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College Tip: Criticism and Feedback
Oftentimes you will be in situations where you must give critical feedback. This could be within a group situation, giving feedback on a presentation, or receiving feedback from a professor or teacher’s assistant.
College Life Tips: Driving and Cellphone Use
College Life Tips suggests you DO NOT use your cellphone while driving-ever! Pull over, put the car in park, then use your phone. According to The New York Times, extensive research shows the dangers of distracted driving. Studies say that drivers using phones are 4 times as likely to cause a crash as other drivers, and the likelihood that they will crash is equal to that of someone with a .08% blood alcohol level, the point at which drivers are generally considered intoxicated.
College Life Tips: Community Colleges Get Some Respect
With jobs being lost in the auto industry and elsewhere, associate degrees from community colleges are a great way to learn new skills and prepare yourself to work within the new businesses and industries developing as our economy changes. In the coming years, jobs requiring at least an associate degree are projected to grow twice as fast as job requiring no college experience.
