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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

 Time management  Seeking help  Working together with others  Working on your own  Think twice, act once  Self assessment

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.)