|
|
|
Comment |
Sorted by
Date Written |
Re: Good advice but... (Reply to this comment)
by drdanlag
Bettega,
Thanks for reading my review & finding time to comment, favorably.
Re: Your comment-- You may belong to higher IQ, superior to genius level coupled with your study habits- you find college work easy. Or why not go to difficult disciplines like nuclear science & engineering? With your talent, you can make it..
Thanks again!
donald
|
Dec 03 '06
9:08 am PST
|
|
Good advice but... (Reply to this comment)
by bettega
...I didn't find college as difficult as I thought, at least in an academic sense. The hardest thing is time management but overall I thought high school was harder.
Still, you make many excellent points that are fun and validating to read.
Thanks for sharing
Bettega
|
Dec 01 '06
8:00 pm PST
|
|
Re: Good Advice (Reply to this comment)
by drdanlag
Supersaiyan23,
Thanks a lot for reading, for commenting on my review.
Regards!
donald
|
Oct 08 '06
9:34 am PDT
|
|
Re: great review (Reply to this comment)
by drdanlag
BrandyleeH
Thank you for reading my piece and commenting favorably. I appreciate it very much.
Warm regards!
donald
|
Oct 05 '06
8:03 pm PDT
|
|
great review (Reply to this comment)
by BrandyLeeH
Thanks for all the advice and info...
only TWENTY percent can go to college???! That's disgusting!
|
Oct 05 '06
10:05 am PDT
|
|
Good Advice (Reply to this comment)
by supersaiyan23
Excellent review with a ton of good advice on getting through the first year of college. Freshmen and Sophomore years are the most important, if you can get your foundation with grades going the last 2 years are a lot less stressful. Screw up early and you'll have a tough time getting your GPA back up over the last 2 years. Great review!
|
Oct 04 '06
7:44 am PDT
|
|
Re: Aside from.. (Reply to this comment)
by drdanlag
NT,
Thanks for reading my review on surviving college. Congratulations! You are college graduate!!!
Heheh. Right. Whatever you say.. You wrote in your comment..
Different students, different strokes..
You wrote in one of your reviews that you graduated with English major, minor in Japanese. Didn't you ever used or listened to taped-recordings in Japanese? Or English and American poetry ( if you took English Literature )? You need gadgets there or gizmos..
Students in law, medicine, engineering, earth science, political science, psychology, etc.. need gizmos in addition to the P.C. even they are bionic note-takers with pen-and- pencil. They need scanners, miniature cameras, camcorders, taperecorders and players, scientific calculators, hand-carried PCs, I-PODs, digital cameras,and what the gizmos has to offer. I read the other day that there will soon a cell-phone that offer movies to view.. We live in the world of gizmos and the education world has to take advantage of that to facilitate learning. Why rely solely to pencil and paper in note-taking when there are gadgets in the market to make it easy and fast?
Thanks again.
donald
|
Sep 26 '06
4:12 am PDT
|
|
Re: Non sequiturs (Reply to this comment)
by drdanlag
Thea,
Thanks for reading my reviews, for your comments and putting me as one of your trusted members. I really appreciate that .
Wow! Columbia U !! Congratulations!! You're great!! My dissertation ( Ph.D. ) adviser is an alumnus of Columbia U ( Graduate School, Ph.D. ).
I'm a ex- college teacher. I got out of teaching more a decade ago after 22 years stint. The last time that I ever stepped on college campus was 1990 at Pepperdine U in L.A., as graduate stu. I was taking my post-doctoral studies. I spent 3 sems. there. Too expensive. Too busy. I realized that I don't another Ph.D. ( my aim in Pepperdine ).
Good luck and make it good in your studies at Columbia! My good wishes and prayers for you.
Warm regards!!
donald
|
Sep 23 '06
6:13 am PDT
|
|
Aside from.. (Reply to this comment)
by ssjakira1
..the whole drug/smoking/drinking thing (during my four years I only drank, and that was scant at best), I think it is also very important to become familiar with one's college before diving right in. Otherwise you won't know where you're going, where the important places are to take care of things like financial aid, etc.
Buy all the educational gizmos in the market- tape recorder to tape classrooms lectures, research softwares.
Heheh. Yeah, right. Whatever you say. Remember, these are college kids we're talking about - I just got finished being one. Sure, gizmos are great, but I survived just fine with a computer, as did all my friends. Sure, I'll bite and go ahead and say I'm sure things like that help, but spending oodles of money on things like tape recorders and such (I guess I'm old school using a pencil and notebook to take notes) is a bit excessive.
I say ask your professors for some good places online to look for research, tips on notetaking, etc. Don't be afraid to talk to professors and ask for help, especially if you know they're willing to give it.
A computer is a necessity though, no doubt about that. I'll even go one step further and say snag a jump drive in the case your computer goes down for whatever reason.
NT
|
Sep 21 '06
12:49 pm PDT
|
|
Non sequiturs (Reply to this comment)
by Theabee
I am a college student myself; I just started Columbia University 2 weeks ago. Your tips are indeed helpful to new students, but I find that the most challenging aspect of college is not the amount of classwork (which ranges in the 300 pages to read a night for me), nor disciplining one's social life, but the enormous quantity of administrative junk I have to take care of. I find myself spending hours on the telephone trying to figure out exactly whom I'm supposed to be speaking to, hours on the internet trying to figure out where things are, and hours walking around campus finding different offices that deal with different things. I'm sure this is just because I'm a new student and this is the begining of the semester, but so far, handling the administrative junk is the true challenge. Luckely for me, I am much more self-disciplined than most students, so the social life and studying habits don't seem to be a problem. But talk to me a in a few months!
And I just wanted to slip in that I'm afraid I must side with drdevience on the smoking thing. I am a heavy smoker myself, yet I have never touched any drugs (alcohol and cigarettes excluded) in my entire life, and I drink perhaps one glass of wine a week with dinner, sometimes nothing. I have seen correlational studies that pointed to the increase of drug use if one starts with marijuana, but I have never seen such a thing related or correlated with cigarette smoking. In fact, now that I think of it, I know many people who smoke and never touch drugs....
Anyway, I enjoyed reading your review. I'm curious as to where you teach?
Cheers,
Thea
|
Sep 15 '06
5:48 am PDT
|
|
Re: With All Of That Schooling........ (Reply to this comment)
by drdanlag
Deborah,
Thanks for reading my review and finding time to comment. I appreciate that.
You have a great daughter and she should be commended for successfully adjusting to college life. If she is a freshman, caution her that the hard part comes in the junior and senior years when she decides her major. Of course, college life is easy compared to real life. We had a saying ( the graduating class ) in the commencement ceremonies ( part of graduation ceremony ) that graduation is the commencement, the beginning of the real hardship. The real world is not kind to a fresh college grad. It's dog-to-dog society. It's real survival of the fittest.
Warm regards!!
donald
|
Sep 15 '06
2:59 am PDT
|
|
With All Of That Schooling........ (Reply to this comment)
by ruby950
you certainly had the background to write this piece! You made quite a few great points. As hard as it is to survive college, my own daughter, one year out, is finding that college was easy compared to real life.
I always wanted to write about kids and college. Good for you for doing so!
Thanks,
Deborah~
|
Sep 14 '06
5:17 am PDT
|
|
Re: I'd like to add..... (Reply to this comment)
by drdanlag
Paul,
Thanks for reading , for adding to my tips..
Congrats for surviving college, for getting your degrees!!
Thanks again!
donald
|
Sep 13 '06
8:56 pm PDT
|
|
I'd like to add..... (Reply to this comment)
by colonialpara
try to attend a college where you believe you'll succeed rather than one where your parents or peers think you should attend.
My high school guidance counselor was worthless and my parents did not provide any financial assistance. I wound attending a community college while all my friends went away because their parents helped in major ways.
I hated the community college and dropped out. After a semester, I saw it as a useful and less expensive way to get ahead. I went back and then as a junior transferred. After 5 years, I had two BA degrees.
I never had kids but if I did, I would like to think that I would have encouraged them to do their best throughout their school years and try to attend the college best suited to their needs and strengths. Hopefully, I would have also been financially able to help, something my parents weren't able to do.
These are tips that will help most college bound students.
Regards,
Paul
|
Sep 11 '06
12:22 pm PDT
|
|
Re: Got Through College Without Smoking, Drinking, And Drugs... (Reply to this comment)
by drdanlag
AJ,
Thanks for reading and commenting favorably my reviews. I appreciate that.
Regarding food or eating habits of college students- don't overeat after 5 p.m. If you do, you feel stuffed and want to sleep and miss your night 3-4 hour study period at night. Over-achievers in college spend at least 5 hours studying every night! Some gifted students or geniuses in college resort in cramming, sleeping while their classmates spend many hours studying.
You know which students come with better grades.
Warm regards!!
donald
|
Sep 09 '06
8:41 am PDT
|
|
Got Through College Without Smoking, Drinking, And Drugs... (Reply to this comment)
by AinsleyJo
...but that all-you-care-to-eat cafeteria food was a real challenge to resist!
During my freshman year of college, I learned both the disciplines of college-style study habits and the disciplines of reading the menu before entering the cafeteria and planning just what I was going to eat and how much.
That is, I only allowed seconds (and beyond) on a couple of the foods offered--and those were a couple of the foods that they served most rarely and were, also, a couple of my favorites.
However, it took popping the zipper on a favorite pair of slacks before I put this discipline into action.
I'm currently writing a book, and part of this is in there. Will let you know when it's finished and up for sale.
Kudos!
AJ :-)
|
Sep 09 '06
4:07 am PDT
|
|
Re: Re: Re: errr what? (Reply to this comment)
by drdanlag
Doc,
I never wrote in my article and response to your first comment that smoking will cause drinking or drinking will cause drug abuse. You're M.D., right? Smoking may cause lung cancer and other ailments such as heart disease by clogging your arteries... Drinking liquor will damage, in the long run, the liver and other organs. Now, that's cause and effect.
Years of smoking killed actors Steve McQueen and Yul Brynner and recently Peter Jennings. Weeks before he succumbed to lung cancer, Yul Brynner appeared in national TV, appealing to young
Americans not to smoke cigarettes.
All I say smoking habit may encourage, may enhance the chance of picking the vice and habit of drinking liquor. Drinking liquor may, lead to bad habit of drug abuse. The word " may " is tentative or probable.
Doc, thanks a lot for showing a lot of concern in my article. I appreciate your ideas.
donald
|
Aug 21 '06
8:26 pm PDT
|
|
Re: brad's View (Reply to this comment)
by drdanlag
Thanks for adding two bits of advice for my tips to college students to survive college. Regarding drug use, I have reservations. There is peer pressure among college students to drink beer and ultimately hard liquor. Have you heard of rave concerts or parties ( or what is the new thing now? ). They are attended by college students and they used drugs and alcohol. Recently in Southern California, there were 3 or 4 traffic fatal accidents involving college-bound youths that recently graduated from high school. They had been drinking. DUI costs more now. From $ 8,000 to $10,000 in legal costs. I'm
for your advice of getting higher grades or GPA.
Thanks and best regards!
donald
|
Aug 21 '06
7:30 pm PDT
|
|
brad's View (Reply to this comment)
by brad
Hi Donald.
I was reading through your survival guide and thought I might get through it without a mention of alcohol.
I would like to believe that kids going to colleage are smart enough to avoid street drugs.
But alcohol is another story.
Kids, we all know you're going to drink. But don't go over board, keep it to the weekends at least. The weekends, okay?
Don't try studying or taking exams with hangovers. It doesn't work.
Your GPA will help determine your future, and will decidedly determine the types of graduate programs you might consider later in life.
College would not be fun without taking some risks. But the important thing to do is to keep things in perspective and keep the big picture in mind - getting decent grades and finishing with a degree.
Had to add my two bits to Donald's advice.
Enjoy college!
|
Aug 21 '06
3:50 pm PDT
|
|
Re: Re: errr what? (Reply to this comment)
by drdevience
You state it as cause and effect, when it is not.
I smoke. I do not drink. In my mind drugs was something you did in the 70s then outgrew once you left high school. heh.
Some addictive personalities will do all three, some just alcohol, some just alcohol and drugs. There is no connection between smoking and use of the other two items.
In fact, one of the funniest things I ever saw on the job was the heroin addict who got all uppity and indignant at a smoker...
Doc
|
Aug 21 '06
5:09 am PDT
|
|
Re: errr what? (Reply to this comment)
by drdanlag
Doc,
First, many thanks for reading and rating favorably my opinion.
Second, let me explain my statement in question: " Don't smoke . That may lead to alcohol and drugs. " I'm writing about picking habits of smoking, of alcohol drinking, of using drugs. Have you observed that those people who smoke eventually picked the habit of drinking alcohol, then drug use. Alcohol and cigarette are drugs too. When they want to be high and want exciting " trips " they take drugs. It started with smoking cigarettes. Cigarettes and liquor are natural bedfellows. Have you investigated a crime scenes of murder- suicides?
Have you noticed that in the room there were cigarettes, liquor and possibly drugs?
That's what I'm referring in my tip to students, don't start the habit of smoking because it will lead to more serious habits of alcohol use and drug abuse.
Regards!
donald
|
Aug 20 '06
12:22 pm PDT
|
|
errr what? (Reply to this comment)
by drdevience
Don't smoke. That may lead to alcohol and drugs.
While you give a lot of good tips here, you kinda lose a bit of creditbility with the above statement.
CriminologistDoc
|
Aug 20 '06
9:14 am PDT
|
|
|
|
