Successful students

Part 1

Successful students exhibit a combination of successful attitudes and behaviors as well as intellectual capacity. Successful students

1. Successful students 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. Successful students have educational goals. Successful have legitimate and are motivated by what they represent in terms of career aspirations and life desires. Ask yourself these questions: what I am doing here? Why have I chosen to sit were I am sitting now? Is there someplace better I could be? 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 nothing can stop you; if you aren’t and don’t everything can and will