Honor Students Everywhere!

The truth is that esppecially for freshmen, being an honor student is a great idea because you get to sign up for all of your classes before almost everyone else. That means that you are practically guarenteed to get every class that your little heart desires. I admit that I loved this part of the process. Although I understand how the benefits can be exploited by students who take one honor class and then never think about taking another, instead they continue to register for their classes early. I'm just glad that I have enough credits to be one of the students who will be registering first anyways, because of my amount of credits. I'm safe, but the freshmen and sophmores, not so much.
There are a lot of characteristics that I think honor students should exemplify. Skepticism was a great one, a girl in class brought up. You can not sit back passively. I think a great idea for a first intro to honors class would be to come in saying a lot of things that no one in the world would agree with just to get the students to call you on it. That way they are speaking in class and also realizing that dissenting is okay and that there are going to be diverse opinions no matter what topic is being addressed.
ANother characteristics is work ethics. I think that more is to be expected of honor students. In the amount of work that is given to them, also in the response senction of classes. Although not everyone feels absolutely comfortable speaking up in class, blogs are a great way to say what you need to without having to do it in front of a class. But that showing of critical thinking is important.
Also, an open mind, that respects all other views while having their own is important for honor students. No one is going to agree with everything that someone else believes, because every individual is just that, an individual. The action of listening to other view points without getting up in arms defensively, but being able to add to the conversation by saying that you do not agree and explaining why.