From Where I Sit
Midterms are here and it's time to focus
Cara Anthony
Editor in Chief
Issue date: 10/22/07 Section: Forum
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Midterm week has arrived along with a new coffee house located a view feet away from Boyd Residence Hall. The coffee house may serve as a great outlet for those looking for a mental health break. Take advantage of the coffeehouse, but don't just sit around drinking lattés all day, you have to study.
To everyone who has exams and especially to the freshmen class good luck I hope that you have prepared yourself.
There are just a few points I would like to make about the importance of these exams and value of the college experience as a whole. Often professors, parents, guardians and other superior influences try to instill the worth of studying, but the advice often goes unheard.
During midterm week it is important to stay focused and
remember why you are attending TSU. There are many students that have come before us and failed miserably for one reason or another. However, some of our predecessors have excelled in life simply because they focused during major academic moments like midterm week.
Being lackadaisical and not taking out the time to study may get you by for a short time but in the long, run your college career may end up worthless if you walk away with a lack of knowledge.
You should pack your bags and drop your classes if you plan on cheating, skating, or floating through college. Yes, it has been done before, and it is scary to think those people may be running businesses, or educating children.
Someone may pose the question, who cares if a person truly doesn't retain information presented to them as long as they obtain a degree? My answer to that is simple, they are doing the world a disservice.
Recognizing that demographically, Black people make up the majority at TSU, the last thing Black America needs is another young uneducated person in our midst. I am not saying that if you don't have the opportunity to go to college you are uneducated; I am speaking to those that enter a university and waste the opportunity. If is never to late to become a student, even if you did not start this semester off as one.
This week during midterms take the time to study and learn more than you could ever imagine. Become a scholar. If we all vow to our best, by passing midterms and turning in projects on time, next week we may hold our heads a little higher when we are roaming among the alumni during homecoming week.
In a few years or maybe within a year current TSU students will become alumni. Every TSU alumni should be thought of as great. The greatness that you will possess may have started with the determination to do well on midterms.
I challenge all the student body to make goals and hold each other accountable for the rest of the semester. Academic excellence might be contagious.
To everyone who has exams and especially to the freshmen class good luck I hope that you have prepared yourself.
There are just a few points I would like to make about the importance of these exams and value of the college experience as a whole. Often professors, parents, guardians and other superior influences try to instill the worth of studying, but the advice often goes unheard.
During midterm week it is important to stay focused and
remember why you are attending TSU. There are many students that have come before us and failed miserably for one reason or another. However, some of our predecessors have excelled in life simply because they focused during major academic moments like midterm week.
Being lackadaisical and not taking out the time to study may get you by for a short time but in the long, run your college career may end up worthless if you walk away with a lack of knowledge.
You should pack your bags and drop your classes if you plan on cheating, skating, or floating through college. Yes, it has been done before, and it is scary to think those people may be running businesses, or educating children.
Someone may pose the question, who cares if a person truly doesn't retain information presented to them as long as they obtain a degree? My answer to that is simple, they are doing the world a disservice.
Recognizing that demographically, Black people make up the majority at TSU, the last thing Black America needs is another young uneducated person in our midst. I am not saying that if you don't have the opportunity to go to college you are uneducated; I am speaking to those that enter a university and waste the opportunity. If is never to late to become a student, even if you did not start this semester off as one.
This week during midterms take the time to study and learn more than you could ever imagine. Become a scholar. If we all vow to our best, by passing midterms and turning in projects on time, next week we may hold our heads a little higher when we are roaming among the alumni during homecoming week.
In a few years or maybe within a year current TSU students will become alumni. Every TSU alumni should be thought of as great. The greatness that you will possess may have started with the determination to do well on midterms.
I challenge all the student body to make goals and hold each other accountable for the rest of the semester. Academic excellence might be contagious.
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