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).”

Reflection: To concentrate in our things that were doing. Some things are not right to do but our duty is to work hard enough to make good things by choosing the right.

Successful Students 9

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 that study skills 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 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 fall 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 bit didn’t. Shortcuts cut you short. You can’t plan watermelon seeds and harvest fresh watermelons the next day. It takes time. Cramming for a test or project and expecting yo make a high score the next day is like planting 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.”

Reflection: Following the wrong crowed doing the wrong maybe be popular but doing the right is a right thing to do.  

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 emotions.

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 entertained and you’ll be entertained. So next time you need to pay attention “act” like you’re an interested person and you’ll become interested. Not only will you benefit directly from your actions, your classmates may get more exited.

8…. Talk about what your leaning. Successful students get to know something well before they put it into words. It’s a proven learning tool. Transferring ideas into words provides the most direct path for moving logic short term and long term. You really don’t know material until you put it into words

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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 seat 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. Why do they expose themselves to an inactive classroom experiences and distractions of all the people.

6. take good notes. Successful students take notes that are organized and understandable 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 one time or another. A short review of your notes while the material is still fresh in you brain. The more you learn then, the less you’ll have to learn later and the less time it will take you since you’ve already reviewed it.

 

 

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Student Success Statement

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Statement: Time doesn’t matters to do right things. You can do right things at whatever time & at whatever day. As long as you know what is right to do.

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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 time justifiable pride in teaching. Join forces with your instructor, they are not an enemy, and you share the same interests, the same goals- in short, and 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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SSS

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:

Doing what’s right will always beat the wrong 100%. You see there are times when you have a choice whether it’s good or bad; you always do what is right for you and your decisions. Because you can’t do wrong and feel right it’s impossible. There are winners and losers; nobody wants to be a looser. Pay attention to what’s right and what’s wrong.

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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, and 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 costs one class period. However, the former method will required 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 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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Tennessee Walking Horse Trainer Torture Horses

Tennessee Walking Horse Trainer Torture Horses

Reflection: I think that what Jackie McConnell did to those horses is one of the worst things anyone can ever do. Cheating is already a bad thing but cheating by torturing innocent horses is even worse. I think that he deserves to go to jail for that so he can finally realize that what he did had serious consequences. If he was going to cheat in the first place he should have at least cheating in a way that didn’t cause the animals any pain. But the fact that he decided to torture the animals makes him an even more cold blooded person. I think he was a person that didn’t care about what those horses felt even though they showed all their pain because of what he did. Jackie McConnell deserves to suffer the consequences that come for what he did.

Study for Multiple Exams Part 2

Study for Multiple Exams

Part 2

My strategies for written assignments: Everyone has their own writing style. 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 if I look at it a day later.

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Study for multiple Exams

Part 1

How I study for multiple exams, deal with multiple projects: Really it is my time management that is 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. Then Sunday night all I have to do is review since I studied Thursday and Friday. When that’s over I can review for other tests.

My overall study method: I try to break it up over several days at least two. I also try to see if I can pull an all nighter. How I overcome an initial bad grade: if I got a low grade I probably knew it was coming because I didn’t study or didn’t use the correct method for that class.

Sarah’s Academic Success Story Part 2

Sarah’s Academic Success Story

Part 2

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 points in the class. If I knew there were going to be essays I would try to make 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 highlights 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, green is for 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 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.

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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 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 leaned 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

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

Reflection: To fallow like your choices that you want.

Part 3

Work Together

Part 3

Here are my final words of wisdom for students who want to get better grades in college: A very big thing is to ask for help if you need it. It’s not a bad thing to understand, it’s a bad thing if you don’t do nothing to prevent it. Plan everything out so that you still have time to double check everything. Write things down so you remember. I find myself thinking that I try harder to fail then to succeed. If you don’t understand then find a classmate that’s more then willing to help you.

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WORK TOGETHER

Part 2

English, math, foreign language tips: For math, all I can say is do the problems assigned, that’s the only way to practice and that’s all it really is for math. It’s the same thing for all the subjects practice is the only way to get good at it. As for English, I’m no longer taking it, but I suggest leaving you a lot of time to write essays and papers.

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Work Together

Part 1

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 my grade and otherwise. My greatest academic achievement was when I was assigned to a 10-12 page research paper. It was the longest paper I’ve ever been assigned and I was a little scared. I put so much effort into the paper and it ended up being just under 12 pages but it was full on information it was my first A+ of my college career.

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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 never pass this way again.”

 

Reflection: What is saying is that to help other people out, to show your personality. To show who you are.

 

Effective Study Methods Part 3

Effective Study Methods

Part 3

How I deal with multiple projects/tests: When I have more than one project or test, I break up my studying. I will study for one test 30 minutes and then switch to another one. I also study when we don’t have much time. If I’m really in a crunch for time on a specific day, I will study for one test in the morning and the other in afternoon or at night. By breaking up the studying into sections, I feel like I get a lot more done. 

Effective Study Methods

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 around 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 work 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.

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What i did in my vacations was staying home. I didnt really went out to places I just stayed at home watching college football and the NFL. We went to visit my cousins and stayed to sleepover at their house. We watched some movies and we were playing games. My vacations where alright.

Effective Study Methods Part 1

Effective Study Methods

Part 1

My test 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 the important things in the topic. I also go through the book and read the inset stories and add to my flashcards. If there are practice problems or online assignments or old tests I use those to study as well. Once the test is over, I keep the flashcards for the next test or for the finals. One important thing to remember is that, repetition is a learning law. You might say oh no repetitions but don’t worry you’ll get used to it, for example the more you practice a sport the better you become at it. Therefor repetitions are very important to study because you’ve read it many times prior to you being exposed to it. So, practice rehearsing those things you desire to remember, and they will stick. 

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