the path to success.

How, you might ask? Well, a great start would be checking out our white paper on careers on our site to see what’s out there:

http://www.onetruezone.com/100-careers-whitepaper.pdf

Then what? Keep abreast of our blogs! They’re written FOR YOU on a weekly basis to give you the support that we know you need! Want to know what other resources oneTRUEzone has to offer you in your quest to find your purpose in life? Shoot us an email at info@onetruezone.com, or post on our Facebook page:
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For more information on today’s USA Today article, please consult:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2011-01-18-littlelearning18_ST_N.htm?csp=hf#uslPageReturn