All I Really Need to Know

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All I Really Need to Know ..
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All I Really Need to Know I Learned in
Kindergarten (pp. 4-5) --Robert Fulghum

• All I really need to know about how to live and
  what to do and how to be I learned in
  kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the
  graduate-school mountain, but there in the
  sandpile at Sunday School. These are the things I
  learned

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All I Really Need to Know I Learned in
Kindergarten (pp. 4-5) --Robert Fulghum

• Share everything
• Play fair
• Dont hit people
• Put things back where you found them
• Clean up your own mess

• Dont take things that arent yours
• Say youre sorry when you hurt somebody
• Wash your hands before you eat
• Flush
• Warm cookies and milk are good for you

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All I Really Need to Know I Learned in
Kindergarten (pp. 4-5) --Robert Fulghum

• Live a balanced life learn some and think some
  and draw and paint and sing and dance and play
  and work every day some
• Take a nap every afternoon
• Be aware of wonder
• When you go out into the world, watch out for
  traffic, hold hands, and stick together

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All I Really Need to Know in College I Learned
in ACA 115

• Get off to the right start
• If you dont know where you are going, you
  might wind up someplace else. Yogi Berra
• Even if youre on the right track, youll get
  run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers

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All I Really Need to Know in CollegeI Learned in
ACA 115

• Build Dreams and Set Goals
• Ability is what youre capable of doing.
  Motivation determines what you do. Attitude
  determines how well you do it. Lou Holtz
• The greatest mistake you can make in life is to
  be continually fearing you will make one.
  Elbert Hubbard

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All I Really Need to Know in College I Learned
in ACA 115

• Manage Your Time and Energy
• Take care of your minutes, and the hours will
  take care of themselves. Lord Chesterfield
• This constant, unproductive preoccupation with
  all the things we have to do is the single
  largest consumer of time and energy. Kerry
  Gleeson

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All I Really Need to Know in College I Learned
in ACA 115

• Think Critically and Creatively
• A mind that is stretched to a new idea never
  returns to its original dimensions. Oliver
  Wendell Holmes
• Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds
  discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
  Eleanor Roosevelt

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All I Really Need to Know in College I Learned
in ACA 115

• Develop Information Literacy Skills
• I find that a great part of the information I
  have was acquired by looking up something and
  finding something else on the way. Franklin P.
  Adams
• Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking
  and prying with a purpose. Zora Neale Hurston

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All I Really Need to Know in College I Learned
in ACA 115

• Engage in Your Education
• What actually correlates with success are not
  grades, but engagement genuine involvement in
  courses and campus activities. John Merrow

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All I Really Need to Know in College I Learned
in ACA 115

• Listen and Take Notes
• You cannot truly listen to anyone and do
  anything else at the same time. M. Scott Peck
• The most basic and powerful way to connect to
  another person is to listen. Just listen.
  Rachel Naomi Remen

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All I Really Need to Know in College I Learned
in ACA 115

• Develop Your Memory
• I have a photographic memory but once in a
  while I forget to take off the lens cap. Milton
  Berle
• The existence of forgetting has never been
  proved We only know that some things dont come
  to mind when we want them. Friedrich Nietzsche

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All I Really Need to Know in College I Learned
in ACA 115

• Read and Study
• Perhaps the most valuable result of all
  education is the ability to make yourself do the
  thing you have to do, when it ought to be done,
  whether you like it or not. Thomas Henry Huxley
• Education is learning what you didnt even know
  you didnt know. Daniel J. Boorstin

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All I Really Need to Know in College I Learned
in ACA 115

• Take Tests with Strategy
• One hundred percent of the shots you dont take
  dont go in. Wayne Gretzky
• Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing
  is not enough we must do. Johann Wolfgang von
  Goethe

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All I Really Need to Know in College I Learned
in ACA 115

• Reduce Test Anxiety
• Positive thinking will let you do everything
  better than negative thinking will. Zig Ziglar
• For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.
  Lily Tomlin

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All I Really Need to Know in College I Learned
in ACA 115

• Build Relationships
• Eighty percent of lifes satisfaction comes
  from meaningful relationships. Brian Tracy
• Our emotions are the driving powers of our
  lives. Earl Riney

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All I Really Need to Know in College I Learned
in ACA 115

• Creating Your Future
• When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
  Yogi Berra
• It is not what we get but who we become, what
  we contribute that gives meaning to our lives.
  Anthony Robbins
• Dont follow your dreams chase them. Richard
  Dumb

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Final Bits of Wisdom

• Read assignments carefully
• If grading rubrics are provided, use them
• Ask questions
• Turn in work on time
• Plan ahead
• Attend class faithfully

• Take advantage of all resources available to you
• Consider all classes and all assignments as
  important
• Never cheat or plagiarize
• Have fun!