As Good as Those Top Students

  •         From time to time, we see student who has high scores and student who cannot finish high school education. Between these two kinds of students, they did experience different high school lives. However, when the first time they reached to high school, they finished the exactly same level of junior high school education. What I think the facts change their high school life is their habits and plan.
  •        When I first went to high school, I felt anxious and tense. Although different people walked by me, no one talked to me or asked my name. The atmosphere made me think about my friends from junior high school. “As University of Chicago professor Ron Burt has found, your network predicts your career success.” (Bear)  In order to make more friends and not feel the same emotions like I felt, I offer you an advice on making new friends. Talking to others and look into their eyes. “A person can communicate with their eyes and never say a word. Our eyes show emotion.” (Schulz) Just like Professor Schulz said, eye contact enables us feel what others feel, so that we would find out whether they like our discussion or not. If you feel more anxious when you make eye contact, it is also useful when you watch the middle of both eyes. In this way, the person you are talking to will also feel respected. On the other side, too much eye contact will also become embarrassed, so remember to move your sights to other directions as well.
  •        Asking is also a way to push you on the way of success. Because of my high Math score in junior high school, I select AP Calculus. After the first month of study, my ability is not equal to my ambition. However, self-respect made me feel shameful to ask questions, I decided to work out by myself. The result showed my self-study did not work and I failed the exam. “Brilliant thinkers never stop asking questions because they know that this is the best way to gain deeper insights.” (Sloane) Fearing you will become next me, ask questions is the most direct way to avoid my problem. When you go to class and find things you cannot understand, ask the professor; when you do not understand how to use wash machine, ask the dorm teacher; when you come up with a new idea, ask parents or friends to prove. Questions are everywhere, they need us to find and answer exactly the same way as we find Pokémon and catch them on the app.
  •        Also keep in mind, being successful is not just a sentence that you always talk proudly, it needs action to become true.
  •        Variable ways can lead you to success, only if you put them on schedule. When we grow up, parents stop forcing us to do things. Later we become lazy and try to avoid all the things that need our sweat. During high school, if you want to be successful, also put the upcoming work on schedule. “When you place all tasks you want to do on your calendar, it is harder to forget to do things.” (Minors) Mange your time properly, so that no work will be left behind and you will have extra time available for sports, hanging out with friends. Just like the same way I did in high school. Every day I set a daily schedule and set a schedule for each week. After that, most teachers showed me their thumbs to show their appreciation. Not everyone can be the exactly same successful, so in order to make your own success come true, at least put things into schedule and deal them one by one.
  •        As graduated high school student, these three important methods enable my dream to university become true. For now, I am a successful person for those who have the ability but did not make their work to university. You as new students in high school should also make university as your success, and put these three methods into action. Finally, you will be the next successful high school students.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Works Cited

 

Bear, Drake. "Why Successful People Have So Many Groups Of Friends." 19 December 2013. FC TECHNOLOGY.

 

Minors, Paul. "The Importance Of Scheduling." 28 October 2015. PRODUCTIVITYIST .

 

Schulz, Jodi. "Eye contact: An introduction to its role in communication." 28 NOVEMBER 2012. EXTENSION, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY.

 

Sloane, Paul. "Ask questions: The Single Most Important Habit for Innovative Thinkers." n.d. InnovationManagement.se.

 

 

 

 



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