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In an effort to make Zen College Life more interactive for the readers, I’m going to start inserting polls, allowing users to vote use the comments field to express reasons for said choice.  With the presidential election coming up very soon, I figured this would be the best place to start. Read more »

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About a year ago I was faced with a comment that really struck close to home.  A person close to me made the statement, “what makes you such a good person? What do you do that is so good?”  At first I became really upset, I thought “how could you say that?”  But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I considered myself a good person because I was not a bad person, not because I did anything necessarily good.  It was this realization that allowed me to turn my life around, to make minor and major changes and become a real ‘good person.’ Read more »

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Here is a problem that many college students have.  I know, because I’m all of my friends ‘computer guy.’  Whether it’s a virus, spyware, adware, buggy software, or we just want to do something new, we all have problems with our computers every once in a while.  And while this may be off topic, it’s no less important.  How can we be productive and achieve academic success if our computer isn’t working, right? Read more »

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Inspiration Point by Mandj98

For many college students around the world, this week starts the fall semester.  As I’m sure many of you know, the first week tends to be a bit hectic and stressful, especially for freshman.  To help everyone get through the rough start and on to smooth sailing, I’ve decided to compile an abstract collection of motivational inspiration. Today the medium will be videos. Tomorrow? Who knows. Enjoy and have a great week! Read more »

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Now that we’ve taken care of all of the necessary details to ensure a successful start to our school year, we have a little time before class actually begins.  For me this ‘little time’ consists of 3 days (I start Monday).  I’ve taken care to ensure that most of my loose ends are tied, so this post is more for therapy than anything else.  I’m going to map out these next three days. Read more »

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“Beelitz lecture hall” By Ole Begemann (Some Rights Reserved)

Tips and Tricks

As promised, here is the list of tips, tricks, and college hacks that will help ensure you great success in your college career.  Not all of them will apply to everybody, but there are definitely a few gems here for everyone.  Enjoy!

• Go to all orientations. The fact is, you can never know too much about your school, and any knowledge you do have can only be useful.
• Be friends with your roommate. Being/Having a good roommate is the difference between your apartment/dorm being amazing, or very, very terrible. Read more »
  

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Creating a Successful Environment

Now that we have a vision and a plan to create that vision, it is time to create a successful environment.  This will ensure that you can make the most of your experience and master your academic career.  I won’t get into specifics here, at it will be different for everybody, but rather a general idea of what a successful environment is and isn’t. Read more »

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Planning and Organizing

Ok, so you’ve gone through the visualization exercise and you  have a realistic image of what college is going to be like.  You know what your finances will consist of, your academic life, you have chosen the best way to spend your free time.  You have a clear idea of the commitment required for your health and relationships.   You even have an idea of what type of community activities you might like to participate in.  Now it’s time to build that vision into a reality. Read more »

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Visualization

The first step to succeeding in anything we do is to have a clear vision of success and a realistic approach of how to achieve it.  Visualization is the approach we will use to create our vision.  Think about visualization like practice before the big game.  If you create a vision of your perfect game, and you play back the vision over and over, by the time game day comes, it will be as though you’ve done it a million times. Read more »

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The University of Glasgow

Introduction:

So you’ve gotten into college, and you have a couple weeks till it starts.  You don’t know what to do, and you are probably a little freaked out.  Well not to worry, because here at Zen College Life you’ll find the perfect way to start off your college career right. We’ll start off with the basics and work our way through some of the details.  Buckle up guys, this ride could get bumpy! Read more »

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