No One Cares for Excuses
As stated earlier, no one - especially professors - care for excuses. The way I view college is sort of like sports. I often use a passage from Calipari’s book Player’s First: “Pro basketball is a man’s world. If you’re deficient, they won’t slow things down to give remedial instruction. They won’t even say much to you...and before you know it, you’re out of the league.” This quote applies to college and the real world as well. Most professors will not slow down in the class if you do not do the work or for any excuse. Though there are some professors who will find ways to help you outside of class, but for the most part, they will not stop the progress of the class to help you out. The professor expects you to put the effort in to be efficient and work, no matter how difficult it is. Just like pro basketball coaches do not want to hear about outside influences as an excuse, professors are no different. If you do not get the work done and use excuses, you will not survive in college.
“I Didn’t Have Time”
One thing that many people say is that they do not have enough time to get the work done or study. Granted, it is understandable why people say that
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Some students are being wasteful of it because they spend their free time scrolling through social media or watching TV. You have time in between classes to get work done and study. You have time at the end of your school day to get work done and study. You have time before and after work to get work done study. There are no professors at any institution will not take not having time as an
Your professors aren’t here to baby you. It’s your job when you receive the syllabus to write down the dates and remember when something is due because some professors aren’t going to remind you. Pro-tip- keep an agenda. In conclusion, go to class and be accountable for yourself.
“Don’t ask the professor if you “missed anything important” during an absence...We’re college professors! Thinking everything we do is important
With both the student and teacher having three less classes a day cuts down on stress. It also cuts down on the homework load for the student. Teenagers have a lot of responsibilities. Many high school students find it hard to manage their time and balance all of their activities. Many are involved with work, sports, bands, clubs, and many other activities.
People use the time in between classes to study for their classes or to get assignments completed if they are taking an online
Noted author, Stephen Covey offers uses the story of a bamboo plant to offer advice. The story taught me to be more patient with several stuff and try not to rush on the work the teacher assigns. For example, if the teacher is not in class on time, wait a few more minutes and do not go so far ahead on your schoolwork unless the teacher says that it is ok to do so. Patience is important in college because you do not know what might happen if you are not patient at all. Being impatient might ruin your chance to graduate college if you just think that it would be easy, well, that is not true at all.
Academic issues are clearly a big part of helping you flunk out of college. By not paying attention in class, you will have no idea what your professor is talking about, so later you will have no clue how to do the work he assigns. With that being said, not doing your homework can really affect you.
Some even say “Going to college is as much about finding out who you really are as it is about getting that degree” (Staff). There are many things that a college student finds out about themselves, such as their work ethic, how well they manage their time, and how to live away from home. Students have a much heavier and intense work load than they did in High School, which teaches students how to manage their time well. Students must have good time management so that they don’t fall behind in their work. Going to college is an enjoyable part of ones life where they learn new things about themselves at the same time making new friends and learning new
Students never have a complete experience except on the installment plan (Gatto, part I, pars 11). I received flashbacks from my childhood, when I knew there could have been additional work to do before the bell rang. I always ended up being swept away into a completely different environment to advance skills in a random field of knowledge. To counter my agreement, the set class times did help in my erudition to what studies I relished more and the areas which I felt were unbearable. This determined my time management based on interests outside of school.
A full-time flexible schedule demonstrates the need and usefulness of time management techniques. It is even more imperative to stay on top of my educational workload and while juggling full-time jobs. The most precious resource is time, and learning to control time is the key to academic success.
Time is the one only truly irreplaceable commodity at our disposal, and we need to use the present time, in preparing for the future. She said that faculty, staff and the administration have the responsibility of letting students develop their gifts as well as students have that responsibility of using their seconds and time well to prepare for the future. Two important student responsibilities she mentioned were: Understanding that the time spent
Future College 101 Student Dear future college 101 student, the four following ground rules I am going to talk about are going to help you be successful in college 101. First, show up to class, the instructors understand if you cannot be there under emergency circumstances, but not showing up because of laziness is absolutely no excuse and shows little maturity. Showing up to class is the easiest part and instructors appreciate having all of their students present.
This can sometimes be blamed on the student and how much they want out of a class but many times this is just way students are taught to learn and how they have always gotten through school. College’s need to take note of this problem and find a way to change it. Today’s education system and colleges are too focused on letter grades and not the betterment of students and expanding their knowledge. Getting good grades is the main focus of today’s student. Because of this, unfortunately, they
They need time to grade exams and finalize grades from the previous semester, and they only have a short break between school years (Towler). By the time they do this, they might have less than a week to prepare themselves, their lessons, and their rooms (Towler). This is not an adequate amount of time for the teachers and it could impact students learning as well (Towler). Teachers also might have a hard time collaborating with each other because many of them are on different tracks (Towler). Students on different tracks might be learning completely different, or maybe even opposite lessons due to lack of collaboration between their teachers (Towler).
There are 24 hours in a day, 8 of those hours belong to school. From the moment when a student wakes up, they begin to prepare for school then go to school, most schools start around 8:00-9:00 am, so most students get up 1-2 hours earlier to get ready. Students need at least 8-9 hours of sleep to be able to function. With students having after school activities that take up around 2 hours, students are exhausted and when they get home all the want to do is relax, but some of them have responsibilities that they have to do, which gives them less time to relax from a long day of school. On top of having homework students end up staying up late getting all their work done, which cause them to be less focus the next day not allowing the
Many students don’t learn those skills in grade school and high school, that when they reach college they aren’t ready for the demands of being a college student (“Why Do Students Fail? Faculty 's Perspective”, 2014). High school misconception that a student can pass a subject without studying (“Why Do Students Fail? Faculty 's Perspective”, 2014).