How Do You Make Friends As A Non-Traditional Student?
It can be hard to make friends at school when you’re a non-traditional student and your classmates are half your age. Here are some tips on how to make friends as a non-traditional student on campus. The tips are from J.R. Parrish’s book “You Don’t Have to Learn the Hard Way: Making it in the Real World: A Guide for Graduates.”The Secret of Success in One Word:J.R. Parrish had one really great mentor who taught him early in his career that the secret to success can be found in one word: others. “When you begin focusing on others,” Parrish wrote, “good things start happening to you. An essential paradigm for success is realizing and accepting how indispensable people are to your future.” He goes on to explain that the fastest way to achieve your own goals is to help others achieve theirs. It’s all about human relations, and human relations is all about building rapport and making friends. So how do you do that?Everyone’s Greatest Need:Parrish says that everyone’s greatest need after foo
