Successful Students
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5. Don’t sit in the back of
the room. Successful students minimize classroom distractions that interfere
with learning.
Students want the best seat available for their entertainment
dollars, but willingly seek the worst seat for their educational dollars. Students
who sit in the back cannot possibly be their professor’s teammate (see no. 4). Why
do they expose themselves to the temptations if inactive classroom experiences
and distraction of all the people between them and their instructor? Of course,
we know they close the back of the classroom because they seek invisibility,
both of which are antithetical of efficient and effective learning. If you are
trying not to be part of the class, why, then, are you wasting your time? Push
your hot buttons, is there something else you should be doing with your time?
6. . . . Take good notes. Successful students take good notes that
are understandable and organized, and review them often.
Why put something into your notes you don’t understand? Ask the
questions now that are necessary to make your notes meaningful at some later
time. A short review of your notes while the material is still fresh on your
mind helps you learn more. the more you learn then, the less you’ll have to
learn later and the less time it will take because you won’t have to include some
deciphering time, also. The whole purpose of taking notes is to use them, and
use them often. The more you use them, the more they improve.
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