The Importance Of Success In College

What is success in college? What expectations on themselves and others like parents, teachers, or friends relate the their success in college? I think that being successful in college and achieving all the goals I set for myself in college is extremely important. Also, other people in my life shape my expectations for myself to be successful. Expectations of myself and others influence my mindset and ability to be successful in college.

Success can be classified by many different things however, being successful in college means to me that I graduate college with a 3.0 G.P.A and know information that I did not know before that can help me in the future to become more successful and educated. My expectations and my mindset plays a big role

I have to have the mindset and motivation to push myself to do the best in college. In “Emotional Intelligence (Excerpt from The World of Psychology)”Ellen Green Wood and Samuel Wood talk about people 's emotional and personal intelligence is by being self-knowledge and the factors that involves them. They say that self-motivation, awareness of one 's emotions and the ability to manage those emotions are the key factors to personal intelligence and as the go into depth about each factor. Green Wood and Wood asserts “Self motivation refers to a strength of emotional self control and that enables a person to get moving and pursue worthy goals, persists at a task even when frustrated and resists the temptation to act on impulse” (80). For instance, I set goals for myself in college and my motivation plays a big role to keep me in line to achieve those goals. Without my own motivation to study, do homework, and read the assigned readings I probably would not make it that far in college in my best ability. Also, having the motivation to get things done like essays, readings, homework, and worksheets early can really help in the long run because then it 's not a stress or worry to get them on