Successful students
Part 1
Successful students exhibit a combination of successful
attitudes and behaviors as well as intellectual capacity. Successful students
1. Successful students are responsible and active. Successful
students get involved in their studies, accept responsibility for their own
education, and are active participants in it!
Responsibility means control. It’s the difference between
leading and being led. Your own efforts control your grade, you earn the glory
or deserve the blame, and you make the choice. Active classroom participation
improves grades without increasing study time. You can sit there, act bored,
daydream, or sleep, or you can actively listen, think question and take notes
like someone in charge of their learning experience. Either option costs one
class period. However, the former method will require a large degree of
additional work outside of class to achieve the same degree of learning the
latter provides at one sitting the choice is yours.
2. Successful students have educational goals. Successful
have legitimate and are motivated by what they represent in terms of career aspirations
and life desires. Ask yourself these questions: what I am doing here? Why have I
chosen to sit were I am sitting now? Is there someplace better I could be? Answers
to these questions represent your “Hot Buttons” and are, without a doubt the most
important factors in your success as a college student. If your educational
goals nothing can stop you; if you aren’t and don’t everything can and will
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