Leaving the Nest Five Steps to Survival in College and Your Future Career

Too often even students who are close to graduation have not yet made sense of the process and are not yet secure in how college will help them be successful in their future.

Leaving the Nest: Five Steps to Survival in College and Your Future is written for students who are presently in college whether they have just started or are well into their studies. The publication is a self-help manual to remind readers that the journey doesn’t always have to make sense, but if they explore some of the persistent questions that keep recurring, it will begin to take shape.

Leaving the Nest: Five Steps to Survival in College and Your Future:

• provides readers with a more purposeful and clear understanding of college and its connection to their career and life.
• embeds quotes and stories from actual students to make the material more relatable for the reader.
• integrates exercises to encourage critical thinking about the steps and the material in each of the exercises.
• provides tips on academic tasks needed to perform in college, including taking lecture notes, completing reading assignments, studying, and test-taking.
• emphasizes the importance of effective test-taking as both an art and a science.. It supplies readers with a systematic set of strategies for improving their performance on both multiple-choice and essay tests.