All I Really Need to Know …..

1. All I Really Need to Know …..

2. 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:

3. All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (pp. 4-5) --Robert Fulghum • Share everything • Play fair • Don’t hit people • Put things back where you found them • Clean up your own mess • Don’t take things that aren’t yours • Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody • Wash your hands before you eat • Flush • Warm cookies and milk are good for you

4. 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

5. All I Really Need to Know in College I Learned in ACA 115 • Get off to the right start • “If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.” –Yogi Berra • “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” –Will Rogers

6. All I Really Need to Know in CollegeI Learned in ACA 115 • Build Dreams and Set Goals • “Ability is what you’re 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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 don’t come to mind when we want them.” –Friedrich Nietzsche

13. 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 didn’t even know you didn’t know.” –Daniel J. Boorstin

14. All I Really Need to Know in College I Learned in ACA 115 • Take Tests with Strategy • “One hundred percent of the shots you don’t take don’t go in.” –Wayne Gretzky • “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

15. 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.” –ZigZiglar • “For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.” –Lily Tomlin

16. All I Really Need to Know in College I Learned in ACA 115 • Build Relationships • “Eighty percent of life’s satisfaction comes from meaningful relationships.” –Brian Tracy • “Our emotions are the driving powers of our lives.” –Earl Riney

17. 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 • “Don’t follow your dreams; chase them.” –Richard Dumb

18. 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!