Studying, Character, Success, and Value (Part I: Studying)

Recently a former BIOS 101 student, still in school at UNL, asked me to comment on the intertwining of studying and character. Given who the student was, I sort of assumed this was a writing assignment, perhaps based on experiences not only in my class, but also in some other class being taken currently. I fired back a paragraph, but it was obviously not enough, so I decided to take the assignment seriously. Here is the first installment (Part I: Studying).