Successful
Student
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Successful students exhibit a combination or 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 can earn the glory or deserve the blame, or 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.
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 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 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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