Obalowu Yinka's post on Goodwall - Being a student is tiresome, hard, stressful Right? Yes it has always been like that. Academic life will always not be fair to you - you just have to get used to it. You will pay great sacrifices (the worst day of a student life is when he/she sits down and think how he/she can get free grade). Academic #success is a "quid pro quo" concept, you will have to loose some valuable thing in other to get those grade; you will loose your time, beauty, money(you will buy #books, printouts, photocopies) etc. You just have to accept that fact. Academic success doesn't come by accident. Sadly, Academic failure is not by accident either. So every choice you make in school, (the choice to wake up from bed to read, and also the choice of going to parties when your mates are burning candles) counts and forms either a succes story or failure. It won't kill you if you read 2hours everyday. You're only watering the seeds of good grades. "The pain of yesterday you held, its will manifest to more blessings you can't count". Have a mentor in school, you see those scholars, don't envy them, you rather run to them. If you stay with them a week, you will see how they use their 24hours. "Those heights won and kept by great men didn't happen by sudden flight.But, while there companions slept and party, they were toiling upward in the night". And so the time you were sleeping and partying, he was busy using his phone lights to master concepts, definitions and formulars. You can't have a bad mind on such a person, you're only adding to your mystery. Academic excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny in school. I will teach 5 important factors you will use in school. 1. FOCUS; you need to FEED YOUR FOCUS AND STARVE YOUR DISTRACTION or else, you will Excel in all you do expect for the reason why you're in School: parties, socializing, girls/boys are only transient joy/utility. They don't really matter, they have the ability to make you loose focus. Be careful 2. DISCIPLINE: you can't succed as a student without discpline, you cannot wait till it's exam time before you start reading, IT IS WRONG. What if you find yourself in a position where you will have to finish 14papers in a week? An hour of study everyday is better than 24hours of study three days to exam. Discipline makes study easier. 3. HAVE A DRIVE : Most people if there friends are not reading, they won't read. That's also BAD. You need to have a vision. You need inner drive. I don't mean Toyota car, you need to be self-driven, don't depend on external stimuli 4. SOCIALIZE AND SEEK HELP : Meet people!!! If you're weak in a subject, passionately run to people that will help you out. Seek for their methods, ask questions! Be curious about how they tend to understand that subject, Align with them. Iron sharpens Iron. 5. DON'T HATE YOUR LECTURER : You won't like all your lecturers, you will be irritated by some, but the truth is that; if you want to get a better understanding of a course, you must #love that lecturer. Your business should be to ace your course whether you like the lecturer or not. You have no business hating a lecturer, it's not a friendship relationship. If you think your teacher/lecturer is tough, wait till you get a boss By OBALOWU YINKA #Success success #motivation #teachers #inspiration #self-improvement #students love books #publicaffairs #qualityassurance #nigeria #usa #learning