Successful student 1-2

Successful student

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Successful student 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 questions, and take notes like someone in charge of their learning experience. Either option costs one class period. However, the former method will …

2…have educational goals. Successful have legitimate goals and are motivated by what they represent in terms of career aspiration and life’s desires.

Ask yourself these questions: what am I going 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 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!!!