College expects students to be responsible for their courses, complete work on time while keeping goals and deadlines in mind. It offers help from mentors, faculty and staff to help students succeed. Critical, creative and practical thinking skills can help students achieve their goals by comparing, imagining, decision making and problem solving. Having a growth mindset means accepting failure as a way to learn, putting effort into classes to improve knowledge. Working effectively with others involves perceiving, understanding and managing emotions to choose the best way to understand others through good communication and comfort in groups. College prepares students for work and life success by teaching skills, global awareness and responsibility to guide their career and future.

1. CHAPTER ONE: WELCOME TO COLLEGE
1. What does college offer and expect of you?
-College expect of me to be more responsible with the courses that I am taking
and the responsibility to complete my career, complete all your work at time,
always keeping in mind the deadlines. Making a path to achieve my goals,
studying and keeping in mind that it’s my career. If I only try to remember the
subject for the test or quiz it’s going to affect me, not the professor neither the
other students. Thinking more openly and in a more professional way. College
offers a variety of help with mentors, stuff and faculty. They are always there to
help me and other students to succeed.
2. What thinking skills can help you achieve your goals?
-There are three skills: Critical Thinking (compare, contrast, cause and effects,
etc), Creative Thinking (new ideas, ways to achieve your goals, imagining) and
Practical Thinking (work in groups, make decision, and solve problems). I will put
all of these skills in practice. Everyone needs “motivation” to achieve their goals.
3. How can a “growth mindset” help you succeed?
-Growth mindset surely can help me succeed, having an open minded. Accepting
failure as a way to learn more. Most of the time we blame it on the subject, the
professor even the homework’s. But we have to put effort in the class. No one
has born with mindset we can build our mindset how? Giving us the opportunity
to learn and improve our knowledge. Practicing honesty, fairness, respect, trust
and responsibility because is our future that it’s going to be enriched if we follow
the path for a better future.
4. How can you work effectively with others?
-I can work effectively with others putting in practice these three EI skills:
perceive emotions (knowing how the other feels), understanding emotions
(comprehending how others feel) and manage emotions (choose the better way
to understand the others). I think working in groups, having a good
communication and feeling comfortable can help me through college. Learning
from the others thoughts and experiences, “two heads are better than one”.
5. How does college prepare you for work and life success?
-College is going to prepare me for wok and life success. I want to get my AA
and then transfer to FIU to get my major. I expect to learn more in this class, and
to get prepare in other classes. Skills for work, global awareness. College is

2. going to teach me how to become more responsible with my life. My career it’s
going to be the guide for my future, my life depends on my effort, for a good
salary and working in something that I really love.