<p>What are your ideas of the perfect college student?</p>
<p>What would their personality be like?</p>
<p>What extra-curricular activities would they do?</p>
<p>What GPA would they have?</p>
<p>How would they treat friends/professors?</p>
<p>Would they not come to class yet get the highest grade or would they pay attention and get the highest grade?</p>
<p>Additional Comments Welcome</p>
<p>Know what they are there for: The Degree (Pays attention)
Gets involved in Campus.
Be an open-minded, non -cliquey person
3.4-3.8 GPA
Loyal to friends, respectful of professors.</p>
<p>Doesn’t treat degree like joke.</p>
<p>Can balance Social and Academic.</p>
<p>The perfect college student acts with purpose and takes full advantage of the resources available to her to pursue her goals. Those goals may or may not be academic in nature, and thus the perfect college student need not be the best student in the class.</p>
<p>I think they would be the perfect role model for others. They would not walk around saying they are a role model, but other people would secretly admire them because they work efficiently, have a high GPA( but would never talk about it), be involved in a few things on campus and be a ranking officer in a club. Eat healthy, exercise, fun at party and can hold a conversation with almost anyone on campus.</p>
<p>A perfect college student should be you! What I mean is that you should strive to be yourself and not let others’ views dictate your behavior. Life is too short to live by someone else’s ideals.</p>
<p>Well-rounded personality, at least a 3.7 GPA, Athletic, Muscular, Tall, Goes to every lecture, never miss class, etc.</p>
<p>@goodManThinking: Okayyy…but there is always room for improvement, and having a model as something to attain is never a bad thing. </p>
<p>A perfect college student:
-A star in their department: known for being amazing in their field
-Obviously a GPA as close to 4 as possible.
-Extracurriculars that allow them to shine without trying; they love doing what they do, it plays into their major, and accentuates their best skills in leadership. Must be at least a noticeable club, but only has to be 1 or 2 clubs, not 5 or 6.
-As someone said before, they take advantage of everything their school offers: a student at a flagship state school would build relationships with tenured faculty through research opportunities. Someone at a small school would build alumni relationships and network like crazy (without coming off like someone who is a sponge).
-Knows how to be responsible at a party. Maybe they drink, maybe they don’t, that’s a personal choice. However, they are accountable for their actions.
-Don’t complain about any college work, they just do it.
-Not stressed out about studying or exams; they structure their days for success (do actual work during the day to advance their career prospects).</p>
<p>Sorry for my poor grammar, it’s late and I really can’t focus enough to edit the post right now.</p>
<p>4.0 GPA.</p>
<p>Starting quarterback.</p>
<p>First string baseball player.</p>
<p>Dating head cheerleader or hottest girl in school if cheerleader isn’t already.</p>
<p>10 extracurriculars. President of all of them.</p>
<p>Student body president.</p>
<p>Triple majoring in engineering, pre-med, and philosophy (for a touch of balance).</p>
<p>Recently returned from Olympics with 10 gold medals.</p>
<p>(Basically this dude would have ■■■■■ coming at him in waves)</p>
<p>*Cough…because we all know a woman couldn’t be the perfect college student … just being a woman would make you less than perfect :)</p>
<p>Good answers all!</p>
<p>ROFL UAKid .</p>
<p>And ok you set the bar too high. I meant realistic “perfection” lol.</p>
<p>Not sell your soul to achieve everything, perfection. =P</p>
<p>Has a finite erdos-bacon number</p>
<p>OK then a realistically perfect college student:</p>
<p>Graduates (with a useful degrees).</p>
<p>Get’s a job before graduation…above avg. salary and nice benefits.</p>
<p>Has a reasonable number of connections in their major’s industry.</p>
<p>How whoever accomplishes these goals is up to them (cheat, don’t cheat, go to class, don’t, etc etc it doesn’t matter) but everything else is non-important in the college realm.</p>
<p>Check out this resume</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.mit.edu/~mrognlie/matt%20rognlie%20resume.pdf[/url]”>http://www.mit.edu/~mrognlie/matt%20rognlie%20resume.pdf</a></p>
<p>^ Except he’s not perfect because his resume doesn’t have any contact info beyond his email at the top. No no in resume writing to not include your phone number as well.</p>
<p>Nein! </p>
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<p>^^^ omg that guy’s resume is perfect. What an over achiever D:</p>
<p>How does one get .5 of an A? From an academic standpoint he is very impressive, but I wouldn’t say he would be an example of a perfect college student. No idea what he is like on a personal level, no evidence of interests besides math, etc.</p>
<p>I also think the perfect college student would attend class even if he doesn’t need to out of respect for the institution, professor, and whoever is paying for his education (if it isn’t him).</p>
<p>Personally I consider the “perfect” college student to be:
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<li>posts a lot on collegeconfidential</li>
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<p>To be honest, that is what matters to future employers, along with his great list of honors and awards. And he is recognized among the department nationally. Basically, he embodies the Cal Newport ideals. He’s great at one thing. </p>
<p>His first job is going to be great, and what he does there decides his distant future.</p>
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<p>Oh I absolutely agree, when I read his resume the first thing I thought of was Cal Newport.</p>
<p>From a teacher’s point of view:</p>
<p>Sad Eyes Solomon did next-to-nothing all quarter. He rarely had a notebook. He often slept in class. He seemed completely disaffected by everything. The he got a laptop and he was furiously typing on it every class. Yeah, probably playing solitaire or Facebooking, or on IM, I am sure. Imagine my shock-- SHOCK I SAY! – WHEN HE APPEARED, 10 MINUTES LATE, to the mid-term sans writing implement. He begged me for one, but I refused, at which point I got the full-blown puppy-eye treatment. It was like looking into a dying dog’s eyes. A classmate generously loaned him a pen, at which point he decided to CLIMB OVER AN ENTIRE ROW of students to take a seat in the middle. Having barely 30 minutes left to take the exam, he started flipping pages; I wondered why he wasn’t writing anything on those essays…hmmm. It was actually a quick test (for most of the class), and everyone finished in about 30 minutes, which left Sad Eyes alone for the last 15 minutes of class. The pen-loaner asked for his pen back before he left, so for those last 15 minutes of class, I got to see those sad eyes and frowny pout until I got fed up … er, I mean Solly finally relented and handed in his half-empty exam. I had warned the class with both a stern oral pronouncement and a note on the board when the exam would be and to BRING THEIR OWN WRITING IMPLEMENT for the 3 class sessions beforehand. Sadly, he wasn;t the only one to forget, but at least the others got there early enough to ask for a pencil from a classmate BEFORE the exam. I am sure Pouty McPuppy-eyes ran to his coach and told everyone he knew what a horrible, nasty, meanypants I was. I just wanted to smack those sad eyes right out of his head.</p>
<p>Live Streaming Video Vincent was also in that class. He also had his laptop everyday! He never met my eyes once during class. He handed in no papers all quarter. When I showed video segments to provoke class discussion, the lights on his face always screamed “I don’t care about my grade!” I tossed him from class, gave him zeroes, gave a midterm warning for possible failure. Nothing mattered. Well, except those videos he was watching everyday during class. I had never encountered anything like that at Slightly Better-known University across town. Maybe he was smarter! I have zero evidence to support that statement though. I wish I could have tossed that laptop right out the window.</p>
<p>Chatty Cathy LOVED having little side discussions with her friends. I asked her to stop, but she couldn’t help herself. I heard noise, saw her mouth moving, and immediately jumped to the conclusion it was she who was speaking. HOW DARE I! She wasn’t talking at all! Maybe someone had their hand up her shirt and the two of them were just performing their best Wayland and Madame impression. Yeah, that’s gotta be it. I tossed her from class, but I wish I would have made her sit up in front of the class like she was in kindergarten. Maybe she would have cried. That woulda been fun.</p>
<p>Glossary Gus was a super-keener. He was always on time. He always paid attention. He always took notes. He completed two of the three essays (best 3 of 4…see how fair I am!) for the class before most people had done one. Except, well, somehow he never learned what plagiarism is. In both papers, he used expertly worded definitions that smelled way above his ability to craft in prose. A quick look at the textbook’s glossary revealed he had lifted them verbatim from the book. Not even a citation or general reference! He ignored the warning against plagiarism in the assignment instructions. He skipped the warning and listed consequences in the syllabus. No, no. No one had ever told him he couldn’t do that! NO ONE. Sadly, I believe him… I cut him a break and let him re-do one of the papers; he whined and groaned and protested (repeatedly) that he would then have to do FIVE papers for the class. I thought this approach might actually teach him how to avoid plagiarism in the future; I doubt it worked though. I should have just failed him for the entire class just for being an *******, er…I mean plagiarist. </p>
<p>Then there was A- Alvin. He was the only one to read the 10-page article I asked the class to read. He was usually late, but slinked into class and took the first seat available before he pulled out his notebook and took copious notes. He read the textbook, asked interesting questions, and seemed to take the class seriously. He didn’t grub for grades. He got a few middling grades here or there, but he seemed to take them in stride. He was great. I wish half the class could have been half the student he was. Sadly, he had only an A-, so I gave him the grade he actually earned. I wish I had given him an A just for being a good student who OBVIOUSLY stood head and shoulders above the dumb****s he sat amongst. Damn my sense of fairness and justice!</p>