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Find a list of these required general education courses in your college catalogue, and check off each requirement as you complete it. Regardless of how many credits you earn, you can’t graduate until you’ve completed the general education requirements. Depending on your college, general education requirements may also be called core requirements, core curriculum, or general curriculum. 5. Choose a major wisely. You’ll usually choose a major area of study in your first or second year. Examples of majors include nursing, early childhood education, biology, English, mechanical engineering, and art.

These ideas reinforced what I had been learning in my twelve-step program. In Journal Entry 3, I did a “fearless and searching moral inventory” of my strengths and weaknesses. It’s powerful when you put yourself on paper and can go back and reread it. I had to humble myself and tell myself I had insisted on taking a math course I wasn’t ready for and I failed it. Being in denial is having a weakness you don’t accept. I needed help with math, but I acted like I didn’t. If you have a weakness and you don’t accept it, you won’t do what needs to be done.

49. ___ ϩ 40 Ϫ SCORE #3: Mastering Self-Management A 3. 19. 43. 59. ___ ___ ___ ___ SCORE #2: Discovering Self-Motivation ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ϭ ___ SCORE #8: Believing in Myself A 16. 32. 40. 56. ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ϭ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ B 8. 24. 48. 64. ___ ϩ 40 Ϫ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ϭ ___ CHOICES OF SUCCESSFUL STUDENTS Successful Students . . Struggling Students . . accept personal responsibility, seeing themselves as the primary cause of their outcomes and experiences. see themselves as victims, believing that what happens to them is determined primarily by external forces such as fate, luck, and powerful others.