Do You Have Advice for Incoming College Students and Parents?

by Sean Cook August 9, 2010 For College Parents
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I am hoping to have guest bloggers for the next three Mondays featuring life lessons and advice for this year’s incoming college students, and to talk some about the back-to-school season and college transition issues on my BlogTalkRadio show.

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If They Knew Now, What You Know Now, That You Wish You’d Known Then…. What Would They Know?

by Sean Cook August 3, 2010 For College Parents
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When I first came to college, I had all sorts of nonsense running through my head about college and what it would be all about. I looked forward to meeting new people and making friends, maybe joining a fraternity, and (this was a surprise to many who knew me) Air Force ROTC. I quickly found out that many of my preconceptions about what college would be like were based on television and movies, and not real life. I had rose-colored glasses in a big way and soon enough, they were stripped away and I had to see college for what it really was: hard work (and not just the classes-the meeting people and having a social life was work, too.) If I had to do it again, I’d have a lot of advice for that fresh-faced first-year, and quite a bit of it would blow his mind. What would you share with yourself, if you had the opportunity to share what you know now with the person you were freshman yeare in college?

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Chickering’s 7 Vectors: Developing Integrity

by Sean Cook July 27, 2010 For College Parents
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To put this in laymen’s terms: it’s the time when students start questioning their beliefs and moving beyond their personal frames of reference. They start seeing that the way they were raised is not the only way, and that the things they believed without question are indeed, very much open to question.

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