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COLLEGE PREP MASTERLIST

How to Prepare in the Summer Before College

5 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started College

5 Must-Read Posts for the Summer Before College

The Summer Before College Bucket List

Which Clothes You Need to Bring to College

Summer Before College Prep Guide

Hey guys! I know the summer before college can be super exciting and you want to be as ready as possible for this new chapter. I put together some posts to help you out! Please reblog and add your own advice to new students!

How to Prepare in the Summer Before College - a broad overview of my top advice for students who are starting uni or college in the fall!

What you actually need to bring to college – real talk about those crazy packing lists you see online

Which clothes to pack for college – some straight-up advice on the clothes you can bring to survive all year long (check out the college capsule wardrobe for more)

The Summer Before College Bucket List – to inspire you to make the most of these months

Free Downloads from College Compass

Student Success Pack (x)

Productivity Power Pack (x)

Student Planner Pack (x)

CollegeCompassCo: I love school supplies. Whether it's new pens, highlighters, or sticky notes, they inspire me! They promise possibility; with these tools and the right motivation, you can do and learn anything.

College Compass Student Help Masterpost

Hey guys! This is a masterpost of all my most popular student help posts, so if you’re stressing out about exams or you need a little motivation boost, reblog this for reference! There’s a list of free downloads at the bottom; to get the downloads you need to give your email, but I’ll send you the Student Success Pack right away, plus a free printable planner two days later!

You can follow me at collegecompassco and feel free to request any posts or printables if you have an idea!

- Sara @ College Compass

Essays and Papers:

The Ultimate Guide to Writing a College Paper (x)

3 Essay Timelines to Help You Meet Your Deadline (x)

5 Steps to a Kick-Ass Research Paper Topic (x)

Exams and Studying:

The Ultimate Guide to Final Exams (x)

How to Stay Calm and Balanced During Finals (x)

How to Make a Finals Study Plan (x)

Productivity:

14 College Productivity Hacks (x)

4 Steps to Jumpstart Your College Productivity (x)

How to Stop Wasting Time on Facebook (x)

Organization:

How to Get Organized for College (x)

The Ultimate Guide to Boosting Your GPA (x)

45 Ways to Get Organized in College (x)

Free Downloads:

Student Success Pack (x)

Productivity Power Pack (x)

College Motivation Pack (x)

Cornell Notes (x)

Start-of-Semester Printables (x)

Assignment Planner Printable (x)

College Compass Student Help Masterpost

Hey guys! This is a masterpost of all my most popular student help posts, so if you’re stressing out about exams or you need a little motivation boost, reblog this for reference! There’s a list of free downloads at the bottom; to get the downloads you need to give your email, but I’ll send you the Student Success Pack right away, plus a free printable planner two days later!

You can follow me at collegecompassco and feel free to request any posts or printables if you have an idea!

- Sara @ College Compass

Essays and Papers:

The Ultimate Guide to Writing a College Paper (x)

3 Essay Timelines to Help You Meet Your Deadline (x)

5 Steps to a Kick-Ass Research Paper Topic (x)

Exams and Studying:

The Ultimate Guide to Final Exams (x)

How to Stay Calm and Balanced During Finals (x)

How to Make a Finals Study Plan (x)

Productivity:

14 College Productivity Hacks (x)

4 Steps to Jumpstart Your College Productivity (x)

How to Stop Wasting Time on Facebook (x)

Organization:

How to Get Organized for College (x)

The Ultimate Guide to Boosting Your GPA (x)

45 Ways to Get Organized in College (x)

Free Downloads:

Student Success Pack (x)

Productivity Power Pack (x)

College Motivation Pack (x)

Cornell Notes (x)

Start-of-Semester Printables (x)

Assignment Planner Printable (x)

I’m a big Facebook fan. I got my account when I was thirteen — ten whole years ago(what?!) and I’ve checked it almost every day since. I use it to connect with my friends on messenger, to find new articles to read, and even to manage a group of 5,000 blog readers. So you can only imagine how much time I waste on there every day.

Let me tell you: hours.

The amount of time I spent on Facebook didn’t seem to matter for a long time. It was a few minutes here, a few there. I would leave a window open in the background while I worked on a paper or watched a YouTube video. I was in denial about how much time I spent on Facebook, because facing the fact that I spent at least an hour or two a day on there, every day, for years, was too embarrassing to admit. But last summer, when I was working from home for the first time, it became too obvious for me to ignore.

I needed to drastically cut down Facebook time.

Over the next few months, I made three key changes that have cut down Facebook time to almost nothing for me. I’ve gone from around three hours on Facebook each day, to less than 15 minutes daily. Here’s what I did, and how you can do it, too!

Better your grades this week!

I put together a  free Student Success Pack includes grade trackers, course info sheets, project planners, and more.

Make a semester game plan

Plan your best project or essay yet

Never miss another deadline

Finally become a mermaid (okay, maybe not)

3 Free Printables for Improving Your College Semester

I really love printables, which are basically customizable single-sheet planners specifically for tacking health, activities, assignments, or grades. I’ve started  making my own college printables and I want to share them with you all for free — if I’m getting something out of using them, then I want you to, as well!

Weekly Schedule Printable

The first printable is a weekly schedule printable. This is just a simple, clean-cut planning page that you can use to schedule your week. I use colored pens and pencils to fill it out so that I have every week at a glance.

Semester Schedule Printable

The second free college printable is a semester-at-a-glance planner. It is divided into 14 weeks, the length of the average American college semester, and has slots for every day that you can use to write down important due dates. This is an easy way to make sure that you never miss any important deadlines! It slips easily into a folder or binder, or can be hung on your cork board.

Assignment List Printable

Read: What you actually need to bring to college

When I was in the seventh grade, I was put in a class for under-performing students.

Yes, really. (LOOK AT ME NOW, MOM.)

The purpose of the class was to teach us the skills we needed to be better students. One of the first things we learned was the Cornell notes method. Though I hated doing it at the time, by my sophomore year in college I was using it to prepare for and study for all my exams. Today I’m sharing my method for taking Cornell notes, plus a free worksheet that you can use to take them, too.

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Scheduling doesn’t come naturally to me. I’ve spent months on a single eight-page paper, and I’ve written a term paper in the three hours before class (#regrets).

As you can imagine, neither of those are a great approach; if you take too long to write a paper, it eats away at the time you spend on other assignments. If you rush it, it’s not going to be as good as it could be. In both cases, I could have benefitted from a good college essay timeline. And if you’re struggling to finish your essays in the right about of time, I’m willing to bet that you could, too.

An essay timeline sets a series of mini deadlines before you have to turn your paper in. By blocking out when your research needs to be done or when you need to be halfway through your paper, you’ll be able to keep yourself accountable as you write. This one trick has made it so much easier for me to meet my essay deadlines.

Making an essay timeline doesn’t need to be a hassle. Below are three ways to schedule writing your college essay. Each is best for a different amount of time before your deadline, so whether you’ve got months or just a night, we have you covered. This post also comes with a free timeline printable to help you plan out your essay timeline

“Community is vital to having a rich and fun few years in college. Cultivating a college community and making friends in college may seem overwhelming at first, but it’s easier than it sounds if you engage with people with kindness and authenticity. Here are 7 tips for making friends in college!”

Read more here! >> cllg.co/make-friends

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