successful students

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, day dream, or sleep. Or you can actually listen, think, question, and take notes like someone in charge of their learning experience. Either options costs one class period. However, there former method will require a large degree of additional work outside of the classroom to achieve the same degree of learning the ladder provides at one sitting. The choice is yours.

2. Successful students have educational goals. Successful students have legitimate goals and are motivated by what they represent in terms of career aspirations and life’s desires. Ask yourselves 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? Answers to these questions represent your “hot buttons” and are without a doubt, the most important factors in your success as a college student