what makes a good college science student?
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willingness and time to study...Alot
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What Are Your Strengths?\n\nWhat Do You Regard As Your Major Achievement?\n\nWhy Did You Decide On This College?\n\nWhat Did You Get Out Of Your Academics?\n\nWhere Do You See Yourself N Years Later?\n\nHow Would Your Friends Describe You?\n\nWhat Have You Learnt From Your School Experience?\n\nWhat Has Been Your Biggest Failure?\n\nWhat Skills Will You Develop Here?\n\nWho Is Your Role Model?\n\nWhat Do You Do In Your Spare Time?\n\nIf We Accept You, Will You Join us?\n\nWhat Do You Not Like Doing?\n\nDo You Have Any Questions for Me?\n\nWhat Other College Options Have You Considered?\n\nWhat Are Your Weaknesses?
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This is a pretty big question. In terms of activities, definitely pursue what you enjoy; colleges want a diversity of students, they want people who are passionate about their activities, and they want people who are unique.\nIn terms of what you should be doing academically, I would suggest visiting good college admissions websites to get answers to that. The CollegeBoard is a good website (www.collegeboard.com) or also College Confidential. Here's an article about that: http://admitspit.wordpress.com/2006/11/07/other-sites-that-can-help/\nBy the way, I think it's fantastic that you're starting to deal with this so early; kudos!
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It sounds like perhaps your learning style doesn't mesh with the teaching style of your chemistry professor.  I wonder if this will cause you problems with future college classes (such as the others that are required for your major?).\n\nIt's a good idea to find a tutor, or at least an interested friend, who will check up with you.  You can make yourself accountable to this person.  Inform him/her of your schedule and set a system of rewards when you accomplish some of your goals.  This person can check with you to see if you are doing what you want to do.  If you didn't do it, you'll have to tell him/her the truth, and hopefully the threat of embarrassment will keep you studying.\n\nI hate to tell you, but a huge part of college is reading books, digesting the material, and spitting it out.  If you don't like that, you might want to rethink your major and/or college career.  Perhaps you can find some other field that interests you more.  If they require a chemistry class, I suspect that you probably really have to know chemistry.
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The ability to "think."\n\nIt sounds comical but it's true.  Most colleges do not focus on the core subjects of reading and writing.  They focus on the ability to analyze the core subjects.  Analytical skills are the highest in demand and IF you can prove that then you are above the majority.
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I have to disagree with some of our colleagues here at Yahoo Answers who stated that job skills are the most important things to acquire from going to college.\n\nI believe the most important thing is education. And more specifically..... learning how to teach yourself. The subject you major in is somewhat coincidental. A well-educated, well-rounded renaissance person is a blessing for his/her own life and those around them.
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self discipline. \n\nYou'll have plenty of opportunity for all kinds of extra curricular activities. However, for the most part, no one will be there to see that you do your assignments and get good sleep and exercise. So you need to have some discipline about managing your time and energy.\n\nWhat I've noticed from my nieces & nephews, too, is that much is to be gained by supporting your school sports/teams. You get a strong sense of "spirit" and belonging and being part of a group. There's a great deal of stress in college and your friends will be important. And some will be your friends for the rest of your life.\n\nCongratulations, Graduate! And All the Best!
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In general...\nScientists explore things, like compounds, atoms, physics, etc.\nEngineers take that knowledge and use it to design useful stuff.\n\nAnd don't be too worried if you end up not liking your major.  Most people change about five times anyway.
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Yes unless you are naturally gifted, but even then, college is extremely important. even if you are some type of genius, college still helps you to network. It's really good to get to know a variety of people in a variety of fields. Also, college is good time to help you challenge your innate ideas. People change in college, it's a great time.
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depends what field.\nBut for all fields success is a mix of factors. \nnatural ability, hard work, and luck(God's grace)\n\nI mean some people are not smart enough to be rocket scientist, some people can become one with a lot of hard work, and some people breeze through all the classes with ease. Depending on your natural ability determines how hard you have to work for the same level of success.\n\nLuck also plays in. Like if your dream is to play sports for a certain team or work for a certain company. If the person doing the recruiting went to the same college you are in you may be more likely to get the spot.
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Most important thing is to be tolerant, accept people for what and who they are and they will do the same with you. College is where you will make life long friends so dont pretend to be someone you are not, be yourself, be polite, participate and smile a lot.
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There are any number of online sources to help you with this. My personal favorite is: http://www.collegedata.com/\n\nAnother good source is your high school guidance counselor.\n\nYou certainly seem to have the requisite maturity to do well in college. Good luck!
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Being a good student is not a certificate for being a good worker. I know many individuals who were not so good students but they excel in their fields of work. All you need to do is search for a right type of Job that will suit your interest and you can also excel in your field. I understand high percentage do play a very crucial role, but once you are onboard it is your skill which will decide your future.
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a GPA of a smart person~ =-)  It takes alot of work to have good grades!!!    A-  mostly A but a few B 's
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Basically you pretty much have to have good grades and shine in other activities (like sports or student corsair or something...). It helps if you show any leadership qualities like running for student government etc...\n\nI think that they want to see is a well-adjusted, well-rounded student with a positive work attitude.
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I wrote a long list yesterday of the qualities needed to be a successful scientist, I'll copy and paste it later.  In order to be a biologist, you need to take a major in biology or biochemistry (I would recommend biochem, because it's more rigorous and harder to learn later in your career), then, assuming you want to be an independent scientist running your own lab, you need to get a PhD (4-6 yrs), an MD with research training (4-5 years not counting internship), or an MD/PhD (7 years, again not counting post-grad work).  Then, you need to do at least one postdoctoral fellowship, preferably in a top international laboratory (3 years)- often, 2 post-docs are required for very high-level training.  So, after high school, you are looking at 4 years of college, 5 years of grad school on average, and about 5 years of post-doctoral work-Generally scientists are hired as professors (or scientists by pharm companies) when they are around 27-30...this is when you start your independent career.  For me, and all those I know who run their own laboratories, it is a dream job- fascinating work, travel around the world, the feeling you are doing something important and helpful to humanity, nearly complete independence, close association with often brilliant and always interesting people, teaching and mentoring young students, good pay (about $80,000 to start), very very stable job security, never having to worry about being bored, ability to choose your own hours and work schedule, ability to research whatever you find most interesting or personally important, constantly challenging at a very high levels, being on top of the newest technology and discoveries....I could not imagine doing anything else.  A recent job satisfaction pole put University Professors as the second most satisfying careers because of a combination of job security, pay, community respect, intellectual and professional satisfation, and relatively low stress.\nAbout your specific question-no, they (don't say "he" since over half of the grad students coming up are women) dont make as much as physicians, generally.  As a prof, you make $80-150,000 a year, as a scientist in a pharma company you make $100-200,000 a year (but lose your independence)- The working hours are fairly low for a professional occupation with that pay-certainly lower than most physicians, but you pick what you work on, where you work, when you work, when you take time off...there is incredible independence and freedom.\n Now, about the qualities-Ill cut and paste the other question\n\n\nMoral values or professional values? Ethically: honesty would be the most important by far- Modesty or at least the ability to admit when you are wrong ( so you dont cling to a hypothesis against the data), generosity-this leads to collaborations and sharing of data, which accelerates the process of discovery; kindness, so that you design the experiments with the wellfare of the animal in mind.\nAs far as the professional values go: Open-mindedness for examining data and coming up with correct conclusions; logical thinking..that;s obvious; intuition, for those many times that verbal and mathamatical thinking fail you; conservation, to design experiments that use the least amount of material, time, and animals (or whatever test material or subject is being employed); sexiness, by this I mean the excitement or current interest level of the public or scientific community, so that you can obtain grants for your research; delayed gratification, because often it takes years to answer the question; patience, both for the time it takes through trial and error, and the training of students in a very difficult and demanding career; judgement, so that you choose the *most* important question to be addressed, and apply the proper proportion of effort; discipline, because the work requires extreme care and attention to detail, you must be able to ignore some very interesting questions so that you can apply yo
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a good background in sciences and math while in high school is very helpful