DEADLINES!

Deadlines – getting them before they get you 

   When you start planning anything like starting college, finishing a particular semester, or graduating you must, must, MUST understand the power that the word ‘deadline’ has for your plans.

   No joking, its urgent to understand this. The University system is a complex machine and so if you are not able to get material in on time than there is (very) little that can be done for you.

   One of the best things you can start by doing is looking your school’s academic calendar of events.
   For example, here is ours as it currently stands: http://www.uttyler.edu/calendar/

   One of the other great things you can do is to contact your Academic office, of the office/department of the place where you need to inquire about deadlines. Find their numbers, speak to the receptionist or chair and make sure to find deadlines for whatever it is you must learn about.

   Also, wherever possible – get deadline confirmations in writing or email. This will help you have records for your own use, as well as to provide a checkable source if you get conflicting information.

A Student's Letter To Parents

 First, let me say that I am approaching this article from a very unique standpoint and it deserves some commentary beforehand so as to have my thoughts make the most possible sense. First, I have spent way more time in college than I should have on account of having switched majors, as well as for the fact that my degree searching took me across two states. This journey caused a severe delay in my expected graduation date of 2013 ... and I started in 2005-2006. I hope you might listen to my perspective as I look forward to being a dad someday, I really do. I understand that I am going to have to watch my kid go from being wholly dependent on me; to likely know that they think that ( while trusting that he/she/they love and respecting me ) that I don't “get" his/her trials, tribulations, and difficulties. Or, who knows, we could be thick as thieves? The point is that I'll have to watch him or her go off to college.