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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, 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 or 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? Answer to these questions represent your “Hot Bottoms”
and are, without a doubt, the most important factors in your success as a
college student. If your educated goals are truly yours, not someone else’s,
they will motivate a vital and positive academic, attitude. If you are familiar
with that these hot bottoms 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