Successful Students
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Successful students
exhibit a combination of successful attitudes and behaviors as well as
intellectual capacity. Successful students…
1. 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, you without increasing study time. You can sit
there, act bored, daydream, or sleep. Or, you can entirely 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. 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: Why have I chosen to be sitting here now? Is there some better place
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 you don’t, everything can, and will!
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