To be a successful student, I have to get out there and use my resources that are available to me to help me succeed. As a student, it is my job to ask questions I don’t know the answers to. I have to be a self-motivator by not listening to the negative things people will tell me. People may tell me I can’t be an accountant, but how will I know that if I do not get out there and do my best. In “Why Race Isn’t as “Black” and “White” as We Think” by Brent Staples, he says that “all we ever really know is what our parents and grandparents have told us”. I believe we need to know more than what is told to us. Before I graduate college, I want to see something in myself that I never thought was inside of me, “The result that knocked me off my chair
