Advice and Tips

Advice and Tips

 

To begin, we would like to let you know about semester courses; then some questions about the factors that may influence the time or energy that you have to spend on your college studies, and finally about your attitudes and habits related to learning and to your college studies.

You must complete somes courses in order to graduate because the things you will learn in this course will be essential to your current/future career .If you dropped or failed those course, you would be devastated

 

 

1. You have to know that:
Some courses will be interesting but engaging most of the time lots of commitments; also when you are working on the course assignments, you couldn't do something else.

 
2. What are your main educational goal
Complete a degree or certificate program at BCC or earn course credits needed for a degree or certificate program or Prepare for transfer to a four year school?
3. What are your reasons for taking face-to-face instead online courses?
The face-to-face format would better suit your personality or learning style?. The online courses could give you better control of your time, and the way you could schedule around other commitments (e.g. work, family).
4. You must ask yourself some questions about work, family, and the time and energy that you have for your college studies.

After you got off from work,(if you have one)
you still typically need to had enough energy and motivation to tackle difficult and challenging schoolwork.You do not have to struggle to balance college and your job. You must understand the course material by trying to complete examples or problems from the lecture or the course materials on your own.

--If course materials are difficult to understand, you could consult other references (e.g. library books, the internet) to try to make sense of what the course materials are saying. You can break complex, difficult projects down into smaller manageable tasks. Having control over your time is important. If you could, it would be better to take a job where you could set your own hours.