“You Will Go Far with CTR”

 

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hen you choose the right, you open yourself to various opportunities, these are opportunities are extremely valuable, and you should be greatly thankful for them. When you choose the right, you are steering yourself from all the negative energy that might surround you and you are paving your path for freedom and success. There are many ways to choose the right, but the most important should be, get an education, the best investment you can ever make is an investment into your brain, people can strip you from material items, but they will never be able to strip you of your intelligence.

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Getting an education will hopefully and most likely open up various opportunities whether it be to more studying option or a good job, a good job will get you far because it will most likely lead you to be economically stable, when you are economically stable you basically have freedom as long as you continue to choose the right. With little sacrifice of time after high school, about 4-8 years, you can save yourself countless hours of back breaking minimum wage paying work. So why break your back for minimum wage when with the right opportunities you can easily earn double, even triple that with just a little bit of hard working and choosing the right. Choosing the right is an important habit you should get used to, it will get you very far in life; make sure you practice the habit.

Choose the Right

 

 

 

Choosing the wrong	Occasionally choosing the right	Always Choosing the right
Feeling guilty	Sometimes feeling guilty	Clean conscience
Living a life full of wrong	Living a mediocre life	Living a Righteous life
Economic consequences	Mediocre job	A Good job and economic rewards

[Henry De LA rosa 12/13/12 Period 6]

Student Success Statement

 

“You will never regret doing what’s right.”

-Anon

Making the right decision or choosing to do the right action is the greatest thing you can do, it is something you will never regret, to the contrary if you choose the wrong, you will most likely always regret doing so and your mind will be full of guilt, when you choose the right you have a clear conscience and will always feel great about doing so!

Academic Success

Part 2

Laura B.’s Academic Success Story

In high school I was one of the good students who didn’t really have to study to be a good student. The information that I took for notes in class usually sunk in enough for me to be able to get by on the tests by simply reviewing the material just before the class began. It wasn’t that I didn’t try, I had a 4.0 all throughout high school, but I had never really had to put forth much of an effort to get the results that I wanted to see. In college however, that changed. Not only did I start studying and reading the book, but I began to understand that the little tiny facts were just as important as the general concepts. My overall study method: I do the reading that is required for all the classes, and I try to keep up. If I do fall behind, I usually use the reading that I did not get as an additional study aid. I take good notes in class and actually attend every class that I can. Sometimes, with volleyball, its though because we are on the road a lot, but if I do miss class because of volleyball I make sure that I get the notes from another student in the class. Also, for a subject such as chemistry, I do practice problems to help me understand what the material means.

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Student Success Statement

“Light and darkness can’t occupy the same space at the same time. CTR is light-CTW is darkness.”

-Call / Haymore

 

Actions and people cannot be both righteous people and people who choose the wrong; they either had to be righteous or bad people. If you do something that you believe is slightly the wrong choice, it is not slightly the wrong choice; it is just the wrong choice. If you’re going to do something, make sure it’s for a righteous reason, and make sure it is the right thing to do 100%.
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Academic Success

Part 1

My great academic success: In my principles of marketing class, we had to come up with a new product and sell it. My group ended up with a couple supposedly bad student according to our teacher since they were the last ones picked. In the end, they helped out more than needed since I was the team leader I assigned them certain pieces of the project that became solely their responsibility. Delegating work always helps since it allows a group member individual work without separating the group.

English, math, foreign language tips: Math basically just takes practice. I always tell students to take a blank piece of paper and write everything you know about what you’ve learned or what you’re studying for in the class. If you don’t remember everything or start drawing blanks, then you need to study more and review your notes. Note cards work really well for foreign language. Here are my final words of wisdom for students who want to get better grades in college: go to class, make friends with people in class just in case you’re absent, and remember that you should want to learn.

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Student Success Statement

“There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience”

-French Proverb

What I believe this proverb represents is, having a clear conscience is extremely comforting, far more comforting than the softest pillow in the world, in fact it’s not even comparable. Knowing that you have done nothing wrong and have nothing you need to be ashamed of or that will bug your conscience is a great thing.

I Will Persist Until I Succeed

Part 2

How I’ve overcome an initial bad grade: When receiving a bad grade, I just try to do better on the second exam and study harder. It’s hard when you have your first test in a class and have no idea what to expect. The second one is usually easier since you know what to expect from your teachers.

My strategies for written assignments; Start early and make sure that you have it proofread. Also, with written assignments, having a timeline planned out can help like by setting a certain number of pages done by a certain day before the paper is due. How I succeed in team projects: COMMUNICATION! Despite your group synergy, communication is crucial. I remember I ran out of cell phone minutes constantly when working on a group project for my marketing research class. It’s really important that everyone is on the same page and getting the same emails. The worst is when two people are working on the same portion of the project and don’t even realize it.

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I Will Persist Until I Succeed

Part 1

Heather A.’s Academic Story

In high school, I didn’t study as much in groups as I do in college. I feel I learn better when I can teach other people information and we can exchange notes taken in class because sometimes other students pick up on more important information than others.

My overall study method: I prefer to study in small groups and practice problems where I can work out the methods verbally with others. My test study method: I have very different techniques. For financial tests, I try to work on problems given in class as well as problems from power points and homework. When it comes to marketing classes, I review my notes and try to make diagrams to describe different processes.

My time management secret: One of my biggest secrets is to look over the information that you just learned when class is over. After reviewing the information it sticks a little bit better than waiting until the night before the test.

How I deal with multiple projects/tests: I try to work on whatever has the shortest deadline and work from there. My overall study method: I tend to do massive studying blocks of about an hour or so in order to really learn the material.

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Student success statement

 

“You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience.”

-Robert E. Lee

 

The option to choose the right is always there, so why not always choose it? You should always do so. Knowing you choose the right will make your life easier, and a more pleasurable experience.

 

You Can Succeed in School If You Will

Part 5

After some serious soul-searching, Kennedy decided she was made for a purpose: to be successful and to fulfill who she was destined to be. She returned to DCCC “with determination and a mindset that I would not fail with God leading me.”

She says her first semester back was difficult. “I knew I could refuge in the Student Success Program,” Kennedy said. “To my benefit, Ms. Gravely accepted me back. Because of my struggles and hard times, I seek a new beginning every day and don’t allow the past to cripple my future. I have learned to have self-value.”

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You Can Succeed in School If You Will
Part 4

 

As Kennedy lay crumpled in her hospital bed following the accident, she realized that many of her wounds were invisible. “After the car accident, I suffered from low self-esteem and depression,” she said. “For years, I allowed someone I loved to physically, mentally and emotionally abuse me.”

She had previously tried taking a few DCCC classes, but said she was immature and not ready for academic challenge. She dropped out. After the accident, she returned to DCCC to take cosmetology classes. She left school a second time and began working as a certified nursing assistant. After yet another car accident, she felt unstable, hopeless, and didn’t know what to do.

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You Can Succeed in School If You Will

Part 3

 

As Quansheeba Kennedy reviews her DCCC transcript in preparation to transfer to Salem College, she can hardly believe she has a 3.3 point average and that she was accepted into a prestigious private college with a selective admissions policy.

It took two false starts before the 22-year-old Thomasville resident found her true calling, elementary education, and more importantly, before she found and reaffirmed the value of herself. She thought back to when she was only 18 years old but felt “overwhelmed by life.” She had just graduate from high school when she was in a serious car accident.

“I almost killed myself, not by drinking and driving, not by partying, but because I was living a life that was overwhelming,” she said. One must work hard, but not waste time. Goofing off during school is a killer. It kills your achievement and your chances for outstanding success now and later.

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If You Will

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“Though I graduate from an associate degree program, I felt that my instructors provided me with the same theory and knowledge as those students completing their bachelor’s degree program in laboratory science,” Mishak added.

“When I started my clinical rotations at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, I felt that my formal education at DCCC prepared me to succeed at every challenge that I faced. Since I was among the first MLT students to rotate through WFUBMC, I think this strong foundation in laboratory science enabled me to dispel many of the preconceived ideas about MLTs regarding their education and what they are able to do.” After a year working as a medical laboratory technician at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, he was promoted to a hematology Analytical Specialist position. This involves oversight of the hematology, coagulation, and flow cytometry sections of the laboratory.

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You Can Succeed in School If You Will

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Chris Mishak, who earned a degree in Medical Laboratory Technology from DCCC in 1998, is the second MLT graduate from DCCC to be accepted into physician assistant’s school. In August 2011, Mishak will begin studying at Emory University in Atlanta to become a physician’s assistant. He says DCCC prepared him well to transfer to Winston-Salem State University, where he earned his undergraduate degree in clinical laboratory science in 2004. Since then, he has worked in the lab at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. “I learned pretty much everything that I needed to know about laboratory science at DCCC. Many of the clinical applications that I learned there I still use today either in my medical volunteering in phlebotomy or in the duties of my current job, which includes training new technologists on cell identification,” said Mishak.

It is pretty easy to be successful in school. If students work hard and honorably, it’s not difficult at all. All students need to do is study, put in the time; it’s as simple as that. If students aren’t willing to study now, it will be very difficult to develop this habit later on. Therefore, I suggest that students work hard in their studies and at being good people, doing nothing to get them in trouble during high school. By doing so, they will enjoy success during high school and throughout their lifetime.

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Student Success Statement

“There is no happiness in sin, and when we depart from the path of righteousness we begin to do those things which will inevitably lead us to unhappiness and misery and loss of freedom.”

-N. Eldon Tanner

When you begin to sin you are not doing what is right, you are leading yourself to a path of wrong that will just contribute into destroying your own body. With choosing the wrong comes consequences, these consequences can either be severe or mild, if severe in common cases it may even lead into being stripped of your freedom, this will just cause more pain and suffering than what the person would be going through, be smart, choose the right.

Student Success Story

Part 6

 

Andrea packer anticipates graduating with a B.A. in Education from Catawba in December  and then enrolling in the Master of Arts in Teaching program from Salem College, also offered on the Davidson Campus. Packer spends her days on the Davidson Campus working 29  hours a week as a teaching assistant for instructors in the DCCC Early Childhood Education program.

“Not only did receiving this scholarship make me study harder and be the best I could be, but it also allowed me graduate in May 2010 with my associate degree totally paid for,” she said. “I couldn’t believe I had my first degree, and I was debt free. What a wonderful blessing!”

If students work hard during high school, complete all assignments on time, and demonstrate a bright, positive attitude toward school, learning, and other people, then they can be highly successful as a high school student and qualify for academic scholarships also. All they need to do is put in the time, study time. All the hard work and effort during high school will definitely pay off. They will be rewarded for their hard work. But if they just mess around during their high school years and neglect their studies, use drugs, and mistreat others, then they can expect to fall short of what could have been their rewards of scholarships and other opportunities, and they will suffer in the short and long term. Invest in yourself. Give yourself opportunities of a lifetime by succeeding in high school on a super high note. Then you can: Write your own Student Success Story.

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Student Success Story

Part 5

 

Andrea Packer – Without the prestigious DCCC Presidential Scholarship she won in 2008, Andrea Packer, a 2010 DCCC honor graduate, says she doubts she would already be pursuing her baccalaureate degree from Catawba College. “I cannot say thank you enough to whomever paid for my education, and I am going to continue to do my best to make them happy that they invested in me,” she said.

Since August 2010, Packer, 20, has been working toward her bachelor’s degree in early childhood education from Catawba College, and she doesn’t have to leave DCCC’s Davidson Campus to do so. She said she likes the convenience of leaving her teaching assistant’s job in one DCCC building and walking only steps to her evening Catawba classes where she is taking history, statistics and education courses.

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Student Success Stories

Part 4

 

 

Porter said she was impressed at everything Noah accomplishes, including earning several professional certifications and still making time to tutor other students in her classes as well as others in the information technology area.

“Shane Noah helps other students troubleshoot software and hardware issues not only in networking classes but other information technology courses while maintain a positive, professional attitude. He goes above and beyond the minimum requirements of an assignment while being a full-time student.”

Noah earned professional certifications in A+, NET+ and Security+ in 2010-2011 and will receive his CCNA certification in the summer. In addition, he implemented the deployment of Windows 7 using server 2008 in the DCCC computer lab without the help of instructors. He also documented the procedure with step-by-step video and written instructions to help others get through the procedure.

 

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Student Success Statement

“The most valuable asset you will ever have is your mind and what you put into it.”

-Anon

Your mind and its content will be with you forever as long as you’re alive, it is the most important asset you have so be careful with the content you feed it. It is also one of the small amount of things people can never take from you, your mind provides you with knowledge, just make sure it’s the right knowledge about the right things so you can have a righteous and clean mind.

How to maintain a healthy mind

Student Success Stories

Part 3

 

Shane Noah is a full-time college student, scholarship recipient, volunteer tutor, Dean’s List, student every semester, husband and father. All these titles accurately describe Shane Noah, a high-achieving May 2011 DCCC graduation candidate majoring in Networking Technology.

Noah, who is from High Point, plans to continue his higher education at East Carolina University upon graduation from DCCC. His career goal is to become a corporate network administrator. He won the North Carolina Computer Instructor’s Association Scholarship after he was nominated by Ann Porter, his DCCC instructor.

Seek for a higher learning. Work hard. Be a scholar. Do the right things and enjoy success.

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Summary: Kimani hunt cuts in the crease and recieves a loop pass and completes it with a dunk.

Reflection: Kimani is a very successful athlete whom sets high standards for himself therefore he gets high results. He has been offered full scholarships due to his success and ambitous nature, he is described as a "Kind and considerate student athlete".

Success at it's finest!

Student Success Stories

Part 2

 

Kimani Hunt, 19, a Dean’s List student at Davidson County Community College, is a standout 6’5” player on the DCCC Storm basketball team who serves as a role model for other students both on and off the court. With a 3.7 grade point average for the fall 2010 semester and cumulative basketball point total of 765 as of Feb.18^th, Hunt’s academic excellence and athletic abilities attract attention. Recently, he caught the attention of recruiters from the University of Northwestern Ohio who offered him a full scholarship there to play basketball. Named to the 1^st team All Freshmen in 2009-2010, hunt served on the 2009-2010 Region X and District H Championship teams, and he played with the Storm in last year’s 2010 NJCAA National Championship tournament. “Kimani Hunt has been a leader for us the last few years both on and off the court,” said DCCC Storm Head Coach Matt Ridge. “His high standard of excellence has helped us win many games, but it’s also helped him achieve a lot of success in the classroom, and we are certainly proud of him.” Ken Kirk, DCCC’s director of athletics and wellness, agrees. “Kimani is a kind and considerate student athlete. He helps tutor other players who look up to him as an academic leader, he communicates well with other students as well as the Storm fans, and he represents DCCC so well wherever he goes.” Hunt graduated from Riverside High School in Durham before enrolling at DCCC. He hopes to pursue a career in sports management.

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Summary: The event occured in an alley near the school the girls attended, The event was a fight between two fifth graders, barely 9 years old, they got into a fight which resulted in a fatality of one of the young girls, thus leading the girl who she opposed in the fight to be trialed and held for homicide.

Reflection: I think it is horrible that two girls of such a young age would even consider fighting, but the fact that they did so is much worse, violence leads no-where good fast and this event is an example of this, the fight leading to one of the very young ELEMENTARY school girls dying, a shame.

Student Success Stories

Part 1

 

Katie Watkins, standout Storm volleyball players for two years, now spends her free time studying to be a nurse at DCCC where she says she applies some of the concepts she learned on the court.

“Just like volleyball, nursing can be tough,” said Watkins, a 21-year-old who works in teams with her classmates in problem-based nursing exercises. “I learned that everyone has different strengths and brings something different to the table. I also learned that we have to respect each other.”

Watkins is a May 2012 candidate to receive her B.S.B. at Winston-Salem State University and eventually get her master’s degree in nursing.

Setting educational goals and working hard to achieve them brings a great feeling of accomplishment. It builds self-esteem, and increases self-confidence. Education opens up many doors of opportunity that normally would not open up for people.

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Student Success Statement

"The secret to achieve true success is found in your daily routine."

-Author Unknown

 

In order to be successful you must repeatedly work hard. When referring to repeatedly we assume daily, therefore in order to be successful you must work hard daily. Otherwise you won’t be a successful person you’d just be an average person who does what is needed every now and then. If you change your daily routine it will affect you greatly, It will change who you are, if you change it for a positive reason it will make you more a more successful person.



How to Always Succeed in School

Part 8

 

·         Many people avoid making decisions their whole lives, so their decisive faculty of mind, the faculty of discrimination, becomes rusty and dies. Such people become totally dependent on others. When we study the four functions of the mind – buddhi, identity; chitta, the storehouse of impressions; and manas, the importer and exporter of sensations and experience – then we become aware of the power of the will. Will power is that something within us that comes forward and says, “Do this. It will be helpful for you.” Training the internal functions helps us to understand the decisive faculty of the mind, without which we cannot be successful.

·         Watch what you do on a daily basis. We become what we do and think about. If you think about nothing- you will become nothing. If you think about being a great student-you will become a great student. IF you think about being honest- you will be honest. The activities and thoughts that fill your day are keys to living successfully in school and throughout your adult life.

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SUMMARY: On a Friday night In Tempe, Arizona, a horrific event occurred in a night club, a shootout occurred, because of this event 14 people were wounded. Police believe this was due to gang violence, police have one individual in custody and he is being held with 13 counts of aggravated assault and one count of assisting a criminal street gang. Twelve of the injuries were minor, while the other 2 were serious.

 

REFLECTION: If you hang around the wrong crowd bad things are bound to happen to you, this is just an example of it, Clubs are a bad place to hang out at therefore bad things are bound to happen at a Club, such as a gang shootout.

How to Always Succeed in School

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·         Students know they should learn to decide on time, but they don’t do it. They always say, “Well, I knew it. I understood the key, but I did not act on time. “Though they may think correctly, and accurately understand the situation properly, they suddenly lose confidence. This is a world of competition; someone else is always trying to attain the same thing we are. So if we do not decide on time, someone else will attain what we want. Time is valuable in the external world. A tender bamboo can be easily bent, but if we try to bend a mature bamboo, it will break. That which we have to do today, we should not postpone for tomorrow, but we should also not make decisions in haste. We may have a setback if we make a wrong decision, but out mistakes will teach us.

·         We must learn from the successes and mistake of others. When we see another student succeeding greatly and honorably, learn how they do it and pattern your studies after theirs. Also, on the other hand, when you see other students failing miserably learn how they do it and AVOID doing what they do or else you will join them in the failure’s club.

·         Make the most of your time and opportunities while at school. Don’t waste valuable time.

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How to Always Succeed in School

Part 6

 

Do the math. Even if you’re struggling in math, stay with it. Knowing math gives you options. It opens doors to good jobs in computers, engineering and business. And it helps your mind get organized.

·         Take math problems one step at a time.

·         Do your math homework every day. Falling behind will make it that much harder.

·         Ask for help and study with friends if you are having problems understanding a concept.

·         The first point to understand is the philosophy and science of decision – how to make decisions on time. The most successful person is that person who knows how to decide on time. There are many extraordinarily brilliant people who understand things very quickly, but when the time comes to make a decision, when an opportunity comes, they withdraw and are not able to act. They do not know how to decide.

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How to Always Succeed in School

Part 5

Write. Writing is a way to express yourself: your ideas, opinions and knowledge. And you may do a lot of it in college and on the job.

·         Write a little every day. Try keeping a daily journal to make a habit of writing.

·         Read outside class to increase your vocabulary and understanding of grammar.

·         Break up long writing sessions into shorter periods with regular breaks.

·         Let your writing sit for a while and then come back to it.

·         Read your writing out loud or have someone read it to you.

·         Edit someone else’s writing and let that person edit yours.

·         Learn to write and write to learn.

·         Write creatively. Writing on your personal web blog is a great way to put your words into writing and to journalize your writing day after day.

·         Write your life history.

·         Write your life’s goals in a journal, review these goals often, revise your goals as needed. But, write them down.

·         “Writing maketh an exact man; therefore, he that writeth little hath need of a great memory” (Anon)

·         Write to remember.

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