blog #7

In the article "A Required Course in Beating the Freshman Blues" by Rene Sanchez and it was published in a book called The Writer's Response. In this article the author talked about how college and universities are coming up with new programs or course to help students success and keep students from dropping out of college. 

This article talks about how colleges and universities are coming- up with new programs that could help the students become more successful while they’re on their first year in college and lower the drop out rate. Also it talks about how faculty members could help too. Some of the things the program provides are one; teach students the study skill on how to take note or study for an exam. Two; all freshmen are required to take the same courses that were lead by faculty and they will have a small group conversation. Sometime the faculty will have their students to set up meetings to see how they are doing. 

After reading this article I thought this would be good for the students especially for those who just enter the college life for the first time because it would give them some ideas how to handle their time and how to study for an exam. If I had another chance to repeat the first year I would took a course like this because i wasted a lot of my times.