Wake up Wake up This is the survival guide that will allow you to be different from everyone else and every student that does not read this guide. I am presenting a fast-track, down and dirty roadway that will lead you directly to success. Business guidelines are going to be applied to you, the student, as if you were a new employee in business starting your career. This survival guide is your shortcut taken from years of experience to not only get you through college successfully, but to get you through your business life or whatever career you choose. I offer you insights based on my experience which includes over 25 years in banking, the last 18 as President and CEO of a multi-branch operation with over 100 employees. The best experience and the most affordable for you that I can share are my three children who have successfully graduated from college in four years. What you are about to read and experience is no different than what each of them heard and practiced daily. So don't shake your head and think you have the answers-you don't-you are a rookie in a lion's den. This survival guide is going to prevent you from being eaten alive. You must take responsibility for who you are, what you are, your successes and failures, and take full credit for what you have accomplished. You are the customer of the university; and because you are the customer, you deserve to ask questions and receive beneficial, quality responses from your instructors. However, this guide will stress there is no finger pointing Your finger for the next four years will have only one direction-towards you.