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 which is unsound (and not good).”

Joseph Smith

 

What he means is that it is our duty to bring the good forth in people. Make the good come out in people and make it go everywhere in the world. To make what is sound and good popular, which means wanting everyone to choose the right. On the other hand, he wants to make everything that is wrong not popular anymore. Meaning that everything that involves choosing the wrong should be suppressed. Make it unpopular and make people not want it. This is what everyone should be doing today in the world.

Successful Students 9

Successful Students 9

 

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 that study skills specialists 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 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, 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 it better but didn’t. Short cuts 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.

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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

 

There are many ways that this statement is true. For example, people smoke week or do drugs because it is fun or for whatever reason they have, but it is a wrong thing to do. The consummation of drugs has been gaining popularity over the years, but it is still viewed as wrong. As for people that don’t do drugs, they are the unpopular, “uncool” people and they are the ones that are actually doing what is right. Another example might be that of cussing or using bad words. This is really popular and can be seen everywhere in the media. This is thought of to be a normal popular thing when it is actually wrong. People who have not used bad or don’t use them at all get seen as not cool or unhip. This statement also goes along with the other quote, “Right is right, even if everyone is against it. Wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it”.



Successful Students

Successful Students

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7. … understand that actions affect learning. Successful students know their personal behavior affect their feelings and emotions which on 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 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 into words. Talking about something, with friends, or classmates, is not only the 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” 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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Reflection

Reflection

High school graduation can either be a pain or a pleasure. For instance if you pass all your classes and get good grades then you will have a pleasurable experience from graduation. When you pass on to graduate, you will walk across that stage and receive a diploma saying that you accomplished something big in life. You did it. This leaves you great memories for the future and leaves you happy and contempt for the rest of your life. Graduation can also be a painful experience if you didn’t do any of your homework or classwork. You will be forced to watch your friends out on the stage and receiving their diplomas while you wait for them on the stands, cheering them on, when that should be you on the stage with them. This leaves you a painful memory of what happened because of your lack of determination. This pain lasts with you throughout your entire life. So why not try? Give it all you got so you can graduate and you will be happy, contempt, and successful. c:



Successful Students

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 (see no. 4). Why do they expose themselves to the temptations of inactive classroom experiences and distractions of all 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 antithetical to efficient and effective learning. If you are trying not to be a part of the class, why, the, 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

“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.

 

I think that he’s trying to tell us about our morals. I think that what he means is that depending on who you are, what makes you feel good or right are your morals. What makes you feel bad is your immoral. Take me for example, when I get done with my homework, I feel a sense of accomplishment and good inside of me and I know that that is a good moral, on the other hand, if I don’t do my homework and show up the next day to class, I feel guilt and I feel bad, that is my immoral speaking to me. What right and what is wrong is all up to you.

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Successful Students 1-2

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 study time. You can sit there, act bored, day dream, 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 require a large degree of additional work outside of class to achieve the same degree of learning the latter provides at 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 you 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 then 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 is great. This shows you what you really are when you do good things. Since he is pure of heart, meaning that he has never done anything bad and has stayed on the right path, he is stronger than others because of his pureness. He is better than others too, because of what he is able to do. He has the strength of ten because of what he has achieved and because of what kind of person he is. I think everyone should be like this, with a pure heart, mind, body, and soul. This is a great statement that everyone should see. c:

Study for Multiple Exams

Study for Multiple Exams

Part 3

 

English, math, foreign language tips: Practice – especially foreign language. It is hard to succeed in a foreign language class is 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 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 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

Summary/Reflection

This story was about the tournaments with horses. There was torture going on with the horses, just to train them to do some fancy walk. They put some chemicals near the horse’s ankles and would treat them harshly to walk like they did. All of this just for a ribbon that is worth $1.95. The people were becoming into evil monsters that harmed innocent animals for nothing. The trainers had no feelings towards this matter, and as a result, when they got caught, they ran out of business. Even Pepsi severed ties with the tournaments due to what the news found out.

I think that this is really disgusting. People should not be hurting animals just for pleasure. They hurt them to win a dumb medal that, in the end, isn’t even worth anything. The horses are beautiful and they don’t deserve that kind of treatment, not from anyone. The trainers need to go to jail for what they do to them, it is inhumane to torture or hurt an animal on purpose to win some money or medals. The trainers should also be forced to pay for the damages done to the horse and anything else they did harm to. The video was shocking and it was wrong for them to do that. I don’t think I’ll ever attend one of those tournaments, not after what I saw.

 

Study for Multiple Exams

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. That is the easiest way for me to catch my own mistakes. I have to give up 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 almost always 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

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 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 Saturday, then, second Tuesday test on Saturday as well and part of Sunday. Then Sunday night I can review for my Monday test because I already studied 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 receive a low grade I probably knew it was coming because I didn’t prepare properly or I didn’t use the right study habits for that class. I usually 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 the 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

 

I agree with this statement. When you start to do good, or seek to do it, then happiness will chase after you. When you do good, you feel happy, and when you do bad you feel bad. For example, if you do drugs then you will are doing bad things. Then bad feeling will chase after you. When you don’t do drugs and choose the right, then you don’t feel sick and the happiness will chase after you. Another example I can say is when you decide to help people. You will feel good and stay feeling good for a period of time. On the other hand, when you start to not help people and actually go against them, then you will see that bad things will start chasing you. When you chase after the good things, then good things will come back to chase you too. (:

Sarah's Story

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 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 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 sorority. Although I use white-out frequently, I can see in bright yellow that 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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Jermaine Jones

Summary/Reflection

Jermaine Jones from American Idol was disqualified for his criminal past. He was convicted many times before and he was disqualified because he had hid the information from the people. He was 4 warrants, 3 for driving with a suspended license and 1 for disorderly conduct. He was trying to cover up his criminal past so he could be on the show American Idol.

I think that Jermaine chose the wrong many times. He is now covered with spots when he should have stayed clean. He did many things in his past that made him look bad. He covered all of this up just to be on American Idol. It says that he was charged for hindering apprehension and giving false information to avoid self-discovery. This just showed how much of a criminal he really was. He tried to lie to the cops just so that he could look good and clean when in reality he wasn’t. That’s why he was disqualified from the show.

Sarah's Story

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 wasn’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 n 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 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.

 

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Define EXCEL arithmetic Operators

Define EXCEL arithmetic Operators

+ Addition

- Subtraction

* Multiplication

/ Division

^ Power or Exponent

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

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

Anon

 

I agree with this statement. There is no set path which means that your choices determine you future destiny. If you make bad choices in life then you will be following the bad path in life and if you make the right choices then you will be following the right path. It all depends on what your heart tells you. Your heart will know what is right and wrong for you and depending on who you are then that will determine what path you take. Just follow your heart. (:

Work Together

Work Together

Part 3

Here are my final words of wisdom for student who may 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 is 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 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 is amazing to find! Good luck!

 

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Work Together

Work Together

Part 2

 

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 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 ’eave them until the last second.

 

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Work Together

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 the 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 do a 10-12 page 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 argue in favor of or against something, but it could be anything from the sky 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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You Can Succeed Everyday 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 leaving them until the last minute because then I will just goof up to 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 relates 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 thing I have to write because the teacher said so.

How I succeed in team projects: Personality, 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, I usually try to lead. I like taking the lead because 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 other things other than the project, I try to be in charge. That way I know that things are going to get done in time and 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.

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

 

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

Gordon B. Hinckley

I think that this is what everyone should be doing. Trying your best to be a little bit better for not just yourself, but for others as well.  When you do this, that little bit you improved goes a long way. You will then be a little better in the sense that you are a better person and you will have more to offer. When you have tried harder a million times, then you will be a million times better. All of this adds up to be something big and then you will be something big. A better person.

Summary/Reflection

Summary/Reflection

This news story is about Tiger Woods and his family. His half-brothers need help from him.  His brother has multiple sclerosis and need medical attention. Also, his brother is losing his home due to the fact that he needs the money for the caregiver. He doesn’t have money for both the home and the caregiver. They are leaving messages but Tiger will not reply. They need his help urgently. They have never asked for anything and this is the first thing they ask for, the health of his brother, but he won’t reply.

I think that Tiger needs to wake up and see what is happening. His brother is dying and he needs help really quick. Even though he is doing fine right now, he may soon not be fine. He needs Tiger’s help to pay for the home while he pays for the caregiver. Tiger makes millions and millions when he is playing and he can’t spare some money to save his brother? This is wrong and Tiger should be helping him. He should have a kind heart and reach out to others especially family.