In the passage by Brad Stewart, “A Guaranteed Path To Academic Success” Brad Stewart explains to us the importance of academic success and ways to achieve it. Throughout the passage we are given six rules that will help us thrive through our college career. For example, going to class, doing assignments on time, talking to your professors, reading everything, respecting the teaching and learning environments and using the library and academic support centers and services. Throughout my school career, I have learned the importance of those rules and I have learned that if I put in my dedication and effort I will achieve my goals. All of these rules listed are very important , but the two rules that impacted my success in school were going
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During my freshman and sophomore year of high school, I did not take school seriously because I was so intrigued and excited about the new environment I was in, that I began to get involved with the wrong group of people who instead of encouraging me to do good in school, influenced me to do what was wrong. I began to purposely miss class and skip and this lead me to the bad consequences of failing classes. In sophomore year I failed 3 important classes because of my attendance and my poor lack of engagement in class. I always thought that if I did not show up to class, I could always ask a classmate to fill me in on what we did that day, and show me the work that was given to us so that I could copy it. I thought that plan was fine and I could pass, but things don’t work out that easily. For example, one day in Algebra my teacher announced to the class that next class period, we were going to learn a new lesson and to make sure not to miss that day. I had already planned to miss that day, so I said to myself that It was ok to miss because I could just ask someone to help me out when I attend the class next class period, so I ended up not going. The next class period I went to class and I did as planned. I asked a classmate if he could explain to me what we had learned and If he could show me his notes, he agreed and began to explain the lesson. As he was …show more content…
Teachers/staff can try to help each student succeed by encouraging them to attend class, and use the resources the school offers etc. but it all depends on the person and their desire to be successful. I learned that they can only do so much, but i was the one who had to act and do my part. Since succeeding was my goal I had to put in the effort and make sacrifices along the way. Attending class, talking to my professors, doing my assignments on time etc. were all the things I needed to do in order to succeed and reach my academic success goals. It took me sometime to realize that things weren 't going to be handed to me easily, i had to do all of this in order to see success happen. Like Brad Stewart says, “ unfortunately academic success is not automatic. Mc faculty and staff can 't just unscrew the tops of your heads and pour in the knowledge and skills you need to graduate and enter the
During my freshman and sophomore year of high school, I did not take school seriously because I was so intrigued and excited about the new environment I was in, that I began to get involved with the wrong group of people who instead of encouraging me to do good in school, influenced me to do what was wrong. I began to purposely miss class and skip and this lead me to the bad consequences of failing classes. In sophomore year I failed 3 important classes because of my attendance and my poor lack of engagement in class. I always thought that if I did not show up to class, I could always ask a classmate to fill me in on what we did that day, and show me the work that was given to us so that I could copy it. I thought that plan was fine and I could pass, but things don’t work out that easily. For example, one day in Algebra my teacher announced to the class that next class period, we were going to learn a new lesson and to make sure not to miss that day. I had already planned to miss that day, so I said to myself that It was ok to miss because I could just ask someone to help me out when I attend the class next class period, so I ended up not going. The next class period I went to class and I did as planned. I asked a classmate if he could explain to me what we had learned and If he could show me his notes, he agreed and began to explain the lesson. As he was …show more content…
Teachers/staff can try to help each student succeed by encouraging them to attend class, and use the resources the school offers etc. but it all depends on the person and their desire to be successful. I learned that they can only do so much, but i was the one who had to act and do my part. Since succeeding was my goal I had to put in the effort and make sacrifices along the way. Attending class, talking to my professors, doing my assignments on time etc. were all the things I needed to do in order to succeed and reach my academic success goals. It took me sometime to realize that things weren 't going to be handed to me easily, i had to do all of this in order to see success happen. Like Brad Stewart says, “ unfortunately academic success is not automatic. Mc faculty and staff can 't just unscrew the tops of your heads and pour in the knowledge and skills you need to graduate and enter the