transition to college

Most students who did well in high school assume they already know how to study. They showed up, took notes, crammed before tests, and earned decent grades. That formula worked for years, so why wouldn’t it keep working? The problem is that college courses operate on a fundamentally different structure. Lectures move faster, assignments demand independent thinking rather than recall, and nobody reminds you when something is due. The study habits that carried students through high school weren’t necessarily good habits; they were just sufficient for a system with lower expectations.… Read more