A wise man once said, “The only limits are the ones you place on yourself”. Nothing could be closer to the truth. We, here at Prairie View, should observe this to the fullest.
So often, students complain about the lack of facilities, the caliber of their instructors, and even the lack of school spirit. While not everything is in the control of the student, we have to be aware of the fact that we have the power to change most, if not everything we dislike about this campus.
Change comes from true focus. It is one thing to acknowledge a problem, another to voice an opinion about it, but it is a whole other ball game to begin work to fix it. For the most part, we students at Prairie View have been exhausting ourselves voicing our opinions. The next step is implementing change. If we feel the administrators are not giving us the education and environment that we pay for, let’s create it for ourselves.
It’s time for our focus to change for the better. Many students often complain about the lack of attention given to academic resources by the administration. But let’s do a quick self survey. Everyone who attended the homecoming step show and after party or last semester’s probate, raise your hands. Now, everyone who went to convocation to hear President Wright or any of our other distinguished speakers address the student body raise your hands. Exactly. How can we expect the administration to take something seriously when we don’t take them seriously?
The same applies in the classroom. If you don’t understand, ask a question or go to your professor during office hours. If everybody doesn’t understand, everybody in the class should be breaking the professor’s door down to receive whatever knowledge they are trying to give. If you require more out of your professors, your education will be ten times better. But, to do this, you have to be engaged.
At the end of the day, it all begins and ends with you. Don’t accept anything less than what you expect. If you expect an education that will allow you to be productive, then it is required that you must be productive. One cannot achieve greatness if greatness is not expected. So don’t just talk about it, be about it. Require greatness, so that greatness can be achieved.