HABITS

Universities opened their doors a week or two ago. Freshman students moved into their dorm rooms, met their roommates, hung pictures on the walls, and completed their class schedules.

Most students want to do well, even just ok, at college, but not everyone does.

How well any student completes his or her mastery of course work at a college depends upon that student's preparation, his or her readiness, his or her skill at reading and writing, plus his or her ambition, hustle, and drive.

Yet, above all those variables, a person's success at college depends upon his or her habits.

Without steady,...