Student Survival Guide
Gen105
Joshua Smith
7/2/09
*Using Axia’s* Educational Resources:
Upholding Academic Honesty
Setting and Achieving Goals
Goal setting is a big part of success at Axia College and should be a big part of success in life. When you set goals you can keep track of where you are in achieving those goals. It is good to have long term and short term goals. One thing that was taught in this class about achieving your long term goals, is to break them down into several short term goals. This helped me a lot as I was able to identify goals that I would like to achieve in the long term, and make a plan on how to achieve them step by step in short term increments. When a person does not set goals for themselves, they really do not know what they are trying to accomplish. Setting goals gives people something to look at, learned a lot about how to achieve my goals, and develop plans to do so in a timely manner and actually track the progress of achieving those goals. This was a very important part of this class, at least to me. I now have enough tools to know how to accomplish my goals in a realistic time frame.
Managing Time Wisely
One thing I have learned in this class that is very important in not only my classes, but in every aspect of life, is to manage my time wisely. One assignment that we did in this class was to actually log everything that we did in a day on a table, broken down into half hour increments. This assignment showed me how much time in one day I waste doing nothing productive. When you manage your time more wisely you can achieve your goals much easier. I learned through this how to actually manage the time I have wisely. This class taught me how important it is to create a schedule to help you manage your time wisely. It does not have to be strict to the minute, but strict enough to actually get done what you need to get done. Time management is not only a big element of success in college, but in...