How to be Successful in College

To have a successful college transition, I agree that you have to be flexible, but you also have to be strict with your schedule at the same time so you can get everything done that you need to. When I transitioned into my first semester, I did well but just never gave myself enough time to do a larger project. To me, everything could get done within a decent time frame. I procrastinated absolutely to long when I knew something was going to be hard or take longer to do. Help is always available; it's just not going to be effective if it is so last minute. I always told myself if I ever needed help, I would get some and that I wouldn't be scared to do so, but I went back to being me and did the complete opposite most of the time. This is where I would just push things off till I just had to wing it. Most of the time, I knew what I was supposed to, I was just making it harder than it needed to be.
The processes of listening, reading, and writing are effective communicators in college because some professors teach using a textbook, so when you have to read through that before or after as an introduction or refresher, you need to get a grasp of what is going on. When your professor has lecture, they are just snippets of the information that you need to know in their own words, so you need to be able to listen to those hints and put them into your own words in your note to where you won't forget the meaning. The point of the first-year writing course in college to me is to show you how most professors like you to write your papers and give you a head start to understanding what they want.