Good students don't think of themselves as alone, in antagonistic or competitive relations with teachers and classmates. They seek mutually encouraging, helpful relationships with others. The various demands of university life can make for a feeling of fragmentation, especially near the beginning. Good students eagerly seek and discover links both within their studies and between their studies and their extra-curricular lives, the sooner the better. Noticing such connections is one way of making academic work interesting and even exciting, not merely a dutiful routine.
Good students look for, and regularly find, reasons of their own to enjoy what they are asked to do.
Start a notebook or journal in which to make jottings about anything interesting or useful that doesn't suit a notebook devoted to the matters of a single course. It should be compact enough for you to carry it with you almost all the time. Start by trying to write at least five entries a week, long or short. If you keep it up, you'll soon discover the kinds of things worth recording. This is for noticing all the things you're discovering beyond the limits of particular courses, including connections like those mentioned above.