How can I be successful as a student this semester?

This semester, bridging course, is obviously important, because we have to adapt ourselves to all the things here and improve our English to be good enough to understand what teachers say and the meaning of the questions on the paper in exams in only six months. It’s really a heavy task, isn’t it？So how can I make it in such a short time? It seems to be out of the question!

But it can be done. In order to make it, I think I have to do the things as follows.

First, hardworking and self-discipline are necessary. Why do I put these two things together instead of stating them one after the other? It was just a piece of cake for us Chinese students to study hard when we were in China. We could study ten or even twelve hours a day. It sounds amazing but it’s true. However, many of us lost themselves when they were in Singapore. They were far away from their parents. They could do many things they wanted to do but parents didn’t let them do. They would never work hard. Without hardworking, especially during bridging course, we may pass the exams as well because of our excellent intellegence, but we won’t gain the knowledge that we really need in our future. So self-discipline guarantees my hardworking, meanwhile, my hardworking guarantees that I can study well.

Second, I must be healthy. In another word, I must exercise regularly. As it is known to us all, health is the premise to anything else. A dying man will never be sucessful. Although the hardworking, just as what I said, is important, I should not study all day long. Without health, the high mark makes no sense. So I should look upon exercise equeally as study. No matter it is, swimming, playing ball games or just walking, it’s ok.Just do it and keep myself lively.

So that’s what I think I need to do to be sucessful as a student this semester. Thank you for reading.

From JiangXiaoning
Sm3 Group5
Jan 27th ,2009