Freshman

Surviving Your Freshman Year

High School can be intimidating, college even more so!  Being at an Early College which has both high school and college can be daunting. Never FEAR!  The students and staff at PECIL have created a list of survival tips to help you get a good start on your Early College journey.

Learn the PECIL Way! Our school has a vision and mission and we operate by our core values, Respect, Responsibility, Pride, Scholarship, and Integrity!

How to be Successful in an ONLINE class...

Here are the top tips for being successful when taking a class that is online, whether it is an NCVPS or PCC class. These tips have been vetted and adapted from universities like Villanova, Northeastern, and Illinois University. Taking an online course gives you a lot of flexibility in where and when you do your coursework. That flexibility, however, means you have to take some extra steps to be successful. You have to be proactive about creating some of the structures you get naturally in a face-to-face course.