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, and 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 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? 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.
CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!
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