The Worst Way to be Successful in A College Course
College is a very important phase of your life but who cares about a piece of paper with a degree on it. Students fail classes for a variety of reasons, many of which are largely within the control of the students. Just follow these steps and you will be guaranteed a failure in every college course that is possible.
The very first thing to do is to not open the acceptance letter and not reply to the college in time. This will show that you are not really bothered about college life and have other things in your mind than to reply to some junk mail. If you have already been admitted into college, then ignore the first 2 statements and follow the rest.
Once in college, do not waste your precious
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Walk out of the class elegantly and make even more noise than you made, when you came in. At this point, it is your choice whether or not you want to head back to your dorm and play the video game you have been wanting to play ever since you got up or find your class which is probably over by now.
The next step to do in class is to take out your phone and play with it. Plug in your headphones and listen to music, so you can block out the noise in the background. Another thing you could do is to chew a gum or even take a power nap and remember to make sure the professor is watching, so he can realize that his class is boring and needs to step up his game or he will lose you in eternal slumber. If this doesn’t work, start talking to the people around you and disturb them. Another thing you can do is to ask your best friend to come to class with you, so you can talk your problems away during lecture. Who needs to even come to class ? It is not imperative to attend every single class. Just skim over the text and see if you really think you need to be there. Send an e-mail to your professor telling him that once again, your sleep has prevailed over you and ask the professor to explain in detail through e-mail what you have missed. The professor will be more than happy to
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Always borrow them from your neighbors in class. If a deadline of a paper you had to write is approaching; don’t panic, just leave it to the last minute. Never underestimate your writing skills, you can finish writing a 1700 word paper within minutes. If you cannot, it is not your problem but your professor’s. Writing essays are usually very tedious, so instead of wasting your time, just find it online and copy it word to word. You will most likely be charged with plagiarism, just tell the professor that you wrote this research paper and not the website, case closed. Avoid proof reading at all costs. Type stuff up, print, and skip the staple. Instead of writing “you” just write the letter “u” throughout the paper. In fact, treat the entire assignment like an excruciating long boring text.The only real problem is a test or an exam, never be stressed about it, you can cram a whole semester’s worth of readings in one night. Leave it to the night before the exam so you don’t easily forget it. Once you’re sitting for the exam, borrow your pencils, scantron and even answers from your neighbors. This will show that you love to share and do well in group work. Speaking of group works, whenever you are put in a group to do a group project, never do anything for the group. Your partners are there to do everything, just show up at the last minute before the
A time that I experienced failure was when i failed my Algebra II class for first semester. My biggest error was that I didn’t retake my quizzes that i failed when i had the chance too. The first 3 months i didnt really tried, I would tell myself that I had a lot of time for the semester to end. However, i regretted it when i found out that i only had a few weeks for the semester to end. I stressed out the last weeks, I couldn’t go to sleep in the night. I would keep thinking of my grade and how i was going to fail the class. I knew that colleges were gonna see my grades for this year, my junior year. I really want to go to college, I want to make my parents proud. The last weeks, i did everything that i could. I did all the missing homework, and I tried to
The first step to being successful, no matter what you’re trying to succeed, is to recognize your weak points, your strengths, and your limits. I myself know that I have several, and when I say several, I mean several, weak points when it comes to writing papers. The first and most lethal to a student who wishes to be well, is procrastination. I will always put writing a paper off till the last minute. In fact, I’m doing it right now as I’m writing this. I’m already doing what I say I’m not supposed to be doing. You can probably tell that I’m off to a great start. The next on the list of things that will brutally murder a student who wishes to do well in a class are distractions. Of course there is a multitude of things that can distract
Through the years in America, more students in each generation of college are being successful and finishing college. "The latest data show that just 40 percent of Americans have finished an associate's degree or above, while an additional 22 percent attend some college but failed to graduate" (Kelly, p.1). The 22 percent of college students who are failing to graduate, could be the college students who are not being successful in college. There are many reasons why students are not successful in college. Some main reasons students are not successful in college are typical because of drugs, stress, time management and procrastination, lack of desire and persistence and also poor self-esteem and lack of self-confidence.
In life, there are always failures of everything. As college students, we are experiencing endless stress, anxiety and fear failure. I remembered back in my sophomore year, I enroll in this accounting 201 class for my major’s requirement. The first week of class is simple, but after the third and fourth week, it gets harder and harder. There are many business concepts and words that are new to me. It is really hard to catch up in the class, sadly I have failed the first exam. I feel so blue. After that, I go to the professor’s office in purpose to ask him for advises of how to improve in the class. Then he advises me to drop the class because his materials in the class are straightforward and there is nothing he can do to help. It breaks my heart, after hearing him says that.
As I look back into my high school years, I thought I wrote papers well. But then coming into a college environment, my papers were mediocre. By overlooking at my past papers, I found that they were unorganized, sloppy and had bad use of diction. From now on, I will use the tools I learned in English 1100-40 as a foundation for the future papers I intend on writing in college. Following the criteria of organizing ideas so that they flow, impacting the reader with diction and also by being creative, will help become an ideal writer. Following the criteria of staying motivated in short and long term goals, taking responsibility for actions and finally the ability to study well will help me develop into a supreme student.
3:Other classes being a distraction by yellingg and talking to you, this could be trying to be encoouragment but makes you nervous.
I gaze at the time, two minutes before class gets out. Im waiting for the red hand to magically speed up the time as I sit here on a metal chair in my college writing class. I take a sip of my water bootle hoping time could move a little faster. My stomach gets a warm tingle of hunger, and it grows. I look up ahead waiting for the signal of the professor or other students that class is over. A couple seconds pass by until I'm awoken back to reality by the sound of books being shut, and backpacks are being unzipped. I do the same as everyone else as I start heading towards the door up in front. My stomach is upset but I'm still debating on getting food or try to drink water until I get home. I head to the student center, still wonder if I should
Benjamin Franklin once said, “I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” There are four issues that will affect you for failing a college class in your life as a college student. First, you will have to pay again to retake the class again. In college, you have to pay your classes at all times. However, if you fail one class you will have to pay again and waste your money on the same class. Second, your Financial Aid is no longer given to you, until you get your grades up. In the mean, while you will have to pay with your own money your classes with no help of Financial Aid. Third, your Satisfactory Academic progress will decrease and your grade point will not be looking great. Meaning that your GPA will go down and it will
Living in the academy, I never have to plan anything ahead, the schedule always neatly filled with classes, sports, gym, parade-practices, arms and flight. Keeping up with the schedule already exhausted my physical condition, I found myself crack up with homework. Writing was found in every class, so I became a Hershey fan; eating chocolate to keep myself awake to write papers. English, History, Government, Science had different types of requirements and critical thinking; those papers usually came along presentation assignments. While the papers were hard, nuts assignments, it tended to come out smoothly with presentations. As I engaged in deep research for my papers, I was greatly improved in knowledge which proved from the demonstration of my presentations. In fact, I still remembered the faces of my classmates such as wide-eye and jack-jawed in surprises or roguish or straight-faced as they found some wrong; there also embarrassed moments from of those who just literally laughed right to my statements. Because primary source was recommended but it was not required, students like me usually come across with some awkward moments from consulting debates which swallowed up presentation time. To that end, writing in high school greatly involved and improved my academic which resolved also in my social interacting with friends and teachers.
At least I wasn’t alone in my frustration of trying to find something to do to make it through the painful moments of the class. Finally, my list of numbers was dwindling as the clock ticked ever closer to the magic moment when the bell would finally ring. It was with great anticipation that I waited to make the final mark. When the bell
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How has my academic preparation and extra-curricular involvement prepared me to be a successful college student.
A prerequisite to success in any in any endeavor is "showing up", and classes are no exception. If you're not showing up to class, you're forfeiting every opportunity provided to you in the classroom.
I continue to my class and once again I pass a table set up for blood drive as a reminder for students who want to participate. I head up the stairs to the third floor, pass a newspaper stand with a headline of the Tsunami death toll, and with President Bush’s inauguration date approaching gradually. Can’t stop to grab one, have 30 seconds to get to class. I pass another lounge area with another bunch of students watching television with the channel set on CNN. A New York Stock Exchange report update was going on as I quickly whipped by. Finally I have arrived, and I’m quietly sneaking in heading toward my seat as the professor continues to write important words up on the board to start his