How to be a Great Student: Part Four

“There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day.”
Alexander Woollcott

How to be a Great Student: Part Four

Let ’em know that you are coming.

This is part of a series, click the tag: Be a Good Student for more.

When I was just a little boy, I asked my Mother what could I be. I was probably wondering about being an astronaut. She said, “You can be whatever you want to be”. That is a very nice thing to hear. However, as I look back, I kind of wish she’d said, “Be a dentist, get married early, have lots of babies” so that I’d have something to measure myself against if I went another direction.

The best students have a goal. They know where they want to be in five, ten, twenty years. Working towards that goal gives life purpose. Instead of attending classes, they…