Successful
student
PART 1
Successful
students exhibit 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 effort control your grade, you earn the glory or deserve
the blame, you make a choice. Active classroom participation improves grades without
increasing study time. You sit there, act bored, daydream, or sleep. Or, you
can actively listen, 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.
Successful students have educational goals. Successful students have ligament
goals and are motivated by what they represent in terms of career aspirations
and life’s desires. Ask yourself these questions:
What am I doing here?
Why have I chosen to be sitting here now?
Is there some better place I can be?
What does my presence here mean to me?
answer to these question represent “hot buttons” and are, without a doubt, the
most important factors of your success as a college student.