Meeting activity

Meeting Activity

Problem: student success

Date of meeting: 14th March 2012   

Time of meeting: 11:25

Venue: W007 
Group member:

Chair: Abdulrahman

Minute taker: Salem

Participant: Rashed

Venue preparatio:

Grouping of chairs round tables

Agenda:

Time management

Focus on study

Motivation

Friendship

Suitable major

The chairman Abdulrahman opened the meeting at 11:25

 Time management

Salem thought that organizing a timetable would be useful for students. Rashid supported Salem in his opinion, and he suggested that students should arrange their activities to be at weekends. Abdulrahman said that students do have enough time to study, but the problem is that they use it doing other stuff.

From here we moved to item 2.

 Focus on study.

Rashid said that some students are working in addition to their study. Those students have the right to get enough time to study by getting study leave. Abdulrahman agreed. Salem pointed that homework is very important for students to be successful; it prepares them for exam.

 Motivation.

Rashid said that dreams are good motivators. Students always try to achieve their childhood dreams. Salem admitted that students who get a high GPA must be given a scholarship (money, and job). That will push them to study more. Abdulrahman wondered if having a scholarship would affect students negatively. From his own experience, Rashid said that he sometimes feels nervous but he always does the best he can so he doesn’t lose his scholarship.

 Friendship.

Salem said that friends affect students’ results largely. Good friends will help the students in his homework, share their information with him, and teach him if he didn't understand. On the other hand, Rashid spoke about bad friends. He said that students will not get any benefit from being with them. Abdulrahman proposed the idea of mixing good students with bad ones to exchange their knowledge. Both Salem and Rashid supported the idea.

Suitable major.

Abdulrahman thought that choosing the best major is very important to be successful. Students must choose a major that they like, not the one that they are good in. Rashid added that their choice must not be affected by their parents or anyone else. Salem agreed.

In conclusion we thought that:

Being a successful student isn’t so easy. It needs a lot of sacrifice.

The motivation and time management are the most important   things to be successfuly.

We liked the idea of giving the best students scholarship.