Getting Involved
Time Management
Academic Success
Writing
Academic and Career Plans
100
2.5 miles of opportunity to be outdoors on the Dalton State Campus.
What are the campus hiking trails?
100
Rather than simply sitting in class and then regurgitating information, this type of student is directly involved in the learning process and is, therefore, proactive rather than passive.
What is a self-directed learner?
100
Try to write down everything when listening to a lecture.
How should you NOT take notes in class?
100
Essays
What is the most common type of writing in college?
100
Dalton State webpage where links to assessments can be found that explore a student's values, interests, and strengths for the purpose of exploring potential careers.
What is the Counseling and Career Services DSC site?
200
DSC Assistant Director of Campus Recreation and Personal Trainer who says we are being played by the food industry into buying and eating foods that ruin our health.
Who is Anne Loughren?
200
If you have tracked your time for a week or so in order to evaluate how you are spending it, this is the next step in good time management.
What is prioritizing?
200
Visual, auditory, kinesthetic.
What are the learning styles?
200
Writing down any and all thoughts without editing in order to generate ideas for an essay.
What is prewriting/brainstorming?
200
The first source for discovering how to manage course registration at Dalton State.
What (or whom) is my adviser?
300
A student-run organization that strives to enhance the Dalton State College student experience with social, recreational, cultural, and educational programs.
What is the Campus Activities Board (CAB)?
300
There are 168 of these in a week.
What are hours?
300
Using information you have learned to form new ideas, solutions, and procedures in order to solve a problem.
What is Creation, the highest level of thinking in Bloom's Taxonomy.
300
Sentences that are missing either a subject or a verb or do not form a complete thought. Example: Because Johnny can't read.
What is a fragment?
300
Divide your total number of quality points earned at DSC by the total number of academic hours attempted in which a letter grade was received.
What is the method of figuring a Grade Point Average (GPA)?
400
Located in the Pope Student Center, these services are free and can help students with college life issues such as exploring career options, adjusting to college, anxiety, and depression.
What is Counseling and Career Services?
400
The most common obstacle to effective time management.
What is procrastination?
400
Our brains are not wired to do several things well at the same time; therefore, this is not a sound way to handle all the demands of college life.
What is multitasking?
400
Sentences with no punctuation between independent clauses. Example: Dr. Jones must love grammar she writes run-on sentence examples at seven in the morning.
What is a run-on sentence?
400
Your major in college determines your life-long career.
What is one of the myths about career choice and development?
500
Provides access to an extensive collection of resources and services for students that includes periodical subscriptions, eBooks, federal government documents, media, and GALILEO.
What is the Roberts Library?
500
Activities that might "suck up" more of our day than we think -- things that a daily log might reveal are wasting a lot of time.
What are time black holes?
500
Get a planner and use it. Compare notes with other students in the class. Set up routines that will help you to feel comfortable and prepared.
What are some test-taking strategies?
500
When a writer has finished a draft, this is the stage where he or she reviews the "big picture" of the essay: logic, organization of ideas, clarity, well-developed points, etc.
What is revision?
500
The Federal Government maintains this website which gives thorough background information about thousands of careers and jobs, including required education, salary range, and projected demand.
What is the Occupational Outlook Handbook website?
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