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This book offers study skills and practices for college and university students to help them make a positive transition to post-secondary education, learn how to be a successful student, and make the most of their learning experience.

This book carefully combines selected meditation exercises with guidance explaining the background, scientific context, and practical applications of mindfulness practice. More than just a meditation manual, this book details how and why personal mindfulness practice is essential for the college-aged student.

Written by college professors, the 800 tips in this book will show you how to: pick courses and choose a major manage your time and develop college-level study skills get good grades and manage the "core" requirements get motivated and avoid stress interact effectively with the professor or TA prepare for a productive and lucrative career

Student life can be overwhelming, with so many issues to deal with including living away from home, workload, deadlines and exams, family pressures and challenging relationships. But there are simple and effective ways that you can take ownership of your mental health, meaning you stay stress free, enjoy your university experience and achieve academic success. This book guides you through your student journey from preparing to go to college or university, managing the academic pressures, finding a job, and everything in-between.

Thinking about going to college? What subjects to take? How to organise your time properly? How to meet new people and maintain friendships?This interactive workbook provides guidance for your entire journey through college and further education. Full of handy tips and strategies to help you through college, it guides you through early hurdles such as preparing for a new sensory environment, planning your transport and making friends.

First-year university is challenging. Whether you're transitioning straight from high school or have taken a gap year, this guided tour through first year demystifies the process--from registering for classes and making the most of orientation to prepping for exams.

The STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) attract many students with autism, ADD, affective disorders and related invisible disabilities who are highly intelligent and analytical, but who, upon entering higher education, may find that they struggle with independent living and a different way of learning. This is a preparation guide for students and their families that explains everything they need to know about the university experience including classroom behavior, study skills, self-reliance, accessing support services, and when parents should and shouldn't get involved. Offering practical advice and strategies, this is a useful handbook that students can refer to again and again throughout their college years guiding them on their paths to becoming the inventors, scientists, engineers, and computer entrepreneurs of the future.

This book designed to help Black prospective and current graduate students pursue graduate degrees successfully. The book covers broad topics ranging from admissions policies, standardized tests, networking, mentorship, financial options, qualifying and comprehensive exams, proposal and dissertation writing, publishing, gender and race, socialization, and campus culture.

This is both a personal book that offers an account of the author's own trans• identity and a deeply engaged study of trans• collegians that reveals the complexities of trans• identities, and how these students navigate the trans• oppression present throughout society and their institutions, create community and resilience, and establish meaning and control in a world that assumes binary genders.

The typical student is no longer necessarily a young school-leaver whose parents have also been to university. Increasingly, university students are the first in their families to be there. Just as often, students are coming to university later in life, carrying with them considerable responsibilities. For women, this can be particularly problematic as they face not only the inevitable rigours of study, but also the expectations that they must not neglect their ‘normal' family responsibilities. This book tells the stories of seven Australian women, each of whom has come to university in their thirties or forties as the ‘first generation' within their families to do so