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From time to time, we will publish new articles pertaining to Online and Continuing Education. We hope these pieces will provide additional useful information and tips to you to help improve your understanding of the advantages of pursuing an online degree and how it may affect your lifestyle and career. Heading to college is a natural passage for many students. While some go on from high school to become skilled laborers or take other positions critical to our society, many more walk into the hallowed halls of our universities ready to tackle the hard work and earn degrees that will put them at the upper tiers of salaries and reputation. No matter how noble the dream, however, according to the ACT College Retention and Graduation Rates, only 55.6% of college freshmen graduate with a degree within six years. This means the likelihood of finishing your degree is only slightly better than 50%. If only five or six people in a class of ten are going to graduate, you'll want to be sure you're in the majority. The best ways to protect yourself is to ensure you're not facing a troublesome situation without realizing it. While it can take awhile to decide your exact degree plan, if you have to ask others constantly where to look for information, how to find the right numbers, what classes you're supposed to take and how to register each semester, you're not only at risk of missing a deadline you didn't read about, you're also failing the most crucial aspect of college – being independent. There are advisors and others who can help you with your degree plan and registration, but it's up to you to dig through catalogs and look at course descriptions and prerequisites in many cases. The first year can be tough to figure out, but if you're still struggling by the second or third year of school, you need to tighten up your game. You Consider Class Optional The major failing of many college students is the attitude that class is optional. While on the surface it can certainly appear that way, in reality, sleeping in or pampering a hang-over is risky business. Not going to class at least 80-90 percent of the time means you're missing important details and will struggle to know what your professor is looking for when it comes time for projects and tests. Don't rely on the notes of others to help you through – be responsible for the education you signed up for and get there yourself. The college experience is a great deal of fun, and you can set up your schedule to reflect your lifestyle to a certain extent. But when you find yourself changing classes or even a full degree plan because a certain lab is only available in the evenings or a class is deemed too early in the mornings, your priorities are out of whack. When sleeping off the night before is more important than the courses you've signed up for, your degree is in serious trouble. You're In Over Your Head The student working to be a rocket scientist might not have a clue what to do in a journalism class and vice-versa. If you started a degree with plans for a great paycheck or great title at the end of it, but find yourself struggling to speak what seems like a foreign language in every class, you're in the wrong place. You should be learning new things in your classes, but these things should be building on a steady foundation of existing knowledge. If your foundation feels unsteady in a certain degree, you should likely step back and reevaluate what sort of program you'd truly feel most comfortable in. Starting over while still in school is far less painful than having to go back later once you realize you hate the career your ill-fitting degree prepared you for.
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