Successful
Students
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!
Responsibilities mean 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 participants improve in grades without in
cress in study time. You can sit there, act board, day dream, or sleep. Or, you
can actively listen, think, question, and take note 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: what am I doing here? 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? Answer to these questions represents your “Hot Buttons” and are,
without a doubt, the most important factor in your success as a college
student. If you’re 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’re
tired of being a student, nothing can stop you; if you aren't and don't,
everything can and will!
CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!