Successful Students

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Successful Students exhibit a combination of successful attitides and behaviors as well as intellectual capacity. Successful students…1 Are responsible and active. Successful students get involved their studies, accept responsibility for their own education, and are active participants in it! Responsibility means control. It’s the difference between leading & being led. Your own efforts control your grade, you earn the glory or deserve the blame, 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 cost 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 later 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: Why have I chosen to be sitting here now? Is there some better place I could be? What does my presence 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 & positive academic attitude. If you are familiar with what these hot buttons represent and refer to them often, especially when you are tire of being a student, nothing can stop you; if you aren’t and don’t, everything can, and will!!!!

CHOOSE THE RIGHT