Students learned to ascend to new heights towards success at the Oxnard College Scholars’ Lecture Series, held on March 29.

Leo Orange, dean of Student Services, presented a lecture entitled, “Success or Failure: Making the Grade,” where he focused on what qualities successful people share in order to help gain a sense of understanding and the will to overcome their own adversities and strive towards a successful life. “People have to have the necessary losses to move to the next level,” he said. “Only then you will know who you are and where you’re going.”

Orange also said that an individual can fall into one of three categories: quitters, campers and climbers.

“Quitters are people who choose to dropout, and to desert their core human drive to ascend. Campers are people that have dreams, goals and the intelligence to ascend but don’t go the extra mile. Finally, climbers are individuals who followed through; they ascended and now live life to its fullest and never forgetting the journey that got them there.”

One Oxnard student who attended the Lecture felt “motivated and inspired” by his words.

Orange is one of the many speakers this semester in the ongoing Oxnard College Scholars’ Series held on Wednesdays in room LS 8 from 12- 12:50p.m.

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