Packing the essentials: toothbrush? check! backpack? check! commitment? check! --
The Road to autonomous learning: I don't know where I'm going, but I'm making good time --
Thinking and intellectual performance: I think, ergo I learn --
Learning in class: but I slept through that class in high school --
Learning outside class: outside of class?!? the brochure didn't say anything about this --
Academic learning and neural development: my, what big dendrites you have --
Preparing for performance: lights, camera, action! --
Establishing direction in your life: the promised land --
Self-regulation, will, and motivation: I know I can, I know I can --
Strengthening academic self-regulation: pumping iron (will) --
Making behaviors work for you: walking the academic tightrope --
Patterns in human development: all these people are like me? --
Exploring the diversity of individuality: I've just gotta be me --
Appropriate stress reduction techniques: aaugh *%$̂#&!@ (I feel much better now) --
Appendix Overcoming specific academic anxieties.