Successful Students
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Successful students exhibit a combination of successful attitudes
and behaviors as well as intellectual capacity. Successful students…
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…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 glory or
deserve the blame, 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 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.
…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 yourself these questions: what am I doing here? Why have I chosen
to be sitting here now? Is there some place better I could 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. If your educational goals are truly yours, not someone
else’s, they will motivate a vital and positive academic attitude. if you are
familiar with what these hot buttons represent and refer to them often,
especially when you tire of being a student, nothing can stop you; if you aren’t
and don’t, everything can, and will!
