student success statement

 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

Reflection: if it’s good influence for others and you it should be popular. If it’s something bad it should not be popular. Everyone should concentrate on important things that can be popular and useful to others. An example is steeling they should concentrate when theirs a robbery.

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         Successful students

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

    If there is one thing that study skills specialist agree on, it is that distributed study is better than massed, late night, last- ditch efforts known as craning. You’ll learn more, remember more, and earn a higher grade by studying in four, one hour-a-night sessions for Friday’s exam than studying for four hours straight on Thursday night. Short, concentrated preparatory efforts are more efficient and rewarding than wasteful, intensive, 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 the 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 plant 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 watermelon 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.

      Choose the right!!!!  

student success statement

 “Student success statement

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

                             Howard Cosell

Reflection: when others choose the right and it’s something good they don’t think that it’s important nothing popular. And everything that’s popular are things that are bad but others think it’s cool they go and do it.             

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        Successful students

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

    If you act 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: learn forward, place your feeling 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’t 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 for short- terms to long- terms 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, reading, etc. with friends, recite to a chair, organize an oral study group, pretend you’re teaching you peers. “talk learning” produces a whole host of memories

      Choose the right!!!!

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        Successful students

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Why do they expose themselves to the templations of inactive classroom experiences and distraction of all the people between them and their instuctors. 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 your 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.

       Choose the right!!!!  

student success statement

Student success statement

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

                       Martin Luther King Jr.

Reflection: in life there is always time to choose the right. It’s important to always choose the right in life. Mo matter what anywhere your at you can choose the right. There is no need in time ti choose the right.

  

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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 addition to securing knowledge you seek. The process helps you pay attention to your professor and helps your professor pay attention to you! Think about it .

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 learn a good grade.

Successful students reflect well on the efforts of any teacher: if you have learned your material the instructor take you are not an enemy

      Choose the right!!!!

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

Reflection: moral is when you feel good after choosing the right. If you know you did something good and others are happy for you. For example if you get good grades and you show your parents they are going to be proud of you for trying and you feel good about it. Immoral is if you choose the wrong and you regret it. You know what you did wrong and you feel bad about it later on. For example if you lied to someone and they believed you and you know it’s not true later on you feel bad about it.  

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        Successful student

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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. your own errors 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 someone in charge of their learning experience. Either option cots 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 bottoms” and are, without a doubt, the most important factors in you success as a college student. If your educational goals are truly tours, not someone else’s they will motivate a vital and positive academic attitude. If you are familiar with what these hot bottoms 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!

  Choose the right!!!!

student success statement

Student success statement

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

          Alfred, lord Tennyson

 Reflection: that it’s good to be strong no matter what happens. You should always choose the right to stay strong. Don’t let others tell you what to do D  Alfred, lord Tennyson 

study for multiple exams part 3

  Study for multiple exams

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English, math, foreign language tips: PRACTICE-  foreign language class if you 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 if 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 if wisdom for students who want to get 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!

Choose the right!!!!

           Tennessee walking horse trainer

Reflection: Jackie McConnell choose the wrong by going along with his employee on treating the hores wrong. By hitting them to train them. They were caught in tape and they were still not emberezed of what they did . they choose the wrong       

study for multiple exam part 2

     Study for multiple exam

                    Part 2

I generally come up with an idea and do massive amounts and 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 if I look at it in 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 suppose to be doing. Have regular meetings and have each member show their work, not just give u or the group the word for it.

      Choose the right!!!!

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 to study for all the same time I spread my time. Start studying for my next test on the second half of Friday and part of Saturday, then my second Tuesday test on Saturdays as well and part of Sunday. Then Sunday night I can review for my Monday test because I already studied for it. When the test is over I can begin reviewing for the other test. My overall study method: I try to break it up over several days or at least two. I got 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 sometimes 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.

       Choose the right!!!!

student success statement

           Student success statement

  “There is no instinct like that of the heart.”

                             Bryan

Reflection: that you should do what their heart tells them to do. What they think it a right choice for them in life

sarah's academic success story part 2

  Sarah’s academic success story

                    Part 2

My test 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 an 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 the project for finance due on Tuesday, I need to start walking on it on [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.

          Choose the right!!!!  

sarah's academic success story part 1

  Sarah’s academic success story

                     Part 1

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 trying 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 studied 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.

       Choose the right!!!

student success statement

          Student success statement  

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

                                Anon

Reflection: you make your own chooses no one makes them for you. If you feel that you are doing the right chooses then do them no one can stop you. You do what you want not what others tell you to do. Some people tell you to do the wrong.

work together part 3

                Work together

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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 need it. It’s not a bad thing to not understand. It’s a bad thing if you don’t do anything about it. Plan you 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 it’s probably the biggest thing I can say though. If you don’t understand go to the 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 than 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 it’s amazing to find! Good luck!

      Choose the right!!!!  

work hard part 2

           Work together

                 Part 2

English, math, foreign language tips: for math, all I can say is do the problem assigned. 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 practical 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 then until the last second.

     Choose the right!!!

work together part 2

           Work together

                 Part 2

English, math, foreign language tips: for math, all I can say is do the problem assigned. 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 practical 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 then until the last second.

     Choose the right!!!

work together part 1

My greatest academic success was my first semester when I had to write a 10-12page research paper. It was the longest paper I had ever been assigned and I was a little scared. Also, it was the first paper where they were like, here you go, just write about something. I had to agree 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.

         Choose the right!!!!

student success statement

 Student success statement

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

                     Gordon B. Hinckley

Reflection: if you try hard you will do good than other times. If you show you want to improve you will. If you don’t improve you should choose the right and try harder. Life will be easier.

      

you can succeed eveyday part 2

            You can succeed everyday

                          Part 2

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. 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, whenever 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 so 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 things are going to get done on time and that I am going to get a good grade. If I am working in groups of people who all want to work, then it’s a different story.

              Choose the right!!!!

tiger woods reflection

                  tiger woods reflection 

thats mean that he ignored his family and their in need. how do we know that his brother didnt do anything bad to him thats why he dont want to help him out.

you can succeed every day part 1

   You can succeed every day

                    Part 1

My overall study method: I break up studying over several days and over the course of the evening that 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 test. I know that if I take the test tired the next day I will not do as well as if I was 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 out 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 materials. However, if 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 question.

        Choose the right!!!!

  

student success statement

           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 pass this way again.”

                                 Etienne de Grellet

Reflection: if your kind you should always show it no matter where you are at. In life you should show kindness, respect and always choose the right.in life we want people who do respect and are respectful to others. You will have many chances in life so take the advantage of them. we only live once    

                   

effective study method part 3

            Effective study methods

                         Part 3

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 is some part of a project that I know will not take me very long. I will do when I don’t have much time. If I am really in 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.

                Choose the right!!!!

effective study methods part 2

         Effective study methods

                         Part 2

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 things 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 everyday helps me plan out my weeks and days. If i know 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 turn things in late or not being in classes.

     Choose the right!!!!   

3 week reflection

                          3 week reflection

in the first week of my break i spend time with my friends. we went to the movies and i went to the mountains.the second week we were chrismas shopping for my family members, the most exciting day was chrismas we got to open our presents. the third week it was new years eve and we spend it with the family .it was the best three weeks of our break spending it with my family and friends.