What specific goals do people achieve at college that help you succeed in life?
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For me, I've expanded my vocabulary, learned to communicate more effectively, I know more about our global community and of course I'm learning the skills that pertain to my major.
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Good results in school can help you in achieving your goals however,it also depends on what choices you make after school.
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What are your long-range goals and objectives? \n  What are your short-range goals and objectives? \n  How do you plan to achieve your career goals? \n  What are the most important rewards you expect in your career? \n  Why did you choose the career for which you are preparing? \n  What are your strengths, weaknesses, and interests? \n  How do you think a friend or professor who knows you well would describe you? \n  Describe a situation in which you had to work with a difficult person (another student, co-worker, customer, supervisor, etc.). How did you handle the situation? Is there anything you would have done differently in hindsight? \n  What motivates you to put forth your greatest effort? Describe a situation in which you did so. \n  In what ways have your college experiences prepared you for a career? \n  How do you determine or evaluate success? \n  In what ways do you think you can make a contribution to our organization? \n  Describe a contribution you have made to a project on which you worked. \n  What qualities should a successful manager possess? \n  Was there an occasion when you disagreed with a supervisor's decision or company policy? Describe how you handled the situation. \n  What two or three accomplishments have given you the most satisfaction? Why? \n  Describe your most rewarding college experience. \n  What interests you about our product or service? \n  Why did you select your college or university? \n  What led you to choose your major or field of study? \n  What college subjects did you like best? Why? \n  What college subjects did you like least? Why? \n  If you could do so, how would you plan your academic studies differently? \n  Do you think your grades are a good indication of your academic achievement? \n  What have you learned from participation in extracurricular activities? \n  In what kind of work environment are you most comfortable? \n  How do you work under pressure? \n  Describe a situation in which you worked as part of a team. What role did you take on? What went well and what didn't? \n  In what part-time, co-op, or summer jobs have you been most interested? Why? \n  How would you describe the ideal job for you following graduation? \n  Why did you decide to seek a position with this organization? \n  What two or three things would be most important to you in your job? \n  What criteria are you using to evaluate the organization for which you hope to work? \n  Will you relocate? Does relocation bother you? \n  Are you willing to travel? \n  Are you willing to spend at least six months as a trainee?
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Going to college full time, living on my own, working part-time and keeping up a committed, 4-year long-distance relationship at the same time.  These are more like medium-sized achievements but I'm the first in my family to go to college, not many people my age live by themselves, working is a necesity but it adds to the workload and the relationship part is difficult, but working out well.  It's all hard work.
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- Never give up.  \n- Keep learning about technology or you'll be left behind.  \n- Keep asking questions about how and why. \n- Understand that *everyone* - from your mother, your teachers, the people who write your textbooks, to the guy on the news, everyone-  has an opinion and has a purpose for saying the things they say.  If you don't understand who is making the statement, you won't fully understand the statement itself.\n- Don't waste your time with people of bad character.\n- Find an older person you can look up to to confide in.  Ask them about trials they faced when they were your age.\n - My father told me, "Since you get OK grades, you'll get into an OK college.  Get good grades, and you'll get into a good college."  This is very true, and a good college will help you stay on top of the competition.\n- Don't waste time in chat rooms.\n- Treat everyone with repsect, especially girls and those in authority (even if you think they don't deserve it).\n- Again, never give up.  Try something you don't think you're able to do.\n- Make good use of your summers away from school.  Learn a skill, get a job, get exercise, read a lot.\n- Be proactive.  Search for opportunities to better yourself.  You will find them.
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Get Straight A's\nHave extra curriculars\nBe a good person\nBe a genuine person whose personality they can see\nWrite a good entrance essay that shows who you are\n\nAll else fails having a lot of money helps.
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Studying and getting good grades in high school certainly help. Excellent SAT and ACT test scores, also. Check the web sites of colleges you are interested in and see what their test score requirements are. It also helps to be a 'well rounded' student. That means get involved in various activities in and out of school - sports, band, clubs, volunteer work - the more, the better.
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The best thing about a college education is that you recieve a wealth of knowledge and experience beyond what most people can teach themselves. Career wise you get a piece of paper saying your smarter than most people so you can get a job in management and opress people that may very well be smarter than you in reality.
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self discipline. \n\nYou'll have plenty of opportunity for all kinds of extra curricular activities. However, for the most part, no one will be there to see that you do your assignments and get good sleep and exercise. So you need to have some discipline about managing your time and energy.\n\nWhat I've noticed from my nieces & nephews, too, is that much is to be gained by supporting your school sports/teams. You get a strong sense of "spirit" and belonging and being part of a group. There's a great deal of stress in college and your friends will be important. And some will be your friends for the rest of your life.\n\nCongratulations, Graduate! And All the Best!
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You can do anything you want.  College degree is proof that you are capable of learning and acquiring new skills.  Beyond that you have to rely on your work experience.
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My guess is that it isn't as easy as it looks for them.  Even the very brightest kids, who don't have to work as hard at the academics, probably have to work harder at the other stuff.\n\nSuggest you read "...Habits of Highly Successful Teens" ... Covey is the author?  Anyway, it's a good "life lessons" book. Make sure you have a planner/calendar and mark in committments, deadlines, tests, homework.  Develop a file system where you can keep things organized so you don't spend your time looking for things.\n\nGood idea to switch to APs if you can handle them. Keep your eye on the academics...ask for help if you feel you need it (from teachers, other students.) Always do your homework. Study hard.  DON'T CHEAT. Read for pleasure at least a few minutes everyday. It'll help your vocabulary and give you some quiet time to yourself.\n\nPerhaps narrow down extracurricular activities to the 2-4 things you really have a passion about. Colleges are more interested in those, anyway, vs. you being involved in SO many things that it's really impossible for you to be passionate about any of them.\n\nMake sure you get a good night's sleep and eat breakfast, to give you energy during the day. DO NOT DRINK OR DO DRUGS. That will sap you energy and ability to concentrate/focus. Try to minimize junk food, particularly soda, which are basically empty calories.\n\nPlay sports as one of your extracurriculars to stay in shape, and/or add some light exercise to help with that.  Walk if you can, vs. drive. Take the stairs vs. elevator when you can.\n\nTry to minimize your IM, phone, computer and tv time.  Meaning, just keep it in check, don't let it interfere with your other, higher priority things.\n\nOf course, this doesn't mean you shouldn't stay close with your friends.  They are a great support system and good for you in so many ways... and some of them will still be friends with you 30 years from now!\n\nShoot for getting into the best possible college you can, and work hard once you're there, too.  Enjoy yourself, but work hard.\n\nAs I say, it probably isn't as easy as it seems for others around you. They probably feel as insecure as you do.  Be yourself, hang in there, try to improve but don't expect perfection.  You're moving in the right direction, just keep going, working on things little by little.\n\nGood luck.
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go to collegeboard.com and you can see what is compatable to you according to your success in school and your goals in life..also just talk with teachers and guidence counslers, they really help, sometimes
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By keeping your goal in sight, whatever it is. Prioritize what you need to do to get the job done, then just do it. And give yourself a reward when you're done. If you can remember that the reward is waiting, that sometimes makes the job go better. Being under pressure is never really fun, but some people thrive on pressure and do some of their best work. Sometimes it's good to put some pressure on yourself. It helps to stretch yourself to new levels you never reached before. Besides, if you're not in college yet, it's good practice for when you will be. Talk about pressure...I don't know how some of those kids get all that work done, plus get decent grades. But, it's all about focus, and a determination to get the job done...correctly...the first time. <*)))><
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Only 13 and setting goals! Good for you!\n\nYou need good grades all through school.  They do not have to be perfect, but you want to get into a decent college.  Find a college with a good pre-med program.  You will do four years of undergraduate work in college and get a bachelors degree.\n\nThen you will do post-graduate work at a medical school.... internship, etc.\n\nA well-rounded student is a good thing.  Play a sport, join a club, do community service such as charity work.  It all looks good on a resume and college application.\n\nWith good grades, when you get into high school, you will have opportunities to join honor societies.  These often have scholarships for college and look great on your application and resume.  Join them if you qualify!\n\nStudent government is a good thing too.\n\nNow, everything together may take up too much time.  Choose the things you are interested in and be a leader.... get voted president or at least some position high in the group.  Looks good on an application or resume.\n\nIf this is really your dream, don't let anyone, even your mom dissuade you.\n\nI'm 47 yrs old.  No one in my family ever went to college.  I started in my 30s and it took me 13 yrs to get a bachelor's degree.  I was a single mom by then and did it the hard way.  No one told me HOW to do it, and I had to fight my way through.  But I DID graduate!  And now I am working on a master's degree in business administration.\n\nDon't give up on your dream.  Set goals and plan ahead.  You cannot be lazy and get to be a surgeon.  Study hard all through school, and especially HEALTH and BIOLOGY (any biological science you can take) courses.  That will give you a good start, even before college.\n\nBest Wishes and God Speed!\n\nSue
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The first question u have to answear is what u wanna be in life! and then try to think that u probably are going to do that the rest of u life if u want to be succesful. U have to have passion for what u do. So study every college particularly and make a decision. And u know collage life is the best, they are the best years of u life
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It is difficult to strive towards something that has not been defined clearly.  Goal setting provides not only a direction for action, but a measureable endpoint.  It becomes the difference between saying "I want to go to school to get a better job" and "I want to earn a BA, then do graduate work to earn a Masters in my field, so I can get the job that I desire."
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1.Your participation in clubs/sports activities:debate,soccer,etc.\n2.The positions you hold in the clubs/societies.\n3.Your academic achievements.\n\nGood luck!