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If at first you don’t succeed,
so much for skydiving!
If at first you succeed,
try hard to hide your
amazement!
Address them properly
 Make a (good) personal impression on
every professor, even in large classes –
you may eventually want letters of
reference from them
 Seek help before you are completely lost
 “Do your homework” before coming for
help
 The bottom line – figure out what they
want (early on!) then just do it
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Time management
 Seeking help
 Working together with others
 Working on your own
 Think twice, act once
 Self assessment
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But: wasting time (and money)
in college may be even worse
than not going at all. Apply
yourself, to ensure you have
something valuable to show for
it when you are done!
If it weren’t for the “last
minute” hardly anything
would ever get done!
When launching spacecraft,
weather trumps all
(though weather forecasting
remains an inexact science).
Hardly anything complicated
works completely right the
first time – don’t let that
discourage you but rather
take it as a challenge.
Everyone falls down sometimes.
What is more important is what
you do after you fall.
(Advice: Get up and go on,
but learn from the experience.)