College success made easy

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College success made easy

A professor may have a hundred or students in a class, or as few as three. Whatever the number, there’s usually one student from the group that stands out as being special, fantastic even. No matter how difficult a professor’s question, that one special student seems to know the answer. And no matter when a matter must be given to the teacher, that one special student is able to turn in his assignment on time and without a single error whatsoever.

Surely, you know a student like this person, but since it’s not you who is doing so well, posting remarkable grades and completing schoolwork with so easy, feelings of anger build and build. Why can’t I be more like this devil? Why can’t I be the special one? You may ask yourself. Well, I’m here to tell you that it can be you.

As a university student, I’m very interested in what factors separate outstanding students from ones infinitely less accomplished. Instead of sitting back and hating successful students, I made it my mission to investigate the mysterious causes of their greatness. And the fruit of my analysis, after speaking to many top students and their professors, is a group of tips that anyone can use to awaken greatness up within himself and reach new peaks of excellence.

The first tip is: don't get behind. The problem of studying, hard enough to start with, becomes almost impossible when you are trying to do three weeks’ work in one weekend. Even the fastest readers have trouble doing that. And if you are behind in written work that must be turned in, the teacher who accepts it late will probably not give you full credit. Perhaps he may not accept it at all. Most people think that it is you responsibility to do work according to a reasonable plan, and they expect you to take it seriously. Little room is given to students that are not able to manage their work and time.

One major problem in school comes from the amount of material; there is so much to do that you may not know what to do first. Most people might want to do the easiest thing first, but that is a bad idea. Entertain and alternative plan! Always do what’s most difficult first, just to get it out of the way. It’s probably the thing that needs more of your energy. And if you do that first, you can put more energy into it. If everything seems equally easy, leave whatever you like best until the end. There will be more desire at half past eleven to read a political science article that sounded really interesting than to began trying to study French irregular verbs, a necessary task that strikes you as pretty dull. Doing hard fun work may feel like you are granting yourself a present after doing hard work. That’s the second tip.

The third tip has to do with tests. Through our lives at school, we take thousands of tests, but we don't always stop to consider good test taking. The best test takers don't plow through their tests without cease, answering one question after the next as it comes. First, they read the whole test quickly. Second, they focus their attention, keeping their concentration on the material they know best, answering quickly because they are confident. Finally, they handle questions that bring them some difficulty. Adapting yourself to this method of test taking might seem weird to you, but it is likely to profit you.

Here are but three tips to greater success at school. Should you ask successful students around you, you will discover more tips. Learn from others, and employ their methods to alter your own studying, and you are sure to improve your performance at school. After some time passes, you may find that you are the special one. And then maybe you’ll notice other students either hating you or trying to discover your secrets.




A major question of majors

It was a common question. It echoed through the hallways and out into every corner of the university. Everyone was asking it. It was the new catch phrase. It was the new pick-up line, more commonly used than “what’s your sign?” but I had no answer. I hated the question. I was undeclared like some unborn baby in its earliest stages. And, by the way I was going, I was merely awaiting abortion. Looking at the database of available majors, I could not make up my mind. Would I have to drop out of school because of my indecision? Would I be banned from a happy life if I couldn't figure this problem out?

Tomorrow is the last day to declare a major. The best day! Everyone else was happily moving forward in their lives, choosing topics of study and predicting futures. I still hadn’t made my big breakthrough in making this all too significant decision. Don't worry, my friends would say. You can always major in business.

Not me. I was an artist. I would rather die than major in business. In fact, I didn't even need college. I could just go out into the world, and my great skills and abilities would immediately recognized. On the night before my fate was to be declared, my parents were hosting a dinner party for two of their friends.

Finally, a rest! What would my parents’ friends care about majors? I could eat dinner in peace and take a break from being posed this question for a couple of hours. I was wrong. All they could talk about was majors. They both had to share their majors with me, and both had an opinion as to what I should be. All their advice didn't put me any closer to a major, though. It just confused me even more.

Neither of our dinner quests seemed particular suited for his chosen job. For instance, Dr. Elkins, who claimed to be an expert at performing surgery, had trouble cutting his meat. And the naval aircraft pilot, had difficulty targeting his mouth with his food. Every second spoonful was dropped to the ground. I could imagine what his navigation skills were like in a fighter plane.

Dinner was over, our guests left, the night was getting later, and I was still undeclared. I got out the list of majors and began paging through the possibilities for the millionth time. There were already numerous computer majors. I’d always want to go to china, but it seemed I could go there without majoring in it or even becoming fluent in the language. This was hopeless.

As college students often do, I decided that if I just slept for a while and weakened up really early, I would be able to arrive at an answer to this enormously difficult question. I don't know what it is in the college students’ brain that thinks some special process occurs between 2 a.m. and 6a.m. that will make everything clearer. It had worded for me in the past, but not this time. In fact, as college students are always likely to do, I overslept. I woke up at 10 a.m. I had missed my first class, survey of English literature, and I had three hours to commit the rest of my life to something, anything. There was always business.

As I rushed to school, I passed a movie theater playing a film. Wait a minute! I could major in movies. No, there is no major in movies. But there is one in filmmaking, I thought. That’s it. I was lost, but now I was found. I was declared.

Fifteen years later, I think of all my friends who so confidently began college with their majors declared. Of those who went around asking, what’s your major? Very few are working on their chosen jobs. I didn't end up a filmmaker. And some days I still feel undeclared.

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