Thoughts on Student Success

Webster defines a student as a person who attends a school, college, or university or a person who studies something. When I was young, I was told that hard work is the key to success. Get all the knowledge I can and gain wisdom with life experiences. I have found out over the years that is exactly what I need to become a successful student. Even though not everything is under your control. I will explain how hard work, sacrifice and staying positive will help others be successful in school. The first and foremost important quality of student success is hard work. We cannot have good results without effort. People dream of becoming an NFL superstar or an MVP in the NBA. But none of those players achieved greatness without years of hard work and practice. People must work hard to gain skills and maintain them. Without hard work and practice, the chance of people becoming successful at something is very slim. I don’t hear many stories of people that don’t put forth the effort to achieve their goals, but there are millions of success stories of how people gained success through hard work. My sister for instance, she always had a very hard time with math. So every night she would come home, and study for hours trying to figure out the problems. With her hard work she figured out how to do all of her homework, and received an A in the class The next quality is sacrifice. Choosing to study does require a lot of sacrifice. Many students give up on going to the club or spending all night playing online video games to study. It’s very hard to sacrifice my play time to study. I can’t count the amount of times I have gotten a phone call right before I was about to sit down and write a paper to go to a bar or a club. Of course, I want to go, but I know if I go, I will not be able to turn in my paper. Giving up things I like to do is very difficult, but it’s a necessity to achieve my goals in the long run. It takes a lot of sacrifice to go to school because there are so many things I would rather be doing. The final thing to being a successful student is staying positive. It’s very easy for people to lose motivation if people receive a bad grade or not as high as a grade we expected. Staying positive and motivated will help others work and study harder. Being negative never helps anyone become a good student. It makes people lazy and not willing to work to achieve your goals. Being positive and motivated helps students in many different ways. Rather than give up they choose to stick with it and work harder. That’s why all companies like to keep workers morals high. If morale is high people our happier and productivity is higher. If morale is low, people aren’t happy and productivity is very low. I remember in high school my friend Jim was a very negative person. He complained about everything. His grades were always low and he always looked like he was half asleep. Then after summer vacation he came back a changed man. He was very positive and asked questions instead of complaining so much. His grades got a lot better and he looked a lot happier.
In conclusion, a good student is not defined by any one thing, but many different factors, such as hard work, sacrifice and staying positive. There is many other factors to make students successful. I believe that the three listed above are the most important in becoming a good student. No matter how people interpret becoming a good student I always want the student to be happy and achieve his goals.