Student Success Stament

Student Success Statement

“It is our duty to concentrate all our influence to make popular that which is sound and good, and (to make) unpopular that which is unsound (and not good).”

                                                                                              Joseph smith

This statement means that it’s our duty as a human being to keep our name clean and to always choose the right. For example in school it is our duty to make our parents proud and to have a better future than they did. We have to learn to make wise decisions and not because something looks popular is always right.  we should influence other people to always choose the right and never do bad things. Always follow your heart, because you’ll know if it’s right or bad.

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Successful Students

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9. … Don’t cram for exams. Successful students know that divided periods of study are more effective than cram sessions, and they practice it.

If there is one thing study specialist agree on, it is that distributed study is better than massed, late night, last-ditch efforts known as cramming. You’ll learn more, remember more, and earn a higher grade by studying in four, one hour-a-night session for Friday’s exams than studying for four hours straight on Thursday night. Short, concentrated preparatory efforts are more efficient and rewarding than wasteful, inattentive, last moment marathons. Yet, so many students fail to learn this lesson and end up repeating it over and over again until it becomes a wasteful habit. Not too clever, huh?

When you cram, you are taking a shortcut, and shortcuts never produce any real worthwhile results. Also, when you take shortcuts, you feel rather rotten knowing that you could have done better but didn’t. Shortcuts cut you short. You can’t harvest watermelon seeds and harvest fresh watermelons the next day. It takes time. Cramming for a test or project and expecting to make a high score the next day is like planting watermelons seeds and expecting to harvest and eat fresh watermelon the next day. Plus cramming for a test or project doesn’t help you academically, so why even do it. Plan ahead, prepare ahead. Give yourself plenty of days and weeks to prepare for upcoming accountability opportunities.

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

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

Howard Cosell

This statement means that not everything that we see popular is right, for example it can be someone we admire like an artist,  for example he/she can be popular and everything  but he/she might be doing drugs or not doing the right things he/she is supposed to do at her job. But for example there a lot of artists that are not so popular but he/she is doing the right things like not doing drugs and always acting like a role model. We have to realize that everything is not what it seems. Sometimes it’s for good and sometimes it’s for bad. We choose our own path. 

    

Successful Students 7-8

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 you’re disinterested, and you’ll become disinterested. So the next time you have trouble concentrating in the classroom, “act” like an interested person: lean forward, place your feet flat on the floor, maintain eye contact with 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 exited and enthusiastic.

8. …talk about 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, it’s a proven learning tool. Transferring ideas into words provides the most direct path for moving knowledge from short-term memory. You really don’t “know’ material until you can put it 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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High school Graduation

          Summary/ Reflection:  High school Graduation- pleasure OR pain? Have you really thought about the things you are doing that will later on will affect your future. Many students don’t appreciate the opportunity education brings them because some students all they can think of is "I'm too cool for school" like really?  Have you really thought about yourself and what your future might hold for you if you don't graduate from high school? It is really hard to see students that really care about school, i know that someday they will regret it because it is hard to live a good life without graduating from high school and continuing your education. Not only our teachers want to see us graduate but also our parents it’s a pleasure that you give yourself after all the hard work but it can also be a pain if you don't do the require things you are supposed to do during school; it is always good to start doing the right things at the beginning then regretting all the things you could have done at the beginning. We have to take life seriously and start making wise decisions about our future.

     

Successful Students 5-6

Successful Students

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5.  Don’t sit in the back of the room. Successful students minimize classroom distractions that interfere with learning.

Students want the best eat available for their entertainment dollars, but willingly seek the worst seat for their educational dollars. Students who sit in the back cannot possibly be their professor’s teammate (see no. 4). Why do they expose themselves to the temptations of inactive classroom experiences and distractions of all the people between them and their instructor? Of course, we know they chose the back of the classroom because they seek invisibility or anonymity, both of which are arithmetical to efficient and effective learning. If you are trying not to be part of the class, why, then are you wasting your time? Push your hot buttons, is there something else you should be doing with your time?

6. ….take good notes. Successful students take notes that are understandable and organized, and review them often.

Why put something into your notes you don’t understand? Ask the questions now that are necessary to make your notes meaningful at some later time. A short review of your notes while the material is still fresh on your mind helps you to learn more. The more you learn then, the less you’ll have to learn later and the less time it will take because you won’t have to include some deciphering time, also. The whole purpose of taking notes is to use them, and use them often. The more you use them, the more they improve.

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“The time is always right to do what is right.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

This statement means that it doesn't matter the time it is to do something right. For example if you have to turn in homework the next day and you totally forgot about it, doing it will be better than not doing it at all. Time is valuable and you have to learn to appreciate it in order to always do the right things. There are a lot of things that we do during the day but do we really ask ourselves, is it really important what I'm doing? sometimes we spend doing things that they aren't important whatsoever but we still do them because we don't appreciate the time. Always doing good things at the right time is choosing the right.

Successful Students 3-4

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

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.

This statement means that when you act well there is no regret whatsoever but when you sin you will feel bad and regret it after and there will not be a way back but to start choosing the right things and feel good about it after. You have to learn to differentiate from good and bad things. Always listen to your heart you’ll know if it’s the right thing to do or not. When you do good you feel good always choose the 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 responsible 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 actively listen, think, question, and take notes like someone 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 your 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 then 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

Student Success Statement

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

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

This statement means that every time you do the right things you will feel good about yourself; because you did good and you will feel stronger than anything because you did the right things. However if you decide to do the wrong things you will feel ashamed of your own acts and you will not have the courage to accept it because you know you did wrong. Whenever you do good you feel more confident of yourself always try your best to choose the right things.

Study for Multiple exams Part 3

Study for Multiple

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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 better grades in college: Time management and organization are critical key factors to success 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/Reflection: Tennessee walking horse trainers were torturing horses and the people in charge of the competition did not know about it.  After some reporters who went undercover found out what was really going on.  Jackie McConnell a horse trainer along with his employees was caught on tape torturing horses, after ABC speaking with her she had no remorse about it. McConnell was the “go-to trainer” for rich owners who wanted their Tennessee walking horses to dominate the competition. It’s really hard to believe how certain people can do such a cruel thing, just because they want to win in the competition. Cheating will not make you a winner even if you win by the wrong way you will feel guilty. It’s better to just do the require things and have a clear concies you are not only harming yourself by cheating but the people around you and your future as well which in these case was an animal.

   

Study for Multiple Exams Part 2

Study for Multiple Exams

Part 2

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. This 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 if 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 show their work, not just give you or the group their word for it.

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Study for Multiple Exams Part 1

Study for Multiple Exams

Part 1

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 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 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 exam or what they suggest I do for studying for the next exam.

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

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

James Freeman Clarke

This statement means that if you always choose and do the right things opportunities will come to you. For example if you always do well in school and you are a great student, universities will want you to go to their school why? Because you did the right things while you were in high school. Rather than not doing well in high school of course universities will not accept you because you didn’t choose the right things while you had the opportunity to do so. Another example will be throughout your entire life if you always did the right things you will have an amazing life because you did the right things. People say life is not easy but you can make your life easy by always choosing and doing the right things. Every time you feel like giving up on your dreams just remember that at the end of the tunnel you’ll see the light, which means when you accomplish something there will always be a reward at the end.

Sarah's Academic Success Story Part 2

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 difficulty 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 always carry a planner with me. I even use different color highlighters to show what each event on my calendar is for. For example, pink is personal, yellow is 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 always been amazed at how early I get things accomplished but that is really all I do.

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