Generally, Honors students are (and their teachers will expect them to be):
- Organized—having a sense of time management and an awareness of the need to prioritize
- Able to take adequate notes and access information as needed
- Ready to come to class mentally focused and prepared
- Committed to learning and curious about a wide variety of topics and issues
- Lifelong learners
- Confident they can do the work, even if they are uneasy at first about a class, an assignment, or a teacher
- Willing to do the work, even if it is challenging, when they are given a rationale for it
- Willing to seek help (from professors, peers, tutors, counselors)
- Willing to acknowledge and tolerate risk
- Willing to accept and respond to constructive criticism
- Willing to use and to develop further their skills at collaboration
- Content to find a place in a community of scholars, working with and for others
- Able to laugh at themselves (and not take themselves too seriously all the time)
- Critical thinkers, eager to ask questions and listen to others
- Eager to make connections among topics in their classes, world, and
personal lives, to see the big picture of education and life.
- Creative, enjoying the new patterns that emerge from old ideas.