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 required 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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