Student Success Statement

 

“What’s right isn’t always popular. What’s popular isn’t always right.”

-Howard Cosell

Many people fall to peer pressure and just go along with what everyone is doing, the problem is what mostly everyone is doing is not the right thing to do. You need to make choices for yourself, if it’s the right choice then choose it, don’t just make a decision because it’s what people suggest or believe you should do, make sure it’s because you believe it is the right choice.

 

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Successful Students

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7. . . . Understand that actions affect learning. Successful students know their personal behavior affect their feelings and emotions which in turn can affect learning.

If you act in a certain way that normally produces particular feelings, you will begin to experience those feelings. Act like you’re bored, and you’ll become bored act like your disinterested, and you’ll become disinterested. So the next time you have trouble concentrating in the classroom, “act” like an interested person: learn forward, place your feet flat on the floor, maintain eye contact with the professor, nod occasionally, take notes, and ask questions. Not only will you benefit directly from your actions, your classmates and professor may also get more excited and enthusiastic.

8. . . . talk about what they’re learning. Successful students get to know something well enough that they can put it into words. Talking about something, with friends or classmates is not only good for checking whether or not you know something, it’s a proven learning tool. Transferring ideas into words provides the most direct path for moving knowledge from short-term to long-term memory. You really don’t “Know” the material until you can put into words. So, next time you study, don’t do it silently. Talk about notes, problems, readings, etc. with friends, recite to a chair, organize an oral study group, pretend you’re teaching your peers. “talk-learning” produces a whole host of memory traces that result in more learning.

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Student Success Statement

"The time is always right to do what is right."

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

This quote is talking about making the right decisions, what it is saying is, the time is always right to do whats right, so always make the right choice, because it is simply that, the right thing to do. Choosing the right will always benefit you unlike choosing the wrong, choosing the wrong has bad consequences.
For example, if your friend wants you to steal something because you cannot afford it, what positive thing does stealing it bring? A few seconds of joy because you have the item, then a lifetime of regret because you made the wrong choice? Make the right decision and..

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Successful Students

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3 . . . . Ask questions. Successful students ask questions to provide the quickest route between ignorance and knowledge. In addition to securing knowledge you seek, asking questions has at least two other extremely important benefits. The process helps you pay attention to your professor and helps your professor pay attention to you! Think about it. If you want something, go after it. Get the answer now, or fail a question later. There are no foolish questions, only foolish silence. It’s your choice.

4 . . . . Learn that a student and a professor make a team. Most instructors want exactly what you want: they would like for you to learn the material in their respective classes and earn a good grade.

Successful students reflect well on the efforts of any teacher; if you have learned your material, the instructor takes some justifiable pride in teaching. Join forces with your instructor, they are not an enemy, you share the same interests, the same goals- in short, your teammates. Get to know your professor. You’re the most valuable players on the same team. Your jobs are to work together for mutual success. Neither wishes to chalk up a losing season. Be a team player!

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Student Success Statement

 

“I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”

-Ernest Hemingway

Pay attention to what’s right and what’s wrong.

After you do something that is the right thing you will feel good, doing the right thing is what is moral, after doing a bad thing you would feel bad, this would be immoral, it goes against your morals and is not the right choice, so why feel bad? It’s great to be able to feel good so CHOOSE THE RIGHT and DO WHATS RIGHT!

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Successful Students

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Successful students exhibit a combination of successful attitudes and behaviors as well as intellectual capacity. Successful students . . .

1.       . . . are responsibly and active. Successful students get involved in their studies, accept responsibility for their own education and are active participants in it! Responsibility means control. It’s the difference between leading and being led. Your own efforts control your grade, you earn the glory or deserve the blame, you make the choice. Active classroom participation improves grades without increasing study time. You can sit there, act bored, daydream, or sleep. Or, you can actively listen, think, question, and take notes like something in charge of their learning experience. Either option costs one class period. However, the former method will require a large degree of additional work outside of class to achieve the same degree of learning the latter provides at one sitting. The choice is yours.

2.       . . . Have educational goals. Successful students have legitimate goals and are motivated by what they represent in terms of career aspirations and life’s desires.

Ask yourself these questions: What am I doing here? Why have I chosen to be sitting here now? Is there some better place I could be? What does my presence here mean to me? Answers to these questions represent your “Hot Buttons” and are, without a doubt, the most important factors in your success as a college student. If you’re educational goals are truly yours, not someone else’s, they will motivate a vital and positive academic attitude. If you are familiar with what these hot buttons represent and refer to them often, especially when you tire of being a student, nothing can stop you; if you aren’t and don’t, everything can, and will!

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Student Success Statement

“My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure.”

-Alfred, Lord Tennyson

 

True strength comes with choosing the right, that is something no one can strip you of, strength can come physically, and that is how it is most commonly found, but strength also comes from being a strength righteous person.

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English, math, foreign language tips: Practice—especially foreign language. It is hard to succeed in a foreign language class if you are just showing and doing the work. But if you are in your room and look at objects and try to say them in the language you are learning it actually helps. Or if you send a simple text to a friend think about it, can you translate that to German or Spanish? These are the little things that will help.

Here are my final words of wisdom for students who want to get better grades in college: Time management and organization are critical key factors to succeed in college. And never be afraid to go ask your teacher for help. They have office hours for a reason-use them!

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Summary: There is a competition in Tennessee which consists of horses “Walking” in a track, they are judged by the way they walk which is supposed to be unique and fancy in a way, the con to this though, is to cause or train horses to walk in such a way they are commonly tortured to produce this result.

Reflection: I think it is disgusting that people can be capable of doing this to a living creature just for fame and/or glory. There should be no exceptions where torture should be acceptable. You have to have issues in order to do such a thing to such a beautiful and astonishing animal, I believe any trainers caught or suspected to be doing so should automatically be banned or exiled from the competition(s) because it is not right. Do not be like these trainers at Ctw.

 

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My strategies for written assignments: Everyone has their own writing styles. I generally come up with an idea and do massive amounts of research before I ever think about writing. I then organize my research then sometimes prepare an outline before actually writing. I always print out the paper and come back to it the next day and reread it. That is the easiest way for me to catch my own mistakes. I have to give my eyes a break from it, and if I just wrote it I think it looks perfect. But I look at it a day later I almost always find grammatical errors or phrases and sentences I just want to reword.

How I succeed in team projects: Never assume someone is doing what they are supposed to be doing. Have regular meetings and have each member shower their work, not just give you or the group their word for it.

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Study for Multiple Exams

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How I study for multiple exams, deal with multiple projects: Really it is my time management that I explained above. If I see I have multiple things due or to study for all at the same time I spread out my time beforehand. For example, if I have a test Monday, and 2 tests Tuesday then I will study for my Monday test Thursday and part of Friday. Start studying for my next test on the second half of Friday and part of my Saturday, then my second Tuesday test on Saturday as well and part of Sunday. Then Sunday night I can review for my Monday test because I already studies for it. When that test is over I can begin reviewing for the other tests. My overall study method: I try to break it up over several days or at least two. I get bogged down if I try to pull an all-nighter. How I’ve overcome an initial bad grade: if I received a low grade I probably knew it was coming because I didn’t prepare properly or I didn’t use the right study habit for that class. I usually try to go over what I did wrong and sometime discuss with the teacher what I can do differently on the next exam or what they suggest I do for studying for the next exam.

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Student Success Statement

“Seek to do good and you will find that happiness will run after you.”

-James Freeman Clarke

 

When you choose the right and do what is the correct thing to do, you will notice that you will be happy. Because when you choose the right you have a clear conscience and you know you have done well, when you do well you feel happy and proud. For example, if someone needs help with classwork and you know you can help them and you do so, wont that make you feel proud and happy of yourself that you were able to do so? Yes you will. Now for a more difficult example, if someone is trying to tempt you into using an illegal substance and they are doing their best to influence you but you resist the urge or thought of doing so and simply tell them no thanks won’t you feel happy that you had the strength to do so? Yes you will. Choose the right and you will be happy and live a great life.

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Sarah’s Academic Success Story

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My test study method: I have different strategies for different types of tests or subjects. For me, any type of math is exceptionally difficult so I had to spend extra time on that. I would go back through the homework problems focusing on the problems that I had extra difficult on. Many times I would ask the teacher for any additional study materials they could provide. If it was a class that required memorization or applying concepts I would create a sort of study guide for myself many times focusing on what were key focal points in the class. If I knew there were going to be essays I would try to take the terms and apply them to an example or create different questions on the concepts focused on throughout the semester.

My time management secret: I always always carry a planner with me. I even use different color highlighter to show what each event on my calendar is for. For example, pink is for personal, yellow is for school, orange is work, blue is for appointments, and green is for my sorority. Although I use white-out frequently, I can see in bright yellow that if I have that project for finance due on Tuesday, I need to start working on it [the previous] Wednesday so I can just get it done. My friends have always been amazed at how early I get things accomplished but that is really all I do.

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American Idol Disqualifies Gentle Giant Jermaine Jones for Criminal Past

 

 

Summary: Jermaine Jones is a young male that participated in american idol, he made it into the top 12, revealing he had a great talent. Theirs only one problem.. He had a criminal past. Not just a mild criminal past but a violent and very explict one.

 

Reflection: No matter who your are or how long you try to hide who you truly are, who you are will always be revealed, your past will always catch up to you so do whats right and stay away from the wrong. CTR!

Sarah’s Academic Success Story

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Time management became a key factor in my study skills for college. In high school, there were times I was able to study for an hour or two the night before a test and get away with it. This was not the case in college. I made sure in college I was prepared for each class. Sometimes that meant writing out the terms for the chapter we read (even if when it isn’t required) to better understand them. That way when the midterm or test comes around I was able to understand what I was studying. I started taking excellent notes in class in college. I may have done this in high school, but in college I started typing up the notes after class. This helped me remember what I just went over in class then when I had a test one week later I was more likely to remember then as well.

My overall study method: structured. One thing I learned was I had to adapt or change my study method according to the class. I couldn’t study for a religion class the same way I studies for a finance class. But making sure I had enough time to study for each class – even if it meant carrying a planner with me at all times was a big part of my success.

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Define EXCEl arithmetic Operators
+  Addition
-  Subtraction
*  Multiplication
/  Division
^  Power or Exponent

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Student Success Statement

“There is no set path, just follow your heart.”

-Anon

There is no path in life that you can choose that will guarantee you anything, unexpected things are bound to happen, just do what you think is right and follow your heart, if you believe something is wrong, then maybe you should avoid doing so because your heart will always be right. Do what is right and you will go far in life.

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Here are my final words of wisdom for students who want to get better grades in college: A big thing that not many will say is to ask for help if you needed it. It’s not a bad thing to not understand, it’s a bad thing if you don’t do anything about it. Plan your time out so you are completing everything that needs to get done and leave time to double check. Write things down and have good time management skills. Ask for help if probably the biggest thing I can say though. If you don’t understand, go to office hours or find a classmate that does understand and is willing to help you. If you try hard, it will come to you. I find myself thinking that I would have to try harder to fail that I try to succeed. It is something that is within me to succeed. If that is not who you are, then hopefully things that I have done can show you that success is something that is amazing to find! Good luck!

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Work Together

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English, math, foreign language tips: For math, all I can say is do the problems assigned. It is the only way to practice and that’s really all it is for math. It’s the same for chemistry; if you do the practice problems you will understand the material so much better because those subjects are not just memorization like history, you need to be able to apply what you have learned in practice situations. As for English, I am no longer taking it, but I would say to leave yourself plenty of time to write essays and papers. They take time to get all the information out of your head and onto the page, so don’t leave them until the last second.

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Work Together

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I can and will work as part of the team as long as everyone in the team is willing to do his work. I don’t like having to pick up the slack, but I will if I know that my grade will be harmed otherwise. My greatest academic success was in my first semester when I had to write a 10-12 page research paper. It was the longest paper I had ever been assigned and I was a little sacred. Also, it was the first paper where they were like, here you go, just write about something. I had to argue in favor of or against something, but it could be anything from the sky is blue to hypnotism. I wrote mine on hypnotism. I worked on this paper for weeks and weeks. Every night I would be doing research or writing. I put so much effort into this paper. It ended up being just under 12 pages but it was full on information. I turned it in and when I got it back a week or so later, I had received the first A+ of my college career. All my hard work paid off because I got the grade I deserved. I was really happy and proud of myself.

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STUDENT SUCCESS STATEMENT

 

“Try a little harder to be a little better.”

-Gordon B. Hinckley

The harder you try at something the better you will become at it; you’re hard work will not go to waste. So if you try a little harder, you will get a little better, if you try your beast and go beyond your expectations, the reward you will get from doing so will be tremendous.

You Can Succeed Everyday

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My strategies for written assignments: I try to outline before I write because otherwise I forget what I am supposed to be talking about. I try not to leave them until the last minute because then I will just good up the work. A lot of times I just write what I feel. Teachers like your opinion and if you can find something from the reading or research that related specifically to your life, they like it even more because it allows you to take ownership of your work. I write things that I want others to read; not things that I have to write because the teacher said so.

How I succeed in team projects: personally, I do not like working on group projects, especially ones that I worked on in high school. However, when it is required to work in a group, usually I try to lead. I like taking the lead because then I know that my grade will be a good one. I do well in school, I always have and I don’t plan on changing that anytime soon, so when I need to work with people who maybe don’t care as much as I do, or they have more time to waste on things other than the project, I try to be in charge. That way I know that I am going to get a good grade. If I am working in a group of people who all want to work, then it is a different story.

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Summary:

I believe Tiger Woods has been struggling to make the right choices in his life, Everyone needs a reminder every now and then but Tiger Woods has taken it too far, being a multi-millionaire he has neglected his family and hasn’t helped them out financially even though he has the resources to do so. I believe he should help out his cousin whom is in need.

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You Can Succeed Every Day

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My overall study method: I break up studying over several days and over the course of the evening and day. Cramming never works for me so I try not to do it. I will have longer sessions on nights before big tests, but I never stay up much later than normal before tests. I know that if I take a test tired the next day I will not do as well as if rested. How I’ve overcome an initial bad grade: I usually look over the test or paper to see what I did that the teacher did not want. Basically, I do not stress about grades that much because for me they are not worth getting really upset about. I do well because I know that I know the material. However, id I do get a bad grade, or one lower than I expected, I make sure that the next time a test is coming I study even more so that I won’t be surprised by the questions.

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Student Success Statement

 

“I shall pass through this life but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness I can show, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall never pass this way again.”

-Etienne de Grellet

You only live once, so make sure you live your one and only life righteous, because you cannot go back and fix a mistake you made in life, you can only do your best to attempt and make up for it, so why make mistakes? Do your best and choose what is right. Help others when its possible, Do what you need to do to be a good person, make the best out of your life and yourself.

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Effective Study Methods

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How I deal with multiple projects/tests: When I have more than one test or project, I break up my studying. I will study for one test for 30 minutes or so and then switch to the other one. If there us some part of a project that I know that will not take me very long, I will do it when I don’t have much time. If I am really into a crunch for time on a specific day, I will study for one test in the morning and the other in the afternoon or at night. By breaking up the studying into different sections, I feel like I get much more done. Cram sessions do not work for me. I need to study something for a shorter period of time more often for it to sink in.

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Effective Study Methods

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My time management secret: My secret is to use time wisely. I know that on certain days I do not have time to run errands or hang out with friends even. Each minute of each day is used for something. One thing that works really well for me is to write everything down. I mean everything. I write down if I am going to email people, write letters, or study. It works for me to have a planner that goes by the day and shows me what I am going to be doing every day. Knowing what I have to do everyday helps me plan out my week and my days. If I know that I don’t have time on Tuesday, I will try to get more things done on Monday or Sunday. I plan ahead, especially if I am going to be on the road for volleyball. When I am on the road, I bring my books and read on the bus/plane/hotel room. Missing class is killer to make up from, but if you are upfront with your professors, they are usually nice about having to turns things in late or not being in classes.

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During my 3 week break I did various things, the first week I mostly stayed at home, resting because it was some well deserved and needed rest. I wouldnt occasionaly go on dates with my girlfriend Jasmin. I played video games alot, slept alot, watched netflix a lot.. id have to say the most productive activities I did during the break would have to be practicing lacrosse and working out. I was being very ambitous because I had All-City travel team try outs during the break and I really wanted to make it to the team, when try-outs came all the hard work paid off and I made it.

Lately ive been working out alot in order to gaint he fitness and stability needed to play Lacrosse at a top level, I have been working out my footwork and balance. I have a tournament coming up on the 12th of this month that I hope and expect to participate in. I really hope we advance into the late rounds and do a great job. Im very anxious and excited, their will be another tournament on the 19th of this month, im hoping to participate in that tournament aswell. The tournament on the 12th is in Ojai, Ca, since it is a travel teamt he tournaments are a fair distance away.

This is the link to the teams website. All-City Lax.

Effective Study Methods

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My test study method: When it comes time to study for the test, I usually start 2-3 days before the test. I go through my notes and make flashcards on what was important for those sections, paying special attention to what the teacher said would be on the test if there was a review session. Also, I go through the book and read inset stories and add to my flashcards. If there are practice problems or online assignments or old tests, I use those to help me study for the test as well. Once the test is over, I keep the flashcards so that I have them for the next test or for the final. Flashcards are a marvelous learning tool. The key to remembering something is to repeat it numerous times-spaced rehearsal. If you forget something, it is because you haven’t repeated it enough times for an extended period of time. Repetition is a law of learning; therefore, to learn and remember, to recall, it is mandatory that you repeat over and over the things you desire to learn and remember. You may be thinking, “Oh, no repeating something.” You need to get used to it. For example, the more you practice a song on the piano, the better you become at playing that song. Learning and remembering is like playing the piano-the more you practice saying or doing it the better you can remember it. Look now at what you remember. You remember it because you have repeated it numerous times since first being exposed to it. So, practice rehearsing those things you desire to remember, and they will stick with you.

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