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| Putting Light on the Path | |
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| Advantages of a College Education | |
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| Challenges for First-Year Students | |
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| Student Voice: Hannah Duncan | |
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| You Can Do It! There Is Help in This Book | |
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| There Is Help in God's Word | |
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| A Word of Encouragement | |
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| Plan to Succeed | |
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| Spiritual Health | |
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| Academic Habits | |
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| Physical Health | |
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| Relationships | |
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| Effective Goal Setting | |
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| Write Intention Statements | |
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| Turn Your Intention Statements into Goal Statements | |
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| Develop an Action Plan | |
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| Implement the Action Plan and Then There Is Motivation | |
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| Turning the Light on Higher Education | |
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| The Purpose of Higher Education | |
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| World View and Higher Education | |
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| Christian Theism | |
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| Deism | |
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| Rationalism | |
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| Romanticism | |
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| Empiricism and Pragmatism | |
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| Existentialism | |
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| Postmodernism | |
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| The Christian World View and Higher Education | |
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| Separate | |
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| Integrate | |
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| Resolving the Tension | |
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| Planning Your Academic Program | |
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| The Catalog | |
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| Outline of Your Academic Program | |
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| Registering for Your Classes | |
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| Academic Policies | |
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| Student Voice: Emily Smith | |
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| Your Academic Advisor | |
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| Choosing an Advisor | |
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| Using Your Advisor | |
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| Making Time for Everything | |
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| A Habit that Can be Changed | |
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| My Perceptions | |
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| My Actual Time Use | |
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| Building a Better | |
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| Time Plan | |
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| The Semester Plan | |
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| The Weekly Plan | |
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| The Daily Plan | |
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| Distractions and Procrastination | |
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| Distractions | |
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| Procrastination | |
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| Student Voice: Samuel Cocar | |
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| Defining My Style of Learning | |
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| Initial Impressions of My Learning Style | |
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| Verbal, Visual, and Kinesthetic Modes of Learning | |
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| Verbal Learners | |
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| Visual Learners | |
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| Kinesthetic Learners | |
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| Student Voice: Hilary Hurst Take the Vark! Learning Styles and Personality Type | |
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| Extravert/Introvert Scale | |
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| Sensing/Intuitive Scale | |
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| Thinking/Feeling Scale | |
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| Judging/Perceiving Scale | |
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| You and Your Instructors | |
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| Multiple Intelligences | |
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| Pursuing Careful Thought | |
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| Effective Thinking | |
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| Who Is the Smartest? | |
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| Know the Facts | |
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| Logically Organize the Facts | |
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| Creatively Think beyond the Facts | |
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| Critically Question the Facts | |
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| Effective Thinking Is a Symphony | |
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| Student Voice: Anne Rasschaert | |
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| Grow as an Effective Thinker | |
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| Engaging in the Classroom: Listening and Taking Notes | |
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| Why Take Notes? | |
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| be Attentive | |
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| Attendance | |
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| Preparation | |
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| Staying Connected | |
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| Student Voice: Maher Saab | |
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| Proceed with a System | |
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| Outlines | |
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| Paragraphs | |
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| Cornell Recall | |
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| Columns | |
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| Visual Maps | |
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| General Tips for Any Note-Taking System | |
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| Taking Notes during Science and Math Classes | |
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| End with Review | |
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| When? | |
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| How? | |
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| Reading to Remember | |
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| Did You Say 150 Pages a Week?! Not Every Kind of Reading Is the Same | |
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| Primary and Secondary Sources | |
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| Student Voice: Nyanna Potter | |
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| Picking the Right Time and Place to Read | |
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| Distraction | |
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| Right Time | |
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| Competing Noise | |
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| Length of Time | |
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| Right Place | |
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| Reading with Children in the Room | |
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| Reading with Intention | |
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| Different Ways to Shop | |
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| Different Ways to Read | |
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| SQ3R--Survey | |
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| SQ3R--Question | |
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| SQ3R--Read | |
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| SQ3R--Recite | |
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| SQ3R--Review | |
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| Recycle Your Reading | |
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| Design a Reading Record | |
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| Design a Recycling Plan | |
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| Scoring on Your Exams | |
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| Design an Exam Preparation Plan | |
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| Define the Scope of the Exam | |
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| Determine the Type of Exam | |
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| Establish a Preparation Schedule | |
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| Employ Effective Review Techniques | |
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| Design a Memorization Plan | |
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| Short-Term and Long-Term Memory | |
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| Memory Strategies | |
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| Design an Exam-Taking Strategy | |
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| The First Five Minutes | |
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| Strategies for Different Formats | |
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| Student Voice: Kevin Sheridan | |
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| Manage Your Anxiety | |
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| Keeping it Honest | |
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| Saying it Just Right: Writing and Speaking Successfully | |
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| Improve Your Writing Skills | |
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| Understanding the Assignment | |
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| Creating a Writing Schedule | |
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| Getting Ready to Write | |
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| Writing the First Draft | |
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| Student Voice: Jennifer Brantsen | |
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| Revising the First Draft | |
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| Improve Your Speaking Skills | |
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| Understand the Assignment | |
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| Basic Structure of a Speech | |
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| Delivery | |
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| Anxiety | |
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| Practicing | |
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| Research Tools You Can Use | |
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| Reference Materials | |
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| Popular Magazines and Newspapers | |
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| Scholarly Journals | |
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| Books | |
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| Internet Sources | |
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| Reference Librarians | |
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| Making the Tough Decisions: the Role of Christian Values | |
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| Not All Decisions are the Same | |
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| Christians and Decision Making | |
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| A Decision-Making Process | |
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| Clarify the Circumstances and the Question You Need to Answer | |
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| Clarify the Options | |
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| Identify the Pros and Cons of Each Option | |
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| Decide and Proceed in Confidence | |
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| My Aesthetic, Moral, and Personal Values | |
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| Aesthetic Values | |
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| Moral Values | |
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| Personal Values | |
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| Rethinking My Personal Values | |
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| Student Voice: Eric Mallet | |
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| Micah 6:8 | |
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| To Act Justly | |
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| To Love Mercy | |
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| To Walk Humbly with Your God | |
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| Financial Decision Making | |
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| God's Perspective | |
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| Developing a Financial Plan | |
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| Banks, Credit Cards, and Credit Reports | |
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| Seeking and Maintaining Healthy Relationships | |
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| Types of Relationships | |
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| New Friendships and Old Friendships | |
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| Student Voice: Alexis Glover | |
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| Romance in College | |
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| College and the Married Student | |
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| Parents | |
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| Living with Roommates | |
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| The Risk in Electronic Relationships | |
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| Faculty Connections | |
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| Living with Difference and Celebrating Diversity | |
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| Stereotypes | |
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| Prejudice | |
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| You and Diversity | |
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| Maintaining Healthy Relationships | |
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| The Qualities of Healthy Relationships | |
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| Conflict Is Natural and Inevitable | |
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| Managing Conflict in Relationships | |
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| God's Love Empowers Our Relationships | |
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| Maintaining the Temple: Physical and Mental Wellness | |
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| Physical Health Habits | |
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| Sleep | |
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| Student Voice: Lauren Burge | |
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| Diet | |
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| Exercise | |
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| Alcohol and Drug Use | |
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| Mental Health Habits | |
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| Stress | |
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| Suicide | |
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| Responding to Personal Tragedy | |
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| Seeking Satisfaction in My Career | |
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| Finding a Career Takes Work | |
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| The World of Work in Your Future | |
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| General Predictions | |
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| Career Field Predictions | |
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| Discovering, Confirming, and Changing Your Choice | |
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| What Is My Work Personality? | |
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| What are My Work Values? | |
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| How Do I Personalize My Career Choice? | |
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| How Does My Christianity Affect My Career Choice? | |
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| Student Voice: Peter Beck | |
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| Living College Life to Get an Interview | |
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| Get Personal Experience | |
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| Gather Your Evidence and Support Team | |
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| Prepare Your R?sum? | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Index | |