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5 Habits that Make College Life a Success!
What makes some students successful and others not? Sometimes, it is a matter of intelligence or good luck. But most of the time it is good habits: things you do on a regular basis that makes you different from other students, outshining and become the top of your classmates! In order for one to become successful, this article outlines five habits to aid you make college life a success.
1. Have a goal
They should know and have a good reason of why they are in college. Some go to college because of future career, professional school or to further their education. Let it not appear as if someone forced you to go to college, or assume it is a mandatory to go college as a next level of education. In the same vein, a college student should not waste time in the name of keeping themselves busy.
2. Set priorities
They too have a social life and some also work as well go to College. Here, they should know how to balance their time and choose what comes first or what the benefits will they get in doing such an activity like doing the homework verse having social life.
3. Be organized
When in college they should learn to put what they have been taught in notes form for revision purpose. Also, they should be doing more research while taking questions and be able to answer; avoid to be monitored all time with a lecturer.
4. Work efficiently
They should be able to do their college work to their best and once. Be attentive in the lecture room and get what is taught once. They should not expect the task to be always repeated. They should not be present, but also engage themselves in classwork. You may find some lecture halls are big with many students which makes a lecture not able to reach all of them, but by engaging in one way you will find being helped.
5. Engage the lecturer while challenging themselves
They should be able to make the lecture become friendly in a way of not keeping a distance. With that, they can freely send emails with questions seeking the answers. They should be active and what to know more, by doing this, even if the exams come and they fail, they will want to know how it should have been done. Above all, the student need to visualize success, this helps them to imagine the end product of the many years they have been in college with all the courses they have been learning. To really picture what it will be like, and to experience the good feelings that will come with it; what will come at the end of the road for them; their dream jobs, their acceptance to a prestigious professional school, or simply, the next stage in their lives! This provides motivation and energy, especially when you are in same routine, and makes it all seem worthwhile.
