Advising honors students

I serve as an adviser for a number of honors students. This is actually a pleasure since the students are always doing so well academically. They generally are quite interesting people and are quite willing to work very hard. And probably most importantly they are self motivated. Much of my advice is about preparing for the next step - yes for almost all the students I see they are thinking about the next step - graduate school or professional school (e.g. medical, pharmacy, dental). I am sure they faced the situation in school about other students asking them why they work so hard - well it is because they have lofty goals and that is the only way to reach them.