Successful students

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Successful students exhibit a combination of successful attitude 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! Responsible means control. It’s the difference between leading and being led. Your own efforts control your grades, you earn the glory or deserve the blame, you make the choice. Active classroom participation improves grade 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 own learning experience. Either option costs one class period. However the former method will require a large degree of additional work outside of the 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 motived by what they represent in terms of aspirations and life’s desires.

Ask yourself these questions: what am I doing here? Why have I chosen to be seating her right now? Is there some better place I can be right now? What does my presence here mean to me? Answers to these questions represent your “hot buttons” and are, without a doubt, the most interesting 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 are tired of being a student, nothing can stop you; if you aren’t and don’t, everything can, and will!

Choose the right.