1. Pursuing Excellence as a Student!
Story of basketball coach – train your mind
Develop study habits
Reading.
Listening.
Thinking.
Memorization.
Test-Taking.
Communicating.
The gift of exercising your mind is a great gift

2. Pursuing Excellence as a Student!
How do you study?
Natural inclinations:
Some study naturally – they need to seek fellowship with others.
Some fellowship naturally – they need learn to develop study habits.
Learn in community.

3. Pursuing Excellence as a Student!
There are four basic types of activities
Important and Urgent Activities: These include responding to a crisis, pressing problem or tight deadline. Crisis managers and problem-minded people are consumed primarily with this area of time management.
Important But Not Urgent Activities: Preventative maintenance, relationship building, creative thinking, planning and recreation. This area is at the heart of effective personal management, and holds the key to business efficiency.
Not Important But Urgent Activities: Phone calls, mail, some meetings and other pressing matters. These tasks are often only urgent because someone else has that expectation, and some people spend time here thinking they are covering essential matters.
Not Important And Non-Urgent Activities: Includes trivia, some mail, time wasters and pleasant harmless activities. Spending all your time here is a sure way to be totally ineffective

4. Pursuing Excellence as a Student!
Where do you want to be?
Time management – put first things first
Have a plan for the semester – pay attention to the syllabi; consolidate syllabi
1. Important and Urgent
2. Important and Non-Urgent
3. Urgent but not Important
4. Not Urgent and not Important

5. Pursuing Excellence as a Student!
What should you do when you are having trouble?
University Student Success Center
Library
Get used to asking for help. This is research. It will make you more confident in anything that you are approaching.
Learn the skill of researching information on your own

6. Pursuing Excellence as a Student!
Sharpen your saw
Mental
Spiritual
Physical
Social
How you approach school will determine what you get out of it
You will get out of your schooling what you put into it
Value it – if you do, you will get more out of it