Final Exam

Learning how to take responsibility for one's own learning is a very important thing to do in order to succeed in college. Many people may not know what that means, though. Taking responsibility for your own learning means that you cannot rely solely on your professors to help you learn everything you need to know like you do in high school. In high school, the teachers lay everything out for you and step you through every thing that you need to do throughout the year, making sure you understand it entirely and helping you out greatly along the way. In college, though, the professors will give you a syllabus saying what will happen in the year with all the assignments, and they will be much less attached to you than the high school teachers were. Unlike high school teachers, college professors will not constantly remind you of assignments due or give grace if you forgot to do an assignment. It is much more up to you to get everything done. It is important to do this because not only does it prepare you for future responsibilities, but it prepares you for college life and it helps you rely on yourself rather than the teachers, and it makes you take responsibility for your own mistakes. What may seem to be an impossible task, this can be accomplished by simply starting to take responsibility before you enter college, reminding yourself of due assignments and upcoming tests instead of relying on your teachers. The key to all of this is practice and time; practice taking responsibility and give it time in order to do this efficiently. It may not be easy at first, but after a while, doing things yourself instead of relying on teachers will come very easy and second nature to you.